NotePerformer3 now available

[Bill Reed]

NotePerformer is now available for Finale:

https://noteperformer.com/

[Michel R E]

is it really worth it?
some of the demos sound OK, some weren't too convincing.
I didn't hear any of the solo strings in the demos (I don't know if there were any).

[Bill Reed]

I've never cared for the demos either, though a lot of Sib users seem to love it.

There's a 30 day demo version, so I guess we can see for ourselves

[Epeedad]

Hi Folks,

Its been a while.

I just installed the Noteperformer 3 trail version and gave it a spin. It seems to work quite well. I tried it on a Mozart Oboe Concerto and Massenet's "Meditation on a theme from Thais" Was it perfect? No, but it is quite an improvement over Finale's own playback. I'm going to buy a copy. It will be very useful for my work.

Some observations:

Make sure that you follow the installation instructions and remember that each score must be prepared with the included Finalescript. There are more specialized scripts included to further refine the playback. I haven't experimented with these yet.

One issue is that the playback line is about a second ahead of the sound. This is somewhat annoying but I quickly got used to it. It appears that Finale doesn't compensate for latency. NotePerformer "looks ahead" by that amount to interpret the music. It appears that both Sibelius and Dorico compensate properly. I've noticed this problem with some larger libraries (with a much shorter latency) on occasion in the past.

Chris

[Bill Reed]

The review from Scoring Notes:

https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/notep ... -released/

[BuonTempi]

The review from Scoring Notes:

https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/notep ... -released/

If nothing else, that's told me that Dorico 2 has been released!

[Vaughan]

And, as I expected, it's an amazing update! As usual, the new features have been intelligently implemented. A few of them:
- extensive support for working with videos
- large time signatures
- continuous fine control over tempo and continuous MIDI controllers
- intelligent divisi (and ossias)
- slash notation and bar repeats
- new arranging tools*
- an extensive playing techniques editor
- a new, handwriting font
- correct playback of microtonal accidentals
- intelligent fingering (taking each instrument into account)
- the ability of dynamics to erase the background if necessary, with extensive settings for the amount of padding
- extensive bar number settings, also for multimeasure rests
- plus a large number of other improvements over Dorico 1

*Just to give an idea of the thought that has gone into every feature, here's a selection from the manual about how Dorico deals with copying material:

Dorico 2 introduces a number of new note editing tools to assist with common tasks during arranging, including multi-paste, explode and reduce, and moving and copying material to the staff above or below.
Multi-paste. When pasting copied material, Dorico can now paste multiple copies both horizontally and vertically to fill the range described by the extent of the selection: if only a single item is selected, then pasting works exactly as before, but if multiple items are selected, Dorico considers the nominal rectangle described by the contiguous range of instruments on which items are selected, the rhythmic position of the first selected item on the top instrument and the rhythmic position of the last selected item on any of the selected instruments, and then fills that rectangle with as many complete copies of the material as fit within it.
If there is a discontiguous selection of instruments, then Dorico will consider each contiguous range of instruments as separate regions for pasting: this allows you to (for example) copy dynamics from one instrument and then multi-paste them to several instruments, but omitting one or two instruments in the middle of the range.
Even if the rhythmic extent of the selection is shorter than the length of the copied material, Dorico will paste one complete copy of the material onto each instrument in the region, but if the selection is longer than the copied material, Dorico will paste as many complete copies of the material after each other as fit without overflowing the selected region.