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I’ve been an Encore user dating back to the mid 1990s. Nothing has ever compared to the user-friendliness of this program for music notation. It is now “late fall 2022″…does this mean we are close to seeing it released? 🙂
For now it’s Christmas.
I think Encore will be released early next year.By the way, I just finished a new score with Encore 5.0.4.875. 😉 
I love this fast and uncomplicated input of lyrics in Encore and hope that it will be as easy with Encore 6.What I need is to put an extra staff only in some systems.
Do you think it will be possible in version 6?Percy Bergman, Sweden
already have Sibelius, Dorico and Finale .. but excited with E6 too, it seems they have issue in release date
“What I need is to put an extra staff only in some systems.
Do you think it will be possible in version 6?”This has “always” been possible. Actually, the extra staff “exists” in all systems, but you can hide it where you want to (select the staves you want to hide, and press “hide staves” in the View Menu).
What Andre says.
I don’t know of any notation app where you can insert a staff in some systems only. The way it’s done is that the staff is present through the entire piece. It’s Show/Hide as you need to see it. Encore has had this ability as long as I remember.
“Mike, Does the feature allow you to hide selected measures? Please advise.”
In Encore 5, you can hide a staff or staves in a system but you cannot hide selected measures (page 206). Overture is the same in that regard.
Few users need to hide selected measures leaving a partial staff in a system. The normal practice is to show empty measures in staves where are some notes and hide only those where there are empty measures.
OTOH, this is quite easy on a Mac if you print to .pdf first. Preview has some simple shape tools that let you hide anything you want and add text as desired.
If you need more flexibility than that, it’s Finale/Sibelius/Dorico.
Hi George & Mike, I used to have Encore from the very beginning (1989 or 90) and when Passport folded I switched to Overture 2, which I’ve been using ever since. That’s just for background info.
Regarding hiding measures, it’s very easy in Overture is to select a measure’s content and make it invisible, but the staff lines remain visible. To blank out a measure or measures you can also do that in Overture using the Graphics tools and drawing an opaque rectangle with no borders over them. You can then even add some text to a measure (instructions, for instance).
JohnHi everybody
In Musescore 3 it is possible to hide a bar anywhere in the score, the content and the staves.
The more I use it, the more I discover functions that did not exist in Encore.
When Encore 6 will be released I’m not sure I’ll come back to it because I can open my old Encore files with PlayOnMac and a virtual installation of Encore PC and export them as midifiles
EricIndeed, I have been waiting for Encore 6 — especially if it will be compatible with Mac operating systems beyond Mojave. I have been using Encore for 30 years, and it has only become better and better. The new version will enable us to keep thousands of pieces in the same software, rather than trying to convert everything to another platform.
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