Noteflight Beta 3 is Here
And about time, too! We’ve been working on this one for a long stretch now, and we think it’s a fairly meaty release. Some of the goodies awaiting our users include:
- The new “Import” command allows MusicXML files to be imported into Noteflight from other notation programs.
- Cut/copy/paste work across different documents, including multiple windows open at the same time.
- The new “Save As Copy” command permits a copy of any document to be saved to your own set of scores.
- Lyrics may be added to notes, including support for multiple verses.
- Dynamics or arbitrary expression text can be added at any note/rest. Dynamics affect score playback.
- If one or more staves are selected during playback, only those staves will be heard. This allows one to more clearly hear an individual part.
- Swing eighth notes are supported, with any desired degree of swing.
- Scores are automatically saved during editing to avoid possible loss of work.
- Performance instruction text can be added to the score at any note, rest or barline.
- Parts for transposing instruments can optionally be displayed and edited in their transposed keys.
- Selected notes and passages can be transposed by named intervals, and enharmonic changes applied.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Hello fine folks at Noteflight
I just stumbled upon Noteflight recently and have quickly gotten addicted to it. I was looking for a way to digitize dozens of music scores I have on hard copy and Noteflight turned out to be the perfect tool for this task with is super-intuitive and super-simple user interface.
However, specific to couple of items listed in this release, I wanted to draw your attention to the following findings by me:
- there seems to be a bug with Noteflight’s MusicXML export feature. Two specific things that I have observed are:
1. chord text gets duplicated – so a chord “E” on a specific note exported from noteflight and imported back into noteflight will show up as “EE”. Chords that constitute more than single letters dont have this problem – so “Em” shows up “Em” correctly.
2. System breaks are lost in re-imported score.
3. Performance or dynamic text applied to a “barline” changes position to the first note of the bar preceding that barline on re-import
- the other issue that I hve seen is that performance text and chord text end up overlapping making it hard to read. similarly dynamics text and lyrics text overlap below the staff.