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4 years ago I tested Overture as a replacement for Encore when I bought a Mac M1, confident in the convergence between the two applications… It was a huge nightmare, nothing looks the same, the logic isn’t the same! I turned to Musescore, which corresponded much more closely to my expectations, those of an intensive user for over thirty years! The migration wasn’t easy but now I won’t go back, especially if I know that Overture and Encore are likely to merge in the long term!
My two cents !!!
Eric from FranceAs for me, I’ve definitely switched to Musescore, and once I’ve got over my difficulties in adapting, I’m sure I won’t go back to Encore! Even if some obvious Encore functions are missing, there are plenty of features I’ve been dreaming of with Encore!
And before Musescore I had bought the upgrade to Overture which turned out to be a huge disappointment for me, nothing worked as I wanted, nothing was fluid, a real pain for me!!!!I have a solution if you’ve upgraded to a Mac with an M1 M2 or M3 processor.
You keep an “old” Mac running Intel, which you only use for Encore (no matter how powerful it is). And you use it for Screen Sharing on your new machine. Personally, I use a MacBook Pro 16 M1 Pro connected to 2 screens. I run Encore 5 on an old 2013 MacBook Air in Screen Share, which I display on one of the 2 screens. I can then extract pdf and midifiles to transcribe my scores and arrangements on MuseScore, which for me is a perfect alternative to Encore, and I can easily drag files from one computer to the other.
It took me a year to really adapt to MuseScore and now I can say that I won’t be going back to Encore (unless version 6 is a real bomb!).
If you want to work with an Intel Mac, the ideal solution is to get a Mac mini – you plug it in without a screen in the corner of your workspace!
Hope to Help
Eric
French Jazz musicianEt un grand salut à William, grand respect pour ta carrière et ton talent d’arrangeur ! Je ne savais pas que tu travaillais sur Encore !
I have a solution if you’ve upgraded to a Mac with an M1 M2 or M3 processor.
You keep an “old” Mac running Intel, which you only use for Encore (no matter how powerful it is). And you use it for Screen Sharing on your new machine. Personally, I use a MacBook Pro 16 M1 Pro connected to 2 screens. I run Encore 5 on an old 2013 MacBook Air in Screen Share, which I display on one of the 2 screens. I can then extract pdf and midifiles to transcribe my scores and arrangements on MuseScore, which for me is a perfect alternative to Encore, and I can easily drag files from one computer to the other.
It took me a year to really adapt to MuseScore and now I can say that I won’t be going back to Encore (unless version 6 is a real bomb!).
If you want to work with an Intel Mac, the ideal solution is to get a Mac mini – you plug it in without a screen in the corner of your workspace!
Hope to Help
Eric
French Jazz musicianEt un grand salut à William, grand respect pour ta carrière et ton talent d’arrangeur ! Je ne savais pas que tu travaillais sur Encore !
Thanks Mike and Maurizio!
Unfortunately, even though cross-Staff Beaming works very well, the function I’m looking for seems impossible! By the way, if you happen to find an example of an Encore file where you accidentally made this chord linked on two staves, I’d love to get it!Hi 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
Eric“Andrzej October 14, 2022 at 7:19]
I’m going to buy a macbook AIR with M1 processor. Will ENCORE 5.0.4.875 \ Encore Mac run on Apple MacBook Air M1 13.3?”———-
Hello
I just ran Encore Windows 5.0.4.875 on my Mac M1 with the free PlayOnMac application that uses Wine.
For me it’s only a matter of exporting midi files from Encore to retrieve them on Musescore, but Encore seems to be fully functional and PlayOnMac is easy to install, no need for a Windows systemHi,
I am also offering to become a beta tester for the future Encore 6 on Mac M1. I think I’ve been using it for 30 years and it allows me to notice bugs sometimes very hidden![QUOTE Mike Halloran – October 16, 2022 at 6:48 am]
“ENCORE 5.0.4.875 is for Windows. I have no idea if it can be made to run over a Windows emulator on an Apple Silicon Mac. Even though I have a license for it, I have no interest in running Windows on my M1.”[/QUOTE]
Hello Mike,
Encore 5 for Windows works well on a Mac M1 with Parallels and Windows 10 ARM, I used it with the trial versions to generate fully functional midi files on Mac.
