2011 (Windows)

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features12
Melodist Enhancements
The Melodist feature creates songs with chords and melodies. We've enhanced
it so that it can now create Bebop tunes and Jazz Ballads. You can also specify
the note range for a created Melody.
Main Chordsheet Enhancements
You can now select
the number (#) of rows
to display for the main
chordsheet. You can now
select any font to use
, and select the font size too.
This allows you to read the chordsheet window from “across the room.”
Notation Window Enhancements
There is a
SCRUB mode
allowing you to move the mouse over a group of
notes and hear them playing. You can
select any font for the chords, lyrics,
text and titles
, and choose the music font (Jazz or regular) chords. Beamed
notes will now auto-display with
slanted beams
. Groups of
5 notes will
automatically display as groups of 3+2 or 2+3
, and can be set this way
manually as well. If notes are displayed high above the treble clef, the
chords
will move higher so as not to overwrite the notes
. When a note is
highlighted in red due to step advance, clicking an on-screen piano note fixes
the note.
Big Lyrics Window Enhancements
When there are no lyrics for a few bars, the Big Lyrics window displays the
chords in a line divided by bars so that they are easy to read. When the lyrics
resume, the chords are interleaved with the words as before. The song plays
from the point clicked on in the Big Lyrics window.
Lead-in Enhancements
The familiar 1—2—1-2-3-4 count-in has been enhanced. You can now select
any drum instrument for the count in. You can choose different count-in
rhythms (e.g. Tap on 2 and 4 instead of 1-2-3-4). There's a new “smart lead-in”
option to silence the drum count-in if a melody lead-in has begun.
Other Handy New Features include:
- For the
Chord Builder
, pressing the “Enter Chord when pressed”
advances the bar, beat position. There are other small enhancements to
the Chord Builder that reduce the number of keystrokes required to enter
a song using only the Chord Builder.
-
The JukeBox now has a Song Preview mode
. This will optionally play
just one chorus of each song, or will play a settable number of bars of
each song (e.g. 16 bars).