What's new in 1.6.0 • New clefs (with an 8 or 15, French violin, sub-bass, baritone, «No clef») and a clef dialog with every clef picked with one tap, a preview of the measure, and changes that apply only to the part or only to concert pitch. From the Inspector a clef change can be hidden or written full size, the clef can appear only in the first system, and in its place there can be a symbol of the music font. • Articulation side chosen per note in the Inspector, with «Flip articulations»; an accidental above a trill and a glissando from a single note of a chord. • Finale files and iReal Pro: in older documents, first-page texts, page numbers, arpeggios, trill lines and rehearsal letters as in Finale; older iReal Pro playlists with all their songs. What's new in 1.5.0 • Follow My Playing: with the ear button in the music stand, Maestro listens to the part you play through the microphone and turns the pages by itself. • Lyrics above the staff for two voices on one staff, chosen in the Inspector; stacked tensions without parentheses; the music stand's speed button also shows the tempo. • Finale files: the «+» above notes (cymbals, hi-hat, brass mutes) and the Broadway Copyist rip are no longer lost.

What's new in 1.4.0 • Custom lines and shapes, like Finale's Shape Designer: arrows, dashed lines, waves and vibrato lines with text and symbols at the ends, line styles and drawn shapes for the signs that are missing, images attached to a measure. Lines, shapes and drawn articulations from Finale files come into Maestro and go back out to .musx. • Contemporary and instrumental notation from the palettes: aleatoric boxes around notes, measures or staves, with text and an arrow; two-note tremolos; angled pedal retakes (∧) and the sostenuto pedal, also in playback; noteheads with the note name can use «Ti» instead of «Si». Slash and rhythmic notation can cover just part of a measure, even mid-measure and across the barline. • Instrument changes on percussion staves and between percussion and pitched instruments: a cymbal staff can switch to tubular bells with clef, key signature and sound, then back to cymbals. Finale files whose staff styles change the notation now open this way too. • Score and parts: the size of rehearsal marks and multimeasure rests can be set separately for the score and the parts; measure numbers sit above the clef. The measure Inspector has «Hide Time Signature». VoiceOver says which note of a chord is selected, and PDFs from MuseScore bring their guitar fingerings. • Fixes: many details when opening Finale files.

What's new in 1.3.0 • Time signatures as in Finale: composite time signatures, even with different units (3/8+2/4, 3+2/8+1/4), a displayed time signature different from the actual one (2/2 over 4/4 measures), dotted beat units, through a measure or to the end of the piece, with or without rebarring the notes. The dialog has a preview and one-click common time signatures, and fits even on small screens. • Free meter: with «Free meter» in Time Signature… each measure lasts as long as its notes, with hidden, dashed or short barlines; Document → Measures → Barline Here (| in Speedy Entry) puts them where you need them. • The Piano Roll comes to iPad (the «…» menu or ⌥⌘O): move, lengthen and create notes with your finger, draw in the lanes for velocity, MIDI controllers (modulation, expression, pedal…), pitch bend and program change, and pinch to widen time or pitch. • View → Page Arrangement: vertical, horizontal or as book spreads. Color for single notes (also in print, PDF and MusicXML) and the note name inside the notehead (C, F# or Do, Re, Mi), from the Inspector. • Export and Share also exports audio, as M4A or WAV, with the playback sounds; «Sustained Chords» accompaniment.

What's new in 1.2.0 • Band percussion: the «Band Percussion» map (bass drum, snare drum and cymbals on one five-line staff) and the «Band» template in New Score, with the paired parts and the snare and bass drums already on condensed staves. Condensed staves now work for two percussion staves too, each sound in its own place on the staff. Percussion maps can be saved (Inspector → Save Map…) and given to other staves and other scores. • With Hidden Notes and Rests in Gray turned off, hidden notes are not shown; with a keyboard, Go to Page… (⌃⌥J) with the printed page number. • New Score: touch and hold an instrument in the ensemble to choose its clef and transposition right away. Page Format…: Systems per page for the score, for all parts or for one part. Fonts…: «Only in the Score». The tempo marking can be hidden for changes in mid-piece too.

What's new in Maestro 1.0.0: • Maestro 1.0: Maestro is ready for everyday work. Thanks to everyone who tried it and wrote to us: every report made it better. • Layout: empty staves can be hidden in the first system too (Document → Layout → Also in the First System, under «Hide Empty Staves»). • System Distance: choosing a distance for the whole document or for some measures also removes the moves you made by hand to single systems, so the pages stay even. • Finale files: tremolos between two notes written with values shorter than a 64th note are read too.

What's new in Maestro 0.9.120: • Text frames, as in Finale: write directly on the page, with text that wraps like in print and words in bold, italic, underlined, larger or in color. Title, composer and the other credits are edited right on the page too. • Text pages: a cover, notes on the piece, the instrumentation or a back page between the pages of music. • Expression Library, as in Finale: 260 ready-made techniques, expressions and tempo marks, grouped by instrument family and searchable. • Below the score: Structure Overview, Harmony View (with the chords inferred from the notes) and Lyrics View. • Accompaniment with nine new styles, rhythm guitar and strings, fills and endings that follow the form of the piece; it can also be written into the score. • Independent time signatures per staff, rhythmic cues, grace notes in full measures, up-bow and down-bow marks, zoom up to 1000%. • Redesigned Inspector with icons; during playback the score turns pages instead of scrolling. • Score and parts exported together as PDF or MusicXML, one file per part. • Finale (.mus and .musx), MusicXML, PDF and Guitar Pro files open more faithfully, with a layout closer to printed editions.