Composition and Transcription Features

• Notate scores as large as 64 staves per system with up to eight voices per staff.
• Cross-staff beaming extends beams across staves for multi-staff instruments.
• Guitar tablature automatically notates tablature for up to 8 strings in any tuning with definable fret position.
• Percussion staff notates rhythms with multiple note heads and assignable staff position.
• Note duration and multiple voices are automatically "guessed" and then beamed appropriately.
• Auto spacing automatically spaces notes for easy reading.
• Additional symbols for rhythm-part chord slashes, arpeggio sign and fingering numbers.
• Insert or delete measures, pages, systems or staves anytime, anywhere in the composition.
• Transcribes Master Tracks Pro or Standard MIDI Files.
• Directly transcribes live input from MIDI instruments in real time.
• Linear view allows an entire score to be viewed as one system.
• Add guitar chord fret diagrams and chord names to your scores and lead sheets.
• Easily add a pickup measure to your score.

• Insert MIDI data for dynamics, controller data, and tempos.
• Customizable Toolbar for quick access to frequently used commands.
• Zoom in and out for precise control.
• Expressions palette allows you to save your own expressions in any font, size, or style.
• Guitar tablature symbols palette contains all the markings and symbols needed for notating tab.
• Slur a group of notes automatically or draw slurs with the pencil tool.
• Place objects anywhere on the page by clicking the mouse.
• Select regions, pages, staves, systems, or the entire score for editing.
• Transposition automatically affects chord symbols and fret diagrams.
• Key commands to change note durations, sharps, flats, naturals, enharmonics, and MIDI velocity.
• Transpose, change key signatures, meters, and clefs at any time.
• Display and play back nested repeat structures, including variable bar lines and multiple endings.
• Easily cut, copy, paste, clear, insert, delete, or undo notes or sections of music.
• Symbols include: notes, rests, accidentals, slurs, ties, grace notes, cue notes, tuplets, accents, marks, ornaments, ottava, and dynamics marks.
• Adjust the height and angle of beams and create Beam Groups.
• Justify spacing for both accidental collisions and proper timing alignment.
• Split notes from one staff onto two staves, either by pitch or voice.
• Select from eight note-head types, including Gregorian and percussion.
• Automatically extract parts with control over lyrics and markings.
• Enter text or lyrics anywhere on the page in any font, size, or style, including dashes and melismata.

MIDI Performance Features

• Plays back MIDI interpretations of dynamics, hairpins, repeats, endings, and articulations.
• OMS and built-in Mac Synthesizer support (Mac only).
• New Tempo Window, Color, Bank Select, and On-Screen Keyboard.
• Sustain pedal markings affect MIDI.
• Swing quantization gives music a swing feel.
• Tempo indications can affect playback.
• Assign up to 8 separate voices on each staff for playback over different MIDI channels.
• Align the playback to match the current graphic appearance of your music.
• Encore recognizes and generates MIDI Song Position Pointer and MIDI Clocks for syncing.
• Select any number of MIDI ports using OMS (Mac only) or up to 32 MIDI channels with other MIDI Drivers.
• Hear notes play over MIDI as you enter them with the mouse.
• MIDI Panic Button sends an "all notes off" message at any time.

• Mac and Windows version share same format, files are transfer-able between platforms.
• Supports OMS for Macintosh.
• Windows Soundcard compatible
• Supports Industry Standard MIDI Files.

System Requirements

Windows: PC (with ME, 2000, or XP preferred). Windows compatible sound card for music playback; Pentium class CPU or greater; at least 32MB System RAM; SVGA video.

Macintosh: PowerMac, G3, or G4 CPU; 32MB of RAM, 16MB Hard Disk Space; OS 8.6, OS 9.x, OSX, X.2 & X.3.

• Import Encore EPS files from many popular Publishing applications.
• Choose between engraver's spacing and mathematically perfect alignment of notes.
• Measures of rest can be compressed into one measure.
• User can define global spacing defaults of staves, clefs, lyrics, chords, key, and meter.
• Reminder time signatures can be displayed or hidden.
• Use any font in your system for text, lyrics, chords, staff names, and measure numbers.
• Place headers and footers on each page.
• Print your scores using Passport's Anastasia Font on any TrueType® or Postscript® printer.
• Print an entire score, individual pages, or extracted parts.
• Print reduced or enlarged images or print large compositions in "tiles."