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Harmony Assistant 9.5 Melody Assistant 7.5 April 2010 - February 2011

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 9.5.0d / 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.

Harmony Assistant 9.5.1e / Melody Assistant 7.5.1e (June 17th 2010)

1. Fixed problems in mixers
2. Problem of stem direction in note edit window
3. Adjustments in MusicXML import
4. Item shifting in some languages in the print preview windows
5. Fixed CMF import
   
6. Bad positioning in score view when editing a note
7. Harmony Assistant: fixed PackFile and UnpackFile MyrScript functions
8. Harmony Assistant: fixed XMZ import
9. Windows: Crash on non-MMX compatible processors
10. Macintosh: possible error when extracting file lists

Harmony Assistant 9.4 Melody Assistant 7.4 April 2008 - March 2010

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-7th 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 crash 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 minor 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)

Harmony Assistant 9.4.7 / Melody Assistant 7.4.7 (April 21st 2009)

New features

1. A new mode, available in global setup, "Ornaments" section, enables to display an effect only once per chord, when the chord is built or changed.
   
2. Harmony Assistant: New script: Notation > Colors > Colorize accidented notes
3. New commands in text, page header and page footer: $A, document creation date, $U, document last change date
   
4. In "score" free objects, the displayed view can now be defined. The matching values have been added to MyrScript
   

Improvements

1. The program now loads faster
2. Smaller delay before music starts to play
3. Chord line/grid transposition, when chords are frozen, i.e. entered manually by the user:
   Better management of enhatmonucs, and management of the bass note (chords wih "/")
4. Improvement of grace note detection while quantizing
5. Improvement of slur positionning on priority tablatures
6. Better vertical positionning of slurs on non-priority guitar tablatures
7. In scroll mode, page starts are now shown by a thicker line than line starts
8. Shape notes: square notehead appearance has been changed
9. MIDI Export: MIDI time base has been optimized
10. MIDI Import: Improvement of the graphical appearance of the result score
11. MIDI Import: Automatic minimal quantize is applied only when necessary
12. ABC Import: instruments are better managed
13. "Mask palettes" and "Unmask palettes" keyboard shortcuts are now merged into "Mask/Unmask palettes"
14. Default starting values of crescendi/decrescendi are now set according to the previous dynamics. Ending value is +/- 20% of the starting value.
15. Default width of crescendi/decrescendi has been divided by two.
16. Automatic computation of slur direction when building chords
17. Improvement of display and positionning of Marcato.
18. Improvement of ornament position when placed above or below the staff: noteheads are now avoided
    
19. Homogeneisation of lyrics control handle between scroll mode and page mode.
20. In scroll mode, ornaments related to the note and set to "invisible" are now shown in light gray (as in page mode)
    
21. Protection against deleted folders when running the application
22. Improvement of arrow ending lines display
23. In the quick selection of chords in chord line, octaves and inversion are taken into account
    
24. Better default position for fingering ornaments
25. Minor graphic fix when moving free objects
26. When a free object is locked, the mouse pointer shows a padlock.
27. Virtual Singer: new management of words written uppercase: they are spelled only if each letter is followed by a dot. For instance, G.P.S. and NATO
    
28. MusicXML import: drum staves that use the "unpitched" tag are now properly managed
29. Harmony Assistant: Palette scripts included in user palettes close when clicking again on thier icon
    
30. Harmony Assistant: Improvement of the Noteworthy import module
31. Harmony Assistant: In some cases, it could be diffucult to edit the lyrics line by clicking on it.
    
32. Windows: the MIDI input test is now more responsive
33. Windows: Better keyboard management for characters available through Ctrl + Alt

Fixes

1. Fixed a problem of Japanese staff names in the merged staves contextual menu
2. Fixed lyrics text display and preview in the staff selector in Japanese
3. When changing orchestra in the new score box, some names could be improperly translated
4. Fixed problem of "Num Lock" key management. In some dialog boxes, pressing this key or using an external keypad could make the box close.
5. Some score files containing digital tracks or RealSinger voices couldn't be loaded. This is fixed.
6. Fixed Tempo objects selection.
7. Fixed some sounds of the GMSE sound base
8. Fixed problem in music scrolling when asking for playing music from the cursor
9. Fixed possible crash with some staff templates
10. Fixed keyboard shortcut for resetting palettes
11. Fixed problem of copy/paste/add on digital tracks
12. Fixed display problems on bar numbers
13. Fixed note insertion on standard staff in priority tablature mode
14. Fixed note insertion on tablature in non priority tablature mode
15. BMP files drawn from top to bottom are now properly managed
16. Text in MIDI export: an extra character was added at the end. It could confuse some MIDI/Karaoke players
17. Fixed problem when erasing fine positions
18. Fixed problem on target caption background
19. Fixed problem in reverberation curve management
20. Fixed miscellaneous problems when working in scroll mode on a bar located after the end of the score
21. Fixed accidental color display problem in chords
22. Hiding the bar on the left of the systems when staves are merged is now correct on screen
    
23. ABC Export: fixed problem when title is styled
24. ABC Export: fixed crash when some pieces of text were too long.
    
25. ABC Import: fixed pronmem when the "/" character was part of a chord name. The default alignment of chords will be "left".
26. Accented chord line names in mixer palettes
27. Crash when searching a text for a word
28. Fixed file name extension problem with .bak files
29. Dutch interface has been amended
30. Crash when pressing the Esc key while clicking the "new document" icon*
31. Wrong paper size settings from "Preview > Options > Paper size"
32. Problems when trying a note on the MIDI output from "Note Options" window.
33. Possible crash when editing a rule that uses the default instrument
34. Crash when editing an instrument related to a staff with rules, when the music stopped playing.
35. Target icon could disappear in the ruler when the score contains views.
36. When adjusting slurs placed on tied notes, an infinite loop (program frozen) could occur
37. Dots on chords located out of the display area could still appear, aligned on the left edge of the document window
38. When inserting a free object on an empty score, a crash could occur (more frequently on Windows)
39. A crash could occur while editing the lyrics line, especially after a MusicXML import.
    
40. Virtual Singer: the singer could be out of tune when singing some chords
41. Melody Assistant: Fixed problem when play tools palette was rotated
42. Melody Assistant: possible crash when using an accordion score template
43. Harmony Assistant: Wrong scale bounding and possible crash when resizing the document window
44. Harmony Assistant: Possible crash when adding a script to a user palette
45. Harmony Assistant: Problems in Japanese script name translation
46. Harmony Assistant: Fixed octave offset in chord grid contextual menu
    
47. Harmony Assistant: preferences loading: the value for the delay in milliseconds of the 11th MIDI output wasn't properly read
48. Harmony Assistant: Fixed pop-up menu in accordion tablatures
    
49. Harmony Assistant: Fixed problem when editing rhythm matrix by right-click
    
50. Harmony Assistant: Notepad 2000 file import is now functional
51. Harmony Assistant: Fixed "Note names" script on merged staves
52. Harmony Assistant: Fixed "Ossias" script. Selected bars were improperly managed
53. Harmony Assistant: When editing views, the "Printing options" button was active even when no view is selected. Clicking this button could then make the program crash
54. Harmony Assistant: Fixed a problem on the merged staves contextual menu when the staff name begins with "-"
    
55. Windows: the printing task lost its name the second time "Print page" is clicked
    
56. Windows: Workaround for a problem related to the Nuance PaperPort 11 PDF printer driver.  A malfunction in this driver made the application quit with the message "Can't find resource file 'Toccata.rsr'". The application now work around this problem, the device driver designer apparently not willing to fix it.
57. Windows: possible crash when printing scores that embed black & white pictures

Harmony Assistant 9.3 Melody Assistant 7.3 April 2007

News

1. MusicXML 1.1 import and export. The MusicXML format is now plainly and natively managed as a standard format in Harmony Assistant. MusicXML files can be imported through "File>Open", and exported through "File>Export>MusicXML"
   The MusicXML export is also available in Batch export and in the Web page generator, because Myriad Plug-in v5.3 now manages this format.
   Melody Assistant imports MusicXML files but cannot export them.
   
2. Harmony Assistant: Export in packed MusicXML format (.xmz)
3. Harmony Assistant and Melody Assistant: Import in packed MusicXML format (.xmz)

Improvements

1. A "Repeat previous bar" symbol followed by a "Repeat two previous bars" is now properly played.
2. Breve notehead vertical position has been adjusted.
3. When lyrics line overlap the next staff, it is now still possible to edit them through the "Text" tool. Lasso and Pencil tools also apply.
4. Improvement in 8va,8vb,15ma,15mb positionning relatively to the clef display scale
5. Right-clicking a rest edits it
6. "Edit>Appearance>General" enables to add/modify "text" effects
7. Double-clicking the text style edit palette shrinks it to an icon
8. Harmony Assistant: new version of the Encore import module

Fixes

1. Empty staves deletion when the "allow multi-rest bars" mode is deactivated.
2. In some cases, closing a window through the "Enter" key could erase the styled text field.
3. Fixed inconsistencies when editing a text with a scale greater than 100%
4. MP3 information text export
5. Selection range playback when "repeat previous bar" symbols are present.
6. "Low memory" message when moving an effect of null area
7. "Repeat two last bars" symbol position in non-engraver mode
8. Canceling on the play start marker when several levels of playback were present
9. ABC import, crash on "x4" pattern
10. Merged staves moving in Staff > Add staff
11. Color problems (white notes when score is scrolling)
12. Crash in the document template selector, when reducing the number of bars, then forcing the number of groups
    
13. Targets are properly shifted when measures are deleted.
14. Melody Assistant: key signature problems when loading files that had been saved by Harmony Assistant in "concert key" mode
15. Harmony Assiststant: Crash in "scroll mode" when rotating staff titles that are not displayed in page mode
16. Harmony Assiststant: no more choice of time signature when selecting a template with accompaniments
17. Harmony Assiststant: Error in character strings comparisons in MyrScript
18. Windows: Crash when importing some filed obtained through a TEF import. In conjunction with the HIPS protection of the Kerio/Sunbelt firewall, could lead to a blue screen.
    
19. Windows: more or less frequent crash, when opening or using the file selector (bug in Windows XP)
20. Macintosh: printing multiple copies
21. MacTel: In some cases, an empty alert box appeared at program start
22. MacTel: Crash when editing slur parameters
23. MacTel: MIDI input
24. MacTel: OMeR license registration

Harmony Assistant 9.2 Melody Assistant 7.2 June 2006

News

1. New document wizard for creating new scores, the user being able to add, remove or move staves to and from the predefined template
2. Unicode characters management (Mac OS X and Windows).
3. Concert key edit mode, in which transposing instruments appear untransposed (Options>Display transposed score)
   
4. Styled text in title, composer name, remarks, text objects related to staves, text as free objects, song lyrics, page header and footer, note text effect, tempi, dynamics.
5. Rotation angle for texts.
6. Fine adjustment of score appearanceon a per-document basis ("Score> Display setup" menu) : lines and ledger lines thickness, key signature element spacing (distance between clef and key, key and time signature, accidentals in key, etc), barline appearance and thickness,  and display adjustments for notes, accidentals, dots,  effects, tie symbols, multi-rests, repeated bars, lyrics, tablature, etc...
7. Accidentals in a chord automatically avoid overlapping
8. Dot on an eighth avoid to overlap with the stem drawing.
   
9. Edit Targets in the document, available through an icon in the placard (bottom-left area of the document window). Targets are created at the current selection position, and the user can quickly go to a target or play music from a given target (right-click on the play icon).
10. Multiple user-defined palettes : up to 8 independent palettes.
    
11. Chord diagrams are saved along with the document, their appearance remains constant whatever the user chord diagram database is.
12. When defining a fretted instrument for calculating tablatures, the instrument can be used for displaying chord diagrams.
13. Distances digital display for objects in page mode.
14. New placard in page and scroll mode, enabling to go quickly to any page or bar number.
15. A slur is displayed above unbreakable spaces in lyrics. This can be set up in the staff appearance box.
16. Tilt, thickness and offset between beams can be set up in the staff appearance box, "Lines and beams" section.
17. In the ruler, if the "physical" bar number is different from the score "logical" bar number, both are displayed.
18. New kind of barline: "simple" kind, that enables for example to display the standard barline after a clef change.
19. New appearance for slur, straight line.
20. The arpeggio symbol can show the arpeggio direction. Its size can also be changed.
21. Page header and footers can be not displayed on the document first page.
22. Display scale when editing text in order to ease the job when font size is small
    
23. List of bar numbers to be played can be forced in the break symbol edit box
24. Management of file names that are long or contain non-occidental characters.
25. Effects can be displayed according to the note stem direction.
26. Reserved pages (defined in printing options). You can reserve a few pages at the beginning of the document, not counted in page numbering, on which free objects can be added.
27. Symbol for repeating the two previous bars (.//.)
28. Harmony Assistant: 12 simultaneous MIDI output (ports), enabling up to 192 channels
29. MIDI Import/Export: management of multi-device MIDI files (more than 16 channels)
30. First version for Intel based Macintosh computers
31. The software interface can be searched for keywords (Help > Search).
32. Automatic calculation of the document display scale when its window is resized (can be switched off from Global setup, "Screen" topic, or by holding the Shift key down)
33. Individual selection of effect color.
34. Now possible to define the default note stem direction for each staff: depending on the note pitch, always upward or always downward (Staves>Staff display mode>Staff lines)

Improvements

1. Objects position on screen remains identical to the printed page, whatever the view scale is
2. Improvement of score appearance on screen (antialiasing)
   
3. Proportional scroll bars.
4. Slur performance audio settings in "Edit>Appearance>General"
5. Beam grouping pattern has been extended in order to manage all possible time signatures
   
6. Resizeable trills
7. Right-click on a slur to change its way of playing and display direction quickly
8. The "muted note" effects is displayed on tablature without cell number.
9. Barline or repeat barline within a bar. Deleting this symbols merge the two parts of the bar together again.
10. Music start and end, repeat start and end barlines can be only graphical (no effect on score performance)
11. In page mode when control handles are active, invisible rests are displayed in light gray.
12. Virtual keyboard is now resizeable. Number of displayed octaves can be defined, and matching with keyboard shortcuts can be displayed.
13. The "tuplet" mode deactivates when duration changes (can be activated in global setup, "Palettes" tab)
    
14. Harmonica tablature: vertical position of numbers and symbols can be inverted
15. Chromatic harmonica tablature: stem can be displayed as a circle around the hole number.
16. Windows: new management for printers and screen display.
17. Automatic alignment of dynamics, ottava, tempo, etc, when inserted on score.
18. Mac OS X: management of HFSX formatted hard disks (case-sensitive)
19. Mac OS: when importing a sound resource file, the resource to be imported can be selected when more than one.
20. When one or several bars are inserted through Edit>Bars>Insert, it is possible to specify the tome signature of the inserted bars.
21. Staff name area origin can be specified in order to ease name alignment
22. Crescendo and decrescendo symbols can be substituted by a text.
23. The $L pattern, in a dynamics caption, draws an horizontal dashed line to the right edge of the dynamics area.
24. Windows: font smoothing mode for GUI can be selected (Global setup, "Theme" tab)
25. MyrScript: tree view for arrays and structures in the MyrScript variable browser.
26. Now possible to define default values for new tablatures.
27. Chord grid is printed using a number of colums equal to 4 or multiple of 8.
28. Grace notes are added at the right pitch (no need to edit them afterwards).
29. Horizontal shift for grace note groups.
30. Switching a document from page to scroll mode when automatic resizing is on doesn't show a useless vertical scroll bar anymore.
31. Better appearance of beaming when tilt is big
32. Virtual Singer: Now possible to write [xxx]yyy at the beginning of the staff to set the default syllable to be sung to xxx while yyy is displayed.
33. The normalized digital export of an empty score now generates an empty digital audio file
34. Icons dropped on user palettes are magnetized while the Command (Ctrl) key remains pressed
35. Note heads are now perfectly centered vertically on staff and ledger lines.
36. When a files uses a font that is not included in your system, the closest font is selected instead.
37. Upbeat bar: now possible to select a duration that matches a double-dotted note.
38. Masking a time signature change on an individual staff has been made easier (time signature tool in the "Clef" tool palette)
39. Improved and completed Japanese version

Changes

1. Graphical objects fine settings are no more defined for the whole application, but on a per document basis. The option is then moved from the global settings to the "Score" menu.
2. Printing settings has been simplified: in the global setup, you just have to define the minimal horizontal and vertical line thickness for printer.
3. Ghost rests display, accidentals on all octaves can now be set up independently for each document. It is therefore moved to "Score > Display setup"
4. Path to the temporary files can now be changed from the "Path" tab of the global setup
5. Change in default length for note stem : notes from half to sixteenth now have the same stem length.
   
6. Change in appearance of 15ma and 15mb ottavi
7. If, in a previous version, you entered text in a non-western font other Japanese (Arab, Russian, etc), they might not appear properly in the new version. The Unicode management should however ease your job in the future.
8. Automatic beaming includes now triplet rests in groups of triplet notes.
9. Break symbols other than barlines (Coda, Segno, numbered parts...) are now also displayed on "Text" staves.

Fixes

1. Street organ card printing: the "Minimal distance between two punches" now works in "Vertical mirror" mode
2. Dot size when note scale is different from 100%
3. Time signature displayed as a reminder at the end of previous line.
4. Harmonica tablature: symbol shift is now working.
5. Virtual Singer: In Finnish, amendment for pronunciation of W, C and Z
6. Crash fixed in special beam and slur management
7. Possible crash when playing a note that contains many grace notes as well as a mordent or grupetto effect
8. Panning position problem in MIDI output/export when a panning position curve is present.
9. Harmony Assistant: Possible crash when using the "Follow played staves" and "Split chords" scripts
10. Problem when playing very long notes (several whole notes tied with a slur symbol) with some instruments.
11. "Note" cursor erasing when moving from one sub-window to another.
12. Yamaha style file import through File>Import menu option
13. Fixed sung notes in Fasola mode
14. Fixed problem when creating a double-stem note in a chord
15. Fixed problem when performing slurs in a staff that contains bar repeat symbols
16. Fixed header in exported BMP files, that could make them unreadable with some drawing programs
17. Fixed position of notes with invisible heads
18. Fixed crash on some copy/paste operations on staves with rules (e.g. standard drum staves)
19. In some cases, wrong count of multi-rest bars.
20. Problem in staves fine positions after bar deletion
21. Better transfer of staves fine positions from page mode to scroll mode
22. Possible crash when bar margins are too important on a digital track
23. Possible crash when exporting an empty staff as .MUX file from the trial version of Melody
24. Unexpected results when selecting another tool while inserting a slur or a special beam
25. Windows: fixed some case of staff lines disappearing from printed page when hidden bars are present in the score

Minor versions

Harmony Assistant v9.2.1 / Melody Assistant v7.2.1  - May 23rd 2006

1. Change in templates for joining barlines of staves included in a brace.
2. Improvement of clef, key and time signature. The three items now behave independently from each other.
3. Less antialiasing on horizontal lines.
4. Text object related to the staff are justified again within their frame.
5. When pasting a dynamics, the cursor doesn't jump anymore to the beginning of the score.
6. Improvement of manual beaming, that affected the note just before the selection range.
7. New version of the Germand manual.
8. In non-antialiased mode, better positionning of staff lines.
9. Text wrapping in the karaoke window area in order to avoid right overlapping.
10. Better triplet group display in special text.
11. Harmony Assistant: fixed accented character management in accompaniment and rhythm names. Names with accented characters that have been created using version 9.2.0 may not appear properly in the grid.
12. Fixed problem in MIDI playing when forcing MIDI output at file load/import.
13. Fixed: "display multi-repeat bars" doesn't activate "display multi-rest bars" anymore
14. Fixed crash when stopping .msf file playing in automatic start mode.
    
15. Fixed language change management in Virtual Singer
16. Fixed problem in new document wizard
17. MMPlug: chord diagram display when related to the chord line.
18. MMPlug: title display when non-latin characters are used.
19. Windows: fixed problem in MIDI device selection
20. Windows: Japanese version of the file extension selector
21. Windows 95,98,ME: fixed problems with some printer drivers
22. MacTel: Fixed communication problems between Melody/Harmony and OMeR.
23. Mac OS X: Fixed MIDI input deactivation.

Harmony Assistant v9.2.2 / Melody Assistant v7.2.2  - June 1st 2006

1. Fixed: hiding empty staves when "enable multi-rest bars" was deactivated
2. Shorter delay when starting music
3. Harmony: Problem of page setting change when starting to play some scores in engraved mode
4. Harmony: More comprehensible alert message when applying a transposing instrument to a non-transposed score
   
5. MacTel: Fixed empty alert display at startup in some cases.

Harmony Assistant 9.1 Melody Assistant 7.1 April-October 2005

News

1. The play start mark includes the line number (if the part is repeated several times)
   
2. For each system, the staff base line, lyrics position, chord line position, bar number position, tablature position, staff height, display of the miscellaneous lyrics lines, left position of each system and right position of each justified system can be adjusted.
   This enables to adjust on a system basis the staff height and item layout. This can only be performed in page mode. Melody users can change these settings from the print preview.
   
3. Title, comments and author markers are displayed in page mode to help aligning these items while moved.
4. Independent setting for ledger lines, note stems, barlines, break symbols, slurs, effects between screen and printing/export (Global setup)
5. New management for staff groups. Number of groups is not limited. A group is enclosed in a bracket, a brace, an incomplete bracket, a bold line or nothing. The horizontal position of this symbol can be adjusted.
   Each group defines the way bar lines of the enclosed staves are connected: without connection, standard connection, Mensurstrich connection. A complete and abbreviated name is related to each group,  and position of these names can be adjusted finely.
     To add a group, click on the left of the system, outside the area of any object. To move horizontally a group symbol, click in its middle. To change the staves that are included in this symbol, click its ends. To edit group settings, click its symbol while pressing Shift key, or using the right mouse button. A tutorial explains this.
6. New graphical object type: line. The matching tool is located in the "Miscellaneous tools" palette. A line can be plain, dotted, dashed or wavy. Its ends can be of different bracket shapes or arrows.
7. Harmony. In split window mode, an option in the "Options" meny synchronizes all the sub-windows that display a scroll mode view.
8. Harmony. New script for instrumentists: follow played staves
9. New note head shape: hollow head.
10. Now possible to play a few bars of metronome before music starts playing (Global setup)
11. Digital instruments can now be made of up to four layers. These layers enable to select a different sound according to the played note velocity. If the velocity bounds for two layers are not consecutive, a cross-fade is performed.
    
12. In instruments that use digital sounds, it is possible to give decay and release a partially logarithmic shape that can be adjusted from completely linear (0) to completely logarithmic (100)
13. In instruments that use digital sounds, it is possible to start the sound decay only once the loop point is reached.
14. New high-quality modes in the audio data calculation in order to reduce aliasing effects
    
15. Lossless packing of digital tracks and custom digital instruments. This packing scheme is applied when the "Pack standard files" option is enabled in "Configuration>Global setup>Save"
16. New setting for each grace note: velocity (power).
    
17. "Display real duration" setting for rests. Such a rest will be always displayed using its real duration, even if the "pause fills the bar" mode is activated on the staff.
18. Slur can be played by covering the piano white keys.
19. Dynamics can be applied to all merged staves (default) or only to the staff that owns it.
20. Possible to define whether a dynamic symbol is printed or not.
21. "Midi import" section: check box to keep as is the MIDI sounds that do not belong to the GM2 standard (then they are switched to "user" mode)
22. "Midi import" section: check box to keep as is the staff (track) names, as they are stored in the file.
23. "Open Recent" menu: option to erase the menu content.
    
24. Quick voice creation in a multi-voice staff through the voice menu. A tutorial explains this.
25. Voice display using different colors (Edit>Multi-voice staves menu) A tutorial explains this.
26. Quantizing: velocity taken into account on grace notes
27. A click on the information icon of a sound in the GOLD sound base opens a Web pages that provides information about the instrument.
    
28. Right-clicking (or Shift+left click) on most of the objects opens a menu that enables to edit this object (equivalent to a double-click)
29. Dutch version of the program interface
30. Harmony Assistant: Palette (Scripts>Notation>Miscellaneous>Accordion) to add accordion-specific symbols
31. Harmony Assistant (Scripts>Digital Sounds>Clip restoration): script for rebuilding clipped data in a digital track.
32. Harmony Assistant (Scripts>Digital Sounds>Generate Instrument Group): script for generating a custom digital instrument by mixing of several predefined sounds from  the current sound base
33. Harmony Assistant (Scripts>Digital Sounds>Force parameters in digital sound): sets the parameters of all samples in a user-defined digital sound. It enables to change attack, decay, release time, logarithmic transitions, infinite loop, or decay after loop values without having to edit all the samples one by one.
    

Enhancements

1. Management of melisma on rests
2. Script editing: jump to function definition through the contextual menu.
3. Offset between special beams and note stems can be adjusted (for tremolo). A tutorial explains this.
4. Note setting editing: note moved through Ctrl+fleche and staff change.
5. The maximum number of voices in digital output is now 512.
6. Improvement in rendering of grace notes, trills, note groups (tremolo), note by note glissendo, grupetto, mordent: better timbre, layered instrument management, tempo change management...
   
7. When clicked using the hammer tool or inserted on score, note velocity is taken into accound when playing echo.
8. Windows: management of words by word movements, and keyboard selection range in text input areas. Processing of Ctrl+Ins as "Copy", Shift+Ins as "Paste" and Shift+Del as "Cut".
   
9. Alignment selection for staff names that are written on several lines.
10. Special patterns in text free objects.
11. Virtual Singer: better timing of syllables sung on melisma.
12. Now possible to define whether specific text is displayed in front of the tablature
13. Now possible to insert symbols on regular staff in "Priority to tablature" mode
14. New kind of free object: inverted bracket and brace
15. Clef reminder at start of each line are now displayed in 100% scale, unless overriden by a "real" clef change at this bar.
16. Better transposing of chord lines, especially in minor keys.
17. Better transposing of notes when changing clef on a staff that includes hidden clef changes.
18. Windows: When editing keyboard shortcuts, shortcuts that use the Alt key are forbidden
19. Windows: in dialog boxes, jump to previous editable field through Shift+Tab
    

Changes

1. Because staff group management has changed, the selection of staves to be printed is made through File>Printing options.
2. Staff groups from older files are converted when loaded, and follow the "brace then bracket" order, which is more standard.
3. By default, a trill starts from the altered note pitch, not by the pitch of the main note.
   

Fixes

1. Mac OS X: crash when music stops playing in Quicktime output mode.
2. Fixed crashes that could occur when printing embedded pictures in PICT (.pct) format.
   
3. Fixed crash when the chord line contains a very long chord name and the chord diagrams are displayed or chords are played.
4. Fixed problem in special text size (music symbols in a text object)
   
5. Fixed freeze when performing operations on an empty digital track
6. Fixed crash in rhythm editing
7. "Liquescens" display in Grégorian notation
   
8. Windows 95/98/ME Clef symbols appearing at end of line while printing
9. Gregorian editing
   
10. Parameters of multi-voice staves
11. Fixed crash in user instrument edit: search for decay and release on an empty sample
12. In the script editor, a click on the empty area at the top of the window ran the script.
13. Crash when using $L (lyrics insert) in page header and footer.
14. Windows: Crash when editing some text objects
15. Wrong accidental on the first note when applying a diatonic pitch shift (+/- one degree)
16. Triplet beaming problem on scores that include time signature changes
17. Display problem on notes that are beamed to a tied note over a barline (wrong management of the previous bar right margin)
18. Windows: problem when closing some dialog boxes by a click on the close box.
19. Windows: problem for moving grace notes on score using the "Select" tool.
    

Minor Versions

Harmony 9.1.1/Melody 7.1.1

1. Windows: work around a malfunction of some printer drivers under Windows 95, 98 and ME: if a "ForceFPUMask.txt" file is present in the application install directory, then the program periodically resets the processor into a stable state.
   

1. Lyrics line finding on multi-voices staves when lines overlap.
   
2. Bar numbering on multi-voice staves now always apply to the first merged staff.
3. Caption for "semitone offset" keyboard shortcuts.
4. Page setup: Better management of when there is not enough space on first page to display at least one staff.
5. Barline junction when staves are hidden
6. In some cases, the grouping symbol could apply to only one staff.
7. Rendering of "Pull" effects after loading a file older than Harmony 9.0/Melody 7.0
8. Slur rendering when the staff contains a bar repeat symbol (%)
   
9. Automatic stem direction when a Bb note is inserted on middle line.
10. Fixed intermittent problems when running the application, while another sound base than GOLD was used.

Harmony 9.1.2/Melody 7.1.2

1. Quick voice delete through the voice menu
2. More time left to the system when music is playin in non-page mode without scrolling
   

1. Delete empty staves on multi-voice staves
2. Management of delay before slur when loading files created before version 8.4 (Harmony)/6.4 (Melody)
3. "Delay before slur" slider: unit is 256th of a quarter note instead of 100th of second, and it is now possible to set its value up to 1024 (whole note)
4. ABC Import: fixed "buffer overflow" when title is very long, and removal of carriage returns when displaying titles in the list

Harmony 9.1.3/Melody 7.1.3

1. Minor problems fixed

Harmony 9.1.4/Melody 7.1.4

1. Better size of the preview window before a graphical export.
2. Program stability improvement: development of a custom validation tool, that enabled to get rid of 45 potential crash sources.
3. Harmony: New script (Scripts>Notation>Notes>Split on beat) that splits selected notes in order not to let them cross a beat (changes them into tied notes)
   

1. Fixed: Crash when playing an empty jukebox through the spacebar key
2. Tablature computation when tuning is changed
3. Slur performance on staves with rules
   
4. Fixed: Problem when changing rule set
5. Fixed: Wrong saving/loading of grace note velocity
6. Harmony Assistant: Fixed: "Edit>Add" remained active when pasting in Album.
7. Color and icon related to files in the Jukebox window.

Harmony 9.1.5/Melody 7.1.5

1. Windows: When editing some text, ghost characters could remain at end of line.
2. Problem when displaying a jukebox list larger than 2050 items
3. Harmony Assistant: Problem in page mode for viewing selection range on a digital track

1. Break symbol display on staves with priority to tablature
2. Possible crash when using some sounds of the GMSE sound base
3. Harmony Assistant: Fixed problems in script editor: breakpoints and scroll bar management
4. Fixed crash in MSF import (OMeR files)
5. Fixed problem of staff line thickness after printing
6. Harmony Assistant : Possible crash when selecting a predefined drum pattern
7. Harmony Assistant : Problem when changing instrument (accompaniment, drums, chords) while music is playing
8. Saving digital tracks in a packed standard file: problem when the track contains empty areas.
9. Possible crash when using Mensurstrich barlines on an invisible first staff.
10. Myrscript : Fixed problem when writing parameters in a DigitalTrack object
11. Problem for shifting edited text  through Pg Up and Pg Down keys (script edit)
12. Possible crash when changing general tempo on a score that include a digital track
13. Copy/paste of a pattern that contains special beams

Harmony 9.1.6/Melody 7.1.6

1. ABC Import and Export: slurs, ties, chord with different note duration, related text positionning.
2. Contextual menu in print preview (right click) to delete fine position adjustements.
3. When moving an object, the mouse shape shows whether the move is allowed.
4. Mouse pointer shape in digital staff edit box
5. Tablature calculation when switching from a regular staff to a priority tablature

1. Harmony: Changing staff chord line instrument when music is playing
2. Harmony: Validating an accompaniment pattern when a voice (merged staves) has been added
3. Harmony: Software exit when editing an Interface Composer element
   

Harmony 9.1.7/Melody 7.1.7 - July 11th 2005

1. "Don't print empty staves" manages time signature changes.
2. Better management for identical and successive clef, key and time signature changes
   
3. Preview of clefs, time and key signature in the related edit box.
4. Invisible effects are displayed in gray (in page mode with displayed control handles)
5. Now possible not to print some tempo, pedal or ottava objects.
6. Rule generation/disposing delay when starting/stopping music has been reduced.
7. Staccatissimo effect as a stretched dot (Kiel)

1. Unknown notes on "priority to tablature" staves are no more changed to rests.
2. Barlines on "priority to tablature" staves wen regular staff is displayed.
3. Breakpoint display in Myrscript on split windows.
4. Problems when copying/pasting notes
5. Problem when displaying notes tied over a barline (previous bar right margin improperly taken into account)
6. GOLD sound base cache corruption problem (empty instrument list)
7. In MIDI output, smooth slurs could be played as several separate notes.
8. Problem in ABC format export

Harmony 9.1.8/Melody 7.1.8- September 2005

1. It is now possible to "freeze" the fingering calculation, in a note basis, on non-priority tablatures. The note contextual menu (right click or Shift click) enables to do this. A "frozen" note won't be computed and will always keep the fingering that the user set.
   
   When a note is moved or inserted on the standard staff, its fingering is automatically computed. It's the same for transposition of pitch shifting.
   When a note is moved or inserted on the tablature part, it is automatically "frozen".
   
   A "frozen" note is displayed in a specific color (in scroll mode or in page mode when control handle are displayed). This color can be changed in the global setup, "Appearance" topic.
   
   
2. Possible to specify that an end of line won't occur after a bar. This enables for instance not to break a bar that have been divided into two parts by a clef change.
   

1. "Shamisen" mode for tablature display
   
2. Better positionning of objects in different scales
3. Harmony : Import script for Encore, MusicTime and Rhapsody files
   
4. Harmony : Import script GuitarPro files
   
5. Harmony : Import script for NoteWorthy Composer files
   
6. Harmony : Import via a script can be made directly from File>Open menu option (on Windows, also by drag and drop)
   

1. Repeat end and music end barlines are displayed on tablatures
   
2. Brackets and braces display in some cases (hidden empty staves)
3. Bar number display on multi-voice staves
4. Joint barlines between staves are displayed on tablatures
5. Windows: Fixed a problem on "Print" icon in some text edit boxes
6. Windows: Fixed a problem while changing note duration of a non-continuous selection, in "limit to one bar" edit mode
7. Windows: Fixed a problem of minimized windows restoration

Harmony 9.1.9/Melody 7.1.9- October 2005

1. Harmony : Import for Finale® files: .mus and .etf format. The complete list of the file types that can be imported or exported is available here
2. It is now possible to define, for each staff, the maximum angle (tilt) for beams. It ranges from 0 (always horizontal) to 100 (no constraint). This can be done through the "Staff lines" section of the staff display settings.
   

1. A slur symbol can now be made invisible by setting its width to 0
2. When inserting or deleting bars, notes that are tied over the the insert point or delete area are taken into account
3. Better positionning for objects when overlapping the bar start margin
4. Time signature for the miscellaneous staves are now aligned
   
5. Harmony: MyrScript floating palettes speeded up
6. Harmony: Improvement in moving and resizing free objects

1. Reverb and Equalizer effect processors are now properly reset when music loops (continuous play)
2. Fixed crash when playing a MIDI file from the jukebox or selecting a predefined drum pattern
3. Fixed problem in showing lyrics when a lyric cell contains a very long text
   
4. Fixed problems when using vertical mirror while music is playing
5. Fixed display problem on name above chord diagram in the chord grid, when left-aligned
6. No more change in size of the first bar when playing some pieces
7. Fixed display problem of multi-rests at the end of a line
   
8. Harmony: Fixed display problems of breakpoints in the script editor
9. Windows: Fixed problem in page mode, preventing a proper update of the low and right area of document windows

Harmony Assistant 9.0 Melody Assistant 7.0 July-December 2004

• Special beaming, widely configurable
• Slur and beam between notes belonging to different staves
• Conditional dynamics: Tacets, Repeat and fade out, etc.
• Staff lines masking: ossias, gap before coda, etc.
• Fine tempo management
• etc
  

News

1. Discontinuous symbol selection.The discontinuous selection enables now to select symbols individually, for example two notes among the four in a chord, all and only the rests in a bar, etc. A new chapter, in the manual, provide details on this.
2. Movie management using MyrScript
3. Scripts to import and export files using system codecs.
4. Scripts to handle movies: adding a soundtrack to a movie, create slideshow with static images, adding lyric texts to a video (some features are not available on Windows version)
5. New version of "Print conductor" script
6. Vocoder Script (DATVOC item in democratic workshop)
7. MIDI input is not stopped after end of music (CONTMIDIN item in democratic workshop)
8. Selected notes can be shifted by one diatonic degree (one inter-line space) up or down. Matching keyboard shortcuts are also available.
9. In tempo change object, note size can be changed.
10. Harmony: option to split a standard drum staff in as many standard drum staves as there is used instruments.
11. Special beaming. In addition to the regular beaming system, special beaming can be defined between two or more notes. Select the matching tool in the "Miscellaneous tools" palette, then click the stem top of the first note, then the stem top of the last note. Beam is drawn between these notes (You can also click the note heads instead).
    To set this beaming up, double-click the first note head, or the beam itself. The "Special beam" tab enables to define the number of beams to be displayed (first and second part), and the splitting ratio between these two parts, the beam thickness and spacing, as well as their direction or the way tuplets (triplets) are graphically grouped.
    This setting can be made for each special beam and is completely free: therefore the number of displayed beams may not reflect the actual note duration.
12. Diagonal beaming of two distant notes, with opposite stem directions (DIAGHITCH item in the Democratic workshop)
13. Slur and beaming of notes belonging to different staves. Slur and special beaming can be applied to notes that do not belong to the same staff (HITCHSTAVES and SLURSTAVES items of the Democratic Workshop)
14. New setting in printing options: do not justify groups on the last page.
15. Grace note setting: "do not display". It enables, for example, by adding an unplayed mordent effect and a text effect, to write accidented (sharp or flat) mordents (ACCMORDENT item of the Democratic Workshop), or any other variation. This ornament will be played through a set of hidden grace notes.
16. Conditional dynamics, tacet (TACET item of the Democratic Workshop), Repeat and fade (REPFAD item of the Democratic Workshop)
17. Dynamics: The displayed text can be changed.  
18. A new parameter in clef change makes the staff lines become invisible. It enables to create ossias and blank spaces before coda parts for example.
19. Tempo object setting: for smooth tempo changes, variation curve can be edited. Start and end position in bar, beat number and hundredth can be input.
    
20. Note display parameter: hide accidental. Enables, for example, when two identical notes are tied (through a slur) over a barline, to avoid displaying the second note's accidental.
21. Staff display parameter: whole rest filling the bar content whatever the time signature is (WHLRST item in the Democratic Workshop)
22. Staff display parameter: option to enable ghost rests in empty measures to appear as a whole rest.
23. When this option is activated, whole rests that fill a whole bar are displayed as a regular whole rest.
    
24. Proportional sustain pedal (Pedal feathering HALFPEDAL item of the Democratic Workshop): it is now possible to set the pressure ratio for the "Ped" object. A smaller pressure on the pedal will result in a shorter sustain.
25. In page mode, a click at the right of the last bar opens a contextual meny for adding quickly a bar or performing some other general operations.
26. When a "Da Capo", "Da Capo Al Fine" or "Da Capo Al Coda" symbol has been played, repeat barlines that can be found after this are not played (DACAPO item in the Democratic Workshop). If there are numbered parts (endings), the last ending is played. The way older scores are played remain unchanged.
27. By default, when added, a "Da Capo", "Da Capo Al Fine" or "Da Capo Al Coda" jumps to the beginning only once.
28. Harmony: Rhythm can now be edited through standard drum staves (SDRPAT item in the Democratic workshop)
29. Effect applied to a note can now be used as a criterion for a rule.
30. MyrScript switches to version 1
31. Virtual Singer switches to version 3
32. Now possible to enter special text (see this chapter in the manual) into a tempo change object.
33. Harmony : Tablatures for Xaphoon, Scottish pipe, Irish pipe, Bretonne pipe (script)
34. Harmony : De-Harmonize. Using the score chord grid, this script changes the selected notes so that they follow a C7 chord. Enables to build chordless patterns for automatic accompaniments. (script)
35. Harmony : Microtonal accidentals. Enables to define microtonal accidentals (outside the 12ET range) and use them to insert notes in a score (script)
36. Harmony : Move notes to another staff. The currently selected notes are moved to another staff, at the same time position.
37. Harmony :  Merge BBShop style. Provided to you by Feike Boomstra, this script merges four staves with lyrics two by two. (script)
38. Harmony : Virtual Singer voices volume.  Changes the volume of all the Virtual Singer voices in the frontmost document. (script)
39. Harmony : Quick insert of Tacet and Ossia (script)
    
40. Harmony : Cadenza. A "Turn into Cadenza" script that changes a set of selected bars into a "Cadenza", i.e. a free notation area.(script)
41. Harmony : Hide bars. This script makes the selected bars become invisible (script)
42. Harmony : Make the selected beams become horizontal (script)
43. Harmony: Import of Yamaha PSR style files and automatic conversion to user accompaniment patterns.
44. Harmony : Script for creating special tuplets over 10:2 (SMLTPT option of the Democratic workshop)
45. File import in .btab format
    
46. Video tutorial: "Managing hierarchical lists. "
47. Video tutorial:  "How to use the discontinuous selection. "
48. Video tutorial:  "Slur between notes belonging to two different staves."
49. Video tutorial:  "Special beaming. Beaming notes belonging to two different staves."
50. Video tutorial:  "How to setup staff for automatic whole rest display."
51. Video tutorial:  "Hiding staff lines on some measures. Inserting Coda symbol. Changing break symbol size."

Enhancements

1. When "don't display empty staff" mode is active, time signatures are not taken into account.
2. New page setup feature: don't justify group on last page.
3. OMeR file import: slurs are now played as "continue"
4. Mac OS X: MIDI echo on computer sound output (QuickTime) for mute keyboards.
5. MIDI In echo remains always active, even when MIDI note input is disabled
6. New metronome management: no more latency when starting.
7. Virtual keyboard can now show the fingering for any instrument in the score, even in non-MIDI output.
8. New icon in input palette to toggle the MIDI or Virtual keyboard palette simplified input on and off.
9. Lyrics and chord  line text position: they can now be centered, right or left aligned.
10. Better positioning for chord diagrams related to the chord grid.
11. Standard drums editing: stem size change, beams and accidental positioning.
12. Shift + Command (Ctrl) key switches temporarily to score scrolling mode
13. Windows and Mac OS X: smooth horizontal movement in scroll mode
14. New management for synchronization between MIDI input, MIDI output, digital input and digital output. Tests performed over several hours.
15. Better management for bar splitting when several clef changes are inserted into the same bar.
16. Virtual Singer phonetic amendment: now enables phonetic amendment on words with a quote. For example: Flow'rs[#flaU@rz]
17. Tempo management completely rewritten. Tempo staff is kept only for compatibility with previous files, but its usage is deprecated
18. When adding or moving a note in a chord, the whole chord is echoed.
19. New keyboard shortcuts: "slurs up" and "slurs down"
20. "Instrument>All MIDI notes off" works even if nothing has been played to MIDI yet.
21. Metronome bars before starting input are now played even before a digital input.
22. Lyrics input under notes on score has been accelerated.
23. New appearance for brackets and brace before the systems.
24. When importing a MIDI file, if the Command (Ctrl) key is left down, a quantize box opens.
25. Mac OS X: Right mouse button management.
26. When importing a MIDI Karaoke file, staves can be played when relating lyrics.
27. Staves with lyrics MIDI export: no more unaccuracy when score contains negative delays.
28. Chord grid font can be changed in each document.
29. Chord grid manages up to 16 divisions per bar (MORECHORD item in the Democratic Workshop)
30. Windows: defaut font for miscellaneous objects in score (as well as the factory setting for font preferences) is now a smoothed font.
31. Improvement of automatic scrolling when adding notes in scroll mode.
32. User chord line can now be transposed (CHORDTRAN item in the Democratic workshop)
33. Screen antialiasing of beams, crescendo and decrescendo
34. WAV and AIFF file of more that 16 bits (24 or 32 bits), and using sampling rates above 44 kHz can now be imported (downsampled to 44kHz, 16 bits when importing)
35. Possible to define a background picture (PICT or BMP) in page mode (in global settings, "Screen" topic)
36. Import of AIFF files in AIFF-C / TWOS format (direct reading of audio CD by Mac OS X)
37. Macintosh: New drawing routines, much faster.
38. Now possible to display braces before brackets and vice-versa.
39. Rule caption display (for example, on standard drum staves) can be adjusted by the user. Caption location can be changed as well as the related text, individually. Each rule can be defined as being in "manual" caption display. In this case, caotion is not automatically computed anymore and can be freely defined.
40. Slurs and ties are splitted at end of line
41. Conversion between MIDI vibrato effect to digital output has been changed. Vibrato effect is now lower in digital output.
42. Accuracy in grace notes playing has been increased from 1/64th of quarter to 1/256th of quarter.
43. Trill, Gruppetto, Mordent, Arpeggio, guitar Push/Pull, eighth group accuracy has also be made by increased to 1/256th of quarter note
44. When printing, better antialiasing for braces, brackets and slurs.
45. Virtual Singer / Real Singer processes trill, vibrato and tremolo effects related to a note.
46. Virtual Singer / Real Singer : notes having a velocity of 0 are now completely muted
47. MIDI Export: minor key signatures are now exported well, instead of being changed into the matching major key.
48. Tie symbol can now be inverted (symbol parameter edit box)
49. Files can be moved in hierarchical list selector (model selector, accompaniment, Virtual Singer voices, etc), category sorting, user files publishing.
50. A long click on an item moves it, right click or shift click opens a contextual menu to rename, delete or publish it.
51. Play start mark in the ruler does not make the Virtual Singer voices be recalculated anymore
52. New parameter for Trill ornament, enabling not to play the trill during the whole note length.
53. Harmony : New accompaniment management.
54. Harmony : Right-clicking an accompaniment enables to edit the pattern directly, through a contextual menu.
55. Harmony : Note ornaments, dynamics, pedal, effect processors and parameter curves are processed when accompaniments are generated.
56. Harmony: After importing a MIDI file, chord grid was sometimes wrongly displayed
57. RealSinger: Improvement when sound level reached 0 (static noise was heard)
58. When adding a break symbol at the beginning or end of a bar, margins are adjusted in orded to avoid overlapping between barlines and notes.
59. Better management of duration (tuplets) injection on a group of notes.
60. When displaying whole and half rest above or below the staff, ledger lines are drawn.
61. Possible to use the current system date format instead of using the one that matches the current application language.
62. New accompaniments, in miscellanous styles, and matching document templates.
63. Default keyboard settings: Del key now deletes the current selection the same way Backspace key ( <-- ) does.
64. Some hisses have been removed when singer voice is softened (Audio import)
65. Now enable to mask a note completely by setting its scale to 0%
66. Coda, Segno, and other break symbol size can now be changed
67. Direct access to singer voice from the complete mixer palette
68. Harmony : When editing matrix (accompaniment/drum) two consecutive elements that relate to the same object can now be merged together.
69. Better MIDI import for drum staves when note ending is missing or misplaced
70. Special text: better display for dotted notes

Changes

1. "Slurs up", "Slur down", "Stems up", "Stems down" commands have been moved to "Edit>Appearance" menu
2. The internal format having changed, symbols (notes and rests) pasted in the album from a previous version are not compatible and will be erased.
3. Management of dynamics within repeated parts having be changed, when loading an old files, some dynamics can be added (between parenthesis) to provide an unchanged sound result.
4. The "Always beam tuplets" option of the time signature edit window does not group them according to the tuplet value (3 by 3 for a triplet, etc) but according to their beat position.
5. Virtual Singer registration codes had changed. New codes are available for free on the web site.

Fixes

1. TAB file loading: instrument recognition.
2. Problem when selecting options in text printing
3. Fixed problem in multiple object selection (Shift+Click)
4. Windows: multiple MIDI outputs.
5. Windows: better management of some network paths
6. MIDI 1 lyrics text export (karaoke track was incorrect)
7. Windows: Better management of temporary files for digital tracks
8. Parts management in ABC import and export
9. Chord grid text alignment now saved
10. MyrScript: fixed crash in Application.ConvertStringEncoding (used in Tabledit import script)
11. Windows: fixed errors in file selector when the default name contained invalid characters
12. Harmony: Fixed problem when resizing a rhythm element in rhythm array from its left edge
13. Mouse wheel management in boxes with lists and several tabs
14. Fixed problem in parameter curves when importing a midi file in which several staves share the same channel
15. Multi-rest bars from a key change
16. Windows: Fixed a problem in edit fields when the computer is on for more that a week.
17. Merged staff name display: sometimes, the name of secondary staves was displayed.
18. Input of digital value of knobs in MyrScript palettes.
19. Adding objects outside staff area.
20. MIDI export: time and key signature changes in repeated bars were incorrectly exported.
21. MIDI import: when a time and a key signature change occurred in the same bar, time signature coule be masked (hidden)
22. Windows: foreign keyboards: @ character can be entered by using Ctrl+Alt keys.
23. ABC import: x and X characters filtering.
24. Time slider palette: scroll mode auto-positioning when position is changed.
25. MIDI import: some altered files containing unterminated notes could make the quantize operation hang.
26. MIDI Export: automatic channel conflict solving could generate errors in the exported MIDI file
27. MIDI Export: Fixed possible crash when exporting in scores with lyrics in MIDI format
28. Fixed problems when playing score that contains bar repeat symbols (%) slurred together
29. When editing effect processor related to an instrument while music is playing, changes are heard in real-time.
30. When moving objects on merged staves, the object stays on its original staff.
31. Fixed problems when applying a velocity range through Edit>Action>Change velocity
32. Harmony Assistant: Fixed multiple copies of the same script name in menus
33. Harmony Assistant: Fixed wrong display of chort grid after importing a MIDI file
34. RealSinger: fixed problem when sound level is set to 0 (hisses were heard)
35. When a splitted rest was played, unwanted notes were displayed.
36. In Engraver mode, some text size calculation was wrong.
37. Virtual Singer : play start marker positionning.
38. Editing breve and double breve : duration of the 2nd head is processed.
39. Displaying a cell number greater than 9 in the chord diagrams does not overlap anymore the finger position in 6th cell.
40. Keyboard shortcut for stem direction head sense, head shape and symbol color.
41. Windows: fixed issue when using very long file names
42. Fixed issues when maximizing a multi-view (splitted) window
43. Fixed a lack of Virtual Singer voice calculation when a fermata effect was edited on score.
44. Fixed miscellaneous problems when tying notes in chord.
45. Windows: in the break symbol edit box, some editable fields could disappear unexpectedly.
46. Video tutorial:  Typo and grammar amendment for all the tutorials
47. Tabledit file, Accordion and Harmonica problems fixed.

Minor Versions

Harmony 9.0.1 / Melody 7.0.1

1. Fixed: Discontinuous selection move can be cancelled
2. Fixed: Mac OS Classic, horizontal scroll bar movement was inverted
3. Fixed: Slurs in staves with rules
4. Fixed: "Try accompaniment" was sometimes ineffective.
5. Fixed: Mordent load from files saved using previous versions
6. Fixed: Crash in the "Instrument tuner" script
7. Fixed: Crash when trying a rhythm using the hammer while complete mixer was open
8. Fixed: Crash when music was looping in "Play selection range" mode
9. Fixed: Possible crash when editing user digital instrument
10. MIDI tempo change import has been improved
11. Fixed: Trill speed in Virtual Singer/Real Singer
12. Fixed: Old files loading (when accompaniments were playing an empty pattern)

Harmony 9.0.2 / Melody 7.0.2 - August 6th 2004

1. Fixed: Mac OS X, crash when displaying some contextual help text.
   
2. Fixed: Octave shifting in "Set octave" option of chord grid
3. Improvement: more information in the break symbol edit box.
4. Fixed: problem after applying the "Avoid system splitting" script
5. Fixed: program freeze when editing a text in print preview while music plays and scrolls in the background.
6. Fixed: User digital instrument edit box: current parameters were applied to wrong sample when the sample list sorting order changed
7. Fixed: problem when beaming notes and the selection range included an empty staff.
8. Fixed: miscellaneous problems when adding (mixing) data to a digital audio track
9. Improvement: static sound softening in Virtual Singer when singing high-pitched notes
10. Improvement: no more increasing delay between music and digital tracks (or Virtual Singer voices) when the score contains many tempo changes.
11. Improvement: note pressure time between 96% and 104% are now properly applied (previously, were played at 100%)
12. Improvement: when adding a file name that contains non-ASCII characters to the jukebox,  an alert warns the user about the incompatibility with Internet publishing.
13. Improvement: Drag and drop of a folder on the jukebox window adds all the music files in this folder and its subfolders to the jukebox list
14. Better update of the tune total duration in the ruler
15. Printing: fixed staff lines that appeared on the page right edge after a repeat end barline
16. MIDI outpu: automatic pedal release when music stops.
17. Import as Amiga MOD file of filenames as "mod.xxxxx" (automatic detect)
18. MOD import: note delay and shortening events are managed.
    
19. Fixed possible crash when the mouse pointer was moving over the last barline in page mode.
20. MyrScript updated to version 1.1.1
21. New script for position accidentals in chords
22. New script (beta): MusicXML file import (XML item of the Democratic Workshop)

Harmony 9.0.3 / Melody 7.0.3 - August 10th 2004

1. Fixed: Mac OS 9- Automatic scrolling
   
2. Fixed: interline pitch shift (transposition by degree) does not move rests anymore when unnecessary.
3. Fixed: interline pitch shift (transposition by degree) preserves accidentals.
4. Fixed: User digital instrument export (.mui files) when sample size was 8 bits.
5. MOD import: better management for delay and shortening events.
6. Fixed: problems when a staff with rules was merged with another staff
7. Harmony Assistant:  Script for shifting digital track pitch without changing its tempo has been improved. It now also enables to change tempo without changing pitch.

Harmony 9.0.4 / Melody 7.0.4 - October 11th 2004

1. Fixed: Tablature appearance (negative values).
2. Now possible to select in staff group whether a line can join barlines of a same group, for brackets and braces.
3. Fixed: Default chord diagram for instruments with some shorter strings (e.g. banjo)
4. Fixed: Copy/paste of text object does not delete target lyrics anymore.
5. No more useless volume MIDI events when a flat volume curve is applied on staff.
6. Fixed crash when some styles are applied to an existing piece.
7. MP3 import: Fixed problems when the file contains unrecognized frames
8. "User" key changes are not lost anymore when applying a transposing instrument that transposes by an integer number of octaves
9. When tuning a digtal user instrument, selection range and loop are automatically adjusted.
10. Fixed: optimized saving of RS voice when a lyrics line is deleted.
    
11. New: Option to invert right and left margin on even pages.
12. Chord computation: fixed a problem when a C flat chord is found in C flat key signature.
13. Key changes can now be deleted when deleting a whole set of bars (when "clefs" check box is checked)
14. Windows: Predefined accordions are installed again along with the software (mistake in v9.0.3)
15. Windows: Fixed accented characters in file names.
16. Windows: Fixed crash when closing the application while an audio recording is in progress.
17. Windows: Fixed crash when importing some MIDI files
18. Windows: Fixed crash when selecting all dynamics or all effect processors at the same time
19. Mac OS: fixed problem when applying velocity filters (PPC assembler).
20. Change: on Mac OS X, Command+H hides the application.
21. Fixed: Clef reminder display when a break symbol is present.
22. Fixed: lyrics text left alignment in engraver mode.
23. Fixed: Some effects were still played after being deleted through "Edit>Appearance>General".
24. Speed improvement for some functions of digital sound edit.
25. Better caption display for bass/chord line in accordion tablatures

Harmony 9.0.5 / Melody 7.0.5 - December 6th 2004

1. New feature: Display bar numbers only if the staff is the first of its group (system)
2. New feature: Force page change (ruler contextual menu)
3. New: "Exact file size" setting in digital export is kept from one session to another.
4. New feature: grace note stems can be set "downwards"
5. New feature (Windows): Authenticated HTTP (tunnel) proxy management for Internet connection. "Basic" authentication system, and two possible connection modes: "CONNECT" command or direct request.
6. Harmony Assistant: First version of the MusicXML Export script
7. Harmony Assistant: Digital track processing script: Compressor (author: Pierre-Henri Pin)
   
8. Harmony Assistant: Digital track processing script: Tube pre-amp (author: Pierre-Henri Pin)
9. New document templates: Orchestra > Bagad (author: Yannick Marchegay)
   
10. Improvement: A slur applied to two notes of the same pitch gets by default the appearance of a tie.
11. Improvement: Management of very long notes (several minutes). Useful for instance for bagpipe drone.
12. Grace note display, edit, insertion and movement.
13. Improvement: Import of some soundfonts that contain errors.
14. Improvement: Tempo, dynamics or text objects on the first bar of a multi-rest bar don't "break" this bar anymore as a regular bar followed by a multi-rest bar
    
15. Improvement: Some ornament are not added to rest symbols anymore.
16. Improvement: No more unwanted "clicks" when a volume increase effect is set on a note, and the digital instrument has an attack area.
17. Improvement: hyphen and melisma thickness in lyrics is proportional to the font size.
18. Improvement: Text related to pedal release *
19. Improvement: In anglo-saxon notation, chord name additions (dim, add, sus, omit...) are written lowercase.
    
20. Fixed: Left-aligned lyrics: better positioning.
21. Fixed: Unmerging a unique staff in merged staves could lead to inconsistencies in the document.
22. Fixed: Trying a Virtual Singer fragment was sometimes silent.
23. Fixed: Myrscript, change in decrescendo dynamic settings
24. Fixed: Search/replace in lyrics editor
25. Fixed: Problem in graphical editing of accidentals
26. Fixed: Problems when right-aligning selected objects
27. Fixed: Problems when loop playing a selection range on a staff sung by Virtual Singer
28. Fixed: Scroll bar in digital track edit box.
29. Fixed: Object shifting when inserting an incomplete (upbeat) bar.
30. Fixed: Enter key managed as Carriage Return in some input boxes.
31. Fixed: Dividing a bar through a clef change now preserves lyrics and chord.
32. Fixed: Little gaps in melisma when printing
33. Fixed: Problem when showing played notes, for whole and half note triplets
34. Fixed: Problem when showing played rests, some of them were displayed over the first bar
35. Fixed: Crash when deleting the last effect related to a note by double-clicking the "empty" effect icon.
36. Fixed: In some cases, disparition of the last barline at the end of a row.
37. Fixed: Coulors when printing pictures embedded in score.
38. Fixed: Brackets and braces nesting on merged staves.
39. Fixed: Probleme when trying an accompaniment pattern on a file imported from ABC format.
40. Fixed: Conditional dynamics
41. Fixed: Malfunction in tutorial window when a chapter title was open through a double-click.
42. Fixed: Beaming of notes in chord
    
43. Fixed: Transposition of diminished 5th chords in the staff chord line
44. Fixed: 'eight group' effect setting value.
    
45. Fixed: Crash when doing "New staff > Tablature type > No tablature" 
46. Fixed: Mistakes in performance when playing break symbols once a note has been moved while music is playing.
47. Fixed: Problems when generating HTML pages from the Jukebox while the 'htmlexport.cfg" template file is missing or empty.
48. Fixed: Problems of tempo performance at the end of a bar (rare cases)
49. Fixed: Possible errors in the chord grid calculation when a bar is divided into 11 parts
50. Fixed: When cancelling the insertion of a new effect processor, the processor's icon remained displayed on score.
51. Fixed: Better management of tied notes when the "don't split notes" option is active on some of the related bars
52. Fixed: Some scripts were displayed several times in menus
53. Fixed: Transfer of dynamics into note velocities (and vice-versa).
54. Fixed: Junction line printing between unclosed numbered parts (endings)
55. Windows: Fixed possible problems when music is paused
56. Windows: Fixed problem when printing hidden bars
57. Windows: Fixed problem Correction de problèmes intermittent problems when playing a piece while the Virtual Singer palette is open and a voice is being generated.
    
58. Windows: Fixed problems when the internal name of a font is exactly the maximum size (32 characters)
59. MyrScript version switches to v1.1.4

Harmony Assistant 8.4 Melody Assistant 6.4 December 2003

• A redesign of the interface which enables to change the icon set and introduces new kind of windows. A contextual help is added to the already existing help system.
  
• A new technologie for human voice rendering, even more realistic: Real Singer II.
• MIDI import and quantize have been completely rewritten: they are simpler to use and more efficient.
• A new installer for all our applications, more user-friendly and meaningful
• MyrScript, the embedded language of Harmony Assistant, is now in v.0.2 and comes with new scripts, for example digital track to note converter, graphical metronome, beat marking display, wind instrument tablature calculator...
• Mac OS X version is closer to the usual appearance of other applications, with smoothed fonts, dialog box related to document windows, an application shipped as a "bundle", mouse wheel management...

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Minor versions

Harmony Assistant 8.4.1, Melody Assistant 6.4.1

Harmony Assistant 8.4.2, Melody Assistant 6.4.2

Harmony Assistant 8.4.3, Melody Assistant 6.4.3

Improvements

- ABC Import : Part repeat notated as [..] x n are processed
- Text type staves are not taken into account in multi-rest bar processin, which enables to add text on multi-rests by merging a regular staff with a text staff.
- Better management of smooth slurs (glissendo) in MIDI output and export
- Smooth slur (glissendo) in MIDI and digital output manages commas (microtonal adjustment) of slurred notes.
- Jukebox : when creating HTML pages, e-mail addresses are now masked to avoid them to be catched by robots. By default @ is substituted by (a). You can define anythink else, for example a picture containing an @.

Fixes

- MIDI Import : Fixed issue in frequency curve (Pitch bend).
- Digital export : the normalization now processes played bars and ignores unplayed bars
- Myrscript : fixed problem when sending too long strings to the console.
- Mac OS 9 : Error when opening complete mixer palette.
- Harmony Assistant : Fixed bank mistakes in the General Midi 1 (GM1) Midimap. Be caredul, if you changed this Midimap, these fixes won't be applied.
- MIDI Export/Playing: Fixed errors when handling bank numbers in GM1 mode
- Mac OS : Fixed bank select in Quicktime output

Harmony Assistant 8.4.4, Melody Assistant 6.4.4

Improvements
- Trills: when possible, trill is played during the whole note time.

Harmony Assistant 8.3 Melody Assistant 6.3 April 2003

MyrScript

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Harmony Assistant 8.2 Melody Assistant 6.2 January 2003

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Harmony Assistant 8.1 Melody Assistant 6.1 September 2002

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Harmony Assistant 8.0 Melody Assistant 6.0 April 2002

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Harmony Assistant 7.9 Melody Assistant 5.9 December 2001

Harmony Assistant 7.8 Melody Assistant 5.8 September 2001

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Harmony Assistant 7.7 Melody Assistant 5.7 July 2001

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Harmony Assistant 7.6 Melody Assistant 5.6 May 2001

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Harmony Assistant 7.5 Melody Assistant 5.5 Februrary 2001

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Harmony Assistant 7.4 Melody Assistant 5.4 October 2000

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Harmony Assistant 7.2 Melody Assistant 5.2 June 2000

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Harmony Assistant 7.1 Melody Assistant 5.1 April 2000

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Harmony Assistant 7.0 Melody Assistant 5.0 February 2000

Harmony Assistant 6.3 Melody Assistant 4.3 December 1999

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Harmony Assistant 6.2 Melody Assistant 4.2 November 1999

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