Encore, MusicTime Deluxe, & Master Tracks Pro Now Sold as Digital Downloads
June 8, 2001GVOX announced today that its popular Passport notation and sequencing products, Encore, MusicTime Deluxe, and Master Tracks Pro, will now be available for digital download and purchase at www.gvox.com.
"The customer loyalty to these products is unparalleled," stated Nathaniel Weiss, President and CEO of GVOX. "Having them available via electronic software delivery will be of great benefit to students, teachers, composers, and musicians all over the world who need fast access to these programs."
The products are long time favorites of composers of all levels. Encore, a professional music notation program, can create beautiful printouts of scores on up to 64 separate staves, and is used by leading movie studios such as Paramount and Universal to score the soundtracks of films like "Titanic."
"We are still using the best product on the planet -– Encore," stated Stuart Balcomb, supervising music copyist at Universal Studios in Hollywood. "And it is still screaming fast. We’re working on "Planet of the Apes" right now and using Encore."
MusicTime Deluxe, used by beginners, hobbyists, and professionals alike, enables users to create and print music with lyrics, text and guitar chords on up to 16 staves, and is the perfect tool for writing and arranging music for rock bands, jazz combos, choirs, piano and vocals, marching bands and other small ensembles.
"My students and I use MusicTime Deluxe to do all of our composition and theory assignments," stated James Miller, music educator at North High School in Akron, OH. "Its ease of use is wonderful."
Master Tracks Pro, a professional MIDI sequencing program used by musicians and multimedia producers, allows users to record, edit and play musical compositions on their computer with exceptional ease. The program is capable of playing back up to 64 tracks of music with independent track looping. (Currently only the Macintosh version of Master Tracks Pro is available for digital download. The Windows version will be posted shortly.)
All three of these products serve as powerful authoring tools for NotationStation™, the GVOX Web site recently adopted by MENC: The National Association of Music Education as the industry standard platform for online music education. NotationStation incorporates a Web-based notation program called MusicTime Online™ that allows teachers and students to see, hear, play and edit their Encore, MusicTime Deluxe, and Master Tracks Pro files online as well as any standard MIDI file.
"The NotationStation site is very user friendly and I love the MusicTime Deluxe program," stated Mary, a junior at Muskogee High School in Oklahoma. "I used the program to write a 4-part string quartet for a final."
The introduction of downloadable versions of these products signals a major move by GVOX to assert its ongoing commitment to the Passport line. The product versions currently being offered for download are Encore ($399) Version 4.2.1 for Windows, Version 4.2.3 for Mac; MusicTime Deluxe ($99.99) Version 3.0 for Windows and Macintosh; Master Tracks Pro ($99.99) Version 6.0 for Mac.
"We're extremely excited to reinvigorate the Passport product line here at GVOX," stated Scott C. Peer, Chief Technology Officer at GVOX. "In addition to the release of Encore, MusicTime, and Master Tracks in an electronic, downloadable format, we have committed programmers to the ongoing development and support of the products. The results of this commitment will become apparent this year." For more information, visit their web site at www.gvox.com. |
