What's New in Version 5

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Notation Composer 5 introduces great new features for audio control and live performance, and much more!

 

New - BandMates - Live performances with your group are now easier and more flexible than ever.  Send your BandMates Parts to their personal devices, and then play the song from your laptop and all of you can see exactly where you are in the song progression with the beat cursor on your individual screens.  Are you missing an instrument for a performance?  You can have Composer play that instrument Part for you so you don't have to worry about a missing musician.

New - Realtime Audio - Advanced audio capabilities using world-class audio handling of VST3 instruments and effects for exceptional quality sound in real time for performances.

New - notation VST recorder – recording of audio output built by VST plugins and live instrument performance recording

New - Reverb and Chorus audio effects output with the Notation Software Synth, editable using GraphOverNotes

New - Playlists enhancements - Sort and select songs on-the-fly using keywords, song titles, or genre during performances.

New - Full per-monitor DPI awareness across multiple monitors and casting devices (available on Windows installations) and enhanced DPI scaling options.

New - tabs for BandMates and RealTime Audio; condensed Sound Changes, Piano Roll, and Note Velocity into a new "Sound" tab.

New - Italian language version

New - Improved MIDI Support and Technological Enhancements

oWASAPI and WASAPI exclusive audio interface for Realtime

oPerformance enhancements when using multicore CPUs

oLatest libs for PDF,MusicXML, audio, and audio export

oMIDI SysEx import, export and recording in Realtime

oRecording of Program Change, CC, Portamento in Realtime

oRecording of keyboard sound settings in Realtime

oMemory reduction and performance enhancements when using a very large soundfont

oAuto-correction of drum banks in MIDI XG files

oVST contract with Steinberg

oAll MIDI CC events are now supported

New - Band-in-a-Box Plugin now for Mac-PCs (requires an update to Wine-8.5)

New - "Swing" the audio performance of selected note pairs in your score

New - Preview listening when selecting sounds in the Staff / Setup dialog by right-clicking the instrument patch name

New - Remaining song time display for playback during song play or if playback is stopped

New - When using brackets or braces you can now select to have barlines across all bracketed/braced staves or not - hold the "Ctl" key on your keyboard down when adding a brace or bracket across staves.

New - display instrument transposed or concert pitch chord names

New - Set up configurations for MIDI devices which are not present (useful when MIDI devices are only available at your venue or practice setup)  

New - Pitch-to-command for next/previous page for footswitches

And of course bug fixes and service enhancements

Operating systems supported

Windows 10, 64 bit

Windows 11, 64 bit

mac OS Catalina and higher