What's new ?

• When we make a major change we add one to X.
• When a new feature is added, we add one to Y
• When a bug is fixed or a cosmetic detail is corrected, we add one to Z

Harmony Assistant 9.6.2 Melody Assistant 7.6.2	January 2012

News

1. Graphic objects (effects, free objects, graphics related to a staff, background) can now be in JPG, PNG, GIF or TIFF format
2. Ornaments of type "Graphics" can now be related to notes
3. Ornaments (or graphics) can be related to Clef objects
4. Staves in a system can be joined by a vertical line on right side
5. In the mangement of curves related to staves, the current curve can now be deleted quickly.
   
6. Tablature computation on multi-voices staves.
7. TAB export of multi-voices staves.
8. New mode for applying staff appearance settings: "to all merged staves"
9. New commands in the multi-voice staff management contextual menu
10. Braces, ties and slurs are now drawn and printed as actual curves.
11. Slur "tension" can be adjusted in order to make them more flat and their ends hooked.
12. Fine management of lyrics positionning and masking: for each bar, it's now possible to insert or mask any line by right-clicking a cell.
    
13. Windows & Linux : mouse pointer size can be adjusted.
    

Improvements

1. A new setting in the staff appearance enables to tell whether the grace note stems are aligned on the staff center line
   
2. Improvement in time signature and upbeat bar selection when creating a new document from a template.
   
3. Better error management while opening files for writing.
4. "Edit" menu items now follow selected object kind.
5. Changing ghosts rests into rests now splits them according to beat
6. Now possible to mask, on each staff, each kind of object (lyrics, text, graphics, dynamics...)
7. Triplets made of notes with different slur directions are now properly grouped. This can change the appearance of previous scores.
8. Better management of objects, notes an lyrics position when inserting or deleting bars, or when changing the time signature.
9. New keyboard shortcuts: fast forward and rewind. This can be especially useful to those who rehearse a score using a footswitch.
10. New management for the default document file name.
11. The area-driven discontinuous selection now only applies to the selected parts in merged (multivoice) staves.
    
12. MusicXML import/export: better management of ottava (8va,8vb, etc)
13. Virtual Singer: management of note slurs and bend effects
    
14. Harmony Assistant: In engraver mode, note position calculation has been speeded up.
15. Harmony Assistant: When forcing the number of bars per line, the automatic computation of bar width in engraver mode is deactivated.
16. Harmony Assistant in page mode: improvement of document window maximize/minimize/restore management
17. Linux version: Compatibility with Ubuntu 10.04 - 11.10, KUbuntu, XUbuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Mint 12, Fedora 15, Mandriva One 2011, OpenSuse 2.1, Debian 6.0.3.

Fixes

1. Virtual Singer :  SAMPA Q in English.
2. Audi sync problems could occur when the score contains both notes with negative delay and tempo changes
3. Jump & target display on text staves.
4. CMF export.
5. Graphical objects dialog box: file import.
6. Text formating while writing an email.
7. Palette duplication while hide all /show all.
8. Score file loading, as well as some editing operations, didn't work on very heavy staves (more than 32,000 symbols)
9. Fixed appearance of curve over triplets
10. Fixed ckef change problem on merged (mult-voice) staves
11. Fixed vu-meter display on staff with lyrics when output is MIDI.
12. Possible to deactivate the cautionaty key signature display at end of line once activated
13. In some cases, some objects were graphically misplaced when viewing the staff in the Karaoke window
14. Multi-voice staves couldn't be properly duplicated
15. Fixed digital track contextual menu.
16. Fixed page setup problem when "score" object were used within a score.
    
17. Harmony Assistant: Fixed MyrScript problems on staff merging
18. Harmony Assistant: in engraver mode, display of tied notes connected by a special beam
19. Macintosh, Linux: Fixed palette handling problem on multi-screens
20. Windows: in some tutorials, squares appeared in text.
    

Harmony Assistant 9.6.1 Melody Assistant 7.6.1	September 2011

Harmony Assistant 9.6 Melody Assistant 7.6	March 2011

News

1. Embedding of the Kooplet search engine (new icon in the "Edit tools" palette)
2. In order to simplify the license management of our products, a new "Manage my licenses" option has appeared. On Windows, this option is available in the "?" menu, and on Macintosh in the application's menu.
3. Harmony Assistant: Management and printing of tablatures for Zither
4. New available keyboard shortcuts:
   - Tempo tool activation
   - Clef change activation
   - Time signature change activation
   - Key signature change activation
5. Now possible to set a note split duration greater than its actual duration. The note then appears longer than the real duration.
6. Possible to select the appearance of the eighth rest: "modern" look, as it appeared in the previous versions, and "ancient" look, in which it appears as an inverted sixteenth rest
7. New symbol fonts, that can be used in any text input
8. Harmony Assistant: New music fonts, new management of the font list for an easier use. Possible to set the font for a new document.

Improvements

1. When a crescendo/decrescendo is inserted, it now matched what is shown on the mouse pointer.
2. In the note duration change box, the default value is now the one selected in the palette.
3. In order to avoid confusion, the note head shape selected in the "Note display tools" palette is no more memorized when exiting the program. It is now reset to the default value (round full head shape).
4. For single-button mouse users, Ctrl+Click can be used instead of the long right click.
5. When opened, the Jukebox window now fits the screen dimension.
6. When changing the character size in the staff appearance, dynamics and text position is recalculated to fit the new staff height.
7. Jukebox: the purely alphabetical sort has been replaced by an alpha/digit mixed sort
8. Improvement of dotted notes management by the quantize algorithm.
   
9. Holding the Shift key down while loading a file saved with an old version moves back the dynamics and tempo changes to their original position.
10. MusicXML import: better management of empty lyrics (repeat the previous line)
11. MusicXML import: New management of beamed tuplets.
12. When importing a multi-score files in ABC format, it is now possible to listen to the tunes before selecting the one to load and edit.
13. Virtual Singer: now possible to apply a semi-tone offset to the Virtual Singer voice.
14. Harmony Assistant, Tabledit import: management of Dulcimer tablatures

Fixes

1. Editing a symbol could ruin the page layout
2. Fixed problem of slur handles grabbing.
3. Fixed text ornament style edit when they are at their default value
4. Fixed problem of slur move
5. Fixed problem of stem size on guitar tablatuires
6. Fixed problem of beam display of a guitar tablature when an offset is required between the note and its stem.
7. Search on the interface didn't include User Spaces
8. Fixed problem of list update
9. Fixed problem of child palettes opening from the master palette
10. Fixed problem of key shortcuts in the virtual keyboard
11. Fixed problem of zoomed user windows when loading
12. Fixed minor problem in copy/paste
13. Fixed problem of music playing from the album
14. Fixed display problem in the chord line
15. Fixed display problem of "barres" in some chord diagrams
16. Fixed problem on "undo"
17. Fixed crash in S3M import (index overflow)
18. Fixed multi-staves ABC file export problem
19. Fixed problem of note duration in ABC import
20. Fixed overflow in MIDI import on some very special files
21. Fixed "duplicate note with inverted stem" when several notes are selected.
22. Fixed cursor appearance when inserting a crescendo/decrescendo.
23. Fixed crash when forcing the played bar list to an empty list, when the score includes a digital track.
24. Fixed problem when in accidental display on grace notes
25. Fixed key signature display problem when the clef is hidden
26. Fixed user keyboard shortcut saving.
27. Harmony Assistant: Fixed problem of margin in GuitatPro import
28. Harmony Assistant: Fixed problem on NoteWorthy import (dynamics)
29. Harmony Assistant: Fixed Tabledit import
30. Harmony Assistant: Fixed Finale import.
31. Harmony Assistant, MusicXML import:  full-bar rests management was wrong, that could generate rests of uneven durations in non-empty bars
32. Harmony Assistant: Fixed problem of accordion tablature calculation on grace notes.
33. Harmony Assistant: Fixed problem in the MUSL space management. 
34. Harmony Assistant: Fixed digital instrument group generation script.
35. Harmony Assistant: Fixed problem in font setting on lyrics text script
36. Macintosh: Fixed drag and drop problem 
37. Macintosh: Fixed minor problem (cosmetic) on installer
38. Macintosh: Fixed text rotation problem 
39. Macintosh: Fixed relation between file extensions and our programs

Minor versions

Harmony Assistant v9.6.0c / Melody Assistant v7.6.0c (March 17, 2011)

1. On Windows, implementation of a copy/paste menu from a mouse right-click on any editable field. On Macintosh, partial implementation, only on fields that edit a styled text.

1. Yamaha style file (.STY) import: better management of files that do not comply with the MIDI file specifications, save by a PSR S550.
2. When adding a slur between two notes of same pitch, the graphical appearance of a tie is applied

1. Kooplet search: possible crash when clicking or double-clicking at the end of the result list
2. Kooplet search: possible crash when  the Internet connection was unavailable
3. Kooplet search: possible crash when playing the note pattern in its context
4. If a negative pitch offset was set to a Virtual Singer voice, it became positive when loading the file.
5. Fixed a problem when setting up the palette scale.
6. Macintosh PPC: Fixed mail sending

Harmony Assistant v9.6.0d / Melody Assistant v7.6.0d (March 24, 2011)

1. Fixed graphical appearance slurs on consecutive notes of same pitch
2. Kooplet search: better management of filenames that contain non-standard characters
3. Fixed graphical glitches in keyboard shortcut editing
4. Harmony Assistant, MusicXML import: some chords were incorrectly considered as arpeggiated.

Harmony Assistant v9.6.0f / Melody Assistant v7.6.0f (March 28, 2011)

1. In Harmony Assistant, when running an unregistered version, a button leads to the licence management panel.

1. The automatic slur setting was reset when double-clicking the slur to edit it
2. Windows: some Internet accesses (tutorials, MyrScript manual...) didn't work properly

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