The application looks surprisingly similar to Finale. At least the built-in midi keyboard sounds better than I remember. This is firmly a piece of software from yesteryear. Unfortunately, this means there are no Mac OS X features here. I even remember the included sample files. I don’t think anything cosmetic has changed about this software since the 1990s (expect for the obvious thing where it’s running on OS X). As of August 2013, Passport Software has reacquired Encore, and it will be interesting to see what their plans are for the software. These were released in Encore 5.0 in 2008, but development seems to have languished since then. Since then, Passport Software, the original developers were acquired by GVox, under whom Encore saw a number of under-the-hood improvements. We had it in my high school music lab, and I somehow talked my dad into helping me pay for a student-discounted version (by mail-order no less) in the late 90s. Encore was the first piece of composition software I ever owned.
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