Encore

Encore is the standard application in professional music notation. Encore is the standard application in professional music notation.

Its powerful transcribing and editing capabilities help musicians of all levels get their ideas into print. Fast, accurate, and easy to use, Encore allows you to create beautiful printouts of your scores - using up to 64 separate staves.

Whether you're creating motion picture scores, orchestral arrangements, choir songbooks, or teaching music in school, Encore is second to none.

Whether you play directly into Encore or transcribe your MIDI files, you get accurate notation and beautiful printouts every time. You can extract parts, transpose for different instruments, and play your music as you originally conceived it. Encore graphically displays and plays back dynamic marks, repeats, multiple endings, pedal marks, or any MIDI controller.

Flexible Page Layout and Guitar Tablature Expand Your Options
Encore scores can be fine-tuned with a simple move of the mouse.

On-screen palettes let you enter dozens of marks and symbols. Lyrics and text are easily added. Powerful features such as page layout control, TrueType and PostScript support, polyphonic part voicing, and editable expressions palettes provide an inexhaustible set of capabilities for presenting your music on paper. Instantly transcribe your music into guitar tablature with correct fingering and guitar fret diagrams.

When you put aside your pencil and staff paper and compose and arrange your music with Encore, you achieve a new level of professionalism and productivity.

Encore has become the musician's choice in notation software because it allows you to create and publish everything from simple lead sheets to symphonies in less time and with more control.

Here are some key features of "Encore":
Insert MIDI data for dynamics, controller data, and tempos.
Customizable Toolbar for quick access to frequently used commands.
Zoom in and out for precise control.
Expressions palette allows you to save your own expressions in any font, size, or style.
Guitar tablature symbols palette contains all the markings and symbols needed for notating tab.
Slur a group of notes automatically or draw slurs with the pencil tool.
Place objects anywhere on the page by clicking the mouse.
Select regions, pages, staves, systems, or the entire score for editing.
Transposition automatically affects chord symbols and fret diagrams.
Key commands to change note durations, sharps, flats, naturals, enharmonics, and MIDI velocity.
Transpose, change key signatures, meters, and clefs at any time.
Display and play back nested repeat structures, including variable bar lines and multiple endings.
Easily cut, copy, paste, clear, insert, delete, or undo notes or sections of music.
Symbols include: notes, rests, accidentals, slurs, ties, grace notes, cue notes, tuplets, accents, marks, ornaments, ottava, and dynamics marks.
Adjust the height and angle of beams and create Beam Groups.
Justify spacing for both accidental collisions and proper timing alignment.
Split notes from one staff onto two staves, either by pitch or voice.
Select from eight note-head types, including Gregorian and percussion.
Automatically extract parts with control over lyrics and markings.
Enter text or lyrics anywhere on the page in any font, size, or style, including dashes and melismata.