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
Limitations:
· Nag screen
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
News:
· MP3 Export: lyrics can be exported in the MP3 file, as a full text or as synchronized lyrics
· MP3 import: synchronized lyrics or full text les paroles en texte complet ou syllabes synchronisées sont importées.
· Windows: now embedding a low latency software synthesizer, in order to provide echo for master MIDI keyboard input (Hardware configuration, "MIDI Echo" section)
Improvements:
· A "patch" for "Grand Piano 1" and "Grand Piano 1 Soft" sounds of the GOLD 2 sound base has been included. Fix is therefore automatic.
· Detection of new versions of the program has been improved
· A graphic mark enables to locate the first note to which a dynamic applies.
· When inserting and moving (de)crescendo, ottava or smooth tempo change, notes that match the beginning and the end of the action are marked
· "Real-time" MIDI input: Midi echo device is set to the instrument of the selected staff
· Change in the order of the phonemes to be recorded in RealSinger to create a new voice
· MP3 export:...