Generate complete accompaniments with a few mouse clicks from melodies or chord progressions. Enter any graphic symbols you can create and use them as custom symbols or even as custom note heads. Create 4 and 5 string tablature for instruments like banjo, ukulele, mandolin, bouzouki and pipa. You'll also find a wealth of new symbols, including a complete set of guitar symbols, new harp symbols, including harp pedal diagrams, and new woodwind, organ and jazz symbols. And that's just for starters.
Now generate complete accompaniments from chords, tablature chords or notes in your tracks. Choose from a variety of styles, from baroque to reggae, or even create your own.
Create tablature and chords for any 4 or 5 string instrument, including 4 and 5 string bass, 4 and 5-string banjo, ukelule, mandolin, bouzouki and pipa. Of course all 4 and 5 string tablature and chords play correctly according to the tuning you choose.
There is a complete set of new guitar symbols. They can be found in the new Guitar symbols palette and in the Adjustable symbols palette.
There are new harp symbols in the Miscellaneous and Adjustable symbols palettes.
There are new woodwind tonguing symbols in the Marks symbols palette.
There are new organ heel and toe symbols.
There are new jazz symbols (doit, diagonal lines) in the new Jazz symbols palette.
Now you can import and place any bitmap file. Take bitmaps from anywhere you find them - even use exported music from QuickScore or Copyist to create ossia measures.
You can create up to 80 custom symbols from bitmap files and incorporate them into a composition. Select them from any of your bitmap files, or create them from scratch, scale them to the size you want and then simply enter them from the Symbols Palette.
Create up to 8 custom noteheads from bitmap files and use them any time you need them. Select them from any of your bitmap files or create them from scratch. They're automatically available from the Edit menu when you want to change note heads.
Attention shape note singers! In addition to the 8 custom note heads, we've added two new note heads that are always available to complete the 7 shape note system.
Now it is possible to automatically display muted or slapped notes in tablature staves with an X.
Notes, guitar fret numbers and muted or slapped notes notated with x marks can be within parentheses, brackets or carets.
Now you can select different guitar symbols using the left and right arrows
as you enter them with pen tool.
Selected slurs, circled numbers, guitar fingers and numbers in parentheses can
now be changed directly from the edit menu.
Change note durations with the left and right arrow keys while entering with the arrow tool
or using step entry in the Score and Piano Roll editors. Use shift left and right arrow keys
to change the dotted value. This allows you to enter notes without moving your
mouse to the durations palette at all.
Now you can keep the Symbol palettes open after selecting a symbol. This is
useful when you need to enter many different symbols at the same time.
Stem direction can be set to neither, to display notes without stems or beams. This is available in the Display Bar, Display Track and Display Score dialogs.
The mouse wheel works in all windows to scroll the display.
Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V can be used to cut and paste text in edit boxes.
QuickScore automatically generates tied notes for you if necessary. Usually you get exactly what you want. But if you want something out of the ordinary, now you can make sure that you get it no matter how complicated a tied note structure you need. Choose two or more notes of the same pitch immediately following each other and select Tie -> Explicit from the Edit menu. Presto! the notes are automatically tied together.
New dotted slurs are available from the Adjustable Symbols Palette..
There is a new option to pass thru Active Sensing in the MIDI Thru dialog, available from the Options dialog. This is off by default. Active sensing is sent by many keyboards to let a host know if it is attached or not. But passing through this message to a sound module often doesn't make sense.