Roadmap

• Downloading new commands and edit scripts between releases of Denemo [[Design Notes Download]]
• Improvements to MIDI out, Tempo and Volume changes and MIDI message inserts.
• Improvements to Lyrics: Edit lyrics in text editor and see the syllable placement as you type. Multiple verses per voice allowed.
• Denemo can update its set of commands (scripted menu items) without recompiling by connecting to its online server.
• Pasting LilyPond text directly into the Denemo window. By pasting the actual music text a Denemo editable score can be created from almost any LilyPond file.
• Unfinished measure indicator. Shows you which measures are short of notes/rests.
• Easy generation of new commands from an existing example: no knowledge of scheme required!
• With JACK, the playback starts from the cursor or plays back the selection if there is one. All this happens without re-creating the MIDI data, and in any case without generating external files.
• Easier setting/unsetting the selection by mouse clicks.
• Volume and Tempo changes in MIDI output, and insertion of arbitrary MIDI messages at any point in the music.
• Display of attributes set on the Score and separately on each movement: Titles, page breaks etc are now displayed & can be clicked on to edit them.
• Popup attributes set on Staffs and Voices so they can be edited.
• Fix positioning cursor with mouse even when there are several voices on a staff.
• Timebase - after MIDI playback the timing of a note is given on the status bar when the cursor is moved onto it (minutes, seconds and centiseconds).

• Educational games: complete with scoring, simple button controls.
• Lilypond: Long and short instrument names, Page breaks and Line breaks, Ambitus, Supression of resting parts more...
• Go to composition point (next empty measure)
• Print: Error messages now appear in a console that can be opened or closed. Print Preview errors now show.
• Ability to create buttons for scripts and hence place favorite commands onto a toolbar
• Edit script initialization scripts within Denemo
• Edit the edit script from within Denemo
• Download latest versions of scripts from denemo.org.
• Upload new scripts to denemo.org for possible inclusion in Denemo.
• Visit any URL from a script (launches browser)
• Access denemo's internet relay chat from the help menu - talk to other users.
• Some Improvements to MIDI out [[Design Notes MIDI Out]]
• Control over the order of scripted menu items. New menu items are inserted at the point in the menu you click on.

Caveats for release 0.8.8:

• Some menu items are not included: use More->Update from Internet to get these (on Linux), or manually install on windows
• Do not try to run more than one educational game per session - can hang Denemo.

• Text attached to denemo music: Keep your TODO list/notes on errata in the source etc attached to the relevant place in the music.
• New Bookmark System, integrating Rehearsal Marks
• Augment /Diminish the duration of selected notes.
• Whole Measure rests.
• Anacrusis: the length of the upbeat is determined from the music.
• First and second time Measures in repeats.
• Immediate playback via MIDI - educational games can now output notes on MIDI instruments.
• Custom collections of buttons: any command can be placed, ready to use, on a button bar.
• Changing preferences via script.
• EditObject command (usually right-click or Tab) now gives direct access to any Attributes set on note or chord.
• Cut and Paste fixes: multiple measures across adjacent staffs can now be cut/pasted.
• Better mouse selection of music.
• Many bugs fixed: Import Midi, display after clef changes, crash on dragging mouse off top of display, crash on cancel new staff in initial ...

• Immediate MIDI playback by internal synth (Fluidsynth)
• MIDI input available from all platforms (using Fluidsynth)
• Uses latest LilyPond version
• New Paste command [[Paste Command Script]]
• Adding movements keeps the staff/voice arrangements of the current movement.
• Find routines. Find next note lower than cursor.
• Support for wheel-mouse
• Rhythm entry now creates non-printing notes until pitches are applied
• Metronome markings for any duration, slur direction control, memorize and return to the cursor position,
• Set up multiple JACK output devices with multiple ports on each. Assign staffs to these device/port names.
• Bug fixes: cursor position on directives

• Zoom for the Denemo display
• Mulit-line display of music.
• MIDI player controls
  • Independent playhead
  • Loop control - edit your music while it loops.
  • Master Tempo command
  • Master Volume command
  • Control the play interval, set to selection etc
• Typical Midi Control Changes (Program Change, Hold Pedals etc.)
  • A Generic Control Change directive for any Midi CC Message.
• Convert GM Drum Staffs to users' drum notation. The mapping can be edited visually by using a normal .denemo template.
• Apply To Selection for script authors
  • Upgrade of some scripts to work with selections.
  • New user preference that turns "Apply to Selection" on/off
• New cursor movement commands: Standard shortcuts now don't alter the selection
  • Conventional mouse + keyboard selection (shift+left/right), in multiple staffs at once
• Improvements to MIDI import.
• Hide certain menus / toolbars.

• Automatic page turning on playback. When playback reaches the last line in the display the page turns at the top so that you can read the music continuously
• Recording Midi: while playing a Denemo score you can record a new MIDI part, and then playback the combined performance. Save the combined performance as midi. Simple convert-to-notation.
• Playback controls - set the start position to the cursor
• Grace Notes - Now as On/Off command, correct display in Denemo and works with selections

Known Issues:

• Windows users: Direct Printing and Print Excerpt do not work, use Print Preview
• Windows users who are upgrading: you should delete the folder called .denemo in your home folder (i.e. the place where Documents is)
• Windows users with LilyPond installed separately: you may need to re-install LilyPond after installing Denemo if you wish to use it separately.

• Maximize the space for the score (with/without user's choice of menus).
  • Standard View - window size, zoom, number of systems etc
  • No-Menu version of this view
  • Page View - user chooses a window size, zoom and number of systems, which is stored with the movement for instant recall.
  • Single keyboard shortcut for toggling between these views (Esc by default).
• Musical Snippets - store musical riffs/motifs to be pasted at will or as rhythmic templates for playing over.
• MIDI transport work for JACK users.
• Bug fixes:
  • Fix Chord Symbols for music starting with triplets, grace notes etc.
  • Fix display of dotted rests
• Arbitrary Tuplets built in: correct MIDI output as well as engraving, of course.
• Diatonic Transposition: Shift notes and chords up and down respecting the current key signature.
• Support for figured bass extenders, including those with no starting figure.
• Better Paste command.
• Cursor can be highlighted, making it easier to locate
• Page turning is animated: as the last line starts to play, the page visibly turns at the top.
• Default behavior is now non-modal
  • an easy to understand and very slick interface via keyboard
  • seamless integration with MIDI controllers
• Purely rhythmic notes playback using percussion - click tracks more easily generated.
• Separate shortcut loading command
• Split Notes and Chords to smaller notes while preserving the original duration (make a quarter note two 8th or tuplet of 8th or 7-tuplet)
• Duplicate a Note or Chord as command
• Command line interface for interactive scheme use
• Support for the "French" clef (G on bottom line)

• Improved cursor, showing insert position and clearly distinguishing appending from editing/inserting
• Two key keyboard shortcuts [[Two Key Shortcuts]]
• MusicXML import
• Improved LilyPond import
• "NotationMagick": Scripts to generate, twist, randomize and shuffle music.
  • Twelve-Tone-Row (Schoenberg) Generator
  • Random Note insert. Variants: All diatonic, all chromatic, from a given pool, a complete pool at once (shuffled)
• Bug Fixes
  • Grace notes on tuplets fixed.
  • Paste places non-note objects correctly.
• Build options:
  • configure --disable-portaudio is now available, removes dependencies of portaudio, libsamplerate, fftw3 and aubio

• Playback Improvements
  • playback in historic tunings, microtonal music playback.
  • mute selected voices during playback
• Denemo Display improvements
  • Whole Measure Rests fills measure for all timesignatures
  • Upbeat (Anacrusis, pickup) command now fills measure
  • Vector graphics for Directives [[Graphics Fonts]]
  • Fully justified page display.
  • Better display for 1-line staffs (e.g. Drum staff)
• Breve, Longa notes and rests
  • Prevailing duration applies to Breve, Longa, Plain chant etc [[Prevailing Duration]]
• Template for Accordion Shifts
• Improved Handling of Voices
• More Printing Controls
  • Change/override the printed measure numbering
  • Hide single printed objects (notes/chords, timesignatures, keysignatures, clefs)
  • Hide linear section of notes or the stafflines (or both).
  • Breath mark
  • "Mensurstriche" / Mensural Barlines switchable (printing)
• Human-readable file format for Denemo files.
• Tutorial
• Bugfixes
  • Chords sound all notes on entry
  • Playback paging made reliable
  • Check note pitches fixed
  • Lyrics panes word wrap

• Undo and Redo
  • Undoes all work on any movement with depth limited only by (virtual) memory size.
  • Re-do any number of Undo steps.
• Chord Entry from MIDI keyboard
  • Auto advance of cursor
  • With status on MIDI-in status bar
  • Auto-notate chordal accompaniment
• Conductor
  • Drive the playback with the mouse, pause, speed up, slow down just by moving the mouse
  • Works with looping/editing enabling you to listen in detail as you step through a passage
• Play Along
  • Choose one part to play via MIDI in, Denemo plays the rest waiting for you if you pause
  • Works with recording, so you can add improvisations
• MIDI shortcuts [[MIDI shortcuts]]
• Delete Selection without removing empty measures
• Standalone Fermata: On barlines, other objects, between notes etc.
• Small / Half sized Barline
• Phrasing Slurs
• Five Presets for different Voices (1-4 and Automatic), resembling Lilyponds \voiceOne \voiceTwo etc.
• Separate Export command for saving LilyPond, MIDI
  • save a copy of the score while continuing to work on the original.
• Accompanist's Score [[Volatile Directives]]
• Scrolling and zooming for the Print Preview window
• Lilypond Importer:
  • Fermata
  • Partial / Upbeat / Anacrusis
  • Tied notes
  • Custom beaming (Lilypond brackets )
  • Staff/Instrument names and short instrument names
• Staff Groups
  • Staff Groups now each have their own command
  • Added GrandStaff grouping
• Help Frame to show key bindings and other info directly in Denemo
• New set of (real, physical) transpose/shift commands
  • Arbitrary transposition - specify two notes or the name of the interval
  • Tonal step up / down (stay in key)
  • Real whole tone up / down (tranposition)
  • Real half tone up / down (tranposition)
  • Real octave up / down (tranposition)
• Join Music Objects: Create a new note from a selection of others
  • Join Music Objects 2: Create a new chord with all pitches and the sum of a selection
• Support for all notehead-styles Lilypond offers (default, cross, mensural, diamond, slashs and more)
• Create chords with interval-based commands and shortcuts (major 7th, minor 3rd, perfect 5 and so on)
• NotationMagick
  • Reverse selected notes
  • Mirror selected notes on any axis, e.g. middle-staff-line
  • Sort selected notes according to pitch, ascending and descending
  • Shuffle selected notes.
  • Generate rhythms from strings, converted to ascii binary numbers used as rhythm.
• Lyrics
  • Fix overlapping display
  • Allow scripted insertion of lyrics
  • Paste arbitrary lyrics including accents, multiple words to one note, multiple notes to a syllable.
• Paste
  • rewritten: more robust and faster
  • deactivated playback of pasted content
  • new variant to replace the selection
• Figured Bass
  • Improve display, can now be used to play off screen
• Educational
  • Handel's Figured Bass exercises: Play in, then Denemo analyzes your realization