FORTE 8 Arrives on November 28th!

Look forward to these new features…

Miriam introduces you to two new features in our video:

  1. FORTE 8 allows you to write fingering
  2. The integrated tuner helps you tune your stringed instrument

Writing fingerings
Many piano teachers wrote to us wanting the ability to write fingerings for their students.

With FORTE 8, you can prepare your etudes better and master difficult passages faster: enter your fingering directly into the score.

Edit the elements to match your playing and reading habits.

fingering

A tuner? A tuner!
FORTE 8 comes with an integrated tuner. You’ll find the right tune easily.

Sit comfortably at your desk and tune your stringed instrument.

You can also play along to your pc and read the music from the screen.

tuner

What do you think about these new features? Do you need to write fingering often?

Let us know! We’re looking forward to your comments or messages.

24 replies
  1. IanBP
    IanBP says:

    Thank you for the updates.
    I think they’re an excellent addition to this site to help expand knowledge and expressive musicality.
    IanBP. New Zealand

    Reply
  2. Quentin Meek
    Quentin Meek says:

    The new v8 features are not too interesting for me, I’m a drum teacher. I’m hoping that the various bugs I have identified will be fixed in v8

    Reply
  3. Claude GRIMAUD
    Claude GRIMAUD says:

    Forte 7 ou Forte 8 m’intéressaient mais uniquement en version française.

    I use Forte Standard in a french version.

    Forte 7 ou Forte 8 would interest me but only with a french version !

    I tell you many times already. Thank you for tell me when it will be realised.

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    • FORTE Admin
      FORTE Admin says:

      Dear Claude,

      there are no information about any upcoming french version of FORTE at the moment.
      I’m sorry that I can’t offer you a better answer.

      FORTE-Team

      Reply
  4. Noel Gorman
    Noel Gorman says:

    Hi, The upgrades look good. As I play the Banjo the Fingering would be a great asset. Can you add the banjo, 4 and 5 string, to the list of instruments?.

    Problem for you:- How do you place a break [pause] at the end of a line? The margin maker keeps taking over and prevents me placing it there. It works fine at any other bar but the end of line.

    Regards

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  5. Judy Rankin
    Judy Rankin says:

    Forte is an excellent program but has had a severe limitation for guitarists : notation in TAB can not go beyond the 12th fret. Has a the TAB notation feature been upgraded to 15 of 17 frets ? This would be most appreciated.
    Cordially,

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    • FORTE Admin
      FORTE Admin says:

      Dear Judy,

      thank you very much for your feedback. I will forward your message to our development team.

      Best regards,
      Matthias

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  6. Jennifer
    Jennifer says:

    I love the ease of Forte 7! Being able to add fingering with just a click will be a wonderful update. I’m looking forward to the other 6 updates. I just hope that the overall layout and input will remain similar from Forte 7 to Forte 8.

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  7. Rob Landes
    Rob Landes says:

    This all looks great. Looking forward to upgrading soon!
    Thanks for your excellent work, and your customer support.
    You’ve always been a great help to me when I’ve come to a stopping place!
    Thanks for all you do.
    Rob

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  8. Papu Gohain
    Papu Gohain says:

    I m Excited to see Forte8 . What I feel is after applying SLURS, the sound remains same.
    1. some improvisation with slurs will definitely make a huge difference in the sound.

    2. Can we add more performance and directions?

    3. In Dynamics, P is much quiter, in this case how will PP or PPP sound?

    Overall volume of this software need little more loudness.

    But right now whatever help I am getting from Forte is very very helpful…

    Reply
    • FORTE Admin
      FORTE Admin says:

      Dear Papu,

      thank you very much for your feedback. FORTE does not support the interpretation of slurs, yet.
      If you have inserted dynamics you can set up the volume of each element. Simply double click on e.g. the “p” to enter the value of the velocity.

      Best regards,
      Matthias

      Reply
  9. Tony Charlton
    Tony Charlton says:

    Love the new features on Forte 8. Just a point about adding fingering. Woujld it be possible to add fingering to guitar chords? My students often ask me to add the fingering to the chords I prepare for them. I print out the chord charts for them then add the fingering details manually – easier if Forte could allow me to do it.
    Love your programme.

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    • FORTE Team
      FORTE Team says:

      Hi Tony,

      thank you for your excellent question.
      I’m sorry, but at the moment this is not possible.
      We’ll see that this will be added in the future 🙂

      Kind regards,
      Barbara
      FORTE Team

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  10. Matthew
    Matthew says:

    Thanks for adding the option of adding guitar fingerings! This among other things may just convince me to upgrade.

    One question: once the fingerings are added, are you able to change their position in the score? Every guitarist is a little different as to where they prefer to see fingering notations, so it’s important to be able to position them to preference.

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    • FORTE Team
      FORTE Team says:

      Hi Matthew,

      thank you for your question! Yes, you can change the positioning of the guitar fingerings according to your preferences.
      In the context menu, you can decide for a general “above” or “below” the note for each fingering you added.
      And as with any element, mark it and press ctrl+the arrow keys to move the position.

      Kind regards,
      Barbara
      FORTE Team

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