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Harmony Assistant 9.3 Melody Assistant 7.3 April 2007

News

1. MusicXML 1.1 import and export. The MusicXML format is now plainly and natively managed as a standard format in Harmony Assistant. MusicXML files can be imported through "File>Open", and exported through "File>Export>MusicXML"
   The MusicXML export is also available in Batch export and in the Web page generator, because Myriad Plug-in v5.3 now manages this format.
   Melody Assistant imports MusicXML files but cannot export them.
   
2. Harmony Assistant: Export in packed MusicXML format (.xmz)
3. Harmony Assistant and Melody Assistant: Import in packed MusicXML format (.xmz)

Improvements

1. A "Repeat previous bar" symbol followed by a "Repeat two previous bars" is now properly played.
2. Breve notehead vertical position has been adjusted.
3. When lyrics line overlap the next staff, it is now still possible to edit them through the "Text" tool. Lasso and Pencil tools also apply.
4. Improvement in 8va,8vb,15ma,15mb positionning relatively to the clef display scale
5. Right-clicking a rest edits it
6. "Edit>Appearance>General" enables to add/modify "text" effects
7. Double-clicking the text style edit palette shrinks it to an icon
8. Harmony Assistant: new version of the Encore import module

Fixes

1. Empty staves deletion when the "allow multi-rest bars" mode is deactivated.
2. In some cases, closing a window through the "Enter" key could erase the styled text field.
3. Fixed inconsistencies when editing a text with a scale greater than 100%
4. MP3 information text export
5. Selection range playback when "repeat previous bar" symbols are present.
6. "Low memory" message when moving an effect of null area
7. "Repeat two last bars" symbol position in non-engraver mode
8. Canceling on the play start marker when several levels of playback were present
9. ABC import, crash on "x4" pattern
10. Merged staves moving in Staff > Add staff
11. Color problems (white notes when score is scrolling)
12. Crash in the document template selector, when reducing the number of bars, then forcing the number of groups
    
13. Targets are properly shifted when measures are deleted.
14. Melody Assistant: key signature problems when loading files that had been saved by Harmony Assistant in "concert key" mode
15. Harmony Assiststant: Crash in "scroll mode" when rotating staff titles that are not displayed in page mode
16. Harmony Assiststant: no more choice of time signature when selecting a template with accompaniments
17. Harmony Assiststant: Error in character strings comparisons in MyrScript
18. Windows: Crash when importing some filed obtained through a TEF import. In conjunction with the HIPS protection of the Kerio/Sunbelt firewall, could lead to a blue screen.
    
19. Windows: more or less frequent crash, when opening or using the file selector (bug in Windows XP)
20. Macintosh: printing multiple copies
21. MacTel: In some cases, an empty alert box appeared at program start
22. MacTel: Crash when editing slur parameters
23. MacTel: MIDI input
24. MacTel: OMeR license registration

Harmony Assistant 9.2 Melody Assistant 7.2 June 2006

News

1. New document wizard for creating new scores, the user being able to add, remove or move staves to and from the predefined template
2. Unicode characters management (Mac OS X and Windows).
3. Concert key edit mode, in which transposing instruments appear untransposed (Options>Display transposed score)
   
4. Styled text in title, composer name, remarks, text objects related to staves, text as free objects, song lyrics, page header and footer, note text effect, tempi, dynamics.
5. Rotation angle for texts.
6. Fine adjustment of score appearanceon a per-document basis ("Score> Display setup" menu) : lines and ledger lines thickness, key signature element spacing (distance between clef and key, key and time signature, accidentals in key, etc), barline appearance and thickness,  and display adjustments for notes, accidentals, dots,  effects, tie symbols, multi-rests, repeated bars, lyrics, tablature, etc...
7. Accidentals in a chord automatically avoid overlapping
8. Dot on an eighth avoid to overlap with the stem drawing.
   
9. Edit Targets in the document, available through an icon in the placard (bottom-left area of the document window). Targets are created at the current selection position, and the user can quickly go to a target or play music from a given target (right-click on the play icon).
10. Multiple user-defined palettes : up to 8 independent palettes.
    
11. Chord diagrams are saved along with the document, their appearance remains constant whatever the user chord diagram database is.
12. When defining a fretted instrument for calculating tablatures, the instrument can be used for displaying chord diagrams.
13. Distances digital display for objects in page mode.
14. New placard in page and scroll mode, enabling to go quickly to any page or bar number.
15. A slur is displayed above unbreakable spaces in lyrics. This can be set up in the staff appearance box.
16. Tilt, thickness and offset between beams can be set up in the staff appearance box, "Lines and beams" section.
17. In the ruler, if the "physical" bar number is different from the score "logical" bar number, both are displayed.
18. New kind of barline: "simple" kind, that enables for example to display the standard barline after a clef change.
19. New appearance for slur, straight line.
20. The arpeggio symbol can show the arpeggio direction. Its size can also be changed.
21. Page header and footers can be not displayed on the document first page.
22. Display scale when editing text in order to ease the job when font size is small
    
23. List of bar numbers to be played can be forced in the break symbol edit box
24. Management of file names that are long or contain non-occidental characters.
25. Effects can be displayed according to the note stem direction.
26. Reserved pages (defined in printing options). You can reserve a few pages at the beginning of the document, not counted in page numbering, on which free objects can be added.
27. Symbol for repeating the two previous bars (.//.)
28. Harmony Assistant: 12 simultaneous MIDI output (ports), enabling up to 192 channels
29. MIDI Import/Export: management of multi-device MIDI files (more than 16 channels)
30. First version for Intel based Macintosh computers
31. The software interface can be searched for keywords (Help > Search).
32. Automatic calculation of the document display scale when its window is resized (can be switched off from Global setup, "Screen" topic, or by holding the Shift key down)
33. Individual selection of effect color.
34. Now possible to define the default note stem direction for each staff: depending on the note pitch, always upward or always downward (Staves>Staff display mode>Staff lines)

Improvements

1. Objects position on screen remains identical to the printed page, whatever the view scale is
2. Improvement of score appearance on screen (antialiasing)
   
3. Proportional scroll bars.
4. Slur performance audio settings in "Edit>Appearance>General"
5. Beam grouping pattern has been extended in order to manage all possible time signatures
   
6. Resizeable trills
7. Right-click on a slur to change its way of playing and display direction quickly
8. The "muted note" effects is displayed on tablature without cell number.
9. Barline or repeat barline within a bar. Deleting this symbols merge the two parts of the bar together again.
10. Music start and end, repeat start and end barlines can be only graphical (no effect on score performance)
11. In page mode when control handles are active, invisible rests are displayed in light gray.
12. Virtual keyboard is now resizeable. Number of displayed octaves can be defined, and matching with keyboard shortcuts can be displayed.
13. The "tuplet" mode deactivates when duration changes (can be activated in global setup, "Palettes" tab)
    
14. Harmonica tablature: vertical position of numbers and symbols can be inverted
15. Chromatic harmonica tablature: stem can be displayed as a circle around the hole number.
16. Windows: new management for printers and screen display.
17. Automatic alignment of dynamics, ottava, tempo, etc, when inserted on score.
18. Mac OS X: management of HFSX formatted hard disks (case-sensitive)
19. Mac OS: when importing a sound resource file, the resource to be imported can be selected when more than one.
20. When one or several bars are inserted through Edit>Bars>Insert, it is possible to specify the tome signature of the inserted bars.
21. Staff name area origin can be specified in order to ease name alignment
22. Crescendo and decrescendo symbols can be substituted by a text.
23. The $L pattern, in a dynamics caption, draws an horizontal dashed line to the right edge of the dynamics area.
24. Windows: font smoothing mode for GUI can be selected (Global setup, "Theme" tab)
25. MyrScript: tree view for arrays and structures in the MyrScript variable browser.
26. Now possible to define default values for new tablatures.
27. Chord grid is printed using a number of colums equal to 4 or multiple of 8.
28. Grace notes are added at the right pitch (no need to edit them afterwards).
29. Horizontal shift for grace note groups.
30. Switching a document from page to scroll mode when automatic resizing is on doesn't show a useless vertical scroll bar anymore.
31. Better appearance of beaming when tilt is big
32. Virtual Singer: Now possible to write [xxx]yyy at the beginning of the staff to set the default syllable to be sung to xxx while yyy is displayed.
33. The normalized digital export of an empty score now generates an empty digital audio file
34. Icons dropped on user palettes are magnetized while the Command (Ctrl) key remains pressed
35. Note heads are now perfectly centered vertically on staff and ledger lines.
36. When a files uses a font that is not included in your system, the closest font is selected instead.
37. Upbeat bar: now possible to select a duration that matches a double-dotted note.
38. Masking a time signature change on an individual staff has been made easier (time signature tool in the "Clef" tool palette)
39. Improved and completed Japanese version

Changes

1. Graphical objects fine settings are no more defined for the whole application, but on a per document basis. The option is then moved from the global settings to the "Score" menu.
2. Printing settings has been simplified: in the global setup, you just have to define the minimal horizontal and vertical line thickness for printer.
3. Ghost rests display, accidentals on all octaves can now be set up independently for each document. It is therefore moved to "Score > Display setup"
4. Path to the temporary files can now be changed from the "Path" tab of the global setup
5. Change in default length for note stem : notes from half to sixteenth now have the same stem length.
   
6. Change in appearance of 15ma and 15mb ottavi
7. If, in a previous version, you entered text in a non-western font other Japanese (Arab, Russian, etc), they might not appear properly in the new version. The Unicode management should however ease your job in the future.
8. Automatic beaming includes now triplet rests in groups of triplet notes.
9. Break symbols other than barlines (Coda, Segno, numbered parts...) are now also displayed on "Text" staves.

Fixes

1. Street organ card printing: the "Minimal distance between two punches" now works in "Vertical mirror" mode
2. Dot size when note scale is different from 100%
3. Time signature displayed as a reminder at the end of previous line.
4. Harmonica tablature: symbol shift is now working.
5. Virtual Singer: In Finnish, amendment for pronunciation of W, C and Z
6. Crash fixed in special beam and slur management
7. Possible crash when playing a note that contains many grace notes as well as a mordent or grupetto effect
8. Panning position problem in MIDI output/export when a panning position curve is present.
9. Harmony Assistant: Possible crash when using the "Follow played staves" and "Split chords" scripts
10. Problem when playing very long notes (several whole notes tied with a slur symbol) with some instruments.
11. "Note" cursor erasing when moving from one sub-window to another.
12. Yamaha style file import through File>Import menu option
13. Fixed sung notes in Fasola mode
14. Fixed problem when creating a double-stem note in a chord
15. Fixed problem when performing slurs in a staff that contains bar repeat symbols
16. Fixed header in exported BMP files, that could make them unreadable with some drawing programs
17. Fixed position of notes with invisible heads
18. Fixed crash on some copy/paste operations on staves with rules (e.g. standard drum staves)
19. In some cases, wrong count of multi-rest bars.
20. Problem in staves fine positions after bar deletion
21. Better transfer of staves fine positions from page mode to scroll mode
22. Possible crash when bar margins are too important on a digital track
23. Possible crash when exporting an empty staff as .MUX file from the trial version of Melody
24. Unexpected results when selecting another tool while inserting a slur or a special beam
25. Windows: fixed some case of staff lines disappearing from printed page when hidden bars are present in the score

Minor versions

Harmony Assistant v9.2.1 / Melody Assistant v7.2.1  - May 23rd 2006

1. Change in templates for joining barlines of staves included in a brace.
2. Improvement of clef, key and time signature. The three items now behave independently from each other.
3. Less antialiasing on horizontal lines.
4. Text object related to the staff are justified again within their frame.
5. When pasting a dynamics, the cursor doesn't jump anymore to the beginning of the score.
6. Improvement of manual beaming, that affected the note just before the selection range.
7. New version of the Germand manual.
8. In non-antialiased mode, better positionning of staff lines.
9. Text wrapping in the karaoke window area in order to avoid right overlapping.
10. Better triplet group display in special text.
11. Harmony Assistant: fixed accented character management in accompaniment and rhythm names. Names with accented characters that have been created using version 9.2.0 may not appear properly in the grid.
12. Fixed problem in MIDI playing when forcing MIDI output at file load/import.
13. Fixed: "display multi-repeat bars" doesn't activate "display multi-rest bars" anymore
14. Fixed crash when stopping .msf file playing in automatic start mode.
    
15. Fixed language change management in Virtual Singer
16. Fixed problem in new document wizard
17. MMPlug: chord diagram display when related to the chord line.
18. MMPlug: title display when non-latin characters are used.
19. Windows: fixed problem in MIDI device selection
20. Windows: Japanese version of the file extension selector
21. Windows 95,98,ME: fixed problems with some printer drivers
22. MacTel: Fixed communication problems between Melody/Harmony and OMeR.
23. Mac OS X: Fixed MIDI input deactivation.

Harmony Assistant v9.2.2 / Melody Assistant v7.2.2  - June 1st 2006

1. Fixed: hiding empty staves when "enable multi-rest bars" was deactivated
2. Shorter delay when starting music
3. Harmony: Problem of page setting change when starting to play some scores in engraved mode
4. Harmony: More comprehensible alert message when applying a transposing instrument to a non-transposed score
   
5. MacTel: Fixed empty alert display at startup in some cases.

Harmony Assistant 9.1 Melody Assistant 7.1 April-October 2005

News

1. The play start mark includes the line number (if the part is repeated several times)
   
2. For each system, the staff base line, lyrics position, chord line position, bar number position, tablature position, staff height, display of the miscellaneous lyrics lines, left position of each system and right position of each justified system can be adjusted.
   This enables to adjust on a system basis the staff height and item layout. This can only be performed in page mode. Melody users can change these settings from the print preview.
   
3. Title, comments and author markers are displayed in page mode to help aligning these items while moved.
4. Independent setting for ledger lines, note stems, barlines, break symbols, slurs, effects between screen and printing/export (Global setup)
5. New management for staff groups. Number of groups is not limited. A group is enclosed in a bracket, a brace, an incomplete bracket, a bold line or nothing. The horizontal position of this symbol can be adjusted.
   Each group defines the way bar lines of the enclosed staves are connected: without connection, standard connection, Mensurstrich connection. A complete and abbreviated name is related to each group,  and position of these names can be adjusted finely.
     To add a group, click on the left of the system, outside the area of any object. To move horizontally a group symbol, click in its middle. To change the staves that are included in this symbol, click its ends. To edit group settings, click its symbol while pressing Shift key, or using the right mouse button. A tutorial explains this.
6. New graphical object type: line. The matching tool is located in the "Miscellaneous tools" palette. A line can be plain, dotted, dashed or wavy. Its ends can be of different bracket shapes or arrows.
7. Harmony. In split window mode, an option in the "Options" meny synchronizes all the sub-windows that display a scroll mode view.
8. Harmony. New script for instrumentists: follow played staves
9. New note head shape: hollow head.
10. Now possible to play a few bars of metronome before music starts playing (Global setup)
11. Digital instruments can now be made of up to four layers. These layers enable to select a different sound according to the played note velocity. If the velocity bounds for two layers are not consecutive, a cross-fade is performed.
    
12. In instruments that use digital sounds, it is possible to give decay and release a partially logarithmic shape that can be adjusted from completely linear (0) to completely logarithmic (100)
13. In instruments that use digital sounds, it is possible to start the sound decay only once the loop point is reached.
14. New high-quality modes in the audio data calculation in order to reduce aliasing effects
    
15. Lossless packing of digital tracks and custom digital instruments. This packing scheme is applied when the "Pack standard files" option is enabled in "Configuration>Global setup>Save"
16. New setting for each grace note: velocity (power).
    
17. "Display real duration" setting for rests. Such a rest will be always displayed using its real duration, even if the "pause fills the bar" mode is activated on the staff.
18. Slur can be played by covering the piano white keys.
19. Dynamics can be applied to all merged staves (default) or only to the staff that owns it.
20. Possible to define whether a dynamic symbol is printed or not.
21. "Midi import" section: check box to keep as is the MIDI sounds that do not belong to the GM2 standard (then they are switched to "user" mode)
22. "Midi import" section: check box to keep as is the staff (track) names, as they are stored in the file.
23. "Open Recent" menu: option to erase the menu content.
    
24. Quick voice creation in a multi-voice staff through the voice menu. A tutorial explains this.
25. Voice display using different colors (Edit>Multi-voice staves menu) A tutorial explains this.
26. Quantizing: velocity taken into account on grace notes
27. A click on the information icon of a sound in the GOLD sound base opens a Web pages that provides information about the instrument.
    
28. Right-clicking (or Shift+left click) on most of the objects opens a menu that enables to edit this object (equivalent to a double-click)
29. Dutch version of the program interface
30. Harmony Assistant: Palette (Scripts>Notation>Miscellaneous>Accordion) to add accordion-specific symbols
31. Harmony Assistant (Scripts>Digital Sounds>Clip restoration): script for rebuilding clipped data in a digital track.
32. Harmony Assistant (Scripts>Digital Sounds>Generate Instrument Group): script for generating a custom digital instrument by mixing of several predefined sounds from  the current sound base
33. Harmony Assistant (Scripts>Digital Sounds>Force parameters in digital sound): sets the parameters of all samples in a user-defined digital sound. It enables to change attack, decay, release time, logarithmic transitions, infinite loop, or decay after loop values without having to edit all the samples one by one.
    

Enhancements

1. Management of melisma on rests
2. Script editing: jump to function definition through the contextual menu.
3. Offset between special beams and note stems can be adjusted (for tremolo). A tutorial explains this.
4. Note setting editing: note moved through Ctrl+fleche and staff change.
5. The maximum number of voices in digital output is now 512.
6. Improvement in rendering of grace notes, trills, note groups (tremolo), note by note glissendo, grupetto, mordent: better timbre, layered instrument management, tempo change management...
   
7. When clicked using the hammer tool or inserted on score, note velocity is taken into accound when playing echo.
8. Windows: management of words by word movements, and keyboard selection range in text input areas. Processing of Ctrl+Ins as "Copy", Shift+Ins as "Paste" and Shift+Del as "Cut".
   
9. Alignment selection for staff names that are written on several lines.
10. Special patterns in text free objects.
11. Virtual Singer: better timing of syllables sung on melisma.
12. Now possible to define whether specific text is displayed in front of the tablature
13. Now possible to insert symbols on regular staff in "Priority to tablature" mode
14. New kind of free object: inverted bracket and brace
15. Clef reminder at start of each line are now displayed in 100% scale, unless overriden by a "real" clef change at this bar.
16. Better transposing of chord lines, especially in minor keys.
17. Better transposing of notes when changing clef on a staff that includes hidden clef changes.
18. Windows: When editing keyboard shortcuts, shortcuts that use the Alt key are forbidden
19. Windows: in dialog boxes, jump to previous editable field through Shift+Tab
    

Changes

1. Because staff group management has changed, the selection of staves to be printed is made through File>Printing options.
2. Staff groups from older files are converted when loaded, and follow the "brace then bracket" order, which is more standard.
3. By default, a trill starts from the altered note pitch, not by the pitch of the main note.
   

Fixes

1. Mac OS X: crash when music stops playing in Quicktime output mode.
2. Fixed crashes that could occur when printing embedded pictures in PICT (.pct) format.
   
3. Fixed crash when the chord line contains a very long chord name and the chord diagrams are displayed or chords are played.
4. Fixed problem in special text size (music symbols in a text object)
   
5. Fixed freeze when performing operations on an empty digital track
6. Fixed crash in rhythm editing
7. "Liquescens" display in Grégorian notation
   
8. Windows 95/98/ME Clef symbols appearing at end of line while printing
9. Gregorian editing
   
10. Parameters of multi-voice staves
11. Fixed crash in user instrument edit: search for decay and release on an empty sample
12. In the script editor, a click on the empty area at the top of the window ran the script.
13. Crash when using $L (lyrics insert) in page header and footer.
14. Windows: Crash when editing some text objects
15. Wrong accidental on the first note when applying a diatonic pitch shift (+/- one degree)
16. Triplet beaming problem on scores that include time signature changes
17. Display problem on notes that are beamed to a tied note over a barline (wrong management of the previous bar right margin)
18. Windows: problem when closing some dialog boxes by a click on the close box.
19. Windows: problem for moving grace notes on score using the "Select" tool.
    

Minor Versions

Harmony 9.1.1/Melody 7.1.1

1. Windows: work around a malfunction of some printer drivers under Windows 95, 98 and ME: if a "ForceFPUMask.txt" file is present in the application install directory, then the program periodically resets the processor into a stable state.
   

1. Lyrics line finding on multi-voices staves when lines overlap.
   
2. Bar numbering on multi-voice staves now always apply to the first merged staff.
3. Caption for "semitone offset" keyboard shortcuts.
4. Page setup: Better management of when there is not enough space on first page to display at least one staff.
5. Barline junction when staves are hidden
6. In some cases, the grouping symbol could apply to only one staff.
7. Rendering of "Pull" effects after loading a file older than Harmony 9.0/Melody 7.0
8. Slur rendering when the staff contains a bar repeat symbol (%)
   
9. Automatic stem direction when a Bb note is inserted on middle line.
10. Fixed intermittent problems when running the application, while another sound base than GOLD was used.

Harmony 9.1.2/Melody 7.1.2

1. Quick voice delete through the voice menu
2. More time left to the system when music is playin in non-page mode without scrolling
   

1. Delete empty staves on multi-voice staves
2. Management of delay before slur when loading files created before version 8.4 (Harmony)/6.4 (Melody)
3. "Delay before slur" slider: unit is 256th of a quarter note instead of 100th of second, and it is now possible to set its value up to 1024 (whole note)
4. ABC Import: fixed "buffer overflow" when title is very long, and removal of carriage returns when displaying titles in the list

Harmony 9.1.3/Melody 7.1.3

1. Minor problems fixed

Harmony 9.1.4/Melody 7.1.4

1. Better size of the preview window before a graphical export.
2. Program stability improvement: development of a custom validation tool, that enabled to get rid of 45 potential crash sources.
3. Harmony: New script (Scripts>Notation>Notes>Split on beat) that splits selected notes in order not to let them cross a beat (changes them into tied notes)
   

1. Fixed: Crash when playing an empty jukebox through the spacebar key
2. Tablature computation when tuning is changed
3. Slur performance on staves with rules
   
4. Fixed: Problem when changing rule set
5. Fixed: Wrong saving/loading of grace note velocity
6. Harmony Assistant: Fixed: "Edit>Add" remained active when pasting in Album.
7. Color and icon related to files in the Jukebox window.

Harmony 9.1.5/Melody 7.1.5

1. Windows: When editing some text, ghost characters could remain at end of line.
2. Problem when displaying a jukebox list larger than 2050 items
3. Harmony Assistant: Problem in page mode for viewing selection range on a digital track

1. Break symbol display on staves with priority to tablature
2. Possible crash when using some sounds of the GMSE sound base
3. Harmony Assistant: Fixed problems in script editor: breakpoints and scroll bar management
4. Fixed crash in MSF import (OMeR files)
5. Fixed problem of staff line thickness after printing
6. Harmony Assistant : Possible crash when selecting a predefined drum pattern
7. Harmony Assistant : Problem when changing instrument (accompaniment, drums, chords) while music is playing
8. Saving digital tracks in a packed standard file: problem when the track contains empty areas.
9. Possible crash when using Mensurstrich barlines on an invisible first staff.
10. Myrscript : Fixed problem when writing parameters in a DigitalTrack object
11. Problem for shifting edited text  through Pg Up and Pg Down keys (script edit)
12. Possible crash when changing general tempo on a score that include a digital track
13. Copy/paste of a pattern that contains special beams

Harmony 9.1.6/Melody 7.1.6

1. ABC Import and Export: slurs, ties, chord with different note duration, related text positionning.
2. Contextual menu in print preview (right click) to delete fine position adjustements.
3. When moving an object, the mouse shape shows whether the move is allowed.
4. Mouse pointer shape in digital staff edit box
5. Tablature calculation when switching from a regular staff to a priority tablature

1. Harmony: Changing staff chord line instrument when music is playing
2. Harmony: Validating an accompaniment pattern when a voice (merged staves) has been added
3. Harmony: Software exit when editing an Interface Composer element
   

Harmony 9.1.7/Melody 7.1.7 - July 11th 2005

1. "Don't print empty staves" manages time signature changes.
2. Better management for identical and successive clef, key and time signature changes
   
3. Preview of clefs, time and key signature in the related edit box.
4. Invisible effects are displayed in gray (in page mode with displayed control handles)
5. Now possible not to print some tempo, pedal or ottava objects.
6. Rule generation/disposing delay when starting/stopping music has been reduced.
7. Staccatissimo effect as a stretched dot (Kiel)

1. Unknown notes on "priority to tablature" staves are no more changed to rests.
2. Barlines on "priority to tablature" staves wen regular staff is displayed.
3. Breakpoint display in Myrscript on split windows.
4. Problems when copying/pasting notes
5. Problem when displaying notes tied over a barline (previous bar right margin improperly taken into account)
6. GOLD sound base cache corruption problem (empty instrument list)
7. In MIDI output, smooth slurs could be played as several separate notes.
8. Problem in ABC format export

Harmony 9.1.8/Melody 7.1.8- September 2005

1. It is now possible to "freeze" the fingering calculation, in a note basis, on non-priority tablatures. The note contextual menu (right click or Shift click) enables to do this. A "frozen" note won't be computed and will always keep the fingering that the user set.
   
   When a note is moved or inserted on the standard staff, its fingering is automatically computed. It's the same for transposition of pitch shifting.
   When a note is moved or inserted on the tablature part, it is automatically "frozen".
   
   A "frozen" note is displayed in a specific color (in scroll mode or in page mode when control handle are displayed). This color can be changed in the global setup, "Appearance" topic.
   
   
2. Possible to specify that an end of line won't occur after a bar. This enables for instance not to break a bar that have been divided into two parts by a clef change.
   

1. "Shamisen" mode for tablature display
   
2. Better positionning of objects in different scales
3. Harmony : Import script for Encore, MusicTime and Rhapsody files
   
4. Harmony : Import script GuitarPro files
   
5. Harmony : Import script for NoteWorthy Composer files
   
6. Harmony : Import via a script can be made directly from File>Open menu option (on Windows, also by drag and drop)
   

1. Repeat end and music end barlines are displayed on tablatures
   
2. Brackets and braces display in some cases (hidden empty staves)
3. Bar number display on multi-voice staves
4. Joint barlines between staves are displayed on tablatures
5. Windows: Fixed a problem on "Print" icon in some text edit boxes
6. Windows: Fixed a problem while changing note duration of a non-continuous selection, in "limit to one bar" edit mode
7. Windows: Fixed a problem of minimized windows restoration

Harmony 9.1.9/Melody 7.1.9- October 2005

1. Harmony : Import for Finale® files: .mus and .etf format. The complete list of the file types that can be imported or exported is available here
2. It is now possible to define, for each staff, the maximum angle (tilt) for beams. It ranges from 0 (always horizontal) to 100 (no constraint). This can be done through the "Staff lines" section of the staff display settings.
   

1. A slur symbol can now be made invisible by setting its width to 0
2. When inserting or deleting bars, notes that are tied over the the insert point or delete area are taken into account
3. Better positionning for objects when overlapping the bar start margin
4. Time signature for the miscellaneous staves are now aligned
   
5. Harmony: MyrScript floating palettes speeded up
6. Harmony: Improvement in moving and resizing free objects

1. Reverb and Equalizer effect processors are now properly reset when music loops (continuous play)
2. Fixed crash when playing a MIDI file from the jukebox or selecting a predefined drum pattern
3. Fixed problem in showing lyrics when a lyric cell contains a very long text
   
4. Fixed problems when using vertical mirror while music is playing
5. Fixed display problem on name above chord diagram in the chord grid, when left-aligned
6. No more change in size of the first bar when playing some pieces
7. Fixed display problem of multi-rests at the end of a line
   
8. Harmony: Fixed display problems of breakpoints in the script editor
9. Windows: Fixed problem in page mode, preventing a proper update of the low and right area of document windows

Harmony Assistant 9.0 Melody Assistant 7.0 July-December 2004

• Special beaming, widely configurable
• Slur and beam between notes belonging to different staves
• Conditional dynamics: Tacets, Repeat and fade out, etc.
• Staff lines masking: ossias, gap before coda, etc.
• Fine tempo management
• etc
  

News

1. Discontinuous symbol selection.The discontinuous selection enables now to select symbols individually, for example two notes among the four in a chord, all and only the rests in a bar, etc. A new chapter, in the manual, provide details on this.
2. Movie management using MyrScript
3. Scripts to import and export files using system codecs.
4. Scripts to handle movies: adding a soundtrack to a movie, create slideshow with static images, adding lyric texts to a video (some features are not available on Windows version)
5. New version of "Print conductor" script
6. Vocoder Script (DATVOC item in democratic workshop)
7. MIDI input is not stopped after end of music (CONTMIDIN item in democratic workshop)
8. Selected notes can be shifted by one diatonic degree (one inter-line space) up or down. Matching keyboard shortcuts are also available.
9. In tempo change object, note size can be changed.
10. Harmony: option to split a standard drum staff in as many standard drum staves as there is used instruments.
11. Special beaming. In addition to the regular beaming system, special beaming can be defined between two or more notes. Select the matching tool in the "Miscellaneous tools" palette, then click the stem top of the first note, then the stem top of the last note. Beam is drawn between these notes (You can also click the note heads instead).
    To set this beaming up, double-click the first note head, or the beam itself. The "Special beam" tab enables to define the number of beams to be displayed (first and second part), and the splitting ratio between these two parts, the beam thickness and spacing, as well as their direction or the way tuplets (triplets) are graphically grouped.
    This setting can be made for each special beam and is completely free: therefore the number of displayed beams may not reflect the actual note duration.
12. Diagonal beaming of two distant notes, with opposite stem directions (DIAGHITCH item in the Democratic workshop)
13. Slur and beaming of notes belonging to different staves. Slur and special beaming can be applied to notes that do not belong to the same staff (HITCHSTAVES and SLURSTAVES items of the Democratic Workshop)
14. New setting in printing options: do not justify groups on the last page.
15. Grace note setting: "do not display". It enables, for example, by adding an unplayed mordent effect and a text effect, to write accidented (sharp or flat) mordents (ACCMORDENT item of the Democratic Workshop), or any other variation. This ornament will be played through a set of hidden grace notes.
16. Conditional dynamics, tacet (TACET item of the Democratic Workshop), Repeat and fade (REPFAD item of the Democratic Workshop)
17. Dynamics: The displayed text can be changed.  
18. A new parameter in clef change makes the staff lines become invisible. It enables to create ossias and blank spaces before coda parts for example.
19. Tempo object setting: for smooth tempo changes, variation curve can be edited. Start and end position in bar, beat number and hundredth can be input.
    
20. Note display parameter: hide accidental. Enables, for example, when two identical notes are tied (through a slur) over a barline, to avoid displaying the second note's accidental.
21. Staff display parameter: whole rest filling the bar content whatever the time signature is (WHLRST item in the Democratic Workshop)
22. Staff display parameter: option to enable ghost rests in empty measures to appear as a whole rest.
23. When this option is activated, whole rests that fill a whole bar are displayed as a regular whole rest.
    
24. Proportional sustain pedal (Pedal feathering HALFPEDAL item of the Democratic Workshop): it is now possible to set the pressure ratio for the "Ped" object. A smaller pressure on the pedal will result in a shorter sustain.
25. In page mode, a click at the right of the last bar opens a contextual meny for adding quickly a bar or performing some other general operations.
26. When a "Da Capo", "Da Capo Al Fine" or "Da Capo Al Coda" symbol has been played, repeat barlines that can be found after this are not played (DACAPO item in the Democratic Workshop). If there are numbered parts (endings), the last ending is played. The way older scores are played remain unchanged.
27. By default, when added, a "Da Capo", "Da Capo Al Fine" or "Da Capo Al Coda" jumps to the beginning only once.
28. Harmony: Rhythm can now be edited through standard drum staves (SDRPAT item in the Democratic workshop)
29. Effect applied to a note can now be used as a criterion for a rule.
30. MyrScript switches to version 1
31. Virtual Singer switches to version 3
32. Now possible to enter special text (see this chapter in the manual) into a tempo change object.
33. Harmony : Tablatures for Xaphoon, Scottish pipe, Irish pipe, Bretonne pipe (script)
34. Harmony : De-Harmonize. Using the score chord grid, this script changes the selected notes so that they follow a C7 chord. Enables to build chordless patterns for automatic accompaniments. (script)
35. Harmony : Microtonal accidentals. Enables to define microtonal accidentals (outside the 12ET range) and use them to insert notes in a score (script)
36. Harmony : Move notes to another staff. The currently selected notes are moved to another staff, at the same time position.
37. Harmony :  Merge BBShop style. Provided to you by Feike Boomstra, this script merges four staves with lyrics two by two. (script)
38. Harmony : Virtual Singer voices volume.  Changes the volume of all the Virtual Singer voices in the frontmost document. (script)
39. Harmony : Quick insert of Tacet and Ossia (script)
    
40. Harmony : Cadenza. A "Turn into Cadenza" script that changes a set of selected bars into a "Cadenza", i.e. a free notation area.(script)
41. Harmony : Hide bars. This script makes the selected bars become invisible (script)
42. Harmony : Make the selected beams become horizontal (script)
43. Harmony: Import of Yamaha PSR style files and automatic conversion to user accompaniment patterns.
44. Harmony : Script for creating special tuplets over 10:2 (SMLTPT option of the Democratic workshop)
45. File import in .btab format
    
46. Video tutorial: "Managing hierarchical lists. "
47. Video tutorial:  "How to use the discontinuous selection. "
48. Video tutorial:  "Slur between notes belonging to two different staves."
49. Video tutorial:  "Special beaming. Beaming notes belonging to two different staves."
50. Video tutorial:  "How to setup staff for automatic whole rest display."
51. Video tutorial:  "Hiding staff lines on some measures. Inserting Coda symbol. Changing break symbol size."

Enhancements

1. When "don't display empty staff" mode is active, time signatures are not taken into account.
2. New page setup feature: don't justify group on last page.
3. OMeR file import: slurs are now played as "continue"
4. Mac OS X: MIDI echo on computer sound output (QuickTime) for mute keyboards.
5. MIDI In echo remains always active, even when MIDI note input is disabled
6. New metronome management: no more latency when starting.
7. Virtual keyboard can now show the fingering for any instrument in the score, even in non-MIDI output.
8. New icon in input palette to toggle the MIDI or Virtual keyboard palette simplified input on and off.
9. Lyrics and chord  line text position: they can now be centered, right or left aligned.
10. Better positioning for chord diagrams related to the chord grid.
11. Standard drums editing: stem size change, beams and accidental positioning.
12. Shift + Command (Ctrl) key switches temporarily to score scrolling mode
13. Windows and Mac OS X: smooth horizontal movement in scroll mode
14. New management for synchronization between MIDI input, MIDI output, digital input and digital output. Tests performed over several hours.
15. Better management for bar splitting when several clef changes are inserted into the same bar.
16. Virtual Singer phonetic amendment: now enables phonetic amendment on words with a quote. For example: Flow'rs[#flaU@rz]
17. Tempo management completely rewritten. Tempo staff is kept only for compatibility with previous files, but its usage is deprecated
18. When adding or moving a note in a chord, the whole chord is echoed.
19. New keyboard shortcuts: "slurs up" and "slurs down"
20. "Instrument>All MIDI notes off" works even if nothing has been played to MIDI yet.
21. Metronome bars before starting input are now played even before a digital input.
22. Lyrics input under notes on score has been accelerated.
23. New appearance for brackets and brace before the systems.
24. When importing a MIDI file, if the Command (Ctrl) key is left down, a quantize box opens.
25. Mac OS X: Right mouse button management.
26. When importing a MIDI Karaoke file, staves can be played when relating lyrics.
27. Staves with lyrics MIDI export: no more unaccuracy when score contains negative delays.
28. Chord grid font can be changed in each document.
29. Chord grid manages up to 16 divisions per bar (MORECHORD item in the Democratic Workshop)
30. Windows: defaut font for miscellaneous objects in score (as well as the factory setting for font preferences) is now a smoothed font.
31. Improvement of automatic scrolling when adding notes in scroll mode.
32. User chord line can now be transposed (CHORDTRAN item in the Democratic workshop)
33. Screen antialiasing of beams, crescendo and decrescendo
34. WAV and AIFF file of more that 16 bits (24 or 32 bits), and using sampling rates above 44 kHz can now be imported (downsampled to 44kHz, 16 bits when importing)
35. Possible to define a background picture (PICT or BMP) in page mode (in global settings, "Screen" topic)
36. Import of AIFF files in AIFF-C / TWOS format (direct reading of audio CD by Mac OS X)
37. Macintosh: New drawing routines, much faster.
38. Now possible to display braces before brackets and vice-versa.
39. Rule caption display (for example, on standard drum staves) can be adjusted by the user. Caption location can be changed as well as the related text, individually. Each rule can be defined as being in "manual" caption display. In this case, caotion is not automatically computed anymore and can be freely defined.
40. Slurs and ties are splitted at end of line
41. Conversion between MIDI vibrato effect to digital output has been changed. Vibrato effect is now lower in digital output.
42. Accuracy in grace notes playing has been increased from 1/64th of quarter to 1/256th of quarter.
43. Trill, Gruppetto, Mordent, Arpeggio, guitar Push/Pull, eighth group accuracy has also be made by increased to 1/256th of quarter note
44. When printing, better antialiasing for braces, brackets and slurs.
45. Virtual Singer / Real Singer processes trill, vibrato and tremolo effects related to a note.
46. Virtual Singer / Real Singer : notes having a velocity of 0 are now completely muted
47. MIDI Export: minor key signatures are now exported well, instead of being changed into the matching major key.
48. Tie symbol can now be inverted (symbol parameter edit box)
49. Files can be moved in hierarchical list selector (model selector, accompaniment, Virtual Singer voices, etc), category sorting, user files publishing.
50. A long click on an item moves it, right click or shift click opens a contextual menu to rename, delete or publish it.
51. Play start mark in the ruler does not make the Virtual Singer voices be recalculated anymore
52. New parameter for Trill ornament, enabling not to play the trill during the whole note length.
53. Harmony : New accompaniment management.
54. Harmony : Right-clicking an accompaniment enables to edit the pattern directly, through a contextual menu.
55. Harmony : Note ornaments, dynamics, pedal, effect processors and parameter curves are processed when accompaniments are generated.
56. Harmony: After importing a MIDI file, chord grid was sometimes wrongly displayed
57. RealSinger: Improvement when sound level reached 0 (static noise was heard)
58. When adding a break symbol at the beginning or end of a bar, margins are adjusted in orded to avoid overlapping between barlines and notes.
59. Better management of duration (tuplets) injection on a group of notes.
60. When displaying whole and half rest above or below the staff, ledger lines are drawn.
61. Possible to use the current system date format instead of using the one that matches the current application language.
62. New accompaniments, in miscellanous styles, and matching document templates.
63. Default keyboard settings: Del key now deletes the current selection the same way Backspace key ( <-- ) does.
64. Some hisses have been removed when singer voice is softened (Audio import)
65. Now enable to mask a note completely by setting its scale to 0%
66. Coda, Segno, and other break symbol size can now be changed
67. Direct access to singer voice from the complete mixer palette
68. Harmony : When editing matrix (accompaniment/drum) two consecutive elements that relate to the same object can now be merged together.
69. Better MIDI import for drum staves when note ending is missing or misplaced
70. Special text: better display for dotted notes

Changes

1. "Slurs up", "Slur down", "Stems up", "Stems down" commands have been moved to "Edit>Appearance" menu
2. The internal format having changed, symbols (notes and rests) pasted in the album from a previous version are not compatible and will be erased.
3. Management of dynamics within repeated parts having be changed, when loading an old files, some dynamics can be added (between parenthesis) to provide an unchanged sound result.
4. The "Always beam tuplets" option of the time signature edit window does not group them according to the tuplet value (3 by 3 for a triplet, etc) but according to their beat position.
5. Virtual Singer registration codes had changed. New codes are available for free on the web site.

Fixes

1. TAB file loading: instrument recognition.
2. Problem when selecting options in text printing
3. Fixed problem in multiple object selection (Shift+Click)
4. Windows: multiple MIDI outputs.
5. Windows: better management of some network paths
6. MIDI 1 lyrics text export (karaoke track was incorrect)
7. Windows: Better management of temporary files for digital tracks
8. Parts management in ABC import and export
9. Chord grid text alignment now saved
10. MyrScript: fixed crash in Application.ConvertStringEncoding (used in Tabledit import script)
11. Windows: fixed errors in file selector when the default name contained invalid characters
12. Harmony: Fixed problem when resizing a rhythm element in rhythm array from its left edge
13. Mouse wheel management in boxes with lists and several tabs
14. Fixed problem in parameter curves when importing a midi file in which several staves share the same channel
15. Multi-rest bars from a key change
16. Windows: Fixed a problem in edit fields when the computer is on for more that a week.
17. Merged staff name display: sometimes, the name of secondary staves was displayed.
18. Input of digital value of knobs in MyrScript palettes.
19. Adding objects outside staff area.
20. MIDI export: time and key signature changes in repeated bars were incorrectly exported.
21. MIDI import: when a time and a key signature change occurred in the same bar, time signature coule be masked (hidden)
22. Windows: foreign keyboards: @ character can be entered by using Ctrl+Alt keys.
23. ABC import: x and X characters filtering.
24. Time slider palette: scroll mode auto-positioning when position is changed.
25. MIDI import: some altered files containing unterminated notes could make the quantize operation hang.
26. MIDI Export: automatic channel conflict solving could generate errors in the exported MIDI file
27. MIDI Export: Fixed possible crash when exporting in scores with lyrics in MIDI format
28. Fixed problems when playing score that contains bar repeat symbols (%) slurred together
29. When editing effect processor related to an instrument while music is playing, changes are heard in real-time.
30. When moving objects on merged staves, the object stays on its original staff.
31. Fixed problems when applying a velocity range through Edit>Action>Change velocity
32. Harmony Assistant: Fixed multiple copies of the same script name in menus
33. Harmony Assistant: Fixed wrong display of chort grid after importing a MIDI file
34. RealSinger: fixed problem when sound level is set to 0 (hisses were heard)
35. When a splitted rest was played, unwanted notes were displayed.
36. In Engraver mode, some text size calculation was wrong.
37. Virtual Singer : play start marker positionning.
38. Editing breve and double breve : duration of the 2nd head is processed.
39. Displaying a cell number greater than 9 in the chord diagrams does not overlap anymore the finger position in 6th cell.
40. Keyboard shortcut for stem direction head sense, head shape and symbol color.
41. Windows: fixed issue when using very long file names
42. Fixed issues when maximizing a multi-view (splitted) window
43. Fixed a lack of Virtual Singer voice calculation when a fermata effect was edited on score.
44. Fixed miscellaneous problems when tying notes in chord.
45. Windows: in the break symbol edit box, some editable fields could disappear unexpectedly.
46. Video tutorial:  Typo and grammar amendment for all the tutorials
47. Tabledit file, Accordion and Harmonica problems fixed.

Minor Versions

Harmony 9.0.1 / Melody 7.0.1

1. Fixed: Discontinuous selection move can be cancelled
2. Fixed: Mac OS Classic, horizontal scroll bar movement was inverted
3. Fixed: Slurs in staves with rules
4. Fixed: "Try accompaniment" was sometimes ineffective.
5. Fixed: Mordent load from files saved using previous versions
6. Fixed: Crash in the "Instrument tuner" script
7. Fixed: Crash when trying a rhythm using the hammer while complete mixer was open
8. Fixed: Crash when music was looping in "Play selection range" mode
9. Fixed: Possible crash when editing user digital instrument
10. MIDI tempo change import has been improved
11. Fixed: Trill speed in Virtual Singer/Real Singer
12. Fixed: Old files loading (when accompaniments were playing an empty pattern)

Harmony 9.0.2 / Melody 7.0.2 - August 6th 2004

1. Fixed: Mac OS X, crash when displaying some contextual help text.
   
2. Fixed: Octave shifting in "Set octave" option of chord grid
3. Improvement: more information in the break symbol edit box.
4. Fixed: problem after applying the "Avoid system splitting" script
5. Fixed: program freeze when editing a text in print preview while music plays and scrolls in the background.
6. Fixed: User digital instrument edit box: current parameters were applied to wrong sample when the sample list sorting order changed
7. Fixed: problem when beaming notes and the selection range included an empty staff.
8. Fixed: miscellaneous problems when adding (mixing) data to a digital audio track
9. Improvement: static sound softening in Virtual Singer when singing high-pitched notes
10. Improvement: no more increasing delay between music and digital tracks (or Virtual Singer voices) when the score contains many tempo changes.
11. Improvement: note pressure time between 96% and 104% are now properly applied (previously, were played at 100%)
12. Improvement: when adding a file name that contains non-ASCII characters to the jukebox,  an alert warns the user about the incompatibility with Internet publishing.
13. Improvement: Drag and drop of a folder on the jukebox window adds all the music files in this folder and its subfolders to the jukebox list
14. Better update of the tune total duration in the ruler
15. Printing: fixed staff lines that appeared on the page right edge after a repeat end barline
16. MIDI outpu: automatic pedal release when music stops.
17. Import as Amiga MOD file of filenames as "mod.xxxxx" (automatic detect)
18. MOD import: note delay and shortening events are managed.
    
19. Fixed possible crash when the mouse pointer was moving over the last barline in page mode.
20. MyrScript updated to version 1.1.1
21. New script for position accidentals in chords
22. New script (beta): MusicXML file import (XML item of the Democratic Workshop)

Harmony 9.0.3 / Melody 7.0.3 - August 10th 2004

1. Fixed: Mac OS 9- Automatic scrolling
   
2. Fixed: interline pitch shift (transposition by degree) does not move rests anymore when unnecessary.
3. Fixed: interline pitch shift (transposition by degree) preserves accidentals.
4. Fixed: User digital instrument export (.mui files) when sample size was 8 bits.
5. MOD import: better management for delay and shortening events.
6. Fixed: problems when a staff with rules was merged with another staff
7. Harmony Assistant:  Script for shifting digital track pitch without changing its tempo has been improved. It now also enables to change tempo without changing pitch.

Harmony 9.0.4 / Melody 7.0.4 - October 11th 2004

1. Fixed: Tablature appearance (negative values).
2. Now possible to select in staff group whether a line can join barlines of a same group, for brackets and braces.
3. Fixed: Default chord diagram for instruments with some shorter strings (e.g. banjo)
4. Fixed: Copy/paste of text object does not delete target lyrics anymore.
5. No more useless volume MIDI events when a flat volume curve is applied on staff.
6. Fixed crash when some styles are applied to an existing piece.
7. MP3 import: Fixed problems when the file contains unrecognized frames
8. "User" key changes are not lost anymore when applying a transposing instrument that transposes by an integer number of octaves
9. When tuning a digtal user instrument, selection range and loop are automatically adjusted.
10. Fixed: optimized saving of RS voice when a lyrics line is deleted.
    
11. New: Option to invert right and left margin on even pages.
12. Chord computation: fixed a problem when a C flat chord is found in C flat key signature.
13. Key changes can now be deleted when deleting a whole set of bars (when "clefs" check box is checked)
14. Windows: Predefined accordions are installed again along with the software (mistake in v9.0.3)
15. Windows: Fixed accented characters in file names.
16. Windows: Fixed crash when closing the application while an audio recording is in progress.
17. Windows: Fixed crash when importing some MIDI files
18. Windows: Fixed crash when selecting all dynamics or all effect processors at the same time
19. Mac OS: fixed problem when applying velocity filters (PPC assembler).
20. Change: on Mac OS X, Command+H hides the application.
21. Fixed: Clef reminder display when a break symbol is present.
22. Fixed: lyrics text left alignment in engraver mode.
23. Fixed: Some effects were still played after being deleted through "Edit>Appearance>General".
24. Speed improvement for some functions of digital sound edit.
25. Better caption display for bass/chord line in accordion tablatures

Harmony 9.0.5 / Melody 7.0.5 - December 6th 2004

1. New feature: Display bar numbers only if the staff is the first of its group (system)
2. New feature: Force page change (ruler contextual menu)
3. New: "Exact file size" setting in digital export is kept from one session to another.
4. New feature: grace note stems can be set "downwards"
5. New feature (Windows): Authenticated HTTP (tunnel) proxy management for Internet connection. "Basic" authentication system, and two possible connection modes: "CONNECT" command or direct request.
6. Harmony Assistant: First version of the MusicXML Export script
7. Harmony Assistant: Digital track processing script: Compressor (author: Pierre-Henri Pin)
   
8. Harmony Assistant: Digital track processing script: Tube pre-amp (author: Pierre-Henri Pin)
9. New document templates: Orchestra > Bagad (author: Yannick Marchegay)
   
10. Improvement: A slur applied to two notes of the same pitch gets by default the appearance of a tie.
11. Improvement: Management of very long notes (several minutes). Useful for instance for bagpipe drone.
12. Grace note display, edit, insertion and movement.
13. Improvement: Import of some soundfonts that contain errors.
14. Improvement: Tempo, dynamics or text objects on the first bar of a multi-rest bar don't "break" this bar anymore as a regular bar followed by a multi-rest bar
    
15. Improvement: Some ornament are not added to rest symbols anymore.
16. Improvement: No more unwanted "clicks" when a volume increase effect is set on a note, and the digital instrument has an attack area.
17. Improvement: hyphen and melisma thickness in lyrics is proportional to the font size.
18. Improvement: Text related to pedal release *
19. Improvement: In anglo-saxon notation, chord name additions (dim, add, sus, omit...) are written lowercase.
    
20. Fixed: Left-aligned lyrics: better positioning.
21. Fixed: Unmerging a unique staff in merged staves could lead to inconsistencies in the document.
22. Fixed: Trying a Virtual Singer fragment was sometimes silent.
23. Fixed: Myrscript, change in decrescendo dynamic settings
24. Fixed: Search/replace in lyrics editor
25. Fixed: Problem in graphical editing of accidentals
26. Fixed: Problems when right-aligning selected objects
27. Fixed: Problems when loop playing a selection range on a staff sung by Virtual Singer
28. Fixed: Scroll bar in digital track edit box.
29. Fixed: Object shifting when inserting an incomplete (upbeat) bar.
30. Fixed: Enter key managed as Carriage Return in some input boxes.
31. Fixed: Dividing a bar through a clef change now preserves lyrics and chord.
32. Fixed: Little gaps in melisma when printing
33. Fixed: Problem when showing played notes, for whole and half note triplets
34. Fixed: Problem when showing played rests, some of them were displayed over the first bar
35. Fixed: Crash when deleting the last effect related to a note by double-clicking the "empty" effect icon.
36. Fixed: In some cases, disparition of the last barline at the end of a row.
37. Fixed: Coulors when printing pictures embedded in score.
38. Fixed: Brackets and braces nesting on merged staves.
39. Fixed: Probleme when trying an accompaniment pattern on a file imported from ABC format.
40. Fixed: Conditional dynamics
41. Fixed: Malfunction in tutorial window when a chapter title was open through a double-click.
42. Fixed: Beaming of notes in chord
    
43. Fixed: Transposition of diminished 5th chords in the staff chord line
44. Fixed: 'eight group' effect setting value.
    
45. Fixed: Crash when doing "New staff > Tablature type > No tablature" 
46. Fixed: Mistakes in performance when playing break symbols once a note has been moved while music is playing.
47. Fixed: Problems when generating HTML pages from the Jukebox while the 'htmlexport.cfg" template file is missing or empty.
48. Fixed: Problems of tempo performance at the end of a bar (rare cases)
49. Fixed: Possible errors in the chord grid calculation when a bar is divided into 11 parts
50. Fixed: When cancelling the insertion of a new effect processor, the processor's icon remained displayed on score.
51. Fixed: Better management of tied notes when the "don't split notes" option is active on some of the related bars
52. Fixed: Some scripts were displayed several times in menus
53. Fixed: Transfer of dynamics into note velocities (and vice-versa).
54. Fixed: Junction line printing between unclosed numbered parts (endings)
55. Windows: Fixed possible problems when music is paused
56. Windows: Fixed problem when printing hidden bars
57. Windows: Fixed problem Correction de problèmes intermittent problems when playing a piece while the Virtual Singer palette is open and a voice is being generated.
    
58. Windows: Fixed problems when the internal name of a font is exactly the maximum size (32 characters)
59. MyrScript version switches to v1.1.4

Harmony Assistant 8.4 Melody Assistant 6.4 December 2003

• A redesign of the interface which enables to change the icon set and introduces new kind of windows. A contextual help is added to the already existing help system.
  
• A new technologie for human voice rendering, even more realistic: Real Singer II.
• MIDI import and quantize have been completely rewritten: they are simpler to use and more efficient.
• A new installer for all our applications, more user-friendly and meaningful
• MyrScript, the embedded language of Harmony Assistant, is now in v.0.2 and comes with new scripts, for example digital track to note converter, graphical metronome, beat marking display, wind instrument tablature calculator...
• Mac OS X version is closer to the usual appearance of other applications, with smoothed fonts, dialog box related to document windows, an application shipped as a "bundle", mouse wheel management...

News

Improvements

Fixes

Minor versions

Harmony Assistant 8.4.1, Melody Assistant 6.4.1

Harmony Assistant 8.4.2, Melody Assistant 6.4.2

Harmony Assistant 8.4.3, Melody Assistant 6.4.3

Improvements

- ABC Import : Part repeat notated as [..] x n are processed
- Text type staves are not taken into account in multi-rest bar processin, which enables to add text on multi-rests by merging a regular staff with a text staff.
- Better management of smooth slurs (glissendo) in MIDI output and export
- Smooth slur (glissendo) in MIDI and digital output manages commas (microtonal adjustment) of slurred notes.
- Jukebox : when creating HTML pages, e-mail addresses are now masked to avoid them to be catched by robots. By default @ is substituted by (a). You can define anythink else, for example a picture containing an @.

Fixes

- MIDI Import : Fixed issue in frequency curve (Pitch bend).
- Digital export : the normalization now processes played bars and ignores unplayed bars
- Myrscript : fixed problem when sending too long strings to the console.
- Mac OS 9 : Error when opening complete mixer palette.
- Harmony Assistant : Fixed bank mistakes in the General Midi 1 (GM1) Midimap. Be caredul, if you changed this Midimap, these fixes won't be applied.
- MIDI Export/Playing: Fixed errors when handling bank numbers in GM1 mode
- Mac OS : Fixed bank select in Quicktime output

Harmony Assistant 8.4.4, Melody Assistant 6.4.4

Improvements
- Trills: when possible, trill is played during the whole note time.

Harmony Assistant 8.3 Melody Assistant 6.3 April 2003

MyrScript

Improvements

Fixes

Changes

Minor versions

Harmony Assistant 8.2 Melody Assistant 6.2 January 2003

News

Improvements