Sneak Peek: forScore 15
This fall Apple is introducing its biggest OS redesign in over a decade, and forScore will be there on day one with much more than a new coat of paint. forScore 15 is a huge update that streamlines and enhances some of the most foundational parts of its browsing experience while also upgrading its design along with the rest of Apple’s OS lineup.
Since almost the beginning, forScore has offered a hierarchical browsing experience with a control bar along the top that showed categories like composers and genres in the root menu, sort options in submenus, and contextual actions when editing a list. This one control had to do three jobs and it led to some design quirks like not being able to show a list of all scores in the root menu.
With forScore 15 that changes: the content bar now lets you switch between lists while the edit and menu buttons give you access to sorting options and editing functions. That gives us more flexibility to put ‘all scores’ and ‘now playing’ items in the main menu, and to add sorting options to other menus that were previously limited by this constraint.
That’s just one part of this huge update though, so be sure to check out the page below to see what else is new like the new grid menu layout, support for the menu bar on iPad, Control Change MIDI messages, tempo metadata and more. And if you’re interested in trying it out for yourself, consider becoming a beta tester.