Software Details:
Version: 9.6.2m
Upload Date: 20 Feb 15
Distribution Type: Shareware
Price: 85.00 $
Downloads: 71
Harmony Assistant is a commercial software for computer-assisted music editing and composition.
The application allows composers to efficiently and quickly create tunes that include multiple instruments, drum patterns and accompaniment.
Harmony Assistant is a cross-platform software that runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows platforms.
What is new in this release:
- News:
- Graphic objects (effects, free objects, graphics related to a staff, background) can now be in JPG, PNG, GIF or TIFF format
- Ornaments of type "Graphics" can now be related to notes
- Ornaments (or graphics) can be related to Clef objects
- Staves in a system can be joined by a vertical line on right side
- In the management of curves related to staves, the current curve can now be deleted quickly.
- Tablature computation on multi-voices staves.
- TAB export of multi-voices staves.
- New mode for applying staff appearance settings: "to all merged staves"
- New commands in the multi-voice staff management contextual menu
- Braces, ties and slurs are now drawn and printed as actual curves.
- Slur "tension" can be adjusted in order to make them more flat and their ends hooked.
- Fine management of lyrics positioning and masking: for each bar, it's now possible to insert or mask any line by right-clicking a cell.
- Windows & Linux : mouse pointer size can be adjusted.
- Improvements:
- A new setting in the staff appearance enables to tell whether the grace note stems are aligned on the staff center line
- Improvement in time signature and upbeat bar selection when creating a new document from a template.
- Better error management while opening files for writing.
- "Edit" menu items now follow selected object kind.
- Changing ghosts rests into rests now splits them according to beat
- Now possible to mask, on each staff, each kind of object (lyrics, text, graphics, dynamics...)
- Triplets made of notes with different slur directions are now properly grouped. This can change the appearance of previous scores.
- Better management of objects, notes an lyrics position when inserting or deleting bars, or when changing the time signature.
- New keyboard shortcuts: fast forward and rewind. This can be especially useful to those who rehearse a score using a footswitch.
- New management for the default document file name.
- The area-driven discontinuous selection now only applies to the selected parts in merged (multivoice) staves.
- MusicXML import/export: better management of ottava (8va,8vb, etc)
- Virtual Singer: management of note slurs and bend effects
- Harmony Assistant: In engraver mode, note position calculation has been sped up.
- Harmony Assistant: When forcing the number of bars per line, the automatic computation of bar width in engraver mode is deactivated.
- Harmony Assistant in page mode: improvement of document window maximize/minimize/restore management
- Linux version: Compatibility with Ubuntu 10.04 - 11.10, KUbuntu, XUbuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Mint 12, Fedora 15, Mandriva One 2011, OpenSuse 2.1, Debian 6.0.3.
- Fixes:
- Virtual Singer : SAMPA Q in English.
- Audi sync problems could occur when the score contains both notes with negative delay and tempo changes
- Jump & target display on text staves.
- CMF export.
- Graphical objects dialog box: file import.
- Text formating while writing an email.
- Palette duplication while hide all /show all.
- Score file loading, as well as some editing operations, didn't work on very heavy staves (more than 32,000 symbols)
- Fixed appearance of curve over triplets
- Fixed ckef change problem on merged (multi-voice) staves
- Fixed vu-meter display on staff with lyrics when output is MIDI.
- Possible to deactivate the cautionary key signature display at end of line once activated
- In some cases, some objects were graphically misplaced when viewing the staff in the Karaoke window
- Multi-voice staves couldn't be properly duplicated
- Fixed digital track contextual menu.
- Fixed page setup problem when "score" object were used within a score.
- Harmony Assistant: Fixed MyrScript problems on staff merging
- Harmony Assistant: in engraver mode, display of tied notes connected by a special beam
- Macintosh, Linux: Fixed palette handling problem on multi-screens
- Windows: in some tutorials, squares appeared in text.
Limitations:
- Saving is disabled and printing is limited to one page only.
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