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This version of Harmony Assistant (v9.4) and Melody Assistant
(v7.4) introduces important new features and improvements. In
particular, Harmony Assistant introduces the notion of "views".
Views are a different way
of
displaying a same score, completely or partially. They
enable to display and work on some staves only, and to select a
different page setup in each view.
For instance, if your document contains a whole orchestral score
(conductor score), you can define a view for each instrument in the
orchestra so that each performer could receive only the sheet music
that matches their instrument.
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- To each document can
be
related a set of "views". A view is a different way of
displaying the same score.
- Object types to be
processed
by "copy" and "delete" can be selected through the "Edit
>Apply to..." menu option
- Grace notes can now form chords.
- Now possible to change the way notes are beamed
inside a
triplet group.
- New note attribute to display the dot at an alternate
position.
- In the staff appearance, offset between lyrics lines
can be
defined.
- Tuplet brackets can be inverted, resized and moved
finely
- The engraver mode has now an "enhanced" setting, with
which
scores are more readable and more compact (default)
- Automatic subdivision of the secondary beams, to
group notes on
beat fractions. Can be set up from the score appearance panel,
"Notes" section.
- 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.
- Secondary beam size can be limited (lines and beams
in the
staff appearance panel) (*)
- 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.
- Inserting a note through a right click overrides the
"limit
editing to one bar" setting.
- Caption display for score targets.
- Quick creation/deletion of targets via the ruler
contextual
menu
- New printing mode, that can be toggled on or off in
the global
settings : hi-quality printout through a picture.
- New effects: drummer left and right hand, inverted bow
- 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.
- 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.
- Typeface for digital value of multiple rests and
multiple
repetitions can be changed from the document appearance
settings.
- Software install in roaming mode
- New management of note Copy/Cut/Paste, in order to
avoid staves
to go out of sync.
- Objects kinds that will be managed by Copy/Paste can
be
selected through "Edit > Apply to" menu option.
- 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.
- Harmony: Right-clicking the "Action" palette icon
enables to
select in a list the kind of objects managed by Copy/Paste.
- Packed MusicXML (.mxl) format import
- Harmony: Packed MusicXML (.mxl) format export.
- Harmony: Fine position deletion can now be partial
(selectable)
- Windows: new "Vista" skin for the graphical interface
- Harmony: In page mode, pages can now be displayed one
above the
other instead of side by side (Right-click on the document
desktop).
- 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.
- Harmony: New version of MyrScript, that includes and
manages
the new attributes.
- Linux: Wine is detected, and character fonts are
selected
accordingly.
(*) This can slightly
change the
appearance of existing scores that use this notation.
Improvements
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- The engraver mode takes the parenthesis around
accidentals into
account. (*)
- In engraver mode, better management of notes that are
displayed
as several tied notes (*)
- In engraver mode, now possible to define the spacing
for 32nd
and 64th notes
- A grouping symbol (brace, bracket) can be put on a
single
staff.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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)
- Text" free objects that include special text (music
symbols...)
now take the style information into account (*)
- The origin of a slur that links tied notes is now the
first
tied note, and the slur target us the last tied note (*)
- New window for editing grace notes, enabling to
change their
relative order.
- Improvement of drawing accuracy for curves (braces,
slurs...)
- Better positioning for text effects attached to notes
(*)
- Right-clicking an object opens a contextual menu for
quick
changes. This applies to clefs, keyt and time signatures, tuplets,
dynamics, note accidentals.
- "Edit > Select > Object type" selects all the
objects of
the chosen kind within the selection area
- 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.
- Stem positioning for "+" noteheads (*)
- Possible to move finely text, chord diagrams,
pictures,
dynamics or effects through keyboard
- Right-clicking the chord grid enables to change
quickly the
chord value : all the chords already present in the grid are
displayed
- Display order of note duration has been changed in
"change
duration"
- Staccato, staccatissimo, and other related effects:
default
settings have been changed
- Duration changed for notes in the selection range:
better
management of triplets
- New algorithm for automatic beaming, more limited to
the area
that changed
- New algorithm for automatic stem direction
- Graphical improvement for dotted slur (*)
- Clicks in the digital output related to the use of
the
"Chorus/Flanger" processor have been removed
- "Hammer On", "Pull-off", etc effects don't display
over slurs
anymore when marked as "invisible" (*)
- Engraver mode parameters are taken into account when
displaying
a digital track.
- Engraver mode parameters are taken into account when
displaying
chord line and lyrics line on an empty bar. (*)
- Master volume knob in the reduced mixer palette
- Better calculation of the space reserver to key
signature when
staves are hidden (*)
- More precise adjustment for tablature symbols
- Improvement of staff line positioning in EPS export
- Improvement of MusicXML import: default lyrics size,
slur
curvature
- Note velocity editing through parameter curves is now
displayed
as histograms instead of a contuinuous curve.
- Document templates have been graphically homogenized
- Margin settings are better maintained when inserting
or
deleting bars in a score.
- Moving a note within its fine area is now made
through Alt
Click again instead of Alt Shift Click
- In the User Interface, event loops that could consume
100% of
CPU have been removed.
- New display for delay and pressure time curve
(histogram)
- Harmony Assistant: in enhanced engraver mode,
boundaries for
the find position of the note have been improved
- Harmony Assistant: In page mode, ruler and
staff-related
mini-icons are now translucent
- Harmony Assistant: "Change lyrics style" script now
processes
lyrics on several lines
- Harmony Assistant: Instruments for the metronome are
now
properly created when a file is imported through a script
- Harmony Assistant: MusicXML export: Improvement of
lyrics style
export, invisible rests now properly processed, as well as chords
made of notes of different duration.
- Windows: printing session name appearing in the
Windows
spool
- Windows: better management of fonts for languages
displayed
right to left
- Windows: new version of the installer
(*) This can slightly
change the
appearance of existing scores that use this notation.
Fixes
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- Bar width in engraver mode when a "repeat the last
two bars"
symbol is present (*)
- "Printing options > Apply" sometimes hung
- Some break symbole or barlines at the end of a line
could be
"cropped" when printing
- Tied notes calculation now avoid to give triplets as
far as
possible.
- When changing key signature on a staff, hidden time
signature
changes sometimes unexpectedly reappeared.
- Wrong management of accidented notes that include
grace notes,
when transposing without changing graphical position
- Ghost rests management when inserting a "repeat two
previous
bars" symbol
- Virtual Singer: modulation after a syllable
containing a
punctuation mark is now silent.
- Virtual Singer voice calculation could not be
interrupted on
some very long scores
- Effects size on staves with non-standard character
height
(*)
- Copy/Paste of both notes and dynamics: the two kind
of objects
are now in sync when pasting.
- Clef change position when inserting it in the middle
of an
empty bar
- Stem direction are now recalculated when offsetting a
group of
notes up or down
- Stem direction calculation when changing the "concert
key"
state
- Size of the dots in the repeat start and repeat end
barlines
now depends on the staff size (*)
- Fixed display problems on merged staves, when the
staves have a
different scale.
- Harmony Assistant: Edit/Change/Move an "effect
processor"
object on a grid (accompaniment, rhythm) in page mode
- Lyrics positioning in Gregorian mode
- Copy/Paste of cross-staves special beams and slurs
- MIDI performance and export when grace notes are
present on
notes linked by a slur
- Calculation of number of pages when changing paper
size in
graphical export.
- Priority tablature and Banjo 5th string
- Grace note display in baroque Lute tablatures (*)
- Paper size in graphical export
- Fixed graphical problem when music is playing in
scroll
mode
- MusicXML Import: double-dotted notes are now
processed
properly
- MIDI export: fixed problem in MIDI Type 1 export,
when several
staves with different instruments share the same channel.
- Tenor clef display
- Invalid text could be entered in lyrics. Forbidden
characrters
are now filtered.
- Harmony Assistant: MusicXML Export: wrong clef
position when
the change occurred on an empty bar
- Harmony Assistant: MusicXML Export: invalid
characters in
lyrics are now filtered out.
- Harmony Assistant: MusicXML Export: default stem size
- Harmony Assistant: MusicXML Export: time and key
signature
manangement on upbeat bars
- Harmony Assistant: correction of "microtuned
accidentals"
script
- Harmony Assistant forWindows : MyrScript -
Internet.DownloadFile(...) doesn't return the headers of the
downloaded file anymore
- Harmony Assistant for Windows: MyrScript -
OpenMovieFile now
manages pathes that contain accented characters.
- Windows: Fixed crash when no printer was defined,
then a new
printer installed.
- Windows: Fixed problems of multiple copy printout
under
Vista
(*) This can slightly
change the
appearance of existing scores that use this notation.
Minor versions
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Harmony Assistant 9.4.1 / Melody
Assistant 7.4.1 (April 29th 2008)
- Harmony Assistant: Improvement in hidden time
signature management
when importing a Finale file
- Improvement in margin calculation when importing a
MusicXML file
- Fixed accidental problem on note cursor when the
staff begins with an
accidented grace note.
- Digital
track editing: in the list, the selected track is chosen by default
- Fixed part end marker
display on multi-rest bar
- Fixed provlems in
copy/paste of non-continuous note selection
- Fixed slur
direction invertion through Edit > Appearance
- Note edit tab changes
have been speeded up
- Fixed miscellaneous problems and crashes when notes
with lyrics have
been pasted on a staff without a lyrics line.
- Improvement in accuracy
of the horizontal size of justified systems
Harmony Assistant 9.4.2 / Melody
Assistant 7.4.2 (May 6th-7th 2008)
- Graphic issue after editing a note
- Fine positionning of part end marker
- Problem when a "repeat last bar" symbole was shifted
and didn't match an exact bar start
- Editing a text effect related to a note through right
click > Edit
- Wrong paste position whan the cursor was at the very
end of a bar
- Cursor positioning problem when deleting notes with
the Backspace key
- Paste problem when an invisible Tempo staff was
present
- Rules edit: crash when selecting the effect to apply
(Special button)
- Impossible to select the "note group" effects speed
- Possible crash when editing a tuplet related to the
last notes of a staff
- Fixed key
signature problem in ABC import
- Fixed memory
issue when inserting a break symbol
- Fixed cursor
display when adding a break symbol
- Harmony Assistant: Problem when deleting bars at the
beginning of a view
- Harmony Assistant: Priint All Views could print
several times the same view
- Melody Assistant: in some cases, wrong calculation of
the number of bars after deleting some
Previous versions
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=> 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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