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The main new feature in this version is the Myriad User Score Library (MUSL)
A Web space to share music scores on line is offered to any user of the Harmony Assistant software. These scores can be viewed, played or printed by the visitors who have previously installed the Myriad plug-in, freeware.
You will publish your tunes easily in a few clicks directly from Harmony Assistant. A part of your user space is public and the other private, protected by a password.

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

Fixes

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

Minor versions

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


New
  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)
Improvements
  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
Fixes
  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


Previous versions

=> Harmony 9.4 - Melody 7.4 - (April 2008-March 2010) Introducing Views (Harmony Assistant)
=> Harmony 9.3 - Melody 7.3 - (April-May 2007) Import/Export in MusicXML 1.1 format (export only available in Harmony Assistant)
=> Harmony 9.2 - Melody 7.2 - (May-June 2006) New document wizard, Unicode text, text style and rotation...
=> Harmony 9.1 - Melody 7.1 - (April-October 2005) independent staff positionning, better sound output quality, new graphical objects, GOLD 2 sound base
=> Harmony 9.0 - Melody 7.0 - (July-December 2004) -Special beams, advanced ties, conditional dynamics
=> Harmony 8.4 - Melody 6.4 - (December 2003) - Icon sets, Real Singer II.
=> Harmony 8.3 - Melody 6.3 - (April-May 2003) - MyrScript, OGG support.
=> Harmony 8.2 - Melody 6.2 - (January 2003) - Mixer, real-time keyboard input.
=> Harmony 8.1, Melody 6.1 -(September 2002)  High quality GOLD base. More than 20 new features.
=> Harmony 8.0, Melody 6.0 -(April 2002) New interface, new jukebox. More than 50 new features.
=> Harmony 7.9, Melody 5.9 -(December 2001) Graphical Quality, Editing,Drums and Real Singer
=> Harmony 7.8 - Melody 5.8 (September 2001)- Engraver Mode, Free Objects
=> Harmony 7.7 - Melody 5.7 - (July 2001) Notation and edition
=> Harmony 7.6 - Melody 5.6 - (May 2001) New Web Feature
=> Harmony 7.5 - Melody 5.5 - (February 2001) New Tablature, New Display Mode
=> Harmony 7.4 - Melody 5.4 (October 2000); New management for break symbols
=> Harmony 7.3 - Melody 5.3 (August 2000) And now it sing !
=> Harmony 7.2 - Melody 5.2 (June  2000)
=> Harmony 7.1 - Melody 5.1 (April-May  2000); New sound databases
=> Harmony 7.0 - Melody 5.0 (February  2000); Internet, MIDI and Digital Tracks
=> Harmony 6.3 - Melody 4.3 (December 24 1999)
=> Harmony 6.1 - Melody 4.1 (November 99)
=> Harmony 6.0 - Melody 4.0 (September 99)
=> Harmony 5.4 - Melody 3.4 (19 may 1999)
=> Harmony 5.3.0 - Melody 3.3.0 (April 20 1999)
=> Harmony 5.2.0c - Melody 3.2.0c  (March 23th, 1999)
=> Harmony 5.1.0 - Melody 3.1.0 (Feb 22th 99)
=> Harmony 4.0 Melody  2.0 september 1998
=> Harmony 3.1 Melody  1.4 May 1998
=> Harmony 3.0. Melody  1.0. February 1998
=>  Harmony 2.0: Mars 1996
=>  Harmony 1.0: November 1994

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