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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