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The Notation Musician 2.0 and
The Notation Musician 2.0 and Composer 2.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) are now available at: www.notation.com/MidiNotateBetaRelease.htm
A "release candidate" means that we consider the software ready to be released and sold. The "release candidate" is offered for review by beta testers and for in-house testing, to investigate whether there are any possible serious bugs that should hold up the final release. Please let me know if you find any "show stopper" bugs. The final 2.0 release is planned for December 16, 2006. I know that there are minor usability problems and minor bugs in the software. There always will be in any software of this size and complexity. I already have scheduled several minor bug fixes for 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 maintenance releases in the next few weeks. I have assessed that all of these remaining minor bugs do not compromise the usefulness of Notation Musician 2.0 and Notation Composer 2.0. If you find a bug that you find to be serious, please do not hesitate to tell me about it, as this might be a bug I do not know about rather than a bug that I considered to be minor and have postponed its fix. This Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Notation Musician 2.0 and Composer 2.0 has a 30-day trial period, that starts on the day that you install the software. Here is a list of the most significant usability improvements and bug fixes in this release, since the previous release 1.9.6: New Song Wizard.
Playback.
MIDI performance editing.
Page Text. Improve usability: A new Page Layout View button has been added to the Page Text Palette so that it is easy to go back and forth between Page Layout and Page Text View. Ties. Change behavior: "=" is now the shortcut rather than "-" for adding a tie, because the minus "-" NumPad key is now used for lowering the pitch of a selected note. Chord names. Fix bug: The TAB key did not advance to the last chord in a song if that chord did not already have a chord name. Braces and brackets.
Measure numbers. Fix bug: If you specified a negative starting measure number, when you reopened the file, the measure numbers incorrectly started at around 65500 rather than at a negative measure number. Split hands. Improvement: The Split Hands command now recalculates the clefs in the newly prepared right- and left-hand keyboard staves. Cheers -- Mark |
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Hi Mark,
Neither of the two
Hi Mark,
Neither of the two links work - I get a 'page not found message' Incidentally, you say (in red) to uninstall previous versions. Does this mean the V1.1.7 which is the latest official release, or are you talking about the Beta test versions, eg 1.9.xxx Cheers ... Clyde |
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Hello Clyde,
Thanks for the
Hello Clyde,
Thanks for the report! The links are now fixed. It is necessary to uninstall only previous beta releases, not Composer 1.x. I've now updated the advice (in red) on that web page. Thanks for asking for that clarification. Cheers -- Mark |
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Hi,
Just wondered if Composer
Hi,
Just wondered if Composer 2 will be released this week as I was hoping to build some templates using the new version. I didn't really want to install the RC version and then uninstall it a few days later if can avoid it. (Well,thinking about it, if I can keep my templates I don't mind doing that). Regards and Season's greetings to everyone. -John S |
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Howdy John,
Oh yeah! Compo
Howdy John,
Oh yeah! Composer 2.0 is out now ttfn, Sherry |
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Composer 2.0 is fine overall e
Composer 2.0 is fine overall except I find that Staff Setup is all scrunched together, and I have to drag it apart to mute a track. Besides going in and using staff controls, is there a global fix for this ?
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Hello Bernie,
This was a in
Hello Bernie,
This was a in the beta and pre-releases of 2.0 that was fixed in the final 2.0 release. If you drag the edge of the Staff Setup window to change its width, the columns will automatically stretch or shrink to fit the new size of the Staff Setup window. It uses a simple proportional column width calculation, which is less than ideal-- I intend to improve that calculation. However, after you change the width of the Staff Setup window, you can then adjust each column width in the window. Your column width adjustments will be permanently saved for subsequent sessions of Notation Composer or Musician. You are advised to settle on a certain Staff Setup window width and not change it thereafter. Otherwise you will waste time adjusting the column widths in the window each time you change the overall width of the Staff Setup window. Cheers -- Mark |
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