What's new in ScoreDate 3.2
Jul 16, 2012
- NEW: increased exercise editor size. Now it can be scrolled vertically
- NEW: full double clef support added
- Random exercises can be played with simultaneous notes on two clefs
- Exercises can now be created, edited and saved with two clefs
- NEW: added 6/4 and 3/8 time signatures
- changed: improved exercise save procedure. Less disk space is now required
- fixed: rendering of flats on bass, alto and tenor clef
- fixed: MIDI input device selection
- fixed: 6/8 exercise editing
- fixed: tonality display of a saved exercise
New in ScoreDate 3.1 (Jun 24, 2012)
- NEW: exercises bigger than the window size can now be scrolled
- NEW: automatic scroll of long exercises during listening and playback
- NEW: Portuguese translation (thanks to Raquel)
- NEW: Added 18 more exercises (thanks to Francesco)
- NEW: Added EXE file to launch ScoreDate for the less expert users
- changed: simplified output device selection
- fixed: improved display of exercises answers
- fixed: do not play pauses of exercises played inline
- fixed: stop last suspended note when listening with Fluidsynth
- fixed: all the dialog windows will stay always on top
- fixed: dotted quarter accidental position
- fixed: stop playback when closing the exercise view
- fixed: staff rendering of exercises with 6/8 time signature
New in ScoreDate 3.0 (Apr 24, 2012)
- NEW: Integrated low latency sound synthesis through Fluidsynth
- NEW: possibility to load user sound banks with Soundfont format (.SF2)
- NEW: added dotted half and quarter notes
- NEW: highlight virtual piano keys when playing with an external MIDI device
- NEW: added some more exercises
- fixed: editing of exercises with accidentals on clef
- fixed: missing strings on some translations
New in ScoreDate 2.3 (Dec 21, 2011)
- NEW: previously saved exercises can be modified
- NEW: added accidentals to Exercise editor
- NEW: rhythm exercise can now be played with the computer keyboard (any key will work)
- fixed: MIDI IN device selection which didn't work in some cases
- fixed: potential score reading game crash
New in ScoreDate 2.2 (Dec 8, 2011)
- NEW: added ear training panel. 4 levels available: novice, intermediate, expert and custom
- Notes range extended up to 4 additional lines above and below staff
- Notes panel is now cleaned up when repeating an exercise
- Fixed 6/8 time signature notes display
- Added an option to enable metronome accents, to simplify compound time signatures
- Fixed silence insertion for different notes types selection
- Latency maximum value extended to 500ms
New in ScoreDate 2.1 (Dec 2, 2011)
- if GM soundbank is not present, ask the user to download it from internet
- MIDI input transposition is now based on semitones, to allow more flexibility to different instruments (please review your settings if you previously transposed the input)
- redesigned MIDI input configuration window
- Line game: fixed potential crash on key release
- updated russian and hungarian translations
New in ScoreDate 2.0 (Nov 28, 2011)
- added the exercises panel.
- tree listing of previously saved XML exercises
- preview of the exercise score properly scaled to fit the panel
- playback of the exercise to listen to it before playing it
- buttons to start exercising. Score reading can be also interpreted as notes in line
- 20 exercises ready to be played. Includes major and minor scales, some small compositions and rhythm fun
- create any kind of exercise: line, rhythm, score
- set clef, accidentals, time signature, speed, random feature
- add notes and pauses to the score and edit the pitch by just pointing and clicking with the mouse
- previous notes selection
- last note removal
- playback preview of the notes sequence
- save on XML file
- fixed statistics daily view and empty panel
- fixed resize of home panel when closing another panel