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Curator

0.6.1 - 2026/10/25

• New: Engraving menu update.
  • “Hide Preview” and floating menu on every engraving page.
• New: You can type a value into every setting slider.
• New(Extension): Spacers, in Attach Image > Spacers.
  • Support horizontal and vertical spacers.
• New(Extension): Captions 1.1.
  • Use italic and bold in caption text.
  • Import and export captions as SRT or WebVTT.
• New: Rehearsal marks in the bar numbers row.
  • You can turn this off in Project Settings > Flags.
• New: Playback line color, in Project Settings > Instruments.
• New: Import and export project settings as a .ccf file.
  • The buttons are at the bottom of the Project Settings sidebar.
• New: The About page shows the website, and links to the Changelog, Source code and License.
• Change: Lyrics placed above the staff now appear above it.
• Change: Verse numbers that aren’t whole numbers now each get their own line, in order.
• Change: Rehearsal marks engraving.
• Change: Repeated markings left by some exporters (e.g. “pizz. pizz.”, “mf mf”) are removed.
• Change: Bar numbers moved from Engraving to Animation.
• Change: Project Settings… and Settings… are now in the Edit menu.
• Change: Minor UI tweaking.
• Change: If the default music font isn’t installed, it is kept by name and Bravura stands in until you install it.
• Deprecated: The “Top” position for captions is removed.
  • Captions now always appear under the staves.
• Fix: Erasing across several captions no longer gives the remaining captions the wrong text.
• Fix: Dragging a cropped image past its edge no longer breaks the preview.
• Fix: Holding ⌘, no longer opens several Settings windows.
• Fix: The Text font menu now lines up with the Music font menu.

0.6.0 - 2026/10/24

• New: Bar numbers and Tempo marks display.
  • Turn it on in Project Settings > Engraving. On for new projects; older projects open without them.
• New: Colored instrument names.
  • Turn on "Color names" in the new Project Settings > Instruments page. Off for new projects.
• Add, rename, recolor and remove your own groups, and put any instrument in any group.
• New: Animation settings in Project Settings > Advanced.
  • Every score animation can now be adjusted: staves, scrolling, the ending, captions and bar numbers.
• New: Reset to Default, next to Save as Default.
• New: Custom accent color, plus three new swatches: Cyan, Green and Sand.
• New: UI Text and density size in Settings > Appearance: Small, Medium or Large.
• New: Reduce UI motion in Settings > Appearance.
• New: Remove a recording from Project Settings > Project Info.
• Change: Recordings are always embedded in the project file.
  • Projects with a linked recording still open, and embed it on the next save.
• Change: Updated dependencies.
• Change (macOS): Program will no longer quit if the last window closes.
• Fix: Changing the score size right after opening a project now redraws the frozen zone at the new size.

0.5.4 - 2026/10/21

• New: Bracket groups.
  • Turn it on in Project Settings > Sections. Off for new projects.
• New: Overflow warning.
  • The bar ruler turns red where notation runs off the video's frame.
  • Export lists those bars and asks you to tick "Export anyway".
• Change: Project Settings button is now on the timeline toolbar.
• Change: Settings are now saved per project. Engraving, Fonts, Animation, Recording and Flags moved from Settings to Project Settings.
  • Use "Save as Default" next to a page's title to apply it to new projects.
• Change: Extensions are now set per project, in Project Settings > Extensions.
  • Older projects keep the extensions they had on.
  • Opening a project only asks about extensions it hasn't chosen yet.
• Change: Project Settings opens on Project Info. Replace Score and Add Recording are there.
• Change: Condensing has moved its own page to Project Settings.
• Deprecated: The Score menu and the Condensing toolbar button are removed. Use Project Settings instead.
• Fix: Dragging regions, anchors and the score size slider is smoother in long scores.
• Fix: Hovering a recent project on the home page no longer flashes grey.
• Fix: The tap anchors button no longer flashes grey as it fades.
• Fix: Carbon's segmented buttons no longer dim on hover in light mode or flash in dark mode.

0.5.3 - 2026/10/19

• Fix: The frozen zone now follows the chosen music font.
• Fix: Time signatures in handwritten fonts (e.g. Petaluma) no longer overlap in the frozen zone.
• Fix: Staff lines keep the same weight as they fade into the frozen zone. Dark mode no longer shows lines artifact.
• Fix: Staff lines in the music now match the frozen zone's line weight.

0.5.2 - 2026/10/18

• Change: Updated audio playback engine.
• Change: Classic theme is removed.
  • There is a new rectangular theme "Carbon" available if you don't like round shapes.
• Change: Replace Score keeps the MIDI tempo map's warps.
  • Warps with no place in the new score are left out.
• Change: Loading a MIDI tempo map shows where its warps came from.
• Change: Refined some animations.
• ?: Settings > About.
• Fix: Condensed pairs no longer drop the second player's dynamics and directions in chord and a2 bars.
• Fix: Drawing the MIDI tempo map with ⌥ now reaches the beat you drag to.
• Fix: A MIDI tempo change dragged past its neighbor stops next to it.
• Fix: Adding a recording while the project is saving no longer breaks the saved file.
• Fix: Turning off Attach Image while dragging an image no longer breaks Undo.
• Fix: Clicking the last barline in the Instruments and Captions lanes now selects the last beat.
• Fix: Font pickers no longer stay empty when a SMuFL font folder can't be read.

0.5.1 - 2026/10/14

• New: Redesign of export screen
  • New trimmer and preview menu.
  • Export a video as MP4, MOV, WebM (VP9) or PNG sequence.
  • Transparent background for MOV, WebM and PNG exports.
  • Extended frame selection.
• New: Ability to edit MIDI tempo map .
• New: Warps (repeats) now work with MIDI tempo map.
• Change: Dynamics typed as text are engraved as real dynamics.
  • On by default. You could turn it off in Settings > Flags
• Fix: Turning the background transparent no longer drops a frame.
• Fix: A score with two dynamics in one marking (“f – p”) opens again.
• Fix: Undo in the middle of a tempo drag ends the drag cleanly.
• Fix: Tempo maps with thousands of changes edit will perform faster.
• Fix: A MIDI warp that doesn’t fit the score no longer hides the warps around it.

0.5.0 - 2026/10/12

• New(experimental): Refined UI and wording.
  • You could revert to the Old UI under Settings > Appearance > Style.
• New: Improved engraving option.
• New: Font can now not embedded in the project file.
• Change: Updated dependency.
• Change: The home page shows the app icon instead of a generic music symbol.
• Fix: Resizing the window is much smoother.
• Fix: Improved rendering speed.
• Fix: A dragged anchor will no longer stays under the pointer while the view scrolls.
• Fix: A project still opening when its window closes now stops cleanly.
• Fix: Projects no longer appear half-open to the rest of the app while they load.
• Fix: The Engraving preview follows projects opening and closing.
• Fix: The Captions font select now has the same size and style as other dialog fields in Refined.

0.4.0 - 2026/10/07

• New: Captions.
  • This feature must be enabled in Settings > Extension.
• New: Ability to swap between different MusicXML files.
• New: Export A-B region in the piece, select region by bar.
• New: Updated export modal.
  • The export now defaults to 1080p@30fps.
• New: Metronome for quickly aligning.
• New: Ability to jump to a specific bar directly.
• New: Ability to cut and copy regions.
• New: Lane menu can rename each player separately.
• New(extension): An asset explorer for unused images.
  • Please note that unused images will NOT be saved in the project file.
• Change: Slightly tweaked menu bar entries.
• Change: Combined project-wide settings into a single window, open using ⌘/Ctrl + Shift + ,.
• Change: An Edit menu for common controls.
• Change: A new about page.
• Change: A right-click on the ruler no longer moves the playhead.
• Fix: Fixed a bug where certain action will disable all shortcuts.
• Fix: No longer missing cancelling naturals at a key change to C.
  • If you intended to use the C signature as "atonal" signature, please ensure that <cancel> tag is present.
• Fix: Border transition animation when switching from light mode to dark mode.
  • The animation is lot smoother now!
• Fix: Cancelled lane clicks will draw nothing.
• Fix: Various UI tweaking and performance enhancement.
• Fix(Security): A linked recording on a network share is never opened.
• Fix(Security): A project can only point to audio or video files, not other files.
• Fix(Security): FFmpeg now reads only audio and video formats.
• Fix(Security): What a project or .mxl file unpacks is size-limited.
• Deprecated: The text edit function is now deprecated and unreachable due to lack of purpose.
  • Project saved previously with edited text will still load correctly.

0.3.0 - 2026/10/04

• New (experimental): Windows support.
  • The updater for Windows might not be working right now.
• New (experimental): Attach images on the score.
  • Currently support JPG, PNG and SVG.
  • Please enable this feature in the "Extension" section of settings.
• New: Customize score and text font.
• New:Drag-and-drop now supports images, projects, and MIDI in the corresponding location.
• Change: Change the end behavior so the final barline doesn’t fade out.
• Change: Faster video export.
• Fix: Score export will no longer break if cancel is pressed.
• Fix: A tempo of 0, NaN or infinity will play at the default tempo.
• Fix: Re-engraving will less likely to crash.

0.2.2 - 2026/10/02

• New (experimental): Import speed map from MIDI.
• Change: Slightly redesign the welcome screen.
• Fix: The program will no longer ignore the transition to the key signature for C/Am.
• Fix: Multi-staff instruments will now show their brackets.
• Fix: Multi-staff instruments will have connected bar lines.
• Fix: Cross-staff notes are supported.
  • Please note that instruments with sophisticated engraving might not display properly; a workaround will be available in the near future.

0.2.1 - 2026/10/01

• New: A slider to switch between the new scrolling animation (snap to note) and the pre-0.2.0 one (snap to bar).
• Change: Modified some mouse-over tips.

0.2.0 - 2026/09/30

• New: App Icon.
• New: Individual-controllable animation time.
  • Change: Updated project file version.
• Change: Key signature spacing is now respecting local options.
• Change: Scrolling speed is now considering note spacing, enhancing the accuracy.
• Change: Several tweaking on setting pages.
• Fix: ⌘Z or ⇧⌘Z on the start screen will no longer crash the program.
• Fix: Replacing the recording with an unreadable file will not unload the current recording.
• Fix: Importing a score after opening a project no longer kept that project's unpacked recording in the scratch folder.
• Fix: Pressing Apply in a region's dialog no longer re-read its start and end from the rounded text it shows.
• Fix: Anchor start time cannot be set to infinity.

0.1.2 - 2026/09/28

• New: Export and preview ratio can be freely adjusted, located at the top-right corner of the top bar.
• New: Instruments can be reordered by hold-clicking the instrument label.
• New: Instruments could be batch-selected and reordered.
• Change: Update project file version as the order is now saved into the project.
• Fix: Initial window size is too small.
• Fix: Empty lanes can now be selected.

0.1.1 - 2026/09/27

• Change: The score preview can render in 16:9 with a toggle "Show video's frame"
  • We are hoping to expand this behavior by allowing custom ratios in the future.
• Change: the program is no longer referred to as "curated-score"

Secant

0.2.1 - 2026/10/21

• Fix a crash.

0.2.0 - 2026/10/14

• Support export Cubase expression map.

0.1.0 - 2026/10/13

• First public release.