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“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.
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.
Ok… I haven’t used the Windows version since 4.5.5 and have never experienced this problem on the Mac.
Per Don, MasterTracks Pro functionality is not planned for Encore 6. It is already present in Overture 5, also written by Don.
Currently, Overture cannot open Encore files but Don has announced that a future build of will.
I’m surprised that long-standing features in Finale are not present in Sibelius. How old is this version of Sibelius?
“ Is there any quick fix to this problem where Encore only shows part of the last measure even though it is all there?”
That was a longtime problem on the Mac. Encore 5.0.7 no longer does this in MacOS 10.14 Mojave.
If that question was aimed at me, I have owned Overture 5 since it was released. Unfortunately, it does not open Encore files. I am told a future of Overture version will.
That said, I can create quick charts for my choirs and bands faster in Encore than Overture. Unfortunately, I need to boot into Mojave in order to do so. When I get me Mac Studio, this option will no longer be open to me.
Back to the topic, I can’t stand MuseScore and I am a paid subscriber. There are times when having an unlimited access to that library saves me time but I export the MusicXML into Finale. I use whatever tools get the job done and it is never, ever MuseScoe.
“… mouse hold locking up the interface…”
Huh? I’ve never experienced this. Is this a Windows problem? If not, what OS and version are you using?
If Encore 5 could read them, it’s probable that Encore 6 will. We won’t know till it’s released.
One of the issues with Encore 5 is that it can’t read many older Encore files. I avoided this by converting all of mine from 4 to 5 when there was a build of the MacOS where this could be done.
You should download the Overture 5 demo to see how well that can do what you need. I’m not expecting Encore 6 to have additional functionality in that regard. I don’t know how to access the Overture manual except from within the app. A future version of Overture will be able to open Encore files.
Those writing modern plainsong (chant, hymnals etc.) these days are using Finale, Sibelius and a few are now embracing Dorico. Finale has the largest toolbox for this kind of work and is also the only one that can write actual plainsong using Medieval 2, a 3rd party plug-in.
If MTD is not printing on a Windows machine, the normal culprit is that it cannot find a valid license. Windows updates are well known for causing path errors. You may have to remove and reinstall MTD, reboot.
The last four MacOS are 64 bit only. 32 bit apps like MTD and Encore cannot work until upgraded. Encore 6 will be 64 bit and open older files but no one knows how old yet. Encore 5, unfortunately, could not open many older files.
