Added Staff Sets to the Tracks menu to allow groups of staves to be displayed quickly.
Added a Smart drum part recording. If you have the Replay button enabled you can individually record drum parts by overdubbing. See “Smart Drum Part Recording” in the online documentation.
Added Metakeys to quickly enter articulations, ornaments, dynamics, hairpins, and expressions. (x, shift-x). See online documentation for usage. This has been in the program for a while but settings were not being saved.
The Atonal setting in the track inspector has been removed and replaced with a more powerful method. When you insert a key signature you can now choose No key. This allows a composer to switch between atonal and normal modes in the middle of a score.
Added more documentation including a section on keyboard shortcuts.
The Modify controller dialog now remaps dynamic and hairpin controllers. The Modify Value settings are ignored for dynamics and hairpins.
VST/AU Plugin windows now have the parent track’s name included in the title.
Overture now fills in the tuplet dialog with expected type based on number of selected notes.
During step entry Overture now follows the last octave used when selected pitch was transposed.
Added add b5 and 7b13 chord.
Holding down shift key while dragging notes will toggle between the chromatic and diatonic preference setting.
The current voice commands have been removed from the View menu have been placed in their own menu.
Improved dragging of Hollywood lines.
MusicXML pedal marks are now read and written.
When you convert a tuplet note to rest, a tuplet bracket is automatically entered.
Improved chord suffix vertical alignment.
Added Solo and Mute current track commands in Tracks menu with shortcut key commands.
Added ability to import MIDI files with an incorrect conductor track.
Added a slight improvement to vertical spacing routines.
Removed the Notes section of the Select by Filter Data menu command.
Improved line spacing for multi-line text and Title page items.
Fixes
Fixed playback problem with some glissandos.
Fixed problem that prevented last measure to be deleted. This bug was introduced in the previous version.
Fixed dynamic and hairpin alignment problem when dragging baseline.
Fixed MIDI device not being enabled occasionally. (Hopefully).
Fixed two problem with displaying composite meters.
Fixed problem with Composer Tools>Reverse pitches not showing accidentals until the altered notes were moved.
Fixed problem with MusicXML import not transposing correctly to concert pitch.
Fixed import problem with some MusicXML files not setting measure numbers correctly.
Fixed import problem with some MusicXML files not obeying MusicXML internal layout.
Fixed problem that when drawing vertical lines using graphic line tool.
Fixed copy and pasting of tuplets, again.
Fixed problem that caused the ‘e’ key to switch to the Eraser tool during step input.
Fixed problem that incorrectly converted symbol characters from old Overture files.
Fixed playback problem with grand pause.
Fixed problem that prevented some double sharp notes from changing to its en-harmonic.
Fixed problem that incorrectly converted MIDI notes to a wrong chord during chord input.
Fixed problem with using ‘o’ on tied notes during step entry.
Fixed problem with some beams display too high on bottom staff of grand staff.
Fixed problem that prevented file from being opened after cancelling New Score Dialog with the esc key.
Fixed problem that copied data onto measure when Inserting a new page.
Fixed problem that prevented copying from the bass staff into the treble staff on grand staves.
Fixed problem that caused insert track sizes to be larger than surrounding tracks.
Fixed problem with Add Interval function not applying the accidental correctly.
Fixed crash when adding a symbol to a note from the Graphics Palette.
Fixed problem that prevented chord symbol accidentals from being remapped to another font.
Fixed a small layout problem when inserting bars in the middle of a system.
Fixed crash caused by selecting a time signature and choosing Duplicate on Staff Below from the right click context menu.
Re-activation problems may have been fixed.
Fixed crash when reading some old scores that contained Page text.
Check marks are now displayed in Windows menu items for open windows/views.
Hairpins are now automatically set to surrounding dynamics. The menu item enabling this has been removed.
Overture now imports chords in MusicXML files.
Tuplet brackets can now nudge the same distance as notes.
Punch-in now correctly records first measure and last note.
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