New in tonica fugata
New in tonica fugata 17
Musical Dice Games
Musical dice games originated at the end of the 18th century as a parlor game. The aim was to produce uniform and periodic pieces of music (e. g. waltzes, polonaises, menuets) by rolling dice. Reading music and basic instrumental skills are prerequisites for participating in the dice game. However, compositional skills are not required.
With tonica fugata 17 you can roll compositions and develop your own dice games.
Trills
Notate and play simple trills.
New file format
tonica fugata 17 offers two file formats for saving documents: the new TcaXML format (*.tcax) and the older binary format (*.tca). The binary format was used up to version 16 and is still offered for compatibility reasons. However, all new documents should be saved in the TcaXML format.
Files in the TcaXML format are open source and encoded in Unicode (Utf-8). This means that no additional information is required for foreign characters as to which language area they come from. In concrete terms, this means that you can insert any special characters in the title of the score, for example. In the TcaXML format, additional information (e. g. the author) of the score can be saved via File → Info....
Playback with VST3
VST is a technology that allows you to integrate sound plugins from other manufacturers (e. g. high-quality orchestral sounds) into tonica fugata and use them for playback and sound export.
tonica fugata 17 supports the latest VST version 3, opening the door to all modern plugins.
Do not export fermatas
Fermatas are not exported if desired.
New in tonica fugata 16
Chord notes input and editing
Braces
Piano score notation
Play back cursor chord
New accompanying patterns
Predefined voice ranges for instruments
Fast computation for compositions with many voices
Automatic object placement support
Close multiple files in one step
New in tonica fugata 15
PDF export
Composition wizard: Create a composition in just a few steps
Automatic determination of important sections of the melody (phrases)
Import voices from MusicXML and MIDI files
New in tonica fugata 14
New “neutral” harmonization style
All previous harmonization styles are based on musical examples of a composer (J. S. Bach, Max Reger, Samuel Scheidt) or a genre (Jazz, Pop) and thus contain peculiarities of the respective compositional style. With tonica fugata 14, another “neutral” style of harmonization is introduced, which, based on the melody, produces simple harmonizations that cannot be assigned to a composer or genre. In this way, it is possible to create compositions that are less original, but easier to sing or play.
Edit and create accompanying styles
The function “Create accompanying patterns” creates style-typical, recurring rhythmic-harmonic accompaniment patterns for a melody or harmonization. With tonica fugata 14, all accompanying styles have been extended to up to eight voices. The accompanying styles editor lets you adapt predefined accompanying styles or create, import and export new accompanying styles. Every change can be tested at the push of a button.
Transposing instruments
tonica fugata 14 now supports transposing instruments, e. g. in the composition, analysis, import and export of scores. You set the transposition in the last column Transposition of the expanded SystemTemplate.
Consider modulations when analyzing and composing
The harmonic analysis in tonica fugata 14 now no longer analyzes the harmonies only relative to the root key, but automatically detects harmonic modulations and deviations into adjacent keys. You can also specify modulations which are then taken into account in the analysis. The distance for harmonic analysis is determined dynamically on request.
For certain sections of the melody, modulations can be specified, which are then taken into account in the composition. This way better and more interesting harmonizations can be created.
Modulations are now also taken into account in the notation of canons and fugues. This means that canons and fugues are more readable and therefore easier to play.
Create your own score templates
tonica fugata 14 you can save your own score templates and use them as a starting point for new scores.
Icon “Show in capella”
Use icon "Show in capella" from the symbol bar to open scores in capella on click.
Templates for fugues with six to eight voices
There are now form schemes for fugues with up to eight voices.
New in tonica fugata 13
Available for Mac
The most important innovation in tonica fugata 13 is that the software runs on Mac. Other important features are a new unser interface and a score display closely based upon the one in capella 8.
The start screen
Same as in capella 8, tonica welcomes the user with a start screen displaying information and news and enabling the user to open files, templates and examples.
Score display and note entry
Score display and note entry were adapted to capella 8 which yields:
- Modern, ready for printing score display
- Any number of staves, up to two voices per staff, configurable via the SystemTemplate
- Note entry options as in capella (a few restrictions)
- Inproved rhythmic playing in as in capella
- Easy note exchange between tonica and capella via the clipboard
Enhancement of composition and analysis algorithsm
So far tonica was restricted to a maximum of four voices. With the enhanced score display, algorithms were also enhanced to allow more than four voices. This way you can now compose an eight-part harmony, a five-part fugue or an eight-part canon.
Soundfonts
You can now easily select the playback sound, independent of your sound card. Same as capella 8, tonica supports loading of sound libraries in sf2 format made available (some for free) on the Internet.
Contextual presentation in the composition assistant
Preferences for composition and analysis are displayed depending on the selected function and are directly editable.
Entry and analysis of harmonies is also directly possible.
SystemTemplate
As in capella, you can define the structure of the score via the SystemTemplate. Changes in the score layout are directly visible in the score.