Reworked design of the app with dozens of improvements • macOS
What's New in Version 5.0:
- Refined user interface of the project workspace providing a better user experience
- System of "Environments" for interacting with a project in different manners: Score editor, Tracks navigator and Piano Roll
- Added many new actions in the App Menu
- Voice switcher in the status panel
- Toolbar expanded with controls for choosing environment and selection mode
- Tracks chooser pop-up window with access to basic settings of instrument parts is available from the status panel
- Properties and actions panels of the Score editor can now be undocked from sidebars and become floating and resizable
- Reworked Instrument Editor is available by shortcut
Shift+Cmd+Eor by tapping on the instrument's name in the status panel - Features of Tuning, Voices and Chord Templates panels now can be found in corresponding sections of the Instrument Editor
- New Chords panel in the right sidebar provides fast-access to the Chord Editor and list of the chosen chord templates
- Augmentation, Subdivision and Diminution panels replaced the old Transformations panel
- Scale recognition and adjusting tool is available from the right sidebar now
- Added a separate Percussion panel for notating drums
- Enharmonic equivalent notes can be set in the Pitches panel by tapping a right or left arrow on a pitch button, or in the pop-up menu accessible by a mouse right click on a pitch button
- Buttons of the Pitches panel are aligned depending on the current key signature
- Selection area in the Fragments mode enhanced with interactive borders and draggable handles
- Press selection's left or right side edge and drag its highlighted handle horizontally to expand or reduce the selected area
- Long press selection's top or bottom edge and drag it up or down to switch between "Bars" and "Musical Events" scopes
- Expanding selection by arrow keys or mouse click on the score while
Shiftpressed - Hold-and-drag support for reallocating the selected fragment in the composition
- Zoom with
Cmd+ scroll gesture (mouse wheel) - System/line breaks and page breaks in Vertical and Pages layouts
- Setting for a fixed number of bars per system/line
- Improved input of Lyrics on a score
- Unified recording feature for virtual instruments, musical typing and MIDI input
- Musical typing no more depends on the keyboard layout
- Option for serial input of notes, e.g. via the "Pitches" or "Chords" input panels
- Virtual piano keyboard and virtual fretboard are contained now in the floating and resizable window accessible across all document windows
- Support for Bluetooth MIDI devices
- Custom highlight color for the selection area in the Colors tab of Preferences
- Customizing pitch notation system for naming notes in the interface
- Scientific Pitch Notation with English, German or Dutch note letters nomenclature
- Helmholtz pitch notation with Primes, English or Swedish octave naming convention
- Fixed do solfège with scientific or franco-belgic octave numbering method
- Integer notation of pitch classes
- Japanese "Iroha" notes system
- Indian Carnatic and Hindustani svaras
- Byzantine note names
- Improved support for .gp files
- Enhanced aesthetics of buttons and other graphical interface elements
- UI tweaks for macOS Big Sur
- Added support for Apple Silicon
- Multiple bug fixes and stability improvements