Feature Summary

 Playback

  • Articulation Playback
    Articulations can affect attack times, durations, velocities, and send controller data. Once entered they can be alter to suite your needs and are saved with the score.  Breath mark and Grand Pause pause score playback.

  • VST Host
    Score Writer 4 is now a full VST host and can load up 2 VST Instruments. VST Instruments are supported in Windows XP and Vista.

  • Glissando Playback
    Select a glissando and then choose diatonic, chromatic, or white keys to be used during playback.
     

  • Chord and Guitar Frame Playback
    Select a chord and then choose the starting offset times, durations and velocities to be used during playback.
     

  • Expressions
    Expressions now can send bank changes and send tempos throughout a range.



  • Solo and Mute
    Right mouse click to solo or mute the track directly on the score.
     

  • Non-Metered Playback
    Score Writer plays all the notes in measure even if it is 4.5 beats, and therefore you can have unlimited number of notes. This is useful for Cadenzas or music without barlines.
     

  • MIDI Clock
    Score Writer now sends MIDI Start, MIDI Stop, MIDI Continue, and MIDI clock.
     

  • Measure Repeats
    Single and double bar repeats playback.

 

Score Editing

  • 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.


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  • Chord Recognition
    Click on a note using chord tool and all notes of the chord (including bass clef on piano tracks) are used to enter the chord found in library.
     

  • Quick Paste (Key stroke to be determined later)
    Select a passage and Alt-Shift (Option-Shift on Mac)-click to paste it into the score. Repeat this as many times as necessary.


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  • 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.
     

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

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

Score Layout

  • 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.
     

  • Colors Themes
    User can set your own color themes.
     

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

Files

  • Auto Save
    Set the interval to automatically save your score into a backup folder.
     

  • Read MusicXML Files (Just basics at this time)
    Open a MusicXML file created from Finale, Sibelius, or scanning programs.
     

  • Record to File
    Score Writer 4 allows the output of VST instruments to be saved as a WAVE/AIFF file.

 

General Improvements

  • Backspace Key Deletes
    Press the backspace (delete key on MAC) to delete the symbol before cursor.
     

  • Trills
    When selected notes are Notated as a trill, any ending grace notes are automatically converted to grace notes.  Generated trills have a duration for each trilled note and they can can be accelerated.
     

  • Guitar Frames
    Guitar Frames now have more suffixes, can transpose and  have fingering below strings.
     

  • Tablature
    The Notes to Tablature command automatically creates a tablature track if needed.
     

  • Graphics Palette
    The Graphics palette contains a wedge symbol that is filled or transparent.  Adding thickness to curves produces a tapered slur.
     

  • Articulations and Heads Palette
    Click on articulation/head tools to apply these to selected notes.
     

  • Dynamics
    Dynamics now have a movable baseline on each staff that is used when being entered. Dynamics between keyboard staves can affect both staves.
     

  • Lyrics
    Lyrics are typed directly in score. There are commands to copy to and from clipboard, and shift the lyric line left or right. Also there is a command to automatically display verse numbers to the left of the first lyric on any system.
     

  • Default Page
    New scores now contain more staves shows more of the score on screen. The default staff size is a bit smaller.
     

  • Page Dimensions Dialog
    The Page Dimensions dialog was rewritten to show the new layout of the score as score staff sizes are reduced. This is much improved.
     

  • Import Dialog
    Importing MIDI files now has options for putting tracks in Score Order. The automatic pacing of staves has been improved.
     

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 Score Writer 4
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System Requirements