Sonic Scores Overture 5 Notation Software

[memyselfandus]

Sonic Scores Overture 5 (formerly Opcode Overture)



This one is new to me. Looks REALLY awesome

Touch Enabled
64-Bit Support
Mac and PC






http://sonicscores.com/overture/

[koalaboy]

Looks like I'm buying my upgrade tonight

[fandango]

Oh wow! I was so into Overture 4 years back, but it seemed to just fade away and not much was heard from Don the developer. Really excited to see this back again!

[memyselfandus]

Cool!

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

Looks gorgeous. I'd seriously consider cross-grading. What doesn't it do well? Surely something!

[memyselfandus]

Looks gorgeous. I'd seriously consider cross-grading. What doesn't it do well? Surely something!

I am wondering also

[fandango]

I'd tried several notation editors over the years, but Overture always felt very 'immediate', the shortcuts made sense (numerical as opposed to Notion's W=1, H=1/2, Q=1/4, S=1/8 which always had me scratching my head).

But the most intuitive things I liked in Overture were:
1. Pressing TAB to switch the staff to a hybrid Notation/MIDI view, where you could draw CC data quickly and efficiently and accurately, so with libraries like EWQLSO, Kirk Hunter etc., you could get the VST instruments performing correctly without sacrificing the notation simplicity.

2. I think Don understood (correctly) that library support shouldn't be hard-coded (as I feel Notion's is, a little bit). If I have a script with staccato symbol for EWQLSO, if I switch to GPO, I can double-click the staccato symbol and just change the CC as required. Also, I have a ton of random Kontakt libraries bought over the years, I'd rather just manually set symbols to MIDI than have the app try and work out what I want. Libraries are handled as XML files that can be edited by the user.

Basically, Overture was "VST Expression" before Cubase added it in to Cubase (5, I think?).

3. The functionality of hairpins was excellent. You'd draw them out on the script and, if you wanted, have the dynamics at each end. However, every VST library sounding different, all you had to do was double-click the hairpin and you had a graph giving you perfect control of Vel/CC level and control points to shape the curve of the hairpin any way you wanted.

Don't have regular WiFi access at the moment, so can't imagine I'll be able to test this for a while, but hopefully these good things haven't been lost in version 5.

[fandango]

30 day demo versions for Windows and OSX are available now. (and probably have been for a while)

https://sonicscores.com/downloads/

I hadn't realised as I thought the page was a customer login for updates only. You just register a (free) account there and the 30-day demos are available.

I'm currently demoing and will probably do a little write-up of my findings. Aside from a few wierd things (which I'll report if reproduceable) I'm really liking what I see so far.

[flugel45]

Their crossgrade price is really generous. $129 is a steal.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

I was interested in this one until I found out that Stienberg is working on a new piece of Notation software and started reading the development blog. They seem to be shooting for the end-all, be-all piece of notation software. Sucks that there's no release date in sight yet, and you know it will be expensive, but I'm going to hold off for it.

Here's the development diary:
http://blog.steinberg.net/

[memyselfandus]

Will it (steinberg) be the first notation software that requires a dongle? Or are there others?

[mr_rekasneorg]

Overture 5 "Touch enabled"?
Fuggedaboudit !!

If touch enabled means "scrolling" and picking a note (with the pen) from a panel and then place that note into the score, then it is indeed
"touch enabled". But you can forget about the menues. A menue will drop down but you can´t choose any item from it..
Pretty useless on a Surface Pro which is supposed to be used with a Pen, not a mouse!

I crossgraded to Notion 6 which actually works as advertised..