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Harmony Assistant 9.5 Melody Assistant 7.5	April-June 2010

News

1. Direct access to MUSL from the application
2. New MyrScript version. See MyrScript manual for all changes
3. Fretted tab palette improvement. New display modes are provided. When the select cursor is on the score, the note is shown in the palette.
4. Improvements on all import scripts.
5. New script to hide all dynamics
6. Palette sizes can be changed: Shift+Click on the title.
7. In the "Virtual Keyboard", when the select cursor is on the score, the note is shown in the palette.
8. Chord diagrams can be displayed in relative or absolute colors (Global Setup > Appearance)
    A new section in the manual explains this color notation.
9. Real time MIDI input improvement
10. MIDI file format improvement
11. Stem direction computation improvement
12. Note contexual menu: change note or group of notes to rest.
13. Scroll mode: invisible rests are displayed in grey
    
14. Free texts and free texts objects, tag $W provides a clickable URL
15. Staff display mode : lyrics size can be adjusted to staff scale.
16. Jukebox : total time spent on a document can be displayed
    
17. Better display of chords names in chord grid.
18. When staff scale is changed, dynamics position is adapted
    
19. Alternate position in harmonica tab.
20. In harmonica setup you can define extra holes.
    

Fixes

1. Picture fine position
2. Accordion tablatures
3. Chord manual beaming
4. Ties display
5. Alternate position on tabs
6. Ornaments display
7. Selected note moving
8. Metronome in digital export
9. "Repeat previous bar" display
10. Paper size is not displayed when control handles are hidden
    
11. Windows position at start up
12. TimeCode script
    

Minor versions

Harmony Assistant 9.5.0c / Melody Assistant 7.5.0c (April 19th 2010)

1. Fixed extra rests that appeared while playing the score
2. Fixed crash when using the virtual keyboard palette
3. The "Use .myr extension instead of .mus" check box hadn't any effect (always considered as active)
4. Two options weren't translated in Spanish in the "Internet" menu
5. Fixed a problem of OMeR registration code management in Melody/Harmony
6. Portuguese version of the interface has been completed (Thanks to Zeca)
7. Text of the program interface in English have veen proofread and amended
8. User sound selection problems have been fixed
   
9. Harmony Assistant: Possible crash when pressing the backspace key on an empty password when accessing the MUSL space management
   
10. Harmony Assistant: FIxed "Guitar & color" script
11. Harmony Assistant: Changing a script text can now be undone through the "Actions" palette
12. Harmony Assistant: Improvement of the "Input along pattern" script
13. On Windows, important alert messages didn't appear in a box anymore, but on the MyrScript log window
14. Windows: keyboard shortcut filenames couldn't include accented characters
15. Windows 95,98,ME: it was impossible to run the program when the Unicode library (unicows) is installed

Harmony Assistant 9.5.0d / Melody Assistant 7.5.0d (May 4th 2010)

1. Improvement in the way Virtual Singer performs melismas
   
2. MU3 format export : some parts of the digital tracks could not be saved properly
3. Fixed crash when splitting a staff according to rules
4. Fixed stem sizes on guitar tablature
5. Improvement in dot placement on rhythmic guitar tablatures
6. The reduced sets of demonstration files provided with the Web version of Harmony/Melody has been amended
7. Negative delays on notes are now properly performed
8. MIDI Export: some note durations could slow down the export, or even lead to a crash
9. Harmony Assistant: Finale import has been improved, in order to avoid that improper characters in text objects could disturb the score processing
10. Harmony Assistant: Improvement of the "Input along pattern" script
11. Harmony Assistant: Fixed the "guitar fingering" script (when no document is loaded)
12. Harmony Assistant: MusicXML Export: stem sizes on secondary staves of a group (e.g. piano bass staff) were not properly saved
13. Windows: when opening a contextual menu on ruler or staff, the mouse pointer had to be moved slightly before being able to select the first menu option
14. Windows: Packed MusicXML export (.mxl) didn't work well
15. Windows Vista/7: at the end of the install process, the system displayed an alert box, saying thet the program could not be properly installed
16. Macintosh: Fixed Unicode fields input

Harmony Assistant 9.5.0e / Melody Assistant 7.5.0e (May 6th 2010)

1. Fixed a problem in keyboard input on some dialog boxes (tempo change, break symbols...)
   
2. The arpeggio mark is now played by default
   
3. Harmony Assistant: improved arpeggio management in MusicXML import/export

Harmony Assistant 9.5.1 / Melody Assistant 7.5.1 (June 9th 2010)

1. New layout for the virtual keyboard
   
2. It is now possible to define the way tied rests are split.
3. Harmony Assistant: A "draft" mode, with a selectable density, enables to save ink when printing scores (available from the print preview)
   

1. Default placement of the "previous bar repeat" symbol
2. Better tolerance when recording RealSinger phonemes
3. Key signature management when adding a staff on a score in concert key mode
4. When the score is set up to display nothing (all bars excluded from printing), it is now impossible to switch to page mode after the alert.
5. Better graphical update of the virtual keyboard after a change in its settings, and better management of very short notes.
6. Better management of staff groups, insertion, deletion and move in the miscellaneous views
7. Improvement of chord editing in the chord grid
8. Forced chords in the chord grid are not recomputed when loading the file, only the note name is possibly adapted according to the latin/anglo-saxon notation
9. Minimal thickness of the slurs on screen has been reduced in order to get a sharper rendering
10. Performance improvement for multi-bar tied notes display, engraving mode positioning, and tied notes display in general.
11. Better graphic adjustment of currently edited note marker on staves with lyrics
12. Windows: the printing session name is now correct when the score name contains accented characters. This name appears in the Windows spooler, and is used as default file name by PDF pseudo-printers.
13. Harmony Assistant: Fixed part list management, management of complex key signatures and upper mordent ornamement in ABC import/export.
14. Harmony Assistant: Improvement of the NoteWorthy import module
15. Harmony Assistant: Improvement of the Finale import module

1. Display problems on virtual keyboard
2. Tuning display on guitar tablatures
3. Moving notes on guitar tablatures when the "limit editing to one bar" mode is not active
4. Fixed break symbols display
5. Memory loss when using views
6. Size of the scroll bars when opening a document
7. Melisma display problems
8. Many buffer overflow fixes when the staff name is very long.
9. Fixed crash in the chord grid try, when the document contains no staff
10. Fixed note durations in Virtual Singer, in quite rare cases
11. Fixed display problem in chords made of tied notes of different durations
12. An error in the custom harmonica tablature file structure could prevent proper reading of old files. The problem has been fixed, and the compatibility between versions restored
13. Harmony Assistant: problem when defining a harmonica without any hole
    
14. Harmony Assistant: "Microtonal accidentals" script
15. Windows: fixed problems when selecting digital output low quality mode.