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“Encore I understand is not compliant with Mac Monterey. I have the Monterey os and I have Encore. What can I do?”
Wait for Encore 6 to be announced here.
Being 32 bit only, Encore 5 is not compatible with Catalina, Big Sur or the upcoming Ventura either. It does work over Mojave (much, much better than it does over Sierra or High Sierra). I have an external drive formatted as a Mojave boot drive just so I can run Encore 5.0.7.
The .musicxml extension requires MusicXML v.3.1 or the newly released v.4.0. Since neither versions have seen wide adoption, don’t expect this in the next Encore release. Even Sibelius skipped v.3.1 and just got 4.0 only a few weeks ago when MakeMusic (Finale) released the Dolet 8 Plug-in for Sibelius (won’t work with any other app).
Overture supports MusicXML version 3.0, as does the current versions of MuseScore, Dorico, Sibelius (without the plug-in), Finale (3.0 is in the drop-down menu) and Notion so this is what I expect.
MusicXm is a toolkit, not a feature that one just adds. How well it is implemented and what features it includes depends on the developer. Some, including Overture, do this better than others.
If Encore 6 is not compatible with current Mac and Win operating systems, I don’t see the point. Remember that, with Window 10/11, the installer is often the hardest part because of conflicts while Apple security makes it no picnic for the Mac either.
M1 Native for Mac will be most welcome but I’ll be ok if it needs Rosetta 2 at first launch.
Since only a few notation apps have successfully ported to iPadOS and even fewer to Android, don’t get your hopes up for that happening soon—certainly not on initial release. As an FYI, none of those iPadOS or Android apps are a straight port of their Mac or Win cousins.
Notion for iOS has been out nine years or so and it still hasn’t ported to Android. Now that Fender owns PreSonus, this may change in a year or two … or three or never?
“undo and scrolling issues.. to name but two..”
You got that right. Undo absolutely sucks in the current versions.
“It is good the way it is…”
I don’t believe that anyone agrees with that when it comes to MusicXML.
Encore’s current MusicXML is v. 1.x and does not support lyrics and expressions among its many failings. It’s not that xml 1 could not support these but MusicXML is a toolkit and it is up to the developer to decide what is implemented and how—and the developer for GVOX used very few features. Version 2.0 was out in 2007, a year or so before Encore 5.
Although xml v.4 has been released by MakeMusic with Finale 27 last year, adoption has been slooooow. Sibelius just got v.4 in the form of a Dolet 8 plug-in from MM a few weeks ago and none of the other notation apps out there are even using v.3.1 (a major update) released in 2017 and first implemented in Finale in mid-2018.
I expect Encore 6 to support MusicXML 3.0 which has been around since 2011 or so with wide adoption. Again, because it is a toolkit, do not expect it to be 100% compatible with other notation apps. Overture and Notion and Finale all handle 3.0 well while Dorico and MuseScore have issues but nothing insurmountable.
Here’s what I know (subject to change):
Don Williams is running Passport Designs and Sonic Scores as separate companies. He does have the serial #s and registered email addresses of all versions of Encore etc. but expects the majority of those email addresses to no longer work.
Here’s what I’m guessing:
Pricing for new and upgrade licenses is a marketing decision—this is true for any company. Writing code for a new product such as Encore 6 that takes into account previous version licenses may take much more time and resources than are worth it (remember that 5 was released in 2008 IIRC). Though the name is old, this is a new company with no financial ties to the previous owners of the code.
I would not be surprised if there is no upgrade path from previous licenses. If the price for E6 is low enough, it won’t matter. What did I pay for the E5 Upgrade—$119 perhaps?
“Does it support 3/4 of the tone?”
New features have not been announced. In the meantime, I have no idea what your question means.
