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Harmony Assistant 9.9.3 Melody Assistant 7.9.3	Jan-Feb 2021

Harmony 9.9.3e / Melody 7.9.3e - February 3rd, 2021

1. Special commands in chord lines
2. Management of chord inversion in chord lines
3. Maintained chords in chord lines
4. Multiple stacked chords for left hand in accordion tablatures
   
5. New chapter in the manual: chord lines
   
   

1. Possible to undo object position and size changes (dynamics, text, etc)
2. Better look of accompaniments when transferred to visible staves
3. User instruments are no more converted to MyrSynth
   
   

1. Fixed errors in management of undo on Views-related operations
2. Fixed errors in object editing (dynamics, text, etc) when modifiong several objects at a time
3. Fixed crash when changing general voolume in complete mixer.
4. Conversion of instruments to MyrSynth at loading time (macOS)
   
   

Harmony 9.9.3d / Melody 7.9.3d - January 25th, 2021

1. When a text is defined in a crescendo or a decrescendo, it is followed by a dotted line to show its range
2. A substitution text can now be defined for ottava symbols
3. Cautionary display for ottava and crescendo symbols at the start of a line can be set up for each document. It can also not be displayed by setting the 0 value.
4. The complet mixing palette has been redesigned. Several staves can now be selected to apply changes to the whole group.
   A contextual menu enables to select all instruments of the same kind (string, brass, drums...)
   The miscellaneous elements of the palette are commented in the Help window.
   Dark mode is now managed on this palette.
   
5. Selecting, resizing, moving "dynamics" objects (crescendo/decrescendo or ppp-fff) but also ottava, tempo and pedal objects is now easier in page mode when they extent on several lines
   
6. In the "Interface" tab of the global settings, possible to reactivate maskable alerts

1. Access to singer contextual menu from the Virtual Singer palette
2. Opening the manual deactivated the "?" menu
3. Fixed undo history
4. day/month Inversion in English in the document comments
   
5. Fixed merging of merged staff groups
6. Sensitive keyboard was activated in Melody Assistant, it is now fixed
7. Fixed Virtual Singer prononciation mistake of some single letters in French
   
8. Fixed error in the display position of conditional part marker (endings)
9. Fixed barline display on merged staves.
10. Fixed position problem for effects on harmonica tablature
    
11. Icons refresh when protecting/unprotecting a script
    
12. Fixed possible crash when saving an empty Interface composer file
    
13. Interface Composer and Floating window source files could not be password-protected. It has been fixed
    
14. Fixed edit problem on chord line related to stave
    
15. Fixed problem in history cleaning
16. Fixed "Solfiles : error 4" alert followed by a crash when loading some files
    

Harmony 9.9.3c / Melody 7.9.3c - January 11th, 2021

1. Problem in music performance when rules are present
   
2. Problem when playing tremolos
3. Problem when printing : unwanted display of selection area

  Harmony 9.9.3 / Melody 7.9.3 - January 5th, 2021

1. Piano Roll staff type
2. New item in the Edit menu : History. Enables to get quickly to any previous modification state of the score and instantly recover the document as it was at this time. Undo states can be saved in the file. 
3. On Mac, management of multiple screens
4. Note ornaments on staves with tablature can have a different positionning on the regular staff and on the tablature
   

1. "Dock" palettes: global speed improvement, better click reactivity
2. Dock : Now possible to disable animation on selected tools
3. Real-time preview of the note being inserted from proportional (computer) keyboard input.
4. Graphical exports (FPCT, SVG, PDF) and Myrweb now manage color gradients
5. Start marker now managed in video export
6. Improvement in double-click management
7. User-defined keyboard shortcuts are displayed in menus when possible
   
8. Virtual Singer parameters are saved in MusicXML files
   
9. Alert when selecting hollow notehead in the palette is only displayed once.
10. macOS : Management of communication between PDFtoMusic and Harmony via Myriad Manager
    
11. Instruments for metronome are now displayed in sound mixers
12. Note cursor color follows the "display voices in color" setting
13. More accurate calculation for break symbols (coda, segno, endings) for a better active area enabling to clck & drag them
14. When moving break symbols  (coda, segno, endings) the symbols follows better the mouse cursor
15. When loading file, control of chord diagram areas, and fixing of any weirdness (negative or too large areas, etc)
    
16.  MyrScript : New values to read and set areas and colord for chord diagrams
    
17. Many problems of borderline cases in Virtual Singer, especially when a new voice appears suddenly in a staff, have been located and improved
18. Management and selection of pixel sizes and frame rate in video export
19. New algorithm for changing note duration in selection range, when "Limit editing to one bar" is on: better management of bar override
20. Bar margins have been removed in automatic rhythm pattern editing, in order to improve readability
    
21. Myrweb app has been improved to abide by the XHTML syntax
22. Improvement of automatic positionning of visible area when editing lyrics and chords
23. New check box in note ornaments to force their position. When the note they are attached to is moved, these ornaments won't be automatically adjusted to improve readability
24. Windows only: in boxes with tabs (note edit, accompaniments...) possible to change tab by Ctrl Tab (next tab) and Ctrl Shift Tab (previous tab)
25. In accompaniment and rhythm grids, right-click on an empty cell: in the menu, an "Extend" option to extend the previous element in the grid up to this cell.
26. macOS: multithread mode in video export
27. Now possible to abort video export just after the sound track generation
28. When adding an ornament to a note via the array in note edit window, its position is automatically adjusted as it would be when added graphically on score.
29. Video export: possible to select font for credits
30. Video export: In order to improve text display on background picture, possible to define a colored shadow
31. Improvement of preview centering on targeted notehead when editing note
32. Video export: background image with offset and scale
33. Video export: Load/Save last parameters in preferences
34. Grabbing area of bar margin handles have been extended by 50% in order to ease their adjustments
35. Spoken voice (system): better management of syllables timing when changing line on repeats
36. Spoken voice (system): a bar without lyrics when repeated says the previous line instead of being mute
37. Video export: for an unknown reason, soundtracks in MP3 format weren't played when the video was played on Safari (macOS/iOS). Export format has been changed to AAC
38. Improvement of barlines position on clef/key change. By default, except at a line start, the barline (e.g. double barline) should appear after the clef
39. Management of cover pages when defining page header and footer. Adding a cover page won't change the alternating position of page number, nor the "except first page" mode
40. New contextual menu in "stage" mode on the complete mixer, in order to select all instruments of a given type
41. Improvement of export/import of multiple parts in ABC format
42. Improvement of "play selection range" mode on digital audio tracks and Virtual Singer.
43. Display of digital audio tracks on complex cases
44. Improvement of Piano chord diagrams
45. When echo on note hovering was activated, some ornaments (trills, etc) could not sound exactly the same way than when the score is played.
46. When activating/deactivating chords by degrees (relative chords) on the chord grid or on the staff chord line, the manually entered chord names are recalculated.
    
47. Editing chords: better management of the defaut font for the inserted text when editing globally
48. Creating a new document/Adding a staff: better selection of the default instrument for playing the chord line
49. Simplified input of "/" character when entering chord line and lyrics
50. Redesign of the chord line edit window.
51. Management of WAV export of more than 44kHz / 16 bits in MyrScript
52. Text staves: no more display of conditional parts, segno and break symbol text
53. Karaoke mode: pausing lets the cursor where it stopped
54. Virtual Singer: improvement of pronunciation for some extended diphthongs in hungarian
55. When a cautionary key change at end of line shows accidental cancellation by natural symbols, these natural symbols don't appear anymore on the key change at start of bnext line. This can change the look of existing scores
    

1. The « Activate information box about load and save » mode is removed
2. After 26 years of good and loyal service, the .mus file extension becomes obsolete in writing. Of course it will still be recognised in reading.
   
3. After 17 years, application icons drawn by Mr Walter Forrest are replaced by new versions

Changes

1. Because it doesn't apply to page mode anymore, the "Page mode tools" palette becomes "Blueprint tools"

1. Channel numbers display in MIDI palette
2. Management of the 12 MIDI devices in the MIDI palette
3. Text offset when editing objects related to the staff
4. Potential graphical problem in objects position when importing MusicXML format
5. Potential graphical problem in lyrics cell positions
6. Management of click on "Stop" button on the progression window for long operations on digital tracks and Virtual Singer
7. Conversion of ghost rests to rests when loading
8. note position could shift when double-clicked
9. Miscellaneous graphical display issues
10. A jukebox list containing files from a more recent version could loop on the "too recent file" alert box
11. "Miscellaneous" palette display in Aqua look
12. Playing the jukebox could hang on the last piece
13. Impossible to cancel file saving when it contained long digital tracks
14. macOs : fixed file extension in Myrweb export
15. Jukebox : fixed problem when doing play / stop / Myrweb export
16. Street organ card printing only printed the first page
17. macOS : Fixed error that prevented the printed document to get th eright name
18. Truncated sentences in the Japanese version
19. Problem of voice deactivation when printing merged staves
20. ABC export : wrong export when tempi with non-integer values were present
    
21. Interactions between jukebox play and time position palette
22. Name change on merged staves
23. Odd/even page printing mode:
    - Control handle display in print preview
    - Control hand adjustment in print preview
    - Distance display in page mode
24. VSTi access problems from Harmony 64-bit
25. Crash when double-clicking an empty cell on accompaniment or rhythm grid
26. Colors on additional/ledger lines (when a note is above or below the regular 5 lines)
27. Color of some special noteheads
28. Myrweb app: Error when managing some diacritics (UTF-8), that could display "???" instead
29. Jukebox: music start via spacebar was resetting the current selection range in the karaoke window
30. Adjustment of control handles in Jukebox karaoke mode
31. Position problem when only a part of the karaoke text was played
32. Crash when importing a MusicXML file with no music
33. Selection display in the jukebox score area
34. Display problem on merged (multi-voice) tablature staves
35. Improvement and validation of tuplet export in ABC format
36. macOS: graphic smudge on score progress line display
37. Problem of graphical inaccuracy in  hi-resolution rectangle display
38. Windows: relative chords (by degree) management has been activated
39. Fixed crash when loading XML files that contain more than 8000 measures
40. Fixed frozen application when the computer isn't rebooted for several months.
41. Windows: problem of graphic corruption in zoom 125%
42. When loading a file, string instruments could be converted to MyrSynth instrument despite the setting value