NoteWorthy Composer 2 - Web Updates
You must close NoteWorthy Composer 2.0 before installing this update.
An update is available for your copy of NoteWorthy Composer 2.0.
Download - nwcupd_from_v2.0.exe (1825 KB)
The update includes the following changes:
- Version 2.1 Upgrade
- New interactive piano bar, with significant editor integration
- New "Viewer Mode" for in place editing of the printed view of the work
- New cross hair for quickly finding your current location/insertion point
- Improved active staff boundary lines when in edit mode
- Color highlighting for noteheads with a new quick access tool palette
- New backup mechanism for handling .bak files during save
- New staff label taskbar in the editor, with tooltip for current clef, key, and time signature
- New persistent selection when changing the active staff
- New multiple document selector in the status bar
- New Layering Tool for quickly combining visible staves into layers
- Play/record indicator in the document selector
- Current clef, time signature, bar and MIDI channel are shown in the status bar
- A file changed indicator in the editor window's title bar and Window menu selector
- An origin indicator in the editor window's title bar and Window menu selector for unsaved editor windows from imported or backup sources
- Support for opening a file as "read-only"
- New "Fake" items in user tool clip text provide reliable play context for smaller clipped sections
- Expand editor background color control to support full RGB palette
- New active staff background color while in edit mode
- A command line program, nwc-conv.exe, is now included for converting *.nwc files to and from various other formats
- New "Show/Hide Rest" option for RestChord objects
- New line drawing techniques to help work around buggy print drivers
- Tools->Windows Volume Control support in Windows 7 and Vista
- MIDI import safeguards when encountering null tempos
- Audit bar line handling of double dots at bar boundary
- Leger lines now always print in matching color to the staff
- Leger lines are drawn consistently for staves with custom number of lines
- Improved default folder for "Song Files" and "Auto Save/Recovery" file locations when not set by the user
- Improved tempo variance handling for adjacent grace notes
- Improved triplet bracket positioning for starting or ending rest
- Improved notehead alignment for split stem chords
- Allow larger notation from File, Page Setup, Fonts
- Accept MIDI notes down to C-1
- Use standard notation octave indicators (C-1 to G9) in MIDI import instructions
- Version 2.5 Upgrade
- New Insert Spacer mechanism
- New Boundary Change for dynamically changing a staff boundary during print
- New Boundary Collapse for dynamically hiding parts on some print systems
- New Boundary Change Staff Gap for creating a gap in the system, commonly used for ending Coda sections
- Full "round trip" support for working with *.nwctxt files
- User tool support for accessing the entire file or just the current selection
- New character map utility for use in creating text expressions via Insert, Text
- Text Expression access to primary and cue sized Staff Symbol Font
- New Edit, Filtered Properties command
- Shape notes
- Pause command during play back
- New Multi-measure Rest
- New Bar Number Panel in the editor which shows the measure numbers for the active staff
- Caesura added to Tempo Variance
- Staccatissimo articulation
- Marcato articulation
- Persistent note tools are now individually configurable
- The Orchestral staff style now supports staff groups, with each different group shown in its own bracket in the conductor score
- Support beaming through a clef change
- An Abbreviated Staff Label can be optionally assigned to each staff
- New page setup option for printing a multi-staff system separator mark
- Special endings now support start, continue, and close configurations
- New special ending bracket height and offset options
- New Transparent bar line style
- Version 2.51 Upgrade
- Built-in support for Lua user tool scripting
- Built-in Retrograde and Show Note Names user tools included with the program (using Lua)
- New targeting mechanism for adding tie, accidental, glyph, and color options to individual, existing notes in a chord
- PCRE expressions in the Find and Filtered Properties commands
- Enhanced play back status timer with interactivity
- Enhanced Print Preview
- New accidental, duration, notehead, color, clef, key signature, time signature, rest, bar line, and dynamic selectors in the Toolbar
- Enhanced Edit Find mechanism
- Enhanced Tools->Score Review mechanism
- Enhanced editor scrolling support
- Built-in support for some special play related computer keyboard function keys
- File, New, Browse function
- New lyric syllable spacing
- Changes for Staccato performance style
- On-screen piano now supports over 10 point multi-touch
- User customized command images in the toolbars
- Version 2.75 Upgrade
- Official support for Windows 10
- Unicode support for all user entered text in the *.nwc/nwctxt file
- Dynamic loading of many standard NWC fonts, including the Pardy Font Pack
- Custom Objects, and a plugin API
- New Marker object for greater control over articulation, slur and triplet rendering
- Finer control over Expression Placement Staff Position (2 decimal places)
- Scaling of individual text expressions (Insert, Text)
- By popular demand, by default, the Notes toolbar again shows the full accidental and duration palette of buttons
- By popular demand, the ability to map File, New to your own custom folder location has returned
- A new MIDI File option has been added to Tools, Options, Folders
- Tools, Options, File, Start Export at MIDI Folder can be used to start File, Export from this new folder
- nwctxt format used for all clipboard operations
- Find now supports Next (F3) and Previous (Shift+F3) directions
- Find now supports searching through the current staff or all editor staffs
- Edit,Find and Edit,Filtered Properties now show the match count for the given search expression
- Relaxed stem direction rule when adding chord members
- Pitch Bend Range support added to the Instrument specification
- Multi-point Controller now accepts empty time offsets, which can be useful for resetting a sweep, such as with Pitch Bend
- Notifications alerts now popup when some kind of warning or error notification has been detected within the system
- Version 2.75a Upgrade
- Beam groups
- Courtesy accidentals
- Expanded range and fractional tenths for stem lengths (Alt+↕)
- Expanded range and fractional tenths for note spacing (Alt+↔)
- Expanded range and fractional tenths for accidental spacing (Alt+Shift+↔)
- ANSI Text Encoding option for MIDI files (Tools, Options, File)
- New Extra Dot Spacing option enables horizontal spacing control; hide the augmentation by setting this negative
- Finalized Multi-part Augmentation Dot Placement option in Staff Properties
- Bar Number Panel now includes a Muted note property indicator
- Position indicator, with leger lines, in the left side active staff frame
- Support for expandable folder paths
- New control key enabling mouse-over behavior in the editor
- Simplified grace note slur placement
- Built-in Lua plugin and user tool API reference
- Additions to the object plugin api
- Convert options now built into the main nwc2.exe program
- Additional Fixes/Enhancements
- Reintroduce the export to NWC Version 1.75 mechanism
- Add recent files to the status bar popup menu
- Improve lyric alignment when using Standard Rules
- Usability changes for File History
- Improve staff brace label handling with collapsing staffs
- Fix measure number for in-line, system connected, staff gap widths
- Force single staff line boundary when a visible standard bar line is the first item in the staff
- Fix for tie/slur into a first ending that contains other endings as well
- Fix tempo/timing issues in the Play From mechanism
- Support silent mode for beta test and upgrade installs
- Fix stability problems when printing a file that has multiple systems and a near empty staff
- Improve editor handing of multi-measure rests
- Fix file open handling for very old files that used a bracket/brace style
- Fix for printing page ranges
- Improve caret insertion point handling
- Improve printed MMR justify spacing (prevent justify gaps for MMR or its adjoining clef/time signatures)
- Add caret/insertion point mark in the Bar Number Panel
- Improve Staff Boundary Gap alignment and handling
- Display bar range for MMRs in Bar Number Panel
- Permit reloading a file via File Open, File Revert, drag and drop, or Explorer shell actions
- Prevent Save As from replacing a file that is currently open in the editor
- Make staff lines thickness more consistent with standard bar line thickness
- Fix Transparent bar line style representation in nwctxt
- Retain clipboard contents after program close
- Maintain status bar position when toggling View, Status Bar
- Add Group support to the Mute List tool
- Add individual magnification option to toolbars
- Add toolbar button for inserting a system break
- Improve song play back duration calculations when starting from the middle of a work
- Prevent old version format warnings from being reset by the autosave mechanism
- Play back performance note lengths should now be more consistent with traditional NWC performances from version 2.1
- Fix for MMR printing with adjacent automatic clef/key signatures
- Update file edit history file during application context switch, allowing the Viewer to see the most recently edited files
- Fix automatic file extension mechanism when using File Export for *.nwctxt
- Improve corrupt file detection during file load
- Detect problems with Unicode filenames that cannot be represented in ANSI
- Fix for a computation anomalies in the object plugin drawing mechanism
- Fix for loading files created/edited by an old NWC version 1 program
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
