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PASSPORT DESIGNS

ENCORE  V3.0 Demo

Welcome to Passport's Encore Demo. Encore 3.0 redefines
desktop music publishing. Compose, edit and print your
music with Encore's powerful transcription capabilities,
editing power and publishing tools. Whether you're
transcribing a MIDI sequence, scoring your first musical
or transposing individual parts for your band, Encore can
quickly and efficiently handle the job.


Encore 3.0 will notate and print your music as a complete
score, or extract one or more staves as individual parts
transposed for different instruments. Encore can play your
entire score or individual parts, on MIDI instruments or
sound cards, and offers playback of dynamics, repeats, and
sustain pedal information.


Fine-tune an Encore score with simple, intuitive mouse
moves and enter dozens of marks and symbols from an easily
accessible set of on-screen palettes. Enter lyrics and
text into a score from your computer keyboard. Take
advantage of powerful features such as page layout
control, TrueType and PostScript support, polyphonic part
voicing and an editable instrument palette for your MIDI
instruments.

Encore provides an extensive symbol library and the
ability to add guitar chord fret diagrams to your music.
Transcribe your music into guitar tablature with correct
fingering, instantly! Increase your musical productivity -
without inhibiting your creativity. Let Encore take you
into the future of printed music.

For Dealer and ordering information about Encore and other
Passport Products call 1-800-443-3210.



GUIDED TOUR - HOW TO USE THIS DEMO DISK
Please Note: This demo will not print or save files.

INSTALLATION GUIDE:
Installing the Encore Demo is easy. You simply run Windows
and then run the Encore Setup program. In addition to the
Encore application, you can install sample music files and
"device lists" (instrument lists) for popular MIDI
keyboards and sound modules. After you install the
program, you will need to install the fonts that Encore
uses to print music.

Installation
The Encore Demo Setup program makes installation
relatively painless. You should, however, read entirely
through the following sections to familiarize yourself
with the various options available to you before you
actually install the program. It may save you some time.


To install the Encore Demo:
1. Run Windows.

2. Insert the Encore Demo Disk in your computer's floppy
disk drive.

3. From the Windows Program Manager's File menu, choose
Run. The Run dialog box appears.

4. Enter A: SETUP in the dialog's text box (or B: SETUP if
the Encore Demo disk is in drive B:) Click OK.

5. The Encore Demo Setup dialog box appears. This dialog
box tells you which files will be installed from the
Encore program disk, where (drive and directory) they will
reside, and how much space they will occupy on your hard
disk.

The recommended files are preselected. All you have to do
is click Install. You also have the option of customizing the
installation.

You can change the drive and directory to which Encore
will be installed by clicking the Set Location button.

You can choose which of the sample files you'd like to
install by clicking the Select Files button.

6. After you click Install, the Setup program will create
a new Encore Demo program group and install the selected
files to the designated directory. If you selected the
TrueType fonts, they were copied to the EncDemo directory.

7. When installation is complete, click OK to exit the
Encore Demo Setup program and return to the Program
Manager. Before you run Encore, you need to install the
fonts.

If you have customized your installation, you can run the
Encore Demo Setup program again to install options that
you didn't install previously (such as the sample files or
Type 1 fonts).



INSTALLING THE FONTS:

You must install the Anastasia font to run Encore.

1. Locate the Windows Control Panel icon (typically found
in the Main program group) and double-click it.

2. When the Control Panel window opens, double-click the
Fonts icon. The Fonts dialog box appears.

3. Click the Add... button. The Add Fonts dialog appears.

4. The TrueType fonts are located in the EncDemo
directory.

5. From the list of available fonts, select Anastasia,
FretsA, FretsB, and FretsC. Click OK to install the fonts.

6. When you're returned to the Fonts dialog, click Close.
You can now run the Encore Demo.

Before You Begin:
Pull down the View Menu and choose "Size to Fit". This
fits the score horizontally in the window. If you are
using a MIDI keyboard make sure your MIDI setup (under the
Setup Menu) is correct for your equipment. Select a MIDI
driver for Port A and the Record Port. If your only Record
In choices are NONE or MIDI Mapper, you will need to
install the MIDI Driver for your card using the Drivers
applet in the Windows Control Panel.


Entering Notes:
You can put notes on an Encore staff in four ways:

1) inserting with the mouse

2) inserting with a MIDI keyboard in step time

3) playing a MIDI keyboard in real time

4) importing a MIDI file or Master Tracks Pro sequence
To insert notes with the mouse:

In the Notes palette to the left of the score window,
click on the note duration you want.

Click on the staff where you want the note. Use the number
keys on your computer keyboard for selecting durations.

Example: 1= whole note, 2= half note, 3= quarter note,
etc.

Make sure the Auto Space function under the Setup Menu is
on. If this item is not checked, Encore will ignore normal
spacing and timing cosiderations and place notes exactly
where the mouse is clicked.


To insert chords with the mouse:
Enter the first note of the chord (any note you like) by
clicking as you did for single notes. Click directly above
or below the first note, on the appropriate line or space,
to write the remaining notes of the chord.


To make a note sharp or flat:
In the note palette, click on the sharp, flat, double
sharp, double flat or natural icon, or press "s", "f" or
"n" on your computer's keyboard. Use the shift key for
double flats/sharps.

Click on the head of the note in the score.
Click again to remove the sharp or flat from the note.


To insert notes with a MIDI keyboard in step time:
Press "a" or click on the arrow icon.
Click on the spot in the score where you want to insert
the first note.
Click on any note duration in the Notes palette.
Play either single notes or chords, one at a time, on your
MIDI controller.
Click on different note values in the Notes palette to
change durations.
Use the "r" key to change to rests, of the selected
duration, instead of notes. It acts as a toggle.

Use the number keys on your computer keyboard for
selecting durations.


Example: 1= whole note, 2= half note, 3= quarter note, etc.


To import a Master Tracks Pro sequence or a MIDI file:
Pull down the File menu and choose Open... Encore will
open Encore, Master Tracks Pro and MIDI files from this
menu. Select the BACH-MIDI File from the Songs directory
inside EncDemo. Encore will automatically guess the note
durations and beam the notes after you import or play a
piece of music (as long as "Auto Beam/Guess" is selected
in the Setup Menu).

To record in real time:
Click the arrow pointer on the first bar of the score.
From the toolbar, click the Record button (or press the
Enter key). After the 4-beat countoff, play a few bars of
music on your MIDI instrument. Click the Record button
again (or press the Space bar) to stop recording.



To play the score:
Press "a" on your computer to get the arrow pointer.
Click the arrow pointer on the first bar of the score.
Press the space bar or click the Play button on the
toolbar. Any music you've placed in the score will play
back over MIDI channel 1.



EDITING
There are three primary ways to edit a score in Encore:
using the Staff Sheet, by clicking and dragging, and by
using menu items to edit notes you've selected.


Staff Sheet Editing:
Use the Staff Sheet (Control + /) to set the play status,
size, playback key (part transposition), MIDI channel,
MIDI program number and volume for each staff.


Setting MIDI Channels:
Each staff can be set to a different MIDI channel and
program number. This allows different instruments or
patches to play back on each staff. Encore supports two
ports of MIDI (A and B) for 32 MIDI channels. Pull down
the Windows menu and select "Staff Sheet", (or press
Control + /). The Staff Sheet window appears. Click on the
box below "Chan" (A1 is the default). You'll see the
"Choose Channel/Port" dialog box. In voice 1, select a
checkbox for any MIDI channel from 1 to 16. Note: Each
voice in a staff can contain a different MIDI channel and
program number assignment. This allows you to play
multiple instruments on the same staff. The default has
all voices set to the same MIDI channel. Click OK. This
causes staff 1 to play over the channel you designated.
Follow the same procedure to set the MIDI channel for any
additional staves.



Program changes:
Using the Staff Sheet window, you can enter a MIDI program
change number for any staff you want. When Encore plays
the score back from the first bar, it will automatically
set your MIDI instruments to the program change numbers
you've entered. You can view the program change as numbers
or expand the column to a text field of program names. In
the Staff Sheet (Control + /), click on the heading of the
"Prog" column. The column expands to show program names
rather than numbers. To choose a program name for a staff,
click in the column below the word "Program" in the
appropriate staff line. From the "Choose Instrument"
dialog box, click on the "Device" button and choose your
synthesizer if it is listed - if it's not, then leave it
set to "Generic". Click on the desired sound or program
number to send the preset change to your instrument. Click
OK. The music in Staff 1 will now play with the synth
patch you've designated. You can also use the Staff Sheet
to change the overall volume and playback key of a staff,
in much the same way.



Click and Drag Editing

To move a note, chord or rest:
With the arrow pointer, click on any note-head or rest and
drag it. To nudge a note, chord or rest left or right:
From the Edit Menu there are four commands which allow you
to nudge (move) objects one pixel at a time.

Select the item(s) you wish to move.

The "Nudge" quickeys are as follows:
Up:     (Control  = )  Hold the Control key and the equal key.
Down:   (Control  - )  Hold the Control key and the minus key.
Right:  (Control  ]  ) Hold the Control key and the left bracket.
Left:   (Control  [  ) Hold the Control key and the right bracket.

To edit beams:
Click the arrow pointer on the center of any beam. Drag
the beam up or down to the desired height. Click the
pointer on either the left or right corner of any beam.
Drag the corner until the beam is at the angle you want.

To delete with the eraser:
In the toolbar, click on the eraser icon. (or press "e"). This turns the
pointer into a crosshair.
Click on any note, rest or graphic; it will go away.


To insert chord symbols, guitar chord symbols, text,
lyrics or graphics in a score: Select the Graphics palette
from the Windows menu. (You can also Click on the right
side of the word "Notes" in the palette until you see the
word "Graphics. ")


Entering lyrics:
Click on the "L" in the Graphics palette. On the score,
click on the note head of the first note where you wish to
begin adding lyrics. A blinking cursor will appear below
the note. Type lyrics. Use the space bar to move the
lyrics pointer to the next note. Typing a dash moves to
the next note and will automatically center the dash (hyphen)
between the two notes. This is used to split a word or
phrase into syllables. To adjust the vertical position for
a lyric line, select the lyric tool and click on the staff
you wish to adjust. An arrow will appear to the left of
the staff. Click and drag this arrow up or down to adjust
your lyrics. To add a second line of lyrics, use the voice
pop-up menu in the top left of the toolbar. In lyrics
mode, voices 2 through 8 are used for extra lines of
lyrics. Choosing one of these voices will allow you to
enter additional lyrics below the first lyric line.



Entering text:
Click on the "T" in the Graphics palette. Click and drag
on the score to define a "text box". Type text. You can
move the text by dragging it from the center with the
arrow tool. You may also combine multiple fonts and font
sizes in a single text box. The same is true for lyrics.

Entering chords:
Clicking on the "C" icon lets you add chord symbols
to the score; clicking on the "G" icon lets you add guitar fret
chord symbols to the score. Click on the "G" icon. Click
on the score where you want the chord symbol to appear.
Select the root, bass note and quality of the chord then
Click OK. Using the arrow pointer, you can adjust the
horizontal position of chords after they have been input
by clicking and dragging on the chord symbol. To adjust
the vertical position for a chord, select the chord tool
and click on the staff you wish to adjust. An arrow will
appear to the left of the staff. Drag it up and down. If a
staff containing chord symbols is transposed, the chord
symbols will automatically change to the new key.


Entering graphics:
Select the square tool in the Graphic palette. Click in
the score at the point where you want to place either the
end of the symbol. Drag the pointer in any direction to
stretch the symbol onto the score.


Slurs:
Select the Tools palette from the Windows menu.
Click on the slur icon. This is the first item in the top
left corner of the Tools palette. Click on the score three
times: once where you want the left end of the slur, once
in the center, and once at the right end of the slur. You
can edit the slur by clicking and dragging the control
points on the slur with the arrow pointer. You can also
automatically slur between two notes by highlighting a
range of notes and using (Control + L). See selection
editing below.



Selection Editing:

You can edit in Encore by selecting items, then use the
menu commands to alter them.

Encore has many ways of selecting (using the arrow pointer
selected): Select a measure by double-clicking on any
blank spot in that measure. Select an entire staff line by
clicking once in the margin to the left of the staff.
Select an entire staff to the end of the score by double-
clicking in the margin to the left of the staff.

Select a range of notes by clicking and holding on a blank
spot in the score, and then dragging a rectangle around
the group of notes. Select several discontinuous areas by
holding the Shift key as you select additional regions.
Select one or more individual notes by holding the Shift
key and clicking on the note heads. After you make a
selection, Encore's menu commands can alter the selection
in many ways.

Beam notes:
To add beams to any group of notes, select the notes to be
beamed. From the Notes menu, choose "Beam Group" from the
"Beam Notes" sub-menu. Encore will beam all appropriate
notes together. Note: if any of the selected notes have
been beamed, the beam command will unbeam the notes with
the first command. Select Beam Group again and all the
selected notes will then be beamed.

Changing note durations:
Select any note, group or groups of notes.
From the Notes Menu, choose "Change Duration".
Click in the box labeled: "Set note type to:"
Click the button for any note value.
Click OK. The selected notes will change to the value you
designated.


Automatic Part Extraction (To produce a part for an
individual musician): Select the part you wish to extract
by clicking in the margin to the left of the staff. If you
wish to extract more than one staff you can hold down the
shift key to select the additional staves (all selected
staves must be consecutive within the system) From the
File Menu, choose Extract Part. A new window will appear
with the part (s) you designated. You have the option to
compress measures of whole note rests down to a single
measure with a number representing how many rests there
are.

Voicing:
When importing and guessing prerecorded sequences or
recording music into Encore, all notes on each staff are
assigned to a single voice. In many cases this will be
correct but there are two occasions where multiple voices
might be needed to display the music. The first will occur
if you wish to display two instruments on the same staff.
The second may occur when trying to notate for instruments
capable of playing two or more voices, such as a piano.
You may also have a piano staff consisting of a bass and
treble clef set for the same voice. This allows you to
have cross-staff beaming.

Entering and Viewing Different Voices in Encore:
In the toolbar is a box with the word "Voice -". This is
the Voice Selection pop-up menu. When "Voice -" is
selected, all voices can be selected and edited.
Information entered with the mouse or MIDI keyboard is
usually assigned to voice 1 in this mode. Highlighting one
of the eight choices will limit editing, viewing and new
note entry to the voice number selected.

To Enter Two Instruments On a Single Staff:
Select either "Voice -" or "voice 1" to enter the first
instrument. Use either the Note palette or MIDI keyboard
to enter/record music for your first instrument.

Select "2" in the voice pop-up menu. Notes entered for
voice 1 will appear "grayed out". Enter the second
instrument's note information. While still viewing only
voice 2 note information, make any changes to stem
direction or beaming that you would like. Voice one (your
first instrument) will be unaffected. If you need to edit
the first voice only, you can select and edit only voice 1
in the same fashion.

To assign different MIDI channels and program numbers for
each voice, use the Staff Sheet, making the appropriate
changes in the fields for each voice indicated.

To Notate Two Voices Used by a Single Instrument:
Normally, Encore assigns all information to a single
voice. An instrument such as a piano will frequently play
more than one voice, however, as in the case where a chord
is held for an entire measure while additional notes are
then played. Under these circumstances, you will need to
use more than one voice or Encore will not indicate the
correct durations.



Entering  Multiple Voices in Encore:
As an example of multiple voices we will use a chord held
for one measure with three quarter notes played after the
first beat.
Select "voice 1" (or "Voice -") and enter a rest followed
by three quarter notes.
Select "voice 2" and enter a whole note chord in the same
measure.

As in the example above, stem direction and other editing
operations will only affect the notes assigned to the same
voice as the voice selected. Normally when notating a
single instrument requiring multiple voicings, the Staff
Sheet (Control + /) should have all voices assigned to the
same MIDI channel and program assignments.

Rests, by default, are only visible in voices 1 and 5 in
the score. The rests in the other voices are hidden. If
you wish these rests to be visible, select "Show/Hide... "
from the Setup Menu and uncheck the rests you do not wish
to have hidden. If the music you are editing has been
imported or recorded in real time, you should determine
and select notes which should be assigned to additional
voices, and with those notes selected, use the Control key
plus a number key to assign those notes to a new voice.

If the above example was recorded in real time, for
instance, Encore's guessing routine would turn the chord
into quarter notes instead of whole notes. To correct this
you would select those notes and use (Control + 2) to
change the chord to voice 2. A quarter note rest could
then be added to voice one (turn Auto Space in the Setup
Menu off before doing this). Finally, you would switch to
voice 2 and change the duration of the chord from a
quarter note to a whole note.

Guitar Tablature:
Encore 3.0 allows you to turn an existing staff of music
into guitar tablature, complete with the correct fingering
for any tuning.

To create a guitar tablature staff:
Select a staff of music you wish to convert. Select the
entire staff by clicking once in the margin to the left of
the staff.

From the Notes Menu select "Make Tab". You will see a
dialog which says: "use next tab staff" or "create new tab
staff". Select "create new tab staff" then, click on the
Setup button. From the "Setup Tablature" dialog you can
configure the tablature for any number of strings between
4 and 8. The default is 6 strings. You can also change the
tuning for any string by typing in the pitch of that
string. Encore will automatically create tablature for any
tuning selected, using the correct fingering. When you've
finished, click O.K. to return to the tab dialog. Click
O.K. again to create the tab staff. A new staff will
appear below the notation staff in guitar tablature
format.

Once the tab exists, if you highlight the fingering, you
can use the "nudge" command - hold down the Control key
and = (up), - (down),]  to move the fingering to the next
available string. (See the section on nudging under Click
and Drag Editing). You may also enter symbols using the
Guitar palette from under the Windows Menu.

Changing tablature notes:
Make changes to the notes on the associated standard
notation staff first. Select the entire notation staff by
double-clicking to the left of the margin, or click on
individual measures to change only that area.
From the Notes Menu select "Make Tab".
Select "use next tab staff". Click O.K., it will re-align
the fingering to reflect the changes in the highlighted
staff.

Dynamic symbols:
The Dynamics palette contains dynamic symbols which can be
used to affect MIDI playback. This is accomplished by
scaling the velocity information for all notes following a
dynamic indication.

Setting the dynamic range:
Select the Dynamics palette from under the Windows Menu.
Double-click on any dynamic symbol to open the "Set
Dynamic Range" dialog box.

The top eight dynamic symbols can optionally scale MIDI
velocities. The velocity values for any of the first eight
dynamic symbols can be adjusted. When "Play Them" is
selected, all notes after the dynamic will be scaled to
the velocity range of the dynamic symbol until the next
dynamic occurs in the score. Click O.K. to close this
dialog.

Entering dynamics:
Select the desired dynamic symbol from the Dynamics
palette using the pencil tool. Click in the score at the
location you would like the dynamic to occur. Using the
arrow tool, you can move dynamics. This is done by
clicking and holding on the dynamic symbol and dragging it
to the new location. To delete a dynamic symbol, switch to
the eraser tool from the toolbar and click on the symbol.
It will dissapear.


Entering repeats:
To change a measure to a repeat bar, select the measure by
double-clicking on it. From the Measure Menu choose
"Barline types... ".
A "Barline Types" dialog will appear with buttons for both
left and right barlines.
Select the button for the type of barline you wish to use.
Click in the "Play Repeats" checkbox to have Encore follow
the repeat bars.
Click O.K. and you will see that measure now has the
associated barline on it.

Entering endings:
To change a measure to an ending measure, select the
measure by double-clicking on it.
From the Measure Menu select "Endings... ". A "Measure
Endings" dialog will appear.
Select the checkbox for the ending number you wish to use.
Select the "Play them" checkbox to have Encore follow the
measure endings. This will send Encore to the previous
left repeat measure. Click O.K. That measure now has the
associated ending above it.



Accents and Articulations:
Encore contains markings for accents and articulations.
These marks can also affect MIDI playback.
Select the Marks 2 palette from under the Windows Menu.
Double-click on an accent mark. A "Set Note Marks" dialog
will appear.
You can configure the accent marks to apply an additional
fixed velocity amount to each note's recorded velocity.
The default MIDI velocity for mouse entered notation is
64. Step Entry via MIDI uses the velocity sent from your
MIDI keyboard. The articulations allow you to add staccato
and legato marks to a note. This percentage is applied to
the note's duration as it appears in your score and not
the duration with which it is currently being played. The
previous duration is preserved but superceded by the
addition of the articulation. If you remove the
articulation or uncheck "play them" in the setup dialog,
the note will return to the duration saved with the MIDI
note.

Attaching marks to a note:
Select an accent or articulation from the Marks 2 palette.
Click on the head of the note in the score. Encore will
automatically place the mark above the note regardless of
stem direction. To place a mark below a note, hold the
option key down while applying the mark.

Adjusting the vertical position of the mark is
accomplished by holding the shift key down after applying
the mark and clicking again with the same mark on the
note's head. Each click will raise the mark a little
further. Eventually, a maximum vertical adjustment will be
entered and the mark will drop to the lowest possible
position. Continued clicks will return the mark to its
starting location.


Deleting or replacing marks:
Apply the same mark or the new mark to the note. Adding
the same mark a second time to a note will remove the
mark. Adding a new mark to a note will replace the
previous mark.


Encore is available at fine music and computer stores
worldwide.

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