Overture’s intuitive interface puts powerful editing tools and symbol palettes at your fingertips, so you spend time composing music instead of searching through menus. For complete orchestral arrangements, lead sheets, individual cues or even simple notation examples, there’s no faster way to create professional notation than Overture. Overture's new features only add more power, not confusion as in other notation programs.

Add Interval Function
Select notes and choose this in the Edit menu to add a 2^nd though a 9^th above or below selected notes.

Articulations
Choose Notes>Flip>Articulations command to move articulations to the opposite side of stem. Clicking on an articulation in the palette applies it to any selected notes.

Capo Setting
Guitar Frames can be changed using a capo command. The original chord name can be displayed above the new name or the new chord name can be displayed below the frame with the original above the frame.

Colors Themes
User can set your own workspace color themes.

Hand and Zoom tools on Tool bar
Separate tools for dragging page and for zooming in or out. The hand tool will drag individual staves when clicked on. When clicking on white space the entire page is moved. These are easily selected by typing ‘h’ or ‘z’.

Pedal Bracket
The pedal bracket can now be used as a regular horizontal bracket by deleting the middle point and using the flip command.

Quick Paste
Select a passage and Alt (option on Mac)-click to paste it into the score. Repeat this as many times as necessary.

Redo Pitches
Select a note and enable this in the Notes menu. Any notes played on the MIDI keyboard will replace the selected note and next note will be selected. The existing rhythms are kept.

Smarter Mouse Entry
Mouse entry automatically recognizes polyphonic rhythms and adjusts stems and voices to accommodate. Rests are automatically entered. The layout adjusts to accommodate notes based on allotment tables. In other words, measures wrap down to the next system to avoid crowded notes. This can be turn off by the user.

Selection Filters
Select a range and then filter out any symbols. This powerful note filter allows you to choose pitch, duration, velocity range, note head type and articulation. Also you can choose the starting point in a measure and the interval. For example: You could filter all quarter notes on the second and fourth beats that have a velocity above 90. You could then click on the accent symbol in the articulation palette to add an accent to the selected notes.

Show/Hide Palettes
One keystroke to show or hide all open palettes.

Split System
Splitting a system starts a new system at current measure.  Overture will try to keep this measure as a start of a new system whenever laying out a page.

Swing Marking
The tempo dialog has a setting to show swing. Two Eighths = Beamed Quarter/Eighths triplet.

Symbol Color
You can now change the color of symbols in the score - notes, lyrics, text, hairpins, dynamics, etc. This is particularly useful for emphasizing important score information especially in educational music. The symbols print in color, too.

Show Grid
The score background becomes a sheet of graph paper to help in aligning symbols.

Title Items
Title items can be place on every page, not just the first.

View Options
The View popup menu now has a Fit Page to Screen Width or Height.