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This page describes the improvements of Melody
and Harmony Assistant.
How does our version notation system work?
The version looks like this :
'X.Y.Z'.
- 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
Melody version 1.0 matches Harmony version 3.0.
If you own Melody, subtract 2 from
the
Harmony's
major
version
number
to
know
the
changes
made
in
your
version.
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Harmony Assistant
9.9.3
Melody Assistant
7.9.3
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January 2021
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Harmony 9.9.3c / Melody 7.9.3c - January 11th, 2021
Fixes
- Problem in music performance when rules are present
- Problem when playing tremolos
- Problem when printing : unwanted display of selection area
Harmony 9.9.3 / Melody 7.9.3 - January 5th, 2021
New
- Piano Roll staff type
- 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.
- On Mac,
management of multiple screens
- Note ornaments
on staves with tablature can have a
different positionning on the regular staff
and on the tablature
Improvements
- "Dock" palettes: global speed improvement,
better click reactivity
- Dock : Now possible to disable animation on
selected tools
- Real-time preview of the note being inserted
from proportional (computer) keyboard input.
- Graphical exports (FPCT, SVG, PDF) and Myrweb
now manage color gradients
- Start marker now managed in video export
- Improvement in double-click management
- User-defined keyboard shortcuts are displayed
in menus when possible
- Virtual Singer parameters are saved in
MusicXML files
- Alert when selecting hollow notehead in the
palette is only displayed once.
- macOS : Management of communication between
PDFtoMusic and Harmony via Myriad Manager
- Instruments for metronome are now displayed in
sound mixers
- Note cursor color follows the "display voices
in color" setting
- More accurate calculation for break symbols
(coda,
segno, endings) for a better active area
enabling to clck & drag them
- When moving break symbols (coda,
segno, endings) the symbols follows better the
mouse cursor
- When loading file, control of chord diagram
areas, and fixing of any weirdness (negative or
too large areas, etc)
- MyrScript
: New values to read and set areas and colord
for chord diagrams
- Many problems of borderline cases
in Virtual Singer, especially when a new voice
appears suddenly in a
staff, have been located and improved
- Management and selection of pixel sizes and
frame rate in video export
- New algorithm for changing note duration in
selection range, when
"Limit editing to one bar" is on: better
management of bar override
- Bar margins have been removed in automatic
rhythm pattern editing, in order to improve
readability
- Myrweb app has been improved to abide by the
XHTML syntax
- Improvement of automatic positionning of
visible area when editing lyrics and chords
- 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
- Windows only: in boxes with tabs (note edit,
accompaniments...)
possible to change tab by Ctrl Tab (next tab)
and Ctrl Shift Tab
(previous tab)
- 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.
- macOS: multithread mode in video export
- Now possible to abort video export just after
the sound track generation
- 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.
- Video export: possible to select font for
credits
- Video export: In order to improve text display
on background picture, possible to define a
colored shadow
- Improvement of preview centering on targeted
notehead when editing note
- Video export: background image with offset and
scale
- Video export: Load/Save last parameters in
preferences
- Grabbing area of bar margin handles have been
extended by 50% in order to ease their
adjustments
- Spoken voice (system): better management of
syllables timing when changing line on repeats
- Spoken voice (system): a bar without lyrics
when repeated says the previous line instead of
being mute
- 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
- 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
- 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
- New contextual menu in "stage" mode on the
complete mixer, in order to select all
instruments of a given type
- Improvement of export/import of multiple parts
in ABC format
- Improvement of "play selection range" mode on
digital audio tracks and Virtual Singer.
- Display of digital audio tracks on complex
cases
- Improvement of Piano chord diagrams
- When echo on note hovering was activated, some
ornaments (trills,
etc) could not sound exactly the same way than
when the score is played.
- 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.
- Editing
chords: better management of the defaut font
for the inserted text when editing globally
- Creating
a new document/Adding a staff: better
selection of the default instrument for
playing the chord line
- Simplified
input of "/" character when entering chord
line and lyrics
- Redesign
of the chord line edit window.
- Management
of WAV export of more than 44kHz / 16 bits
in MyrScript
- Text
staves: no more display of conditional
parts, segno and break symbol text
- Karaoke
mode: pausing lets the cursor where it
stopped
- Virtual
Singer: improvement of pronunciation for
some extended diphthongs in hungarian
- 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
Obsolete
- The « Activate information box about load
and save » mode is removed
- 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.
- After 17 years, application icons drawn by Mr
Walter Forrest are replaced by new versions
Changes
- Because it doesn't apply to page mode anymore,
the "Page mode tools" palette becomes "Blueprint
tools"
Fixes
- Channel numbers display in MIDI palette
- Management of the 12 MIDI devices in the MIDI
palette
- Text offset when editing objects related to
the staff
- Potential graphical problem in objects
position when importing MusicXML format
- Potential graphical problem in lyrics cell
positions
- Management of click on "Stop" button on the
progression window for long operations on
digital tracks and Virtual Singer
- Conversion of ghost rests to rests when
loading
- note position could shift when double-clicked
- Miscellaneous graphical display issues
- A jukebox list containing files from a more
recent version could loop on the "too recent
file" alert box
- "Miscellaneous" palette display in Aqua look
- Playing the jukebox could hang on the last
piece
- Impossible to cancel file saving when it
contained long digital tracks
- macOs : fixed file extension in Myrweb export
- Jukebox :
fixed problem when doing play / stop / Myrweb
export
- Street organ card printing only printed the
first page
- macOS : Fixed error that prevented the printed
document to get th eright name
- Truncated sentences in the Japanese version
- Problem of voice deactivation when printing
merged staves
- ABC export : wrong export when tempi with
non-integer values were present
- Interactions between jukebox play and time
position palette
- Name change on merged staves
- Odd/even page printing mode:
- Control handle display in print preview
- Control hand adjustment in print preview
- Distance display in page mode
- VSTi access problems from Harmony 64-bit
- Crash when double-clicking an empty cell on
accompaniment or rhythm grid
- Colors on additional/ledger lines (when a note
is above or below the regular 5 lines)
- Color of some special noteheads
- Myrweb app: Error when managing some
diacritics (UTF-8), that could display "???"
instead
- Jukebox: music start via spacebar was
resetting the current selection range in the
karaoke window
- Adjustment of control handles in Jukebox
karaoke mode
- Position problem when only a part of the
karaoke text was played
- Crash when importing a MusicXML file with no
music
- Selection display in the jukebox score area
- Display problem on merged (multi-voice)
tablature staves
- Improvement and validation of tuplet export in
ABC format
- macOS: graphic smudge on score progress line
display
- Problem of graphical inaccuracy in
hi-resolution rectangle display
- Windows: relative chords (by degree)
management has been activated
- Fixed crash when loading XML files that
contain more than 8000 measures
- Fixed
frozen application when the computer isn't
rebooted for several months.
- Windows:
problem of graphic corruption in zoom 125%
- When loading a file, string instruments could
be converted to MyrSynth instrument despite the
setting value
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