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capella Changelog

What's new in capella 9.0-04

Jun 2, 2022
  • A lot has happened in three major areas:
  • Object placement - Lyrics, dynamics and much more are now automatically placed at the right position.
  • Selection - Multiple notes, rests, etc. can be selected together even if they are not placed next to each other. The same holds for text objects and graphics.
  • Rehearsal - A loop function, metronome, tuning notes support you practicing your piece.

New in capella 8.0 - 09 (Dec 6, 2018)

  • Corrections and improvements:
  • On macOS Mojave (10.14) display of broad texts did not work any more. This is fixed.
  • Invisible clefs / time signature information were not always correctly displayed. This is fixed.
  • Improved display of slurs, ties and lyrics extension signs across staves
  • Improved display of accidentals in brackets
  • Improved positioning of the accidental # (was too far to the left)
  • In compatibility mode (dotted notes etc.) tie ends at the beginning of the stave were drawn shorter than in capella 7. This is corrected now.
  • Multi-digit numbers of whole bar rests in style "Bravura" were not displayed correctly. This is fixed.
  • Improved display of knee beams (with sixteenth and smaller notes)
  • Setting of default text font had an unwanted effect on the volta bracket number (since capella 8.0-07). This is fixed now.
  • Improved display of steep / vertical ties
  • Wrong display of sixteenth notes in beam groups corrected
  • Operation / Editing:
  • Search for rests improved
  • Plugin „Join rests“ improved
  • When loading certain scores capella could crash (depending on display / zoom in the SystemTemplate). This is fixed.
  • Plugins: Python commands displayPage() and displaySystem() did not work correctly. This is fixed.
  • Measure based navigation in systems with "no measure" did not work. This is fixed.
  • When joining systems capella could crash. This is fixed.
  • Measure numbering was sometimes not updated correctly (during joining of systems). This is fixed.
  • With transposing instruments sometimes wrong key signature changes were applied. This is fixed.
  • MusicXML export:
  • Functional export of dynamic symbols etc. (instead of export as plain text; until now this worked only in the capella3 font)
  • Problems with umlauts solved
  • Dynamic symbols in SMuFL font are now supported
  • Error in triple alterations (#x and bbb) corrected
  • PDF export:
  • During PDF export on Windows with High dpi screens scores were reduced (since High dpi support in capella 8.0-08). This is corrected now.
  • MIDI/Wave/MP3 export:
  • Selection and volume of voices in the playback bar (also solo mode) are now always considered (did not always work before)

New in capella 8.0 - 08 (Oct 24, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Appearance of slurs can be defined for the entire score (separately for normal/broken/dotted)
  • Appearance of ties can be defined (normal/broken/dotted; these settings can be edited for the entire score)
  • Ties with open beginning/end possible (for example for volta brackets)
  • Support of invisible clefs
  • Support of invisible time signature changes
  • Font for breath mark individually selectable
  • SMuFL support
  • New standard style „Bravura“ (SMuFL)
  • Support of handbell notation (gallery with Bravura symbols)
  • Rhythmic playing in (MIDI keyboard): low sound latency and freely selectable sound device
  • Mouse piano: Switch note entry; as sounding / as notated (transposing instruments)
  • Switch on/off playback of tremolo bars
  • Keyboard operation of Edit area
  • Handling of score styles (import, export)
  • Background deinstallation (for network admins)
  • Hotfolder for sound fonts (for network admins)
  • Bug fixes and improvements:
  • Position of slurs optimized (with different stem direction, notation in neighboring staff, across staves etc.); new option „ends closer to note head“; mirroring newly defined
  • Position of ties optimized (at the beginning of a staff / in certain chord constellations)
  • Note and lyrics alignment / underlines in lyrics optimized
  • Position of ledger lines optimized
  • Position of triplet brackets / octave brackets optimized (above/below notes depending on bracket shape)
  • Position of articulation signs (staccato dots etc.) optimized; strong accent can now be mirrored
  • Position of cue notes optimized
  • Optimization of collision avoidance released in version 8.0-07
  • Optimization of the feature „Beams across rests and cue notes“ released in version 8.0-07
  • Display error during clef change with notation in neighboring staff corrected
  • Display error with dotted whole measure rests corrected
  • Rest display in one-line percussion notation corrected
  • Display of graphic line objects corrected (line ends were too long)
  • Slurs across staves are now possible (the option "is an extension" was missing with this object type)
  • Problem during lyrics entry solved (unwanted mix-up of control characters)
  • Note entry with mouseclick: Cursor now moves behind the note (not in front of it)
  • Mouse piano: When swiping across the keys with pressed down mouse button the entered notes appeared in wrong order. This is corrected.
  • Mouse piano: Listening sound when briefly typing is now artificially prolonged (no staccato sound when using the track pad)
  • Note entry with switched off computer keyboard: Note length can still be edited
  • During system break there sometimes was false alarm due to asynchrony. This is corrected.
  • When inserting music symbols the music font of the score style must be used. It is defined in "Format – Score". Do not use the default style in „Preferences – General – Score styles“
  • Error corrected during entry of fixed barline: Sometimes unwanted barline duplications in other staves appeared
  • During deletion of a completely marked SystemTemplate staff capella could crash. This is corrected.
  • Judders during playback fixed (safe default setting)
  • Unwanted volume changes during playback of many voices corrected
  • Articulations (for example pizzicato) are now also considered with sound fonts
  • Sound font playback with more than 16 instruments was likely to lead to squeaky sounds. This is fixed.
  • In the Configure dialog for VST plugins/sound fonts not all commands to add new sounds and articulations worked. This is fixed.
  • Problem during MusicXML import fixed
  • Crashes during editing of graphic objects do not occur any more
  • Automatic scroll did not always work. This is fixed.
  • When using keyboard shortcuts, now "Enter" is accepted as an addition to „Return“
  • SystemTemplate editing fields for name and abbreviation: Entry is now also taken over without pressing Return/Enter
  • SystemTemplate - when a staff does not contain a barline, this is now clearly marked with a red area
  • Default size of dialogs increased (plugin dialog, CapXML dialog)
  • Display problem on High DPI screen (Windows) fixed
  • Plugins: Message boxes now also show the "Title" on Mac (within the box)
  • ScoreWizard - page numbers: With different order (even/uneven/left/right) now also „Start with“ is considered
  • Error in the printer settings memory (page format) fixed
  • Error message when opening corrupt files - no more crash instead
  • GB/UN version: capella could crash when working in dialog Format -- Notes/Rests. This is fixed.

New in capella 8.0 - 07 (Jul 24, 2018)

  • The ingenious position assistant. It's magic: Text and graphic objects, music symbols are positioned exactly.
  • Select your standard font for text objects in the mighty Extras - Settings dialog.
  • Improvements in notation and in lyrics for a balanced, easy to read score.