Yes.. it’s yet another Noteflight release in the long hot summer of 2012! Here’s what’s new this time:

• Tremolos now are played in rhythm and are performed properly within tuplets
• Default stereo mixes have been put into all Noteflight Crescendo templates, to improve sound
• Students can now be deleted in bulk on Noteflight Classroom’s My Sites / Members page by selecting and dragging to the Trash
• Noteflight Classroom now supports custom plans and pricing, and automatically generates quote request emails for PO purchases.
• Compatibility changes to support Noteflight use on IE10 and Windows 8.
• Filter Selection now works even with documents that you cannot edit (since it doesn’t change the score).
• When changing the time signature of a pickup bar, do not alter measures other than the first.

We’ve just released a new version of Noteflight today, Monday July 23. This post discusses what’s in it…

Crescendo and premium users now have a complete set of male/female vocal instruments on three syllables (ahh, ohh and ooo) which completes our newly licensed samples from Sonivox.

Page layout is improved in a couple of ways. First, we’ve changed Noteflight’s vertical page layout to add much less vertical blank space when the music doesn’t occupy the height of the entire page. The amount of page is controllable through a new “System stretch” slider on the Document Layout panel. Second, we now allow you to shorten the final line of music when it doesn’t occupy the whole width of the page, by dragging the final barline in the score to the left.

It’s now possible to copy and paste music in individual voices without overwriting all the music in the passage being pasted into. Text, expression marks and chord symbols can also now be pasted on top of music without overwriting it. In order to get this behavior, use the new Edit > Filter Selection commands before you copy into the clipboard. These commands limit your selection to the notes in only one voice, or to the specific text and symbols you want to copy. Then, before pasting the clipboard into the music, select a note in the specific voice where the pasted material should go.

We’ve made it easier to include symbols for note values and accidentals in performance text with special codes like {eighth} or {flat}. Also, you can just use text like “Ab” or “F#” and it will be automatically formatted for you, just like in a chord symbol.

There are also a bunch of other goodies in this release:

• Fix difficulty with clicking and selecting lines
• Fix problems with parts of score being cut off in Landscape orientation
• Automatically position new performance text, expression text or chord elements to line up with preceding elements of the same kind.
• Only color beams when there is same color for start and end note sets.
• Ensure compatibility with preview release of Windows 8.
• Change performance of 8th-note tremolos to use a true metrical 8th note.
• Add proper error message reporting for YouTube videos which don’t allow embedding, are private, or have been taken off the YouTube site.
• Fix the “Clear Following Marks” function to also clear the current measure selection, so that the next “Mark Next Measure” operation works as expected..

We’ve just included some vocal samples from Sonivox as brand new premium Noteflight instruments: Male and Female choirs on 3 syllables (”aah”, “oh”, “ooh”). We just completed “aah” and the other two should be out in the next week or so. Since vocal instruments have been a major wishlist item, we’re very pleased to make these available! Users of Crescendo and all educational editions have access to the instruments.

The instruments are named “Chorus, Men (aah)” and “Chorus, Women (aah)”.

As a sample demonstrating both instruments check out this transcription of Bach’s chorale Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227. (If you only hear a piano sound, your browser’s cache may still be holding onto yesterday’s instrument list — try clearing that cache.)