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Hybrid
Includes both a Mac and Windows version of the program.
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Overture 4 is a VST host and can play all of today's sample libraries.
Features:
- Easy to install and set up
- Create piano, band, orchestral, choral, and lead sheet notation
- Print arrangements of up to 64 instruments
- Comes with fun music and templates to get started
Just point and click
Overture is easy-to-use notation software that's powerful enough to satisfy the needs of today's professional musicians and composers. You can quickly enter notes on-screen with your mouse or computer keyboard, or record a MIDI performance for instant viewing. Overture’s intuitive interface puts powerful editing tools and symbol palettes at your fingertips, so you spend time composing music instead of searching through menus. For complete orchestral arrangements, lead sheets, individual cues or even simple notation examples, there’s no faster way to create professional notation than Overture.
Professional page layout
The score window in Overture allows you to notate your music quickly and easily. You control all notation elements with the mouse or computer keyboard. Extensive text handling functions make it easy to add or edit lyrics, page text, floating text, measure text, and rehearsal marks.
Extensive MIDI features
Overture has powerful MIDI recording capabilities that you won’t find in other notation programs. It reads and writes standard MIDI files, provides tape deck-style transport controls, as well as punch-in/punch-out recording options. Overture offers complete MIDI playback of all dynamics, repeats and endings. You can also edit your recorded MIDI performance on-screen, using either the score window or the graphical piano roll display.
Desktop publishing
Need to include a few measures for a textbook example, test brochure or multimedia presentation? Just click and drag over any section of the score to capture it as a separate file. Then save the data as either a PICT or an EPS file and place it into the publishing program of your choice. Macintosh version only.
Drum Mappings
Notating drum parts has never been easier. Play your drum kit over the entire range of the MIDI instrument and Overture will remap the notes onto a five line percussion staff. (You can load a drum library map, or create new ones.) Notate both closed and open hi-hats on the same line with an X and circle-X. For more clarity, you can even choose which staff lines show.
Smart Tablature
Overture is the fastest, easiest and smartest way to notate music as tablature. Bends and other useful markings are fully supported. Automatically takes into account fixed or floating positions, finger span, alternative tunings, and capo positions. Adjustable font, staff, note stem size. Automatically transposes fret position number from string to string! All articulations and marks become symbols when entered into blank space.
Guitar Palette
With Overture you get complete tools for guitar notation. Symbols can be attached to notes or placed anywhere on your score. Guitar bends attach to notes, when notes move the bends will move along with them. Guitar notations include finger articulations, hammer-ons, tapping, rotatable, and stretchable "bend" articulations with 25 easily adjustable quarter tone steps (+3 to -3 whole tones), tremolo marking, vibrato, barre at fret number, and more.
Jazz Articulations
Overture offers a wide variety of jazz articulations including: lift, slide (pick scrape), rip, wah wah, fall off, spill, stab, flip, smear, bend, doit, plop, wow wow, and shake-with 7 selection line type.
Expression Library
Create your own expression library with unlimited entries. Assign name, font, style, playback parameters and more.
Expression palette
Fully editable expression palette with definable font, font size, font style, line type, end cap, extract on all part selection, and hide in print selection. And you can assign play back parameters to your expression markings: tempo, patch, controller w/ controller value.
Overture Features:
Staff/Score:
- Easy setup with Setup dialog
- 256 staves with 8 voices per stave
- 64 staves per system, unlimited number of systems
- 8 voices per stave, each assignable to a MIDI device
- 0 - 16 lines per staff, choose which lines show, i.e. lines 1 and 5 only
- Hide, show or scale any staff from 25% - 250%
- Hide or show various staff elements including staff lines, key signature, time signature, barlines and clefs
- Automatic page tiling for printout
- 32,768 measures per score
- Scrolling score window during playback
- 34" x 44" maximum page size
View/Edit Windows
- WYSISWYG Page layout—what you see and edit is what you get
- Piano roll MIDI data window
- Zoom score from 10% - 800%
Staff Types/Clefs
- G (treble clef) G (8va) G (8vb)
- F (bass clef) F (8vb)
- C (movable-tenor, alto, soprano, mezzo soprano clefs)
- Percussion with staff line, notehead and MIDI pitch mapping
- Tablature with fingering, hide stems
Meters/Keys
- Multiple meters and complex meters
- Different meters between staves are supported graphically
Noteheads
- Supports all note marks and ornaments
- Intelligent placement of noteheads can be manually adjusted
- Accidentals can be dragged anywhere
- Fingering can be attached to notes
Rhythmic
- 128th note to triple dotted whole notes
- Tuplets from 1 - 99 over 1 - 99
- Beam patterns are automatic or user defined
- Beaming: cross staff, cross barline, feathered
- Adjustable beam height and angles
- Nested repeats and endings with MIDI playback
Input Methods
- Computer mouse
- Computer keyboard
- MIDI controller/keyboard real time and step time
- Import standard MIDI file, quantize each track differently
- Import Encore and MusicTime files.
- Paste any .PICT into score (Mac Only)
Chords
- Support user defined symbols/suffixes in libraries
- Automatic chord recognition in step entry (MIDI) mode
- Mouse click and computer keyboard entry of chords
- Chords transpose
Guitar Frames
- Support user defined guitar frames in libraries
- Mouse click entry of chords
- Chords can be altered after they are entered
Text
- Lyrics--8 verses for each voice--mass entry, paste from word processor
- Rehearsal marks
- Page text including footer, header, titling with page numbers, date and time
- Measure and system text
Preferences
- Engraver settings
- Libraries for: allotment table, chord symbol, drum maps
- MIDI playback: as recorded (MIDI data), as written or in swing
- Templates using System 7 stationery
MIDI
- Records all MIDI events, including notes, controllers, aftertouch, pitch bend, key velocity, etc.
- Graphic editing including Strip Chart for drawing in controller data
- OMS compatible--supports multiport interfaces including MIDI Time Piece, Studio 4 and Studio 5LX
- MIDI playback of all rests, dynamics, trills, repeats, tremolos
- Assign MIDI values to dynamics (pppp to ffff), hairpins, and some articulations for playback
- Tape deck style MIDI transport controls with punch in/out and wait for note.
- 480 PPQ (parts per quarter note) capture of MIDI
Output
- any compatible printer
- Use any alternate music font, such as the Jazz Font or GoldenAge handwritten-style fonts (alternate fonts available separately)
- EPS and PICT file capture (Macintosh only)
- Part extraction with auto transpose and multi-measure rests
- Standard MIDI files
Transposition
- Chromatic
- Diatonic
- Enharmonic
- Includes notes and chord symbols
Editing
- All elements (notes, stems, beams, accidentals, ornaments, fingerings, staves, clefs, barlines, all text including lyrics, chord symbols, dynamic markings) can be clicked and dragged or nudged with arrow keys
- Option drag to copy is supported
- Automatic recognition of elements, edit any item without switching tools
- Copy/paste/merge/paste special for pasting only certain elements
- Hide, show or scale any element 25 - 250%
- Automatic or manual voicing and transcription, including re-transcribe
- Beat charts are user modifiable including copy and paste
- Step entry includes notes, rests, rhythmic slashes and chord symbols.
New In Overture 4:
Full VST Integration...
Open the VST Instruments rack and load any VST instrument or effect. You can easily add controller and key switches using the pre-define libraries for most of the popular sample libraries.
Intuitive Score Editing like No Others...
Overture allows you to edit your score in an intuitive manner, unlike other programs, so there is no need to hunt through levels of dialogs or search the manual, just to make a simple change. Most commands can be done with one simple command directly on the score.
Edit MIDI Directly on the Score
Now that your VST Instruments have been loaded and your score has been entered, it’s time to do the final tweaking to get that great sound. Switch to MIDI data mode and your MIDI data is displayed above each track ready to be edited. Easily draw in or erase existing data right before your eyes with the score underneath.
Finally create a CD...
Now that you have high quality sound scores, you can save them as a wave file to be burned onto a CD or sent to a friend.
Redirect MIDI
Each track's MIDI output can be sent to another MIDI port and have any MIDI input port be sent to the track's original output device. This is useful for sample libraries that use a separate MIDI utility.
Modify Controllers
Any controller can be reassigned to another controller and its values can be set to a new value or scaled. This is very useful when transferring files that use different libraries.
VST Support - Nothing even comes close
Your scores will sound as if they were recorded in the studio. Any VST instrument or effect can be loaded, not just the small light library found in other packages. So you have a great string sample library but need a classical guitar. Overture is the only notation program that can load all VST instruments and effects. Overture has been tested with over 600 VST instruments and effects, so whatever you have, plug it in Overture and listen to your scores in CD quality. When you're ready, save your score to disk for burning onto a CD.
Overture 4 is a full VST Host. Load up to 256 VST Instruments and 4 effects. Any track's output can be assigned to any VST instrument loaded into the rack. The outputs from the VST instruments are routed to a Pre Gain slider and then into the effects rack. Each output from each effect is sent to the next effect in the rack. The output from the last effect is sent to a Master Gain slider.
The VST Instruments rack has a CPU meter to display the amount of time the CPU is taking to process a buffer of audio data and a Disk meter to display the amount of time Overture is using while performing output to the hard disk while recording audio data. Overture's output can be saved to disk as a wave file for burning to a CD.
The rack information is saved with each score and automatically loaded when the score is opened.
Page Layout - Simply beautiful
The Page Dimensions dialog was rewritten to show the layout of the score as score staff sizes are reduced. As you move the Score Size slider the score is automatically reformatted and shown in the score view area. You can view any page in the score to make sure you have to correct size.
Score Editing - Nothing is easier
Overture’s intuitive interface puts powerful editing tools and symbol palettes at your fingertips, so you spend time composing music instead of searching through menus. For complete orchestral arrangements, lead sheets, individual cues or even simple notation examples, there’s no faster way to create professional notation than Overture. Overture's features only add more power, not confusion as in other notation programs.
Score Creation - Easy as can be
Overture's setup dialog lets you build your scores in one main dialog. You can choose standard instruments or templates for your tracks, and then set the title page, starting meter, time signature, etc., all within the dialog. You can set the default font to the Jazz font.
Features:
Playback
- Articulation Playback
Articulations can affect attack times, durations, velocities, and send controller data. These are user definable and saved with the score. Breath mark and Grand Pause pause score playback.
- VST Host
Overture 4 is a full VST host. Load up to 256 instruments and 4 VST effects. VST Instruments are supported in Windows XP and 2000.
- Glissando Playback
Select a glissando and then choose diatonic, chromatic, or white keys to be used during playback. You can set the line type to solid (none if thickness 0), or wavy and choose to display text.
- Chord and Guitar Frame Playback
Select a chord and then choose the starting offset times, durations and velocities to be used during playback.
- Symbol Playback
Any symbol from the graphics palette can affect playback.
- Voice Playback
Select any note and set its playback to another voice using parameters in Tracks Window, maintains its original voice.
- Expressions
Expressions now can send tempos throughout a range, bank changes, etc. at any point in the score. You can also tell Overture to switch playback voices anywhere in the score. Controller names and key switches are predefined for VST instruments.
- Solo and Mute
Right mouse click on any track to solo or mute the track directly on the score.
-Scrub Tool
Click the scrub tool and drag horizontally over the measure to play the notes one at a time.
- Humanize Function
Presents a dialog where you can randomize start times, ending times, velocities, and tempos within the selected area.
- Tempo Offset
Adjust the tempo during playback from 10% to 200% using the MIDI Data mode.
- Non-Metered Playback
Overture plays all the notes in measure even if it is 4.5 beats, and therefore you can have unlimited number of notes in a measure. This is useful for Cadenzas or music without barlines.
- MIDI Clock
Overture now sends MIDI Start, MIDI Stop, MIDI Continue, and MIDI clock.
- Measure Repeats
Single and double bar repeats playback.
Score Editing
- Edit MIDI Data directly on Score Window (Miniature Graphic Window)
Enter MIDI data mode and the notes appear as a piano roll in the measures. Note start times durations and velocities can be dragged. Above each measure is a small MIDI data area where controller data, pitch bend, tempos, etc can be entered, changed, or erased. You can choose the type of data to be edited as well as the density when entering the data. Extremely powerful for those using notation with GPO and want complete control over the MIDI data directly on the score.
- Redo Pitches Function
Select a note and enable this in the Notes menu. Any notes played on the MIDI keyboard will replace the selected note and the next note will be selected. The existing rhythms are kept.
- Smarter Mouse Entry
Mouse entry automatically recognizes polyphonic rhythms and adjusts stems and voices to accommodate. Rests are automatically entered. The layout adjusts to accommodate notes based on allotment tables. In other words, measures wrap down to the next system to avoid crowded notes. This can be turned off by the user.
- Chord Recognition
Click on a note using chord tool and all notes of the chord (including bass clef on piano tracks) are used to enter the chord found in library.
- Add Interval Function
Select notes and choose this in the Edit menu to add a 2nd though a 9th above or below selected notes.
- Reassign Controllers
Any controller can be reassigned to another controller.
- Recording
User can set transcriber to add staccato and tenuto articulations automatically when recording and importing MIDI files.
- Selection Filters
Select a range and then filter out any symbols. This powerful note filter allows you to choose pitch, duration, velocity range, note head type and articulation. Also you can choose the starting point in a measure and the interval. For example: You could filter all quarter notes on the second and fourth beats that have a velocity above 90. You could then click on the accent symbol in the articulation palette to add an accent to the selected notes.
- Find
Through a dialog you can find notes using pitch, duration, velocity range, note head type and articulation as parameters. You can also find MIDI data such as controllers, pitch bend, and program changes, and also playback symbols such as tempos, hairpins, dynamics, and expressions.
- Quick Paste (Key stroke to be determined later)
Select a passage and Alt-Shift (Option-Shift on Mac)-click to paste it into the score. Repeat this as many times as necessary.
- Articulations
Choose Notes>Flip>Articulations command to move articulations to the opposite side of stem. Clicking on an articulation in the palette applies it to any selected notes.
- Capo Setting
Guitar Frames can be changed using a capo command. The original chord name can be displayed above the new name or the new chord name can be displayed below the frame with the original above the frame.
- Pedal Bracket
The pedal bracket can now be used as a regular horizontal bracket by deleting the middle point and flipping it.
- Split System
Splitting a system starts a new system at current measure. Overture will try to keep this measure as a start of a new system whenever laying out a page.
- Implode and explode
The implode command condenses selected staves onto a single staff. This is useful for creating piano reductions. The dialog box lets you specify where to place the imploded music.
The explode command expands the selected passage into separate single-line melodies on separate staves. This is useful in creating a four-part harmony from a piano part.
- Improvise
This allows you to record without a metronome and add the beats later. After recording a track you record another track that contains beats only. The remaining tracks are adjusted to the beats.
- Hand and Zoom tools on Tool bar
Separate tools for dragging page and for zooming in or out. The hand tool will drag individual staves when clicked on. When clicking on white space the entire page is moved. These are easily selected by typing ‘h’ or ‘z’.
- Show/Hide Palettes
One keystroke to show or hide all open palettes.
- Booklet Printing
Pages are printed side by side in landscape mode to produce booklets.
- Swing Marking
The tempo dialog has a setting to show swing. Two Eighths = Beamed Quarter/Eighths triplet.
Score Layout
- Symbol Color
You can now change the color of symbols in the score - notes, lyrics, text, hairpins, dynamics, etc. This is particularly useful for emphasizing important score information especially in educational music. The symbols print in color, too.
- Colors Themes
User can set your own workspace color themes.
- Show Grid
The score background becomes a sheet of graph paper to help in aligning symbols.
- Title Items
Title items can be place on every page, not just the first.
- View Options
The View popup menu now has a Fit Page to Screen Width or Height.
Files
- Auto Save
Set the interval to automatically save your score into a backup folder.
- Read MusicXML Files
Open a MusicXML file created from Finale, Sibelius, or scanning programs.
- Record to File
Overture 4 allows the output of VST instruments to be saved as a WAVE/AIFF file.
General Improvements
- Backspace Key Deletes
Press the backspace (delete key on MAC) to delete the symbol before cursor.
- Trills
When selected notes are Notated as a trill, any ending grace notes are automatically converted to grace notes. Generated trills have a duration for each trilled note and they can be accelerated.
- Guitar Frames
Guitar Frames now have more suffixes, can transpose and have fingering below strings.
- Tablature
The Notes to Tablature command automatically creates a tablature track if needed.
- Graphics Palette
The Graphics palette contains a wedge symbol that is filled or transparent. Adding thickness to curves produces a tapered slur.
- Articulations and Heads Palette
Click on articulation/head tools to apply these to selected notes.
- Dynamics
Dynamics now have a movable baseline on each staff that is used when being entered. Dynamics between keyboard staves can affect both staves.
- Hairpins
Hairpins now have seven control points instead of four and have a graph to draw in the control points.
- Lyrics
Lyrics are typed directly in score. There are commands to copy to and from clipboard, and shift the lyric line left or right. Also there is a command to automatically display verse numbers to the left of the first lyric on any system.
- Multi Measure Rests
Multi Measure Rests have a Fill % of bar and the range numbers are drawn at same location as bar numbers.
- Default Page
New scores contain more staves shows more of the score on screen. The default staff size is a bit smaller.
- Page Dimensions Dialog
The Page Dimensions dialog was rewritten to show the new layout of the score as score staff sizes are reduced.
- Import Dialog
Importing MIDI files has options for putting tracks in Score Order and for using the JazzFont as default MusicFont. The automatic pacing of staves has been improved.
- New Score Dialog
The New Score dialog has an option for using the JazzFont as default MusicFont.
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PC
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Mac
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Windows 2000/XP
Pentium III/Athlon - Pentium 4 /Athlon 1.8 GHz or better when using VST instruments
128Mb application RAM - 1.5 GB or more recommended when using VST instruments
Windows-compatible Printer
Windows-compatible MIDI interface required for MIDI recording
CD-ROM drive
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Macintosh OS X
Macintosh 68020 or Power Macintosh Native - G4 733MHz or better when using VST instruments
128Mb application RAM - 1.5 GB or more recommended when using VST instruments
Macintosh-compatible Printer
Macintosh-compatible MIDI interface required for MIDI recording
CD-ROM drive
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