Introduction > What's New in Version 4

Notation Composer 4 introduces even more intuitive features to make your music making experience smoother than ever.

•New - SmartMode – automatic mode switching and cursors so you can see at a glance which tool you’re using, making the interface more intuitive. Now, rather than having to manually toggle between Add and Select mode (though you can still do that, too), Composer "knows" what you want to do and shows you an "add"-ready cursor, or intelligently lets you select a score element that you mouse over and click.

•New - Virtual Piano Keyboard for adding notes to the score in a Step-time fashion.

•New - The internal Notation Software Synth now reads the patch names for instruments from all banks of the loaded soundfont

•New - Full DPI awareness for high-resolution screens and high resolution support

•New - Newsletter on splash screen to keep you up-to-date

•New - 64 bit application for the latest operating systems -Windows 7 x64 through Windows 10 x64, Mac OSX El Capitan to macOS Catalina, Ubuntu LTS 18.04, LTS 20.04, other Linux distributions on request

•New - Fresh and flexible look with selectable fonts for the interface.

•New - Microsoft Print to PDF capability

•New technology - New Prof-UIS, TinyXML-2, and fluidsynth libraries for enhanced performance of the interface, MusicXML handling, and sound for the Notation Software Synth.

•The Band-in-a-Box®* plugin for Notation Composer is easier than ever to use.

•And of course, many bug fixes.