NoteWorthy Composer 2 - Web Updates

An update is available for your copy of NoteWorthy Composer 2.5.1.

Download - nwcupd_from_v2.5.1.exe (1782 KB)

• 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
• MIDI Reset prompt when initiating Tools, Stop when nothing is playing
• File New templates can now be *.nwctxt files
• Note tie changes within a selection are now constrained to the selection when they contain two or more note items
• Ties should not be interrupted by a continued special ending
• Automatic MMR generated whole rests should be influenced by the increased spacing for longer notes option
• 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 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