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Hello, currently Encore cannot be ordered. Encore Version 5 had a last version made available about 10 years ago, then PassportMusic went in a kind of idle state and stopped business three years ago. It was then reactivated in spring 2022 and development of Encore 6 had started. Delevery is expected rather soon now, but it might need some more time to stablilize.
I can share the downloadable versions but they cannot be used without a license code, and nobody is entitled to sell or otherwise distribute license codes.
The only thing that is freely available is a demo version, which is operational except for saving scores (and prints only with a “watermark”).
I have it for Windows, and there must be a 32-bit version for Mac versions older than Catalina.Once Encore6 will be available, we will need a forum software which is more robust than this WordPress mess.
The classical YaBB and phpBB would be much much better!Perhaps a few of us could volunteer as administrator.
I don’t know, personally I’m not fond of video tutorials.
The priority should be on a reference manual, and a starter’s user’s guide.First thing to question, is “Can a time/key signature, or a clef”, be changed inside the score. Logically, if the product supports that, it should “obviously” read in/convert these signatures from an imported file.
What I just did, is checking if Overture support these changes. Since Encore 6 will be an Encore interface to the existing Overture engine, one could reasonably think that this functionality should be similar.
Overture supports signature/clef changes in the middle of a score, but only at the beginning of a measure (bar). For Time Signature, I think that this is normal. For clef/key changes, some editors support it in the middle of a bar, some don’t.
That I can check (since I forgot) Encore 5 can have a clef change in the middle of a bar, but a key change only at the beginning.You’ll find the registration number in registry entry
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PASSPORT\Encore\5.0\Registration]
as value of variable “SN”=You might want to check sometimes (using REGEDIT), before launching Encore 5, if this variable is still there. It might be wiped out by some cleaning software.
You might want to export that entry, then restore it when necessary (easier thatn retyping…)
Note: for old or beta Encore 5 versions, the registry key may have “GVOX” or “PassportMusic” instead of “PASSPORT”
Hello Mike,
Do I understand it well that the heading and first paragraph represent a quote fropm somebody else (I didn’t see that in this forum),
and that from the second paragraph onwards (I’m glad…) it is your own reply?I may have had that. Are you inon Mac or Win?
How exactly did you “copy” the file?You may want to send me both files (original and copied) I could have a look
andre(dot)baeck(at)gmail(dot)comAccording to a very recent reply, the new owner of Passport Music Software has no archive of the registration information issued earlier by GVOX or the “PassportMusic” (not sure of spelling) company who took over around 2013.
If you are with Windows, the registration code is stored in the Windows registry. I suppose that it may have been wiped out by something… Do you have some backup files of your system, in which you could recover the registry?
Please reply by mail at andre(dot)baeck(at)gmail(dot)com
If what you need is an install file – and you have your registration code – you can mail me at andre(dot)baeck(at)gmail(dot)com
Sorry that I did not see tyour post earlier (only several other of yours) the time stamps on this forum are very strange (though that may depend on the computer’s time format)
Anthony, Encore 6 isn’t available yet, so there isn’t any download page!
I have checked my ruins of Encore 4.5 and MTDL 3.5. What I have archived doesn’t work well anymore, and what I remember as where the registration code lies (in an installation) seems no longer valid. I can open and save old files but not print them (I think the print routines are no longer compatible with Windows 10/11.
These 45/35 files can be opened – and printed – in Encore 5. I hope that this intermediary step will not be necessary.
I never saw MusicTime creating .mts files, I would have thought that .mts was for MasterTracks (which I never used).
MusicTime “DeLuxe” was normally creating .mus files (but other editors also, though they are not compatible). Another extension was .rhp (for Rhapsody, an intermediate level at some time).Hello! Well, MTD 355 is exactly 21 years old, and 354 must be a little more. Yopu are very lucky that it was still running yesterday…
I periodically make a basic check of my old Encore 455, which is level-equivalent of MTD 355. Well, today it doesn’t work too well (it could save files, but not print). Same for an MTD archive.
Encore 6 is supposed to read Encore5/MTD4 files. It could be possible that earlier files would need an intermediary “conversion”.
In your current situation, your best bet would be to have a friend with E5/M4, who could help you with your files on the short term.
I’ll see, later today, if these E4/M3 levels would still run on an “old” Win10 which is unable to apply updates.
André Baeck (Belgium)
andre(.)baeck(@)gmail(.)comIf not all, at least the latest versions of Encore 5 (and Encore 4 as well, by the way) have always worked “perfectly” on (good versions of) Windows 10 and even 11.
When I say “perfectly”, I mean “as well and as bad as they did when they were released”….What is true, is that an installed library on one system cannot be just copied to another one, one needs to run an installation file. And since many upgrades were done using online updates, it’s not easy to find a good installation file.
If you send me a mail to andre(.)baeck(at)gmail(.)com, I’ll send you the most recent official build of E504.
