What's new in MidiIllustrator Maestro 3.0
Jan 21, 2015
- New composing feature:
- Slurs
- On-Screen Guitar Fretboard
- Speaking Metronome
- Display Solfege Note Names
- Copy Chord Names to Lyrics
- Beat Marker Numbers
- Performing Hands Now Displayed in Step by Step Mode
- Step by Step Mode Shows Incorrect Input
- Step by Step Mode New MIDI Shortcut Keys
- Step by Step Mode New Keyboard Shortcut Keys
- Improved Metronome Intro/Lead-in Options
- Step by Step Mode improved in Practise Sessions
- Highlight Rests During Playback
- Save/Restore Session
- Per Score Tempo
- Performance Recording New Shortcut
- Zooming Shortcuts Improved
- Highlight Middle C
- Improvements:
- Full compatibility with Windows 8/8.1.
- Graphic display quality improvements (e.g. antialiasing of fonts).
- Improved handling of custom OS DPI settings (Windows custom text size).
- Rewrite of metronome light timing to address latency issues.
- Printing to BMP improvements.
- Improved handling of invalid note pitches during MIDI import.
- Better validation of MIDI data.
- Clearer metronome sounds.
- Improved handling of unavailable scores accessed from recent scores list.
- Increased "pre-warning" score open count to 40.
- Improved cursor navigation commands (View Menu).
New in MidiIllustrator Maestro 2.00 (Jan 21, 2015)
- New Feature:
- Finger Numbers and Automatic Fingering Analysis
- Enrich your score with Rich Text Content
- Performing Hands
- Expressions which Control Playback (e.g. Dynamics, Metronome Tempos, Articulations etc.)
- Measure Endings
- Quick Print Parts/Instruments/Staves
- Fully Customizable On-Screen Piano Keyboard Colors
- Score Starting Tempo
- Completely New Program Interface
- Context Menus
- Better Printer Management
- New Ways to Show Individual Note Names
- Finger Numbers Displayed on the On-Screen Piano Keyboard
- New Dynamic Tempo and Volume Controls
- Extended Clipboard Actions
- Tabbed Documents/Scores
- Interface Improvements
- New Program Options
- Extended Insertion and Item Shift functions, with Keyboard Shortcuts
- Free Text Items
- New Metronome Light Options
- Support for MidiIllustrator running on Linux with WINE
- Staff Manager, Staff Copy Functions Improved
- Hide Upper/Lower Voice Rests
- Improved Score Layout
- New Program Icons
- Fixes and Improvements:
- Improvements to barline graphics, and introduced new barline toolbar buttons
- It is now default behavior to print score notation colors but not to print page textures, which are now separate options
- Search the help file for keywords directly from the search box in the main program menu bar
- New page background textures
- Extra handling of invalid key signatures in MIDI files
- Accidentals no longer repeat on notes which tie from the previous measure. To show an accidental on a note tied from a previous system/page, a courtesy accidental can be used
- Staff instrument names can now be edited in Staff Manager and the Staff Instrument dialogs
- Re-enabled default editing option "Auto-tie off-beat notes which cross beats"
- Improvements to Scroll View
- Added extensions to all file names in List Bar, so the extension column does not need to be visible to identify file type
- Improved splash screen dismissal behavior
- Improved handling of improperly structured MIDI files which could result in some MIDI notes hanging when imported
- Addressed occasional Tooltip flicker when running under Windows Vista
- Updated file associations to work with Windows Vista with UAC enabled
New in MidiIllustrator Maestro 1.02 (Jan 21, 2015)
- Fixes and Improvements
- Fixed: Vista AutoSave error
- Details: MidiIllustrator encountered a sporadic error with default AutoSave settings when running under Microsoft Windows Vista.
- Fixed: Enharmonic spelling/pitch shift error
- Details: Corrected an issue with enharmonic spelling and pitch shift functions where pitch change was not properly stored.
- Other performance improvements
New in MidiIllustrator Maestro 1.01 (Jan 15, 2008)
- New Score Samples Three new complete score samples are included with each MidiIllustrator installation program.
- New Program Icons and Graphics New images have been incorporated into the different MidiIllustrator products for those customers who have more than one MidiIllustrator product installed at a time. It is now much easier to associate various music file types with a given MidiIllustrator application.
- Trial Printing Printing is now fully enabled in the trial versions of MidiIllustrator Maestro and MidiIllustrator Virtuoso, allowing musicians to print complete scores whilst auditioning each program.
- MIDI Device Volume automatically set Some programs erroneously reduce the master volume of the "Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth", which is the default MIDI device used for playback on many Windows systems. If the Windows 'master' volume for this device has been set to zero, then no sound will be heard during playback of any scores which use the device.
- MidiIllustrator now checks to see if the Wavetable Synth is the playback device each time playback begins. If it is, and the current volume is zero, MidiIllustrator automatically increases the volume to 50%. This action simply reproduces the result you would see if you manually increased the "MIDI" or "SW Synth" volume value in the Windows Mixer dialog (also know as "the Windows volume control").
- Score adding capacity increased
- It is now possible to add an unlimited number of scores to a playlist in a single action. The previous limit was ~300 scores at a time
- Fixed: Step by Step cursor positioning reset