New in MusicTime Deluxe 4.0 (Aug 4, 2009)
- Quartz-based drawing and cleaner look
- New Score Wizard
- Score Templates:
- 27 "factory" templates
- Users can create their own
- Options to create C/Transposed
- Improved MIDI Playback/Settings:
- Full support of DLS and SoundFont Banks
- New Pan and Reveb settings for instruments
- New "humanize" option for MIDI dynamics
- New option to play slurs (MIDI controller 68)
- New option to play hairpins to ending dynamic
- New type-options for MIDI object: Pitch Bend, Channel Pressure, Aftertouch
- New Extra built-in synth, allowing up to 32 individual playback channels
- New MIDI instrument/Channel settings dialog
- Instrument selection grid now plays test sound (random Pitch) when selected
- Staff Sheet now has popup menus for selecting Key and instrument directly
- Staff Sheet now displays current voice being viewed, allowing you to change all voices directly
- Cmd (ctrl)-Shift-Click on note displays a popup menu to change MIDI velocity of notes in selection
- MIDI dynamics changed to a min/max range for velocity.
- Attached slurs to note heads when dragging.
- Improved automatic alignment of layout/beaming when moving/editing notes.
- New Measure Numbers Beginning-Offset.
- New Transpose Dialog:
- fixes enharmonic problems.
- Key signature & chord symbol transposition.
- simplify accidentals option.
- New "extract all parts" feature, with auto-naming of files.
- Live dragging of all score objects.
- Help Tooltips text for many UI objects.
- New "circle of 5ths" Key Signature Window (Mac only)
- New option to transpose new key signature according to staff transposition settings.
- Improved Toolbar:
- resizable.
- WYSIWYG editing of layout
- no limit to number of tools displayed
- popup help text
- Added MANY new menu hotkeys.
- Horizontal and Vertical Scroll wheel support.
- New better organized chord dialog, also with more keyboard shortcuts.
- Shiftkey down when entering/resizing crescendo turns into decrescendo.
- Shiftkey down reverses bracket object
- Ability to save longer and unicode filenames.
- Cursors change when mousing over Text/Lyric items for visual help to find hotspots.
- New option to "Auto-Align" playback after recording.
- New option to click only when recording.
- New options for preroll playback click.
- Separate "Nudge" functions for notes and non-note objects
- Move Notes Up/Down Octave function.
- New "Simplify Accidentals" function.
- New menu items for hard-to-find features (add/remove measure to system, MIDI playback)
- Escape Key now exits to arrow mode (including from inside text editing)
- Both A & P Key toggles between arrow and pencil modes.
- Return key moves cursor to beginning of score.
- Page up/down/home/etc enabled to work with page turn foot pedals.
- Slurs now default to direct "pencil" drawing (shift key enables 3-point entry)
- Placing Marks above/below note head (in normal position) are now automatically "attached" to note head.
- Control key down when dragging notes/barlines bypasses all auto-align.
- Option to disable enter key as record start/stop.
- Open Recent menu.
- New Default Score menu.
- Export Menu.
- Print Selection Menu.
- New Open/Close All Palettes menu item.
- Tempo Metronome Window now "clicks" to common metronome increments.
- Live zoom slider. Simplified zoom/layout menu. (Mac only)
- Page icons arrows hide themselves when not applicable (Mac only)
- Increased hotspot to entire barline for dragging.
- New colored (green=play, red=record) playback cursor.
- Added editing of chord symbols by double-clicking.
- Score document now saves window state (size, zoom, cursor position, etc)
- Easier dragging of staves ("lock" for vertical drags and overlap prevention)
- New Copy Protection Scheme.
- Application-wide updates to conform
- to OS X and Vista Interface Guidelines and Technologies.
- Many Many Many Bug Fixes.