System Requirements

Flash Player 10.0.22.87 or greater is the recommended version for all Noteflight users. You can download the current version of the player from Adobe by clicking this link. (Noteflight can also run in a restricted fashion on Flash Player version 9. Some features are not available, such as Import and Export.)

Noteflight is supported on any operating system and browser for which Flash Player 10 is supported, including:

• Firefox 2 and 3 (MacOS, Windows, Linux)
• Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (Windows)
• Safari 3 (MacOS)
• Opera 9 (MacOS, Windows, Linux)

Major:

• Scores can now be exported as MusicXML.
• Add horizontal drag gesture that permits duration to be controlled directly during mouse note entry, without using the object palette.
• Viola, cello, clarinet, bassoon, oboe and trombone have been added to the instrument library.
• Improved Page View layout to prevent final systems from containing a single bar by itself.
• Major improvements to layout and editing of multiple voices on a staff

Significant Bug Fixes:

• Fixed problems with duplicate usernames during registration.
• Fixed assorted bugs in MusicXML import.
• Added missing European language characters to sans serif character set.
• Fixed MIDI export to include correct General MIDI instrument patch numbers.
• Chord symbols are now shown in correct transposed pitch during editing, when in non-concert-pitch mode.
• Improved administrative UI for Learning Edition communities

Major:

• Release 1.0 supports all Noteflight Learning Edition features.
• Drag-and-drop editing of individual notes, entire passages and entire score sections is supported. Any selected notes, staves or measures may be dragged horizontally to move them to a different point in time, making editing of rhythmic placement for notes and melodies much easier. Passages on a single staff may also be dragged vertically to move them to other staves.
• Noteflight now supports export of MIDI files. These may be optimized for either musical performance, or for import into another notation editing program.
• Noteflight now supports export of audio files in the WAV format. These audio files are identical to the performance of scores played within Noteflight.
• The Noteflight text character set now includes characters for nearly all European languages including Greek and Cyrillic.
• Many aspects of MusicXML translation have been improved.
• Text in scores may now contain multiple lines.

Significant Bug Fixes:

• Saving after session expiration is now handled by providing popup to log in again.
• Problems with asymmetrical printing margins have been corrected.
• Problems with mangling of transposed chord symbols have been fixed.

Major:

• The new "Import" command allows MusicXML files to be imported into Noteflight, for Flash Player 10 and up.
• Parts for transposing instruments can optionally be displayed and edited in their transposed keys.
• Selected notes and passages can be transposed by named intervals, and enharmonic changes applied.
• Cut/copy/paste work across different documents, including multiple windows open at the same time.
• The new "Save As Copy" command permits a copy of any document to be saved.
• Lyrics may be added to notes, including support for multiple verses.
• Performance instruction text can be added to the score at any note, rest or barline.
• Dynamics or arbitrary expression text can be added at any note/rest. Dynamics affect score playback.
• If one or more staves are selected during playback, only those staves will be heard. This allows one to more clearly hear an individual part.
• Swing eighth notes are supported, with any desired degree of swing.
• Scores are automatically saved during editing to avoid possible loss of work.

Other changes:

• Flexible layout adjustments can be applied to any measure by dragging barlines from side to side.
• The keystrokes ( and ) work identically to [ and ], so that European keyboard layouts have a workable shortcut for rhythm change edits.
• New playback speed adjustment works independently of tempo changes, allows non-authors to vary playback tempo.
• Violin sound added
• Object Editing Palette retains new relative position after being dragged
• Approximately 200K smaller initial download.
• Legacy audio playback mode available for situations where new FP10 Sound APIs do not function optimally

New Features in Beta Release 2.1

• Automatically detects and makes use of Flash Player 10 Sound APIs, enabling steadier and smoother playback on all platforms.

For more information on other features, please see Noteflight Help

New Features in Beta Release 2

• General improvements to chromatic transposition, including support for chromatic passage dragging with Shift key.
• Better control of playback cursor during silent passages
• Support for pickup bars
• Show editing palette for changes to score and staff selections.

New Features in Beta Release 1

• Tuplets: triplets, 4-against-3, quintuplets, etc.
• Multiple voices per staff. Divisi parts and 4-part harmony in grand staff are now possible.
• Selection of score and staff ranges by dragging mouse
• Playback starting from any measure by clicking in measure marker
• Auto-scrolling to maintain view of score during playback.
• Draggable chord symbols

Significant Bug Fixes

• Dialogs confined to center of screen
• Leger line width for major 2nds is now handled correctly

Known issues and limitations

Very large MusicXML scores don't import properly, or at all

We're working on improving Noteflight's ability to handle scores with many parts or many measures. At the time being, very long scores or scores with over 20 parts may not import properly from MusicXML.

Some keyboard shortcuts do not work in Internet Explorer

On Internet Explorer for Windows, the Ctrl key is not correctly detected in combination with certain keys that correspond to browser menu commands on the File and Edit menus, specifically C (Copy), X (Cut), V (Paste), S (Save), Y (Redo) and Z (Undo) . As a workaround the mouse may be used to select the menu items in question.

Only one paper size and format is supported

Only US Letter size paper and portrait orientation is available for printing.