Release notes for MOZART 5 [Each service also pack implements the improvements of all previous ones.] ================================================================ Version 5.0.8 September 2001 - The InsertBars command wasn't working properly when used with the caret in the bar after a time change. As Mr Kennedy reported in the discussion group there was some confusion about either the time to be adopted should be that before or after the time change. This is now resolved. - Sue Franklin has found that extracting parts with the File.Duplicate command lost segno coda and fine if these were placed on extra barlines. If she noticed that the copy command did the same thing, she was too polite to say so. Both are now fixed with a thank-you to Sue. - Thanks to Karl-Dietrich Kelber for showing that when one extracted a part from a score containing staves with more than one part, the accidentals did not alway show correctly on the extracted part. This is now fixed. - Thanks to Michael Bednarek for pointing out that a trill stopped prematurely if placed on the first of more than two notes tied together. This is now fixed. - Thanks to John Stouffer and daughter for observing that itis possible to select a block and attempt to insert a note causing MOZART to hang. This is now fixed. ================================================================ Version 5.0.7 - contained only changes to contact details on order forms - a service pack was not issued. ================================================================ Version 5.0.6 February 2001 - Scores are always saved in written pitch even if you save them while viewing in concert pitch. This annoying bug crept in at version 5.0.5 but it is fixed now. - MOZART allows for an anacrucis in bar numbering: if there is an anacrucis it starts with bar 1 as the first full bar when you label the bar lines. Except that sometimes (in peculiar circumstances too complicated to go into here) it got it wrong and some parts would have bar numbers which were one out from the score. Thanks to Margaret Webber for telling me about this, and proving it incontravertibly with a tenor sax part I printed out for her when at a quartet rehearsal I said "let's all go from bar 44" and only most of us did. It has now been fixed PDQ. - Thanks to Colin Fine for discovering that if a hairpin ends exactly on a change of time signature, then it can lead to very unpleasant consequences. (And in particular for demonstrating them so clearly.) This is now fixed. - Inserting and deleting space before the very first note in the music has been problematical. This is now fixed too. - If you deleted a large block of music from the end of a piece with more than one strand, MOZART was not moving the end-of-tune marker back but leaving it hanging a long way from the music. Thanks to Denis Mitchell for pointing this out and illustrating the trouble it could lead to. It is now fixed. ================================================================ Version 5.0.5 January 2001 - The commands on the Bar menu operate on an entire bar. If you select a passage then they apply to the selected block including the whole bar at either end of the block. In this latter case Jan Mason has noticed that repeating the command could increase augment the length of the selected block by one bar. Thanks Jan - this is now fixed. - A couple of people, most recently Colin Fine have managed somehow to obtain incomplete multiplets. We're still trying to reproduce this problem, but in the meantime the decorrupt command (Ctrl+F5) and MergeMultiplet command (Shift+M) have been enhanced to detect these and deal with them. Thanks to Colin for a detailed description of the problem. - The View/Swing command allows you to set a swing style and, independently, switch swing on and off. When you saved the file, the style persisted but not the on/off state. Thanks to Ola Slettebø for pointing this out; it is now fixed. ================================================================ Service Pack 5.0.4 January 2001 -Thanks to Colin Fine for pointing out that if you manage to insert a "clef change" to the same clef as you had already, then you can't delete it. This is now fixed and it will delete like any other. (We're still on the look-out to find out how such a thing can be inserted in the first place!) - In our on-going development we found a (fairly obscure) way to get barlines misaligned. This is now also fixed in this version. ================================================================ Service Pack 5.0.3 December 2000 -Thanks to Jesuo de las Heras for finding an illegal configuration with a start of repeat within a 2nd time bar which cased play-back to hang. This is now fixed and a warning is issued. - If you selected a block which ended in a passage of rests in all parts, then playback continued until the first note outside the block was encountered. Thanks to a few people for reporting this one - it is now fixed. -Trilled notes immediately after an acciaccatura were not playing back in time. Thanks to both David Burgess and Michael Iscenko for finding this one independently. It is now fixed. ================================================================ Service Pack 5.0.2 November 2000 -The problem with the metronome sound has not gone away in MOZART 5.0.1. About four people were still reporting problems and the common factor is Windows 95 as opposed to 98 or 2000 or ME. We have now traced this down to a bug in Windows 95 (or in the documentation - take your pick) which means that the timer functions are not working as documented. This version circumvents this problem by using a different timing mechnism and should work on Windows 95. -Michael Bednarek has highlighted some clashes in the underlined letters on the menus - these have been now corrected. ================================================================ Service Pack 5.0.1 November 2000 -Pulling items up and down and deleting them sometimes failed when they were at the exact geometric centre of a bar containing a whole-bar rest. Thanks to Denis Mitchell for pointing this out - it is now fixed. -Michael Bednarek has noticed that dragging mz files from the explorer to the MOZART 5 main window does not always work properly, as it did in MOZART 4. This is now fixed. -On a few computer systems the metronome failed to produce any sound during play-in from an externally connected MIDI device. Thanks to Mark Heron for helping analyse this effect, which seems to be a sound card and/or driver issue. To circumvent the problem this version introduces many more options for producing a metronome tock. (See View/GlobalPreferences.) This gives everyoone more meetronome options, and should fix the silent metronome problem on some systems at least. ==========================================