Fontexplorer x pro 4 review8/29/2023 ![]() Thanks, Robert, for your hard work on this! It is indeed a beautifully designed font and, if I may add, very reasonably priced as you get not only the font but supporting files that are designed to make switching over less painful. OSX 10.9.5, Finale 2011c and 2014b (not using it yet) w/GPO & JABB, Patterson Plug-Ins, TG-Tools and QuickKeys 4 Sibelius 6, Logic Pro X, Adobe CS3, FontLab Studio 4, FontExplorer X Pro 3 Intel Core i5, 16 GB RAM, Apogee Duet 2, Samsung SyncMaster 245b Haha, I immediately thought of you when I saw them.ġ3" MacBook Pro 2.8 Ghz. I was so excited by the right-facing glasses that I could barely sleep last night. And I'm not convinced by the perspective of the right-facing glasses. The p of piano looks curiously bigger than the other dynamic letters. Just curious: is there anything you DON'T like about November? I think I prefer the clefs in Maestro.įinally made the move from my trusty 2011c Even if you don't use it as your main music font, there are masses of extra symbols, lacking in other fonts, that you can use in articulations, expressions and elsewhere, all accessible from one big font.įinale 2014d, 2012 MacMini 2012 MacBook Pro (10.9.5)Įdirol FA-66 Roland A-49, HP Laserjet 5200 DTNĪncient Groove Music Post Edited (Wiggy) : 4:34:30 AM (GMT-6) There is much to commend here, in both the content and the format. It's great that Finale can already take advantage of this technology - currently the only product that can fully do so. This is the first commercial SMuFL-compliant font. A library of Finale libraries can be easily created, bringing the vast range of symbols for additional articulations and expressions to your documents, and to alter the standard notation elements to a variety of alternates. ![]() What this "upgrade" brings is over 4 times the number of notational symbols, compliance with SMuFL and the flexibility that this provides. There are some lovely samples on the Klemm website. The aesthetic characteristics of November are well known, and Robert has spent time refining the symbols for this new version to make them even crisper. There's a full complement of standard notation, an impressive range of symbols for early music, as well as elements for the more contemporary notational forms. A few of of these are duplicates as November contains characters in their Finale "legacy" positions, as well as the SMuFL ones. 350 in the previous version, which should be enough to satisfy most requirements. The "2.0" font contains 1,713 characters, up from c. There's also an extensive user manual, which indexes all the glyphs and provides instructions for installation and how to use the documents and libraries. There are also similar files for Sibelius and Lilypond (though these programs can't make full use of the SMuFL fonts that Finale can). You also get Finale default documents, FANs and Libraries, all designed to work with November, for different versions of Finale. For that, you get the font itself, plus revised versions of the "legacy" fonts November and NovemberExtra, all in OTF. November2 costs €79.95 for a single-user licence. The reference font, Bravura, is freely available, but November "2.0" is the first commercially available SMuFL font and the first such font designed to work with Finale. And so SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout) was born. It was inevitable that someone would create one big Unicode font featuring as many musical symbols as possible, and it was serendipitous that Daniel Spreadbury and the ex-Sibelius team were given the opportunity to do so. (Finale Mallets, Finale Alphanotes, Finale Lyrics, etc.) Sibelius too introduced Unicode support a few years earlier, though it also relies on a "family" of fonts with only a few hundred character in each (Helsinki, Helsinki Special, Helsinki Text, Helsinki Metronome). Users had previously needed several different fonts to encompass a modest range of notation symbols. Although there are countless text fonts using Unicode, containing thousands of characters within one font file, no music fonts existed with more than a couple of hundred characters. ![]() MakeMusic Forum > Public Forums > Finale - Macintosh - FORUM HAS MOVED! > November 2.0 mini-review.įinale 2012 introduced Unicode compatibility, which received a mostly tepid reaction, beyond praise for the ability to write Dvořák and Janáček correctly. ![]()
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