Sonic Scores has updated Overture and Score Writer to v5.4.1.
New Features & Enhancements:
- You can now enter foreign lyrics like Chinese, Japanese, etc. You still need to press the space bar to separate syllables. We are working on a solution to enter these more natural.
- Greatly improved vertical staff spacing while dragging staves.
- Added Downloads folder to built-in browser.
- Improved playback of pauses and fermatas.
- Improved text box enclosure spacing.
- Added ability to open compressed MusicXML files from built-in browser.
- Ctrl[cmd] click on Mixer MIDI effects (Chorus, reverb, etc.) now sends a 0 value and then turns off sending any future values.
- Added a few more guitar chord fingerings.
- Improved reading old Mac version 2 files.
- Adding an articulation or ornament to a note will remove the existing one if it's already added.
- Added the choice to choose a tuning instrument in Convert Notes to Tablature dialog.
- Added Edit>Match Hairpin Values menu command that changes hairpin start and end values to match surrounding dynamics.
- Expressions now obey the Print Text setting in library when being dropped onto score.
Fixes:
- Fixed problem with accidentals in tied notes especially with new No key signature choice.
- Fixed problem with Hollywood lines not show meters on piano tracks and meters with two digit numerators.
- Fixed problem that sometimes caused dragging tied notes to be dragged in thirds.
- Fixed drag-copy of notes.
- Fixed mandolin and bass guitar tuning settings.
- Fixed paste problem that eliminated the beam on some notes.
- Fixed problem that cause Advance Cursor to be reset to off during step input.
- Fixed problem that caused articulation settings to be lost when duplicating a track.
- Fixed incorrect display of half-diminished chord symbol.
- Fixed problem with setting Lyric font in Lyric panel not being applied.
- Fixed problem that prevented adding an accidental to the note at end of a tie.
- Fixed a problem that prevented opening an older corrupted file.
- Fixed problem when clicking over a note that has a lyric that started a new lyric instead of loading the current lyric.
- Fixed problem when switching voices during step entry. The last entered note was moved to the new voice.
- Fixed a random crash when using Notes>Notate as>Triplet on whole, half, and quarter notes.
- Fixed problem with typing 'h' to switch enharmonics in Chord Panel.
- Fixed problem that highlighted all symbols in Select filter even when a specific voice was selected.
- Fixed problem that prevented Documentation from being loaded from Help menu.
- Fixed problem that prevented open scores with the new Track Set feature used.
- Fixed problem that showed wrapped part on next system for hidden hairpins.
- Fixed Find Data not finding expressions unless type switch was enabled.
- Fixed problem causing inserted rests in hidden measures (under multibar) to be drawn.
- Fixed a few problems with GPO 4 and Kontakt Factory Library Sound Map.
- Fixed problem with transposing chords chromatically downward.
- Fixed accidental position in chord names from being a little low.
- Fixed playback problem with hairpins from imported MusicXML files.
- Fixed a crash when converting notes tablature when there is already a tablature staff that contained notes.
