Melody Assistant is an application dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering.

Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities.

Now used by a very active community of thousands of people, it has become a favored tool for creating music.

Here are some key features of "Melody Assistant":

· Complete score editor, with unlimited number of staves
· Tablature calculation for miscellaneous string instruments
· Embedded softsynth: does not need any hardware other than a sound card.
· Digital Fx processors
· Midi, Kar, MOD, S3M... import
· Digital tracks (possible to import WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG)
· Export in miscellaneous digital file formats (WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG)
· Gregorian notation
· Lute tablatures
· Chord diagram library for various instruments
· Enables to build custom instruments from digital recordings
· Used concurrently with Virtual Singer (available separately), Karaoke and multi-voices lyrics are actually sung.
· A freeware plug-in (Myriad plug-in) will enable visitors of your Web site to view, transpose, play or print your scores
· Several hours of free video tutorials will make your first steps easier.
· The exhaustive list of Melody Assistant capabilities is too large to be described here in a few lines.
· Do not be mistaken by the unbelievably low price of this program: it is an extremely complete tool, the result of more than ten years of development.
· A wide range of music symbols will enable to edit scores of great quality, including tablatures and Gregorian notation.
· Score input can be performed through the mouse, computer keyboard or an external MIDI keyboard.
· Melody Assistant comes with its own embedded software synthesizer (SoftSynth), which provides high quality output on basic sound cards, even without any external MIDI device, and includes hundreds of different instruments.
· Melody Assistant can load and save in many formats (MIDI, WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG, TAB, ABC).

Limitations:

· Nag screen

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· MusicXML import: "Nested slurs" errors could display an alert that was difficult to get rid of.
· For several years, time signature change are not displayed on tablatures. This new version will display them when the related standard staff is hidden.
· In some cases, ghosts rests could be printed. It has been fixed.
· The "Voice" menu was available on "Text" staves, and the "Add voice" option crashed.
· Fixed a very long delay when applying settings to the global note appearance.
· Infinite loop when applying an action to the selection range on a staff with lyrics.
· Wrong calculation of rule related to fundamental when the fundamental doesn't start at the same time as the note.
· Wrong placement when moving notes from discontinuous selection
· Line shift for notes with inverted head.
· It was possible to override the numerator capacity in time signature while loading a MusicXML file.
· Crash when creating an empty (staffless) document, then adding a staff and clicking OK immediately....