Igor Engraver Manual

Why Igor Engraver
The basic design goal when developing Igor Engraver has been to provide the
user with a product that helps rather than hinders the process of notation and
maintenance of a composition. Igor Engraver offers unparalleled power and flexibility
in so doing, through the use of cutting-edge software technology and
through its unique design. To find out whether Igor Engraver is the superior
program for your needs, take a look at the list below, which shows some of the
many “above-high-end” features of Igor Engraver:
• One piece needs only one document – the connection between the score and its parts
of a piece is always maintained correctly and kept in the same file. This means you do
not have to create special documents just to extract the parts for the members of an
orchestra or a band. It is also very easy to create many different scores based on the
same piece, to make an orchestral version and a vocal and piano version out of an oratorio,
for instance. The adjustments made in one score are automatically reflected in
all other scores and parts.
• A unique approach used in Igor Engraver is the idea of the individual musicians as
the foundation of the piece you are working on: When you open Igor Engraver, you
will not find an empty score but a window for choosing musicians and instruments
for the piece. After you have picked the musicians you want to work with, you will
get the proper scores set up automatically. A musician is not synonymous with a single
staff, but can switch between different instruments, which in their turn each
might be written on a different number of staves or even on staves using a different
number of staff lines... The possibilities are endless, and yet easy to realise!
• Part handling is automated to a high degree, and includes such features as finding
page-turns and entering cue passages. Expert knowledge is used to optimise this
process for each type of instrument. For instance: it takes longer time for a tuba
player to turn a page than for a desk of violins. When calculating page turns, Igor
Engraver takes this fact into account.
• A great deal of expert knowledge has been built into Igor Engraver regarding musicians
and their instruments. The result is music being played back with an unprecedented
degree of realism. Igor Engraver knows the difference between a flute and a
kettledrum when it comes to playing a trill; it changes MIDI patches while analysing
string articulation on the fly and correctly plays back accelerandos, ritardandos and
other tempo fluctuations. It even generates glissandos, tremolos, tremolandos and