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1. To each document can be related a set of "views". A view is a different way of displaying the same score.
2. Object types to be processed by "copy" and "delete" can be selected through the "Edit >Apply to..." menu option
3. Grace notes can now form chords.
4. Now possible to change the way notes are beamed inside a triplet group.
5. New note attribute to display the dot at an alternate position.
6. In the staff appearance, offset between lyrics lines can be defined.
7. Tuplet brackets can be inverted, resized and moved finely
8. The engraver mode has now an "enhanced" setting, with which scores are more readable and more compact (default)
9. Automatic subdivision of the secondary beams, to group notes on beat fractions. Can be set up from the score appearance panel, "Notes" section.
10. Tuplet brackets (or other symbol) can be inverted relatively to the stem direction. Vertical and horizontal distance between the symbol and the stem can be adjusted. The tuplet value can also be moved vertically.
11. Secondary beam size can be limited (lines and beams in the staff appearance panel) (*)
    
12. For each staff line, cautionary clef, key and time signature can be displayed at the end of the line. Printing mode that displays automatically changes at the end of lines has to be disabled.
13. Inserting a note through a right click overrides the "limit editing to one bar" setting.
14. Caption display for score targets.
15. Quick creation/deletion of targets via the ruler contextual menu
16. New printing mode, that can be toggled on or off in the global settings : hi-quality printout through a picture.
17. New effects: drummer left and right hand, inverted bow
    
18. In global setup, "Ornaments" section, the default positioning for each kind of ornament type can be set up. This setting will be applied to newly created ornaments while "default" mode is selected in the palette.
19. Ornaments whose appearance changes according to their relative position to the note stem are automatically adapted if the ornament positioning is defined as "relative to the note stem". This behaviour can be switched of from the global setup, "Ornaments" section.
20. Typeface for digital value of multiple rests and multiple repetitions can be changed from the document appearance settings.
21. Software install in roaming mode
    
22. New management of note Copy/Cut/Paste, in order to avoid staves to go out of sync.
    
23. Objects kinds that will be managed by Copy/Paste can be selected through "Edit > Apply to" menu option.
24. New settings in the score display: automatic slur calculation, tuplet bracket thickness, grace note slur thickness, font and style selection for displaying digital values in multi-rests and multi-repeats.
    
25. Harmony: Right-clicking the "Action" palette icon enables to select in a list the kind of objects managed by Copy/Paste.
    
26. Packed MusicXML (.mxl) format import
27. Harmony: Packed MusicXML (.mxl) format export.
28. Harmony: Fine position deletion can now be partial (selectable)
29. Windows: new "Vista" skin for the graphical interface
30. Harmony: In page mode, pages can now be displayed one above the other instead of side by side (Right-click on the document desktop).
31. Harmony: Selection of object kinds on which "copy" and "erase" apply can be done through a right-click on the matching icon in the "Actions" palette.
32. Harmony: New version of MyrScript, that includes and manages the new attributes.
33. Linux: Wine is detected, and character fonts are selected accordingly.
    

Improvements

1. The engraver mode takes the parenthesis around accidentals into account. (*)
2. In engraver mode, better management of notes that are displayed as several tied notes (*)
3. In engraver mode, now possible to define the spacing for 32nd and 64th notes
4. A grouping symbol (brace, bracket) can be put on a single staff.
5. If a group that contains several staves is reduced locally to a unique staff (when "don't print empty staves" is active), we can specify that the grouping symbol is displayed anyway (grouping symbol contextual menu)
6. When a lyrics line is left empty in order to repeat the previous line, the text style of this line is kept when generating the complete text for Karaoke.
7. Copy/Paste notes: when "automatic beaming" is deactivated, only compute beams when necessary (pasting on a staff with a different clef than the original one)
8. Text" free objects that include special text (music symbols...) now take the style information into account (*)
9. The origin of a slur that links tied notes is now the first tied note, and the slur target us the last tied note (*)
10. New window for editing grace notes, enabling to change their relative order.
11. Improvement of drawing accuracy for curves (braces, slurs...)
12. Better positioning for text effects attached to notes (*)
13. Right-clicking an object opens a contextual menu for quick changes. This applies to clefs, keyt and time signatures, tuplets, dynamics, note accidentals.
14. "Edit > Select > Object type" selects all the objects of the chosen kind within the selection area
15. Right-clicking a slur enables to ask for the curve to avoid notes. Slurs can be computed to avoid notes, or effects related to notes, when a change is made to the document. This can be switched off globally through the "Options" menu, or for each slur by right-clicking it.
    Automatic calculation settings can be changed in the document appearance setup.
16. Stem positioning for "+" noteheads (*)
17. Possible to move finely text, chord diagrams, pictures, dynamics or effects through keyboard
18. Right-clicking the chord grid enables to change quickly the chord value : all the chords already present in the grid are displayed
19. Display order of note duration has been changed in "change duration"
20. Staccato, staccatissimo, and other related effects: default settings have been changed
21. Duration changed for notes in the selection range: better management of triplets
22. New algorithm for automatic beaming, more limited to the area that changed
23. New algorithm for automatic stem direction
24. Graphical improvement for dotted slur (*)
25. Clicks in the digital output related to the use of the "Chorus/Flanger" processor have been removed
26. "Hammer On", "Pull-off", etc effects don't display over slurs anymore when marked as "invisible" (*)
    
27. Engraver mode parameters are taken into account when displaying a digital track.
28. Engraver mode parameters are taken into account when displaying chord line and lyrics line on an empty bar. (*)
29. Master volume knob in the reduced mixer palette
30. Better calculation of the space reserver to key signature when staves are hidden (*)
31. More precise adjustment for tablature symbols
32. Improvement of staff line positioning in EPS export
33. Improvement of MusicXML import: default lyrics size, slur curvature
34. Note velocity editing through parameter curves is now displayed as histograms instead of a contuinuous curve.
35. Document templates have been graphically homogenized
36. Margin settings are better maintained when inserting or deleting bars in a score.
37. Moving a note within its fine area is now made through Alt Click again instead of Alt Shift Click
38. In the User Interface, event loops that could consume 100% of CPU have been removed.
39. New display for delay and pressure time curve (histogram)
    
40. Harmony Assistant: in enhanced engraver mode, boundaries for the find position of the note have been improved
    
41. Harmony Assistant: In page mode, ruler and staff-related mini-icons are now translucent
42. Harmony Assistant: "Change lyrics style" script now processes lyrics on several lines
43. Harmony Assistant: Instruments for the metronome are now properly created when a file is imported through a script
44. Harmony Assistant: MusicXML export: Improvement of lyrics style export, invisible rests now properly processed, as well as chords made of notes of different duration.
    
45. Windows: printing session name appearing in the Windows spool
46. Windows: better management of fonts for languages displayed right to left
47. Windows: new version of the installer
    

Fixes

1. Bar width in engraver mode when a "repeat the last two bars" symbol is present (*)
   
2. "Printing options > Apply" sometimes hung
   
3. Some break symbole or barlines at the end of a line could be "cropped" when printing
4. Tied notes calculation now avoid to give triplets as far as possible.
5. When changing key signature on a staff, hidden time signature changes sometimes unexpectedly reappeared.
6. Wrong management of accidented notes that include grace notes, when transposing without changing graphical position
7. Ghost rests management when inserting a "repeat two previous bars" symbol
8. Virtual Singer: modulation after a syllable containing a punctuation mark is now silent.
9. Virtual Singer voice calculation could not be interrupted on some very long scores
10. Effects size on staves with non-standard character height (*)
11. Copy/Paste of both notes and dynamics: the two kind of objects are now in sync when pasting.
12. Clef change position when inserting it in the middle of an empty bar
13. Stem direction are now recalculated when offsetting a group of notes up or down
14. Stem direction calculation when changing the "concert key" state
15. Size of the dots in the repeat start and repeat end barlines now depends on the staff size (*)
16. Fixed display problems on merged staves, when the staves have a different scale.
    
17. Harmony Assistant: Edit/Change/Move an "effect processor" object on a grid (accompaniment, rhythm) in page mode
18. Lyrics positioning in Gregorian mode
19. Copy/Paste of cross-staves special beams and slurs
    
20. MIDI performance and export when grace notes are present on notes linked by a slur
    
21. Calculation of number of pages when changing paper size in graphical export.
22. Priority tablature and Banjo 5th string
23. Grace note display in baroque Lute tablatures (*)
    
24. Paper size in graphical export
25. Fixed graphical problem when music is playing in scroll mode
26. MusicXML Import: double-dotted notes are now processed properly
27. MIDI export: fixed problem in MIDI Type 1 export, when several staves with different instruments share the same channel.
    
28. Tenor clef display
29. Invalid text could be entered in lyrics. Forbidden characrters are now filtered.
    
30. Harmony Assistant: MusicXML Export: wrong clef position when the change occurred on an empty bar
31. Harmony Assistant: MusicXML Export: invalid characters in lyrics are now filtered out.
32. Harmony Assistant: MusicXML Export: default stem size
33. Harmony Assistant: MusicXML Export: time and key signature manangement on upbeat bars
34. Harmony Assistant: correction of "microtuned accidentals" script
35. Harmony Assistant forWindows : MyrScript - Internet.DownloadFile(...) doesn't return the headers of the downloaded file anymore
36. Harmony Assistant for Windows: MyrScript - OpenMovieFile now manages pathes that contain accented characters.
37. Windows: Fixed crash when no printer was defined, then a new printer installed.
38. Windows: Fixed problems of multiple copy printout under Vista
    

Minor versions

Harmony Assistant 9.4.1 / Melody Assistant 7.4.1 (April 29th 2008)

1. Harmony Assistant: Improvement in hidden time signature management when importing a Finale file
2. Improvement in margin calculation when importing a MusicXML file
3. Fixed accidental problem on note cursor when the staff begins with an accidented grace note.
4. Digital track editing: in the list, the selected track is chosen by default
5. Fixed part end marker display on multi-rest bar
6. Fixed provlems in copy/paste of non-continuous note selection
7. Fixed slur direction invertion through Edit > Appearance
8. Note edit tab changes have been speeded up
9. Fixed miscellaneous problems and crashes when notes with lyrics have been pasted on a staff without a lyrics line.
10. Improvement in accuracy of the horizontal size of justified systems

Harmony Assistant 9.4.2 / Melody Assistant 7.4.2 (May 6th-7th 2008)

1. Graphic issue after editing a note
2. Fine positionning of part end marker
   
3. Problem when a "repeat last bar" symbole was shifted and didn't match an exact bar start
4. Editing a text effect related to a note through right click > Edit
5. Wrong paste position whan the cursor was at the very end of a bar
6. Cursor positioning problem when deleting notes with the Backspace key
7. Paste problem when an invisible Tempo staff was present
8. Rules edit: crash when selecting the effect to apply (Special button)
9. Impossible to select the "note group" effects speed
   
10. Possible crash when editing a tuplet related to the last notes of a staff
11. Fixed key signature problem in ABC import
12. Fixed memory issue when inserting a break symbol
13. Fixed cursor display when adding a break symbol
14. Harmony Assistant: Problem when deleting bars at the beginning of a view
15. Harmony Assistant: Priint All Views could print several times the same view
16. Melody Assistant: in some cases, wrong calculation of the number of bars after deleting some

Previous versions

=> Harmony 9.3 - Melody 7.3 - (April-May 2007) Import/Export in MusicXML 1.1 format (export only available in Harmony Assistant)
=> Harmony 9.2 - Melody 7.2 - (May-June 2006) New document wizard, Unicode text, text style and rotation...
=> Harmony 9.1 - Melody 7.1 - (April-October 2005) independent staff positionning, better sound output quality, new graphical objects, GOLD 2 sound base
=> Harmony 9.0 - Melody 7.0 - (July-December 2004) -Special beams, advanced ties, conditional dynamics
=> Harmony 8.4 - Melody 6.4 - (December 2003) - Icon sets, Real Singer II.
=> Harmony 8.3 - Melody 6.3 - (April-May 2003) - MyrScript, OGG support.
=> Harmony 8.2 - Melody 6.2 - (January 2003) - Mixer, real-time keyboard input.
=> Harmony 8.1, Melody 6.1 -(September 2002)  High quality GOLD base. More than 20 new features.
=> Harmony 8.0, Melody 6.0 -(April 2002) New interface, new jukebox. More than 50 new features.
=> Harmony 7.9, Melody 5.9 -(December 2001) Graphical Quality, Editing,Drums and Real Singer
=> Harmony 7.8 - Melody 5.8 (September 2001)- Engraver Mode, Free Objects
=> Harmony 7.7 - Melody 5.7 - (July 2001) Notation and edition
=> Harmony 7.6 - Melody 5.6 - (May 2001) New Web Feature
=> Harmony 7.5 - Melody 5.5 - (February 2001) New Tablature, New Display Mode
=> Harmony 7.4 - Melody 5.4 (October 2000); New management for break symbols
=> Harmony 7.3 - Melody 5.3 (August 2000) And now it sing !
=> Harmony 7.2 - Melody 5.2 (June  2000)
=> Harmony 7.1 - Melody 5.1 (April-May  2000); New sound databases
=> Harmony 7.0 - Melody 5.0 (February  2000); Internet, MIDI and Digital Tracks
=> Harmony 6.3 - Melody 4.3 (December 24 1999)
=> Harmony 6.1 - Melody 4.1 (November 99)
=> Harmony 6.0 - Melody 4.0 (September 99)
=> Harmony 5.4 - Melody 3.4 (19 may 1999)
=> Harmony 5.3.0 - Melody 3.3.0 (April 20 1999)
=> Harmony 5.2.0c - Melody 3.2.0c  (March 23th, 1999)
=> Harmony 5.1.0 - Melody 3.1.0 (Feb 22th 99)
=> Harmony 4.0 Melody  2.0 september 1998
=> Harmony 3.1 Melody  1.4 May 1998
=> Harmony 3.0. Melody  1.0. February 1998
=>  Harmony 2.0: Mars 1996
=>  Harmony 1.0: November 1994

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