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Harmony Assistant 9.4 Melody Assistant 7.4	April-October 2008

News

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 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

Harmony Assistant 9.4.3 / Melody Assistant 7.4.3 (May 29th 2008)

1. New: From the jukebox, management of .mya file format, enabling to store several scores into a single file, in order to be displayed later from the Myriad Plugin or Melody Player.
2. New: compatibility of Harmony Assistant with most of the USB footswitchs (page turners).
3. Improvement: When displaying distances in page mode with Harmony Assistant : added distance between staff baseline and lyrics line, distance between staff top line and chord line.
4. Improvement: When a slur is used to notate a tie, its graphical settings (position, bending, ends) mimic a tie's.
5. To open a note contextual menu when in "Add" (pencil) mode, the Alt key has to remain pressed while right-clicking on the notehead.
6. Fixed: styled text problem in pahe header and footer
7. Fixed: "Antialias symbols" option of the global setup didn't have any effect on the music symbols in scroll mode.
   
8. Fixed problem in "undo" after editing notes
9. Fixed item shifts in contextual help
10. Fixed problem of bracket adjustment when a staff was unmerged in the staff group.
    
11. Fixed problem of system justifying when a cautionary clef/key/time signature was present at the end of the line
12. Fixed graphical problem: barline at the end of a line could disappear when this line ends with a multi-bar rest
13. Fixed wrong positionning when pasting notes or moving the selection cursor.
14. Fixed crash when decreasing the number of voices when music is playing
15. Fixed graphical settings of a staff line when inserting new bars
    
16. Fixed the printed view when using the "Printing options" button in the preview of a single view
17. Fixed transitional graphic problem when exiting the note settings edit box
18. Fixed crash when defining a displayed time signature of 0/0
19. Fixed wrong management of forced stem direction in the staff display mode edit box
20. Fixed problem in MIDI output/export: some staves beginning with a rest became mute.
    
21. Harmony : Fixed crash when moving a chord grid cell edge in page mode.
22. Windows 95/98/ME : fixed management of the Windows' clipboard content
23.  Windows, roaming mode, fixed access path to the settings folder. If you installed in roaming mode and wish to keep your settings, copy the "Myriad" subfolder to "ACAMPREF\Myriad"

Harmony Assistant 9.4.4 / Melody Assistant 7.4.4 (July 4th 2008)

1. New: diatonic/chromatic clusters, obtained by a slur between two notes in a same chord
2. New: Slur performed as a piano slide on white keys: when starting on a black key, only plays black keys in the whole range
3. Better positionning of the effect to avoid overlapping with staff lines
4. MusicXML import: change in the way malformed or nested beams are managed: incomplete sequences are ignored instead of considering that their end is implied
5. Presence and size of the triplet bracket when applying it through Edit > Action > Change duration
6. Improvement of copy/paste when the selection range contains notes on a grid drum staff
7. Improvement of the crash feedback / troubleshooting system through a new Web front-end
8. Adding the clipboard content (Edit > Add) now also adds graphics, chord diagrams, dynamics and FX processors.
9. Information window when running for the first time a script written by a user
10. Fixed template names in Japanese
    
11. Fixed confusion in staff names after having added a staff to the score
12. After deselecting the last note in a discontinuous selection, "copy" and "cut" actions remained active. Using them generated a crash
    
13. Crash when adding a new digital audio track to a document
14. Possible crash when typing "$" in a page header or footer
15. When adding a staff to a document, removed unwanted computation of abbreviated name for the first staff in each staff group.
16. When editing "picture" free objects: if a file other than BMP or PICT was selected, the application could crash.
17. Screen refresh problem in print preview as well as in the tutorial window.
18. Complete mixer, in instrument positionning mode: problem when the composer name was styled.
19. Virtual Singer voices were not recomputed when moving the play start marker. This didn't work when the marker was moved backwards.
20. Crash when printing keyboard shortcuts and clicking "Options" from the preview.
    
21. Harmony Assistant: Finale Import: fixed problem of text conversion on files generated by a Macintosh
    
22. Harmony Assistant: In some cases, recomputing target names could duplicate targets
23. Harmony Assistant: Music following window fixed and improved when resizing, using a keyboard shortcut...
24. Harmony Assistant: fixed a graphic artefact when displaying the note cursor on screen in non-antialiased mode
25. Harmony Assistant: Management of .mya files in the jukebox
    
26. Harmony Assistant: Problem of positionning in engraver mode, especially for selection range on digital audio tracks
27. Harmony Assistant: wrong view content when scroll mode was forced at document loading
28. Harmony Assistant: A new script in the Virtual Singer section enable to make it sing in another language than the 10 currently implemented. This script adds the Bulgarian language (Cyrillic and latin transliteration), other languages should follow.
    
29. Mac OS X: A line drawing problem has been fixed on Mac OS X 10.4 and PPC computers. This problem is due to a malfunction in the MAC OS QuickDraw module.
    
30. Mac OS X: some printer drivers (including Brother) announced a resolution of 6000 dpi. This led to pages of more than 3 billions of pixels, and to serious page setup issues.
31. Mac OS X: When several instances of the application were launched simultaneously, text written with the Stoccata font could display wrong.
32. Windows: The drum pattern folder was not installed by the last versions
33. Windows: memory usage lessening when printing through a hi-definition picture

Harmony Assistant 9.4.5 / Melody Assistant 7.4.5 (July 23rd 2008)

1. A new command has been added to the lyrics text. [%rrvvbb] enables to define the background color for the bar lyrics cell.
2. Pauses that fill a bar are now centered on the actual bar area, without considering the bar margins.
3. Sound echo (positionning, moving, hammer click, etc) now take the rules into account to play the note
4. Stem direction calculation for chords when editing a note (double-click on the notehead with the lasso) have been improved
   
5. Virtual Singer didn't sing the grace notes, mordent, trills, slides, etc, when the note was a melisma. This has been improved.
6. The character æ in Latin is now managed by Virtual Singer
   
7. When using the "syringe" tool to change a note length, the selected note length is now shown near the mouse cursor.
   
8. When editing views, their index is now displayed
9. Fixed: problem of staff group name translation when adding staves
10. Fasola (shape note) notation: dots for notes in a chord weren't vertically aligned
11. Problems releated to view in multi-window have been fixed
12. Fixed problem in copy/cut/erase/paste when the right edge of the selection range was located before a short note at the end of a bar.
13. The new staves created to receive the result of a MIDI input always got the same name (Staff 1) and were sharing the same instrument.
14. Fixed note duplication with inverted stem when the note stem was up.
15. When a rule didn't change the instrument, for instance for a rule that added an audible ornament, the note echo when moving over the score crashed (Global setup > Echo)
16. Harmony Assistant: Complex searches in the phonetic file have been implemented in the "Other languages" script
17. Windows: The SToccata music font is now properly installed

Harmony Assistant 9.4.6 / Melody Assistant 7.4.6 (August 21st 2008)

1. When trying a digital effect processor, now plays from the first written note after the beginning of the selection range
2. When importing a stereo digital audio track switched to mono: panning of the digital track is now centered.
3. MIDI Export: when some notes had negative delays (sound before the written time), the export generated a score that had a small delay at the beginning.
4. MIDI Export/Play: the way of sending bank number has been changed (MSB then LSB) to comply to the MIDI guidelines
5. Harmony Assistant: when creating a new drum pattern, if no drum instrument is present in the file, open a pattern from "Drum Bank/DefaultDrumPattern" instead of opening an empty score.
6. New function for displaying and printing curves (braces, ties, slurs)
7. FASOLA: Solmization with accidentals: management of key signatures and implied accidentals
   
8. Fixed a memory problem when displaying a digital track in engraver mode
   
9. The automatic update didn't manage alphabetical sub-versions (e.g : 9.4.5c)
10. Crash when printing a "two previous bars" repeat symbol, when it hadn't been displayed before
11. Crash in the voice overflow when the "play tools" palette was opened from the master palette
12. Fixed guitar tablatures for some rare cases
13. Up/Down by one degree: problem in the management of implied accidentals.
14. Problem in management of the first note in the selection range, when it had a negative graphic offset
    
15. Crashes when creating, editing or deleting targets on a score without staves.
16. Digitall effect processor edit: crash when defining a flat LFO curve, when direction is reversed.
17. Moving notes selected individually (discontinuous selection) didn't work well outside the first staff.
18. Crash when restarting music through the "Pause" button after having deleted staves
19. Possible crash when changing velocities into dynamics.
20. MusicXML 2.0 import: Management of "volume", "pan", "blank-page" and the "page" attribute in  "credits"
21. MusicXML Import/Export: Tablatures are now written and read properly
    
22. MIDI Import: Problem when loading bank number MSB/LSB
23. Fixed problem in NoteWorthy import.
24. Harmony Assistant: when creating a drum pattern, drum instruments added automatically could be in "user" mode.
25. Harmony Assistant: adjustments on the Finale import script
26. Harmony Assistant: MyrScript : Fixed GetLyricsAtBar(), that deleted text style information. 
    
27. Harmony Assistant: Trying an accompaniment from its selection box while music is playing could erase the first staff of the score.
28. Harmony Assistant: Fixed problem in all the MyrScript floating palette, when a note was edited individually on the score (double-click on the notehead with the "lasso" tool)
29. Harmony Assistant: MyrScript: The MIDI.RawPacket method didn't send the right data
    

Harmony Assistant 9.4.6c / Melody Assistant 7.4.6c (September 2nd 2008)

1. Improvement in antialiased curve drawing. The drawing is now mathematically accurate.
   
2. The "Voice" menu was available on staved of type "Text". The "Add voice" option generated a crash
3. Very long delay when applying settings to the general display of selected notes
4. Infinite loop when applying an action to the selection range on a staff with rules.
5. Wrong calculation on rules related to the fundamental when the latter didn't start at the same time as the note.
6. Wrong positioning when moving notes in discontinuous selection
7. Notes with inverted heads appeared shifted on staff lines
8. Fixed slur appearance between two consecutive notes (insertion and automatic adjustment)
   
9. Harmony Assistant: MusicXML Import: nested slur errors could display an alert. They are now silent.
10. Harmony Assistant: MusicXML Import: Possible overload of the time signature numerator
11. Harmony Assistant: Fixed NoteWorthy import script

Harmony Assistant 9.4.6d / Melody Assistant 7.4.6d (October 14th 2008)

1. MusicXML import: "Nested slurs" errors could display an alert that was difficult to get rid of.
2. For several years, time signature change are not displayed on tablatures. This new version will display them when the related standard staff is hidden.
3. In some cases, ghosts rests could be printed. It has been fixed.
4. The "Voice" menu was available on "Text" staves, and the "Add voice" option crashed.
5. Fixed a very long delay when applying settings to the global note appearance.
6. Infinite loop when applying an action to the selection range on a staff with lyrics.
7. Wrong calculation of rule related to fundamental when the fundamental doesn't start at the same time as the note.
8. Wrong placement when moving notes from discontinuous selection
9. Line shift for notes with inverted head.
10. It was possible to override the numerator capacity in time signature while loading a MusicXML file.
11. Crash when creating an empty (staffless) document, then adding a staff and clicking OK immediately.
12. Crash when loading a RealSinger voice that contains an empty fragment.
13. When creating a new document, name of the staves that have been added in "Change orchestra" and changed by the user are now preserved.
14. Possible crash when editing a special beam
15. When changing clef/key, the affected area now runs up to the next clef/key, even if it is a cautionary or recall marker
16. Beam display problem in reversed special beams
17. Virtual Singer: it wasn't possible to force the phonetics of a syllable that was not pronounced in the original language.
    
18. Fixed GUI problems in dynamics/tempo object resizing
19. Fixed melisma display problems when commands were included in the lyrics text.
20. Improvement of TAB file import
21. Infinite loop after editing a note when sung voice are played
22. Harmony Assistant: New MyrScript method: Dialog.IsFrontFloatingWindow
23. Harmony Assistant: MyrScript: Fixed stack overflow when event vector were called (e.g. MouseWheel)
24. Harmony Assistant: New MyrScript value: Score.CurrentDisplayDpi to change score display scale.
25. Harmony Assistant: New MyrScript methods: Score.EditComments, Staff.EditBarNumbering, Staff.EditLyrics, Staff.EditTablature.
26. Harmony Assistant: MusicXML Export: crash when the score ended with non-printed bars, and a note overlaps these bars.
27. Harmony Assistant: MyrScript: Score.Preserve() didn't preserve the views
28. Harmony Assistant: it was impossible to create a view without staves.
29. Harmony Assistant : Fixed crash in MyrScript: floating palettes were incompatible with adding a staff manually
30. Harmony Assistant: Possible crash in engraver mode, when a tuplet was cut by a barline.
31. Harmony Assistant: Minor fixes in the NoteWorthy import.
    
32. Fixed contextual menu behaviour in accordion tablatures
33. Windows: Better name extension added to the file name when exporting or saving as.
34. Windows: Better management of copy/paste from/to third party applications

Harmony Assistant 9.4.6e / Melody Assistant 7.4.6e (October 22nd 2008)

1. Fixed transposition problem when adding/changing a clef.
2. Fixed crasg when using the complete mixer that is opened through the master palerre
   
3. Crash when clicking with the hammer on the last pixel of a lyrics or chord line located at the bottom of a staff area.
4. Fixed minior graphic glitch in the placard when music is scrolling (page mode off)
5. Harmony Assistant: Improvement of slur management in Finale import.
6. Harmony Assistant: Noteworthy import, improvement of dashes and melismas
7. Harmony Assistant:  MyrScript: fixed problem of FirstSelectedSymbol when adding a staff.
   
8. Harmony Assistant:  MyrScript: added TitleColor value for dynamics.
9. Harmony Assistant:  Fixed GetStringStyle (was varying according to the display scale)