Overture official Chinese version of professional piano notation software Mac version 5.5.1-7

Overture features Overture inputs and edits notes and various notations (including six-line notation and percussion) in the staff, adjusts the music score according to a higher degree of standardization and neatness, uses the graphic window to create various advanced sound effects, and imports MIDI format files into the software Edit the staff, use the VST sound plug-in to play the score at the symphony level, export the produced staff into a MIDI audio file or PDF document, etc.

Overture New Features

user interface
Modern single window interface:
Overture's single-window interface puts a powerful editing tool and symbol palette at your fingertips, so you can spend your time composing instead of searching through menus and dialog boxes. The main components of Overture are contained in views and panels. You can use your mouse or computer keyboard for a quick on-screen, or record a MIDI performance for instant viewing. Most commands can be done directly on the score with a simple command.
For a smooth workflow, Overture's panels are organized by basic functional types. The panel on the left contains tools for entering Overture's musical notation and text. The panel on the right is used to change settings for score layout, tracking information, and there's even a powerful drag-and-drop file browser for quickly loading or importing scores.
Linear view:
Overture's linear view allows you to edit your music using a single horizontally displayed measurement. You can also view and edit the MIDI data for each measure under the view, while using both views for synchronization.
Instrument library panel:
Inserting and changing tracks is easier than ever using the Instrument Library panel. Simply open the panel, select an output device, and drag and drop your fractional instrument. The Overture handle sets up the track and connects it to the device.
Key commands:
You can now personalize the key strokes used by Overture to perform common commands.
Touch function:
Overture's new touch-enabled features allow you to work and navigate in ways you never thought possible. Get hands-on experience and enjoy the touch interface. Swipe to scroll through your score or close the panel. Click buttons and controls just like you would with a mouse. Click and drag the control slider and scroll, swipe to do quick page turns, and pinch to zoom in and out. All common everyday actions are now available on your screen with your personal touch.

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Score MIDI Editor:
Overture's incredible MIDI capabilities allow you to edit your score directly. Note that you can change the start time, note duration, and speed with your mouse by simply clicking and dragging. MIDI controller data can be added or edited on your score.
Data view:
Overture's track list and MIDI data views give you the most powerful editing capabilities of any notation program. Many features are modeled after popular ones. Now that your VST/AU instrument has been loaded and your score has been entered, it's time to make the final adjustments to get this great sound. Opens Track List view to display your MIDI data ready for editing. Easily extract or clear existing data right before your eyes. View your midi data as raw data in familiar staff or switch to traditional piano roll, or if you wish to edit your midi data along with symbols, just click to switch to linear view.

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Tool Palette Mixer:
Included in the tool palette is a small track MIDI mixer. This way you can set volume, pan, mute and solo, and select the current MIDI patch for the current track without having to open the mixer.
Audio/MIDI mixer
Overture's Blend View gives you the most powerful blending capabilities of any symbol program. Many features are modeled after popular ones. Overture's mixer has a channel strip for each worker, each with a volume fader, stereo, solo and mute buttons, four VST insert slots and four sends. Each send can send 0-100% of the signal into one of four main effects. Each staff channel strip can send its output to the master strip or to one of eight groups of channel strips. Each group channel comes with a volume fader, a stereo pan, a solo and mute button, and four VST insert slots. The master comes with a volume fader, a stereo, and four inserts. The mixer has buttons to show/hide staff channel strips, group channel strips, or effects strips. There's also a button to toggle whether the staff channel strip is used as MIDI or audio.

VST 3 supports:
Overture is the only symbology program that fully supports the VST 3 standard. In addition to using the new VST 3 plug-ins, VST 3 support enables you to utilize other computers as slaves that can host your plug-ins using Vienna Ensemble Pro (VST3).

Overture Beginner Tutorial
8 main steps in producing musical scores with Overture software:

1. Select the staff
After opening Overture, if the "New Score" window does not pop up automatically, you can select "File" → "New" in the menu, or you can directly select the "New" button, and the "New Score" window will pop up. .
In this window, you can choose the various staffs you need. Overture has prepared a variety of templates for you such as single staff, piano staff, guitar tabs, ensembles, symphony scores, etc. If there is nothing above that you need Yes, you can select a template similar to your music and make additions, deletions and modifications.
In this window, you can also directly select the key signature, beat, and tempo (you can choose whether to display the tempo), and indicate the title, author, and copyright of the work.
If your score has a weak beginning, you must select the "Incomplete measure" option.
If you want this window to pop up automatically every time you open the software, you need to select "Open this dialog box at startup".
Finally you click "OK"!

2. About the toolbar
There are three types of toolbars in Overture, including the standard toolbar, the main toolbar, and the output toolbar. The standard toolbar is the new, open, save, print, copy and other buttons necessary for window operations. The main toolbar refers to the musical score input button unique to Overture, and the output toolbar is the sound output button. Many buttons in the main toolbar have many groups of sub-buttons. To facilitate input, you can drag out frequently used button groups individually by clicking and holding the button with the left mouse button and dragging it out to a free position that is convenient for operation.

3. Enter the staff notes
Click the "Note" button and drag it out. Its sub-button group will appear, which contains note rests and temporary diacritical marks of various durations. Click on the note you need, and then click on the corresponding position of the staff to complete the input of this note, and the speaker will also emit the corresponding sound effect.
Enter a dotted note. Take the dotted quarter note as an example. First click the quarter note , and then click the dotted note icon to enter.
Enter grace note. Using the above method, first select a few notes, determine the grace note duration, then click the grace note icon , and then enter.
To enter a temporary diacritical sound, just click the diacritical mark on the note head.

4. Sound value combination
The combination of tone values ​​is a more complex problem, and the complexity lies in the diversity of tone value combinations. For general note value combinations, you can select "Options" → "Automatically adjust symbols" in the menu, so that the system will automatically combine notes for you as usual. Below I introduce some special combination methods.
A combination of eighth notes in 2/4 beats. There are four eighth notes in a measure of 2/4 beat. If you set "Automatically adjust tails", the system will automatically combine them into four note tails. If you want to combine them into two units, there are two The first method is to click the selection button, drag the left button to frame the required note, the note will turn red, and then select "Note" → "Tail" → "According to the beat" from the menu to achieve the combination of the two notes. This method is suitable for small-scale adjustments. The second method is once and for all and needs to be set in advance. Select the menu "Bar" → "Set Beat". At this time, the system will pop up the "Set Beat" dialog box. In the "Basic" option of "Tail" option, "Just fill in "2+2". Primary means the first layer of quarter notes, that is, eighth notes. You can also use this method to turn a whole measure of 3/8 into three separate eighth notes. You only need to fill in "1+1+1". Right-clicking the time signature at the beginning of the staff will also pop up this dialog box (in the "Tail" of this dialog box, you can also make special combinations of secondary sixteenth notes and thirty-second notes).
Artificial combination. Drag the left button to frame the notes that need to be combined, select "Notes" → "Tail" → "Manual Specify", and you can complete the combination.
A combination of legato sounds. The combination of triplet is very simple. Take the triplet of three eighth notes as an example: click the eighth note and triplet icons in the note tool and enter. Five, seven, nine... For legato, you must first enter the note and define it with the selection button, then select "Notes" → "Group" → "Leupato" from the menu. A dialog box will appear. The first line has two spaces, the first The first one is the number of legatoes, and the second one is the duration of the legato replacement. You fill it up as needed, and then you can choose to enter the style and press "OK" (for example, you want to write a quintuplet with five eighth notes. , if you need to replace the duration of four eighth notes, you can fill in "5/4").

5. Performance notation
Performance marks include common marks, decorative note marks, dynamics marks, expression marks, etc. The "mark" icon, the "glossy note mark" icon, the "dynamic" mark icon, and the "expression mark" icon each contain some commonly used performance marks. You can select the first two categories and click on the note head, and the latter two categories. All you have to do is select and add the appropriate location in the score.

6. Repeat marking
"Hopscotch"-style repetition marks (i.e. repetitions with different endings like paragraphs 1 and 2) should be selected from the "bar line" icon.
Other repeating marks must be selected in the menu "Section" → "Repeating Marks":
Opens the Repeat Mark dialog box.
"$" (this symbol should have two dots on both sides, I couldn't find it in WORD, so I'll find a similar one to charge) should be used in conjunction with other symbols to indicate that repetition starts from here. When setting, first move the cursor to the repeat position and select "Segno", which is the first item "$".
"Φ" (this symbol should also have a horizontal line, find a similar one to fill it up) should be used in combination, indicating that it spans the middle part of the two symbols when repeating. When setting, set "Coda" (the second item) to the beginning of the span and "To Coda" to the end of the span.
"D.S.al Cod" means reaching here and then repeating from "$".
"D.S.al Fin" means that after reaching this point, it repeats from "$" and ends at fine.
"D.C.al Cod" means repeating after reaching this point.
"D.C.al Fin" means repeating from the beginning and ending at fine.
"Fine" marks the end of the music.
When making the above settings, be sure to move the cursor to the target first.
The "Text" option can be defaulted (symbols like "D.S.al Fin" are generally abbreviated as "D.S." "D.C."), or you can enter repeated symbol descriptions of Chinese characters, such as "End of the song", etc. .
Here are a few examples:
1 ∣2 ∣＄ 3 ∣ 4 ∣ 5 ∣ 6 Fine ∣ 7 ∣8 D. S. al Fin‖
It means from 1 to 8, then from 3 to 6.
1 ∣2 ∣ 3 ∣ 4 ∣ 5 ∣ 6 Fine ∣ 7 ∣8 D. C． al Fin‖
It means from 1 to 8, then from 1 to 6.
1 ∣2 ∣Φ 3 ∣4 ∣Φ5 ∣ 6∣ 7 Fine ∣ 8 ∣9 D． C． al Fin‖
It means from 1 to 9, then from 1 to 2, across 3, 4, and 5. End from 6 to 7.
There is a problem, that is, symbols such as "D.S.al Fin" cannot be moved below the line spectrum. You can keep it as a space when setting the "Text" option. After setting, pull out the text box at the symbol mark and fill in the correct can be marked. See the next content for the settings of the text box.

7. Text input
Title options. Title options include title, annotation, author, copyright, header, and footer options. Click the menu "Music Score" → "Title Property Page", you can enter the corresponding text and adjust the font and font size.
Lyric input. Click the "Text Box" icon, pull out the text box at the corresponding position on the music chart, and enter text. In order to facilitate the adjustment of the lyrics position, it is best to enter only one word in each text box. Text font and font size can be set and adjusted from the automatically pop-up operation window.

8. Guitar tabs, drum tabs
The input method of guitar tabs and drum tabs is similar to that of staff tabs. You only need to click on their corresponding options. There is a question about drum music. There are many percussion sounds, and their positions on the line music may be very high or very low. Writing the music in this way will be very unsightly. Moreover, the note head marks of many timbres also have their own idioms. How can I follow the rules? Modify the line position and note head markings of various drums according to your own wishes? For example, arrange the bass drum on the first line and the snare drum on the third line...; use black notes for the bass drum and a cross for the hi-hat...?
Select the menu sheet Bass Drum or Drums. If you are inserting a drum score, select "Music Score" → "Insert Track", a dialog box will pop up, and click the third item "Percussion" to insert.
a Right-click on the special clef "‖" of the drum score, and the "Track Settings" dialog box will appear. The white window on the right is the option you need to set. "Name" and "Pitch" are the corresponding positions of the percussion timbre and line spectrum originally set by the software. Note that the line below is "C4", "Head" is the note head mark of each timbre, and "Pos" means that you need to specify the target position of the timbre.
b Okay, if you want to set the bass drum in a line, you can use the left button to hold down the "Name" of a certain line. or "Pitch" option, all the percussion timbres will appear in front of you, you select "B1" or "C2" (they are both bass drum timbres), release, this option will become the timbre you selected, and then You click the "Head" option, select the note head you need, click "Pos", pull the black square to the line position you need, press OK, and your bass drum settings are complete.
c You can use the same method to set other percussion sounds you want to use.
d. It is best to divide the various timbres entered into one line of music into several parts, so that the music chart can be clean, beautiful, and easy to input and modify. For example, you can set the bass drum to be in voice "1" with the stem pointing downwards, and the hi-hat to be in voice "2" with the stem pointing upward.