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Encore 6 will be 64 bit and will run on Apple M1 and M2 machines. I haven’t tested it on M1 and M2 but I don’t see a problem. I juce upgraded Overture and the Encore 6 code to the latest compiler and enviroment to provide this functionality. BTW, there will not be a 32 bit version.
It looks like I will have a functioning demo with about 75% of the features running by Thanksgiving and then a shipping version by the end of the year.AS for MTP, yes, but after Encore 6 and Overture 6, maybe by summer 2025.
Great to hear! I hope it’s still as intuitive as the old Encore with new funcionalities and without the bugs.
Good luck with the development! Can’t wait to try it out. Will it be possible
to read/write the old Encore files as well?
Thanks you very much.Thanks for the update!
“… I have decided to throw away the 6 months of work and pretty much start over …”Good Luck for the work and hopefully less frustration, than before…
All the Best!
Johannes
I’m happy to hearing the good news from you. I will prepare the new Mac for Encore6 and waiting for it.
Great News! Hoping all goes smoothly too. I know nothing of how these programs are written but judging from all the changes every other month with operating systems, it must be a challenge to keep up/ahead. I run Windows on my laptop (Encore) & Sonoma (updating to Sequoia? soon) on my Mac Studio (no Encore🥴) so hope I will be able to use on both machines.I have 4 music books written in Encore 5 so hoping there will be a way to read those files in Encore 6.
Will there be some announcement to those of us who have been using Encore 5 forever? (I actually go back as far as Rhapsody). Today was the first time I’ve been able to log into this forum in a couple of years (on my iPad of all things) so hope I can get back in to keep checking.
Thanks for all of your hard work. Encore has quite the fan club,
Mike:
“Meanwhile, I’ve stumbled across a relatively easy way to import PDF files generated by Encore into Finale/Sibelius/MuseScore. There’s even a free way to do this as long as one is willing to do it one page at a time.”This is probably because of Pdf to Music Pro.
MuseScore has an indirect OCR feature, I think with the help of some third party service from what I remember reading. Anyway, under the file menu, there’s an “import” option, which takes you to their site (URL below) and requires logging in, so you need an account. But once you’re logged in, you just upload a PDF and they spit out a MuseScore file. It seems to save it to your account, too. But the really great part is once you’ve got that MuseScore file, you can export MIDI and reimport to whatever you like. They also offer various other audio and image formats and a MusicXML format, but I have never used that, so not sure how useful it is.
Anyway, I’m glad to hear the good news on the Encore 6 front. I’m not holding my breath for anything before year-end, but I have been itching to find something to fill the niche that Guitar Pro and MuseScore and so on can’t.
This is probably because of Pdf to Music Pro.
Specifically, PDFtoMusic Pro 2, much improved over the old version that I considered useless.
I paid the $199 because using it for free takes too much of my time. In Trial mode, it exports the first page only of a multi-page pdf. Here’s how to use it anyway:
Open your multi-page pdf in Preview and print-to-pdf one page at a time. Now open each page in PDFtoMusic Pro and export as MusicXML.
The problem in Finale is that importing a MIDI or xml file overwrites previous content. Here is a workaround:
Have your preferences set so that double-clicking on the xml opens automatically in Finale (or Dorico, Sibelius, MuseScore…). Name your file, then add as many measures as needed for your project and Save. Next, double-click the next page xml file—this opens a new Finale document Untitled. Now, in Edit mode, Select All and Copy. Go back to your named Finale doc, click on the first empty measure and Paste, then Save. You can Close and discard Untitled. Repeat till you get all the pages imported.
Or pay the two bills and export/import everything in one pass.
I find this much better on Encore pdf files than any version of SmartScore which is still useful on scans, something that PDFtoMusic Pro 2 cannot do.
MuseScore has an indirect OCR feature…
It’s still a scan, not very anccurate and it puts you into MuseScore. No thanks. MS5 is supposed to be good if you believe the hype but it’s not here yet. The current version, like all of those previous, is just not ready for prime time, IMO.
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