Upgrade Manual

Chapter 12: Other New Features

Shot/Held Chords option enhanced.

Normally, when a “shot” or a

“held” chord is assigned, the

instruments that are excluded

from the shot/held chord play

normally. Now there is an

additional option for those

excluded instruments to stay

silent. To set this, open the

chord options dialog, and select

a shot or held chord, and then

select “Excluded instrument(s) should rest.” This new option gives you the

ability to rest some instruments while others play the shot or held chord.

Velocity boosts for shots and held chords are now settable.

In previous versions, a shot

or held chord produced a

(loud) velocity boost of 15-

30. Now you can set the amount of velocity boost, so that the effect won't be so

loud. In Option | Preferences use the settings “Boost shots by” and “Boost

‘Holds’ by.” (Note that the style (StyleMaker) can override the velocity for the

pushes, and the drum velocity for shots/held chords and pushes is also set in the

StyleMaker.)

Duration of “shots” is reduced to 60 ticks per beat. Previously the shots lasted

as long as the typical 1-beat pattern, which was often longer than 60 ticks.

Soloist “Note-Density” option.

Now you can control the

maximum number of notes

per quarter note that the

soloist will use. For example, you can set a “Rock Guitar” Soloist to use

nothing shorter than 16

notes. This would produce less “guitar hero” solos

with bursts of 32

notes etc. Or you could create a Jazz solo that uses only

quarter notes or longer to help with sight-reading or student study. We've

already modified many of the soloists using this new setting, so your solos will

already sound better without you having to change this setting.