Finalisons ! ♫

Après des années de développement, Ellbsound Studio propose un méga plug-in nommé Perfect Layout (en anglais) en version BETA.
Il est dans un premier temps disponible (pour les abonnés de leur newsletter) en version PC, pour Finale 2014 au minimum. Une version Mac devrait suivre.

Le nombre de fonctionnalités de ce plug-in est tellement conséquent qu'il est difficile de les détailler ici. Elles concernent :

1.) Removing Collisions
2.) Alignment
3.) Multi-Measure Rests
4.) Hairpins
5.) Articulations
6.) Tuplets
7.) Repeat / Coda symbols
8.) 1-Line Staves
9.) Lyrics
10.) Spacing
11.) Automatic Score Balancing
12.) Cleaning Up
13.) Cue Notes (created with the Finale Cue Note plugin)
14.) Improved Readability / Hiding Elements
15.) Usability

Un lecture des explications sur le site d'Ellbsound Studio s'impose.
Non testé.
La version beta est apparemment disponible exclusivement pour les abonnés de leur newsletter :

"The Perfect Layout beta plug-in is currently only available to our newsletter recipients.
Please subscribe to our newsletter to get access to the beta release."

Elbsound Studio annonce la sortie du "méga-plug-in" "Perfect Layout" dans sa version 1.0 pour Windows. La version pour Mac est en développement.
300.000 lignes de code, support pour plus de 450 polices et plus de 100 tâches automatisées pour la mise en page. 50 beta-testeurs l'ont essayé pendant 9 mois.
Pour Finale 2014 - 26. Plusieurs versions sont disponibles, suivant les fonctionnalités offertes (tarifs ICI).

Jan Angermüller le présente :

"Today after more than 5 years of development I have released the plug-in Perfect Layout v1.0 for Finale/Windows.

It is the most comprehensive plug-in ever written for Finale. The plug-in includes more than 300.000 lines of code, has native support for more than 450 music fonts, features more than 100 automated layout tasks and fixes numerous long-term issues in Finale. Perfect Layout has gone through a 9-month beta test with more than 50 beta testers.
It comes with an automatic installer for all supported Finale versions (2014-v26) plus automatic installation of 17 Maestro-compatible music fonts.

Among the 100 features of this monster plug-in you will find
-collision removal of most music symbols
-automatic alignment of expressions, articulations, hairpins, lyrics and many smart shapes
-automatic visual balancing and collision removal of staves and systems in score and extracted parts
-improval of MusicXML imported files and old Finale files from the 90s (including automatic expression category assignment and alignment correction)
-automatic repeated measure numbering for percussion/drum staves
-automatic rest splitting and merging according to the time signature

The plug-in works both as a "1-click solution" with many intelligent algorithms that automatically set the best parameters as well as with a very flexible and versatile user dialog with more than 200 parameters in the Gold edition.

More info: https://elbsound.studio/perfect-layout/overview.php
Beta user feedback: https://elbsound.studio/perfect-layout/feedback.php
Examples: https://elbsound.studio/perfect-layout/examples.php
Demo videos: https://elbsound.studio/perfect-layout/videos.php
117 pages PDF manual: https://elbsound.studio/download.php?f= ... nualEN.pdf

The Mac version is still in development, but a preview is already available.

A few images from Elbsound.studio:

(The red measure numbers are not from Finale, but have been added afterwards for better visual reference)"

La version 1.1 (toujours pour Windows) est disponible. Plus de 60 améliorations et correctifs. La liste, en anglais : https://elbsound.studio/perfect-layout/History.txt.
La version pour Mac est toujours attendue.
Apparemment, le meilleur moyen d'utiliser Perfect Layout est d'entrer la musique sans rien retoucher, puis d'appliquer Perfect Layout. Vérifier le résultat et faire quelques dernières corrections au besoin.
Les avis sont très positifs sur le forum américain.

Bonjour,
Est-ce que quelqu'un possède ou a essayé ce plugin qui semble très alléchant ? J'ai un peu parcouru le forum américain où, en effet, les avis sont plutôt positifs. J'investirais volontiers dans cet achat, mais cela représente quand même une petite somme assez rondelette, alors je suis preneur de tous les avis et expériences.
Merci !

Mise à jour gratuite en version 1.2 (Windows seulement, la version Mac est en développement). 80 améliorations.
Optimisation des n-olets, des répliques / Cue notes, de l'alignement des paroles, des lignes avancées, etc...

"Today we have released Perfect Layout v1.2 for Finale®/Windows.
The update is free for all v1.0 users.

Improvements include:
- Tuplet optimizations (Demo: https://elbsound.studio/l1y.php)
- Cue note optimizations (Demo: https://elbsound.studio/4kd.php)
- Better compound expressions support (Demo: https://elbsound.studio/k3x.php)
- Automatic vertical lyrics alignment
- Improved custom smart lines alignment (8va, trill, etc.)
- Vertical spacing optimizations of score systems and staves
- and many more

Since the v1.0 release three months ago we have added more than 140 free new features, improvements and fixes.

Unfortunately we still don't have a release date for the MacOS version. But it will now be our main focus until the end of the year."

Mise à jour en version 1.5, Seulement pour Windows (la version Mac n'est pas finalisée).
30 améliorations et de nouvelles fonctionnalités. Mise à jour gratuite pour les possesseurs de Perfect Layout 0.9 à 1.2.
En anglais, la liste des nouveautés et correctifs : ICI.

Dear friends of Elbsound.studio,
Perfect Layout v1.5 for Finale®/Windows has been released today.

Again we have added more than 30 improvements and new features. It's a free update for all current owners of Perfect Layout from v0.9 to v1.2.

New features include:
- Improved horizontal placement of accidentals
- More horizontal space on tied note clusters
- Automatic secondary beam breaks
- Improved tight vertical spacing (e.g. for hymns)

This version is still available for Windows only. The MacOS version has not been released yet.

You can automatically download and install the update through Perfect Layout's maintenancetool.exe, or, if you want to download the full installer, you can do this through our new download page. You can access it after you have activated Perfect Layout for the first time or if you register the product online.

Mise à jour en version 1.52 (Windows seulement).

"This is a minor update which is only necessary for corrupted Finale documents (i.e. on problems with expressions) and only when the plug-in was applied multiple times to the full score or full part:
in very rare cases it was possible that temporary expressions of the plug-in were not removed in the score.

The plug-in also includes an improved automatic "part" detection.
For example complex extracted "divisi violin" parts that contain more than 2 staves are now correctly classified as "part" and not as "score". Which means for example that automatic cue note hiding is automatically deactivated in this case.

This version is still available for Windows only. The MacOS version has not been released yet.

You can automatically download and install the update through Perfect Layout's maintenancetool.exe located in the "c:\program files (x86)\Elbsound.studio\Perfect Layout" folder, or, if you want to download the full installer, you can do this through our new download page. You can access it after you have activated Perfect Layout for the first time or if you register the product online."

Mise à jour en version 1.6 (Windows seulement).
Achat (diverses versions) ICI.
P.S.: la home page du site indique 1.5, mais dans la page d'achat, c'est bien de 1.6 qu'il est question.

Mise à jour en version 1.7 (Windows seulement).
Achat (diverses versions) ICI.

P.S. la version Mac est annoncée en Beta dans 3 semaines pour les personnes qui se sont portées volontaires pour la tester.

Together with the v1.6 release from 3 weeks ago you get nearly 60 new features, improvements and fixes. For more details see the History.txt file.
This is a free-of-charge update for all v1.x users (for Windows only).

We have also started the beta test for MacOS.
Should you have applied for participating in the beta test, please allow up to 3 weeks until you receive further information. For an efficient testing we will invite all participants successively in the different stages of the beta test.

The v1.7 update can be installed through Perfect Layout's maintenancetool.exe usually located in the "c:\program files (x86)\Elbsound.studio\Perfect Layout" folder, or, if you want to download the full installer, you can do this through our download page. You can access it after you have activated Perfect Layout for the first time or if you register the product online.

Version 1.8 (Windows)

Version 2 (Windows) sortie le10/12/2020. 350 améliorations. Voir ICI.