Windows 10

[Reinhold H.]

Today as of July, 29th 2015 Microsoft launches Windows 10. The bug in Windows 10 which blocks playing audio sounds and which we have reported on Dec, 2nd 2014 has not been corrected in the latest Windows 10 preview version from 3 days ago. From a Notation Software perspective we do not recommend to switch to Windows 10 NOW.

Our alternative solution of an integrated "Notation Software Synth" has made tremendous progress in the last weeks and we are very optimistic to release it in the next few weeks, ultimately by end of October 2015 as part of version 3 (the actual release will be version 3.0.3).

Version 3.0.3 will contain the following features:

• Windows 10 compatibility
• Notation Software Synth
• ASIO realtime driver integrated for Musician and Composer
• Standard soundfont package for Musician and Composer
• Flexible loading of additional soundfonts sets (.sf2 file format) by Composer
• Export of audio Wave files by Composer

Beta versions of Musician and Composer 3.0.3 are in tests and we work hard to get it ready.
Our plans are also to release a Player based on version 3.0.3 in English and Spanish language. However, these plans are second priority.

We will inform everybody with an email when 3.0.3 will be available.

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[Reinhold H.]

We have Player 3 running (and playing ) on Windows 10 with the new Notation Software Synth.

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[Reinhold H.]

On Sept. 7th, we have started the external beta trials of version 3.0.3 which contains the internal "Notation Software Synth". The feedback has been very positive so far and we are on track for an October release of version 3.0.3.

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[johanssonmel]

Thank you for these updates on Windows 10, which I unfortunately already "upgraded" to, so I have no sound. You mention in another post that notifications will go out in email when the Notation Software Synth is ready--do we need to do anything to make sure we are on the distribution list for that notification?

Thanks so much.

[Sherry C]

Hi,

We will notify all customers and newsletter recipients via email, as well as post an announcement in the Announcements section of the User Forum when it is released.

ttfn,
Sherry

[Reinhold H.]

Our plan is to release version 3.0.3 on Oct. 15, 2015

Updated features list of version 3.0.3:

• Windows 10 compatibility
• Notation Software Synth
• ASIO realtime driver integrated for Musician and Composer
• Free Notation Player 3.0.3 in English, Spanish and German language
• Standard soundfont package for Composer, Musician, Player
• Flexible loading of additional soundfonts (.sf2 file format) by Composer
• Export of audio Wave files by Composer
• Release for Linux (Ubuntu, openSUSE) with Wine

Version 3.0.3 will run on

• Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP
• Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10, Mavericks 10.9 (with Wine)
• Linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, openSUSE 13.2, 13.1 (with Wine as part of the Linux distribution)

Apple released the new OS X El Capitan 10.11 last Wednesday on Sept. 30th, 2015. We will release our software on Mac El Captian after we have completed our certification testing in a few weeks.

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[blane245]

I got CoolSoft VirtualMIDISynth working on Notation Composer 3.0.2. All I had to do was reinstall it.

[Reinhold H.]

Thanks.

Yes, this works. We consider CoolSoft to be a workaround. CoolSoft is a great tool and for free - "you can do what you want" - but we at Notation Software cannot distribute CoolSoft because of licensing restrictions. CoolSoft is based on the BASS libraries from "Un4seen developments". The BASS libraries are only free for individuals but not for commercial applications. Furthermore our products require an immediately working software synth. An additional installation which is required for Windows 10 can only be considered as an intermediate fix. In particular for the trial versions, playing needs to work right away. The new integrated Notation Software Synth of the upcoming version 3.0.3 offers great capabilities like loadable soundfonts, WAV file export or the ASIO realtime driver for recording.

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