

One of the best musical investments I've made. "I've had Band-in-a-Box for past 5 years. Wow - we've been receiving some great feedback from Band-in-a-Box® users! I use Notion by Presonus and it will take a phenomenal rewrite of Encore to coax me back. It may be too late for them, though most of us abandoned Encore years ago. Even now I hold my nose and fire it up once in a while to load one of the thousands of older scores I wrote using it, and then convert it to Music XML so I can get out of Encore.

In 2013, I wrote four songs for a symphony orchestra and cannot believe the amount of my wasted time from crashes. It's been stuck on version 5 for well over ten years, and the shareware/pirated versions out there appear to be even worse, version 4.Įncore became a horrible buggy mess in the GVOX years. This could be good news, as Encore was always the most user-friendly of the notation software solutions out there.

I used Encore from the late 1980s and was a beta tester from two decades. The Passport website now shows that Don Williams, the original programmer of Encore music notation software and Master Tracks Pro, has acquired the assets from GVOX and will revive Encore with a version 6.
