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:

· The save function is disabled

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

· 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.
· New: compatibility of Harmony Assistant with most of the USB footswitchs (page turners).
· 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.
· Improvement: When a slur is used to notate a tie, its graphical settings (position, bending, ends) mimic a tie's.
· To open a note contextual menu when in "Add" (pencil) mode, the Alt key has to remain pressed while right-clicking on the notehead.
· Fixed: styled text problem in pahe header and footer
· Fixed: "Antialias symbols" option of the global setup didn't have any effect on the music symbols in scroll mode.
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· Fixed problem in "undo" after editing notes
· Fixed item shifts in contextual help
· Fixed problem of bracket adjustment when a staff was unmerged in the staff group.
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· Fixed problem of system justifying when a cautionary clef/key/time signature was present at the end of the line
· Fixed graphical problem: barline at the end of a line could disappear when this line ends with a multi-bar rest
· Fixed wrong positionning when pasting notes or moving the selection cursor.
· Fixed crash when decreasing the number of voices when music is playing
· Fixed graphical settings of a staff line when inserting new bars
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· Fixed the printed view when using the "Printing options" button in the preview of a single view
· Fixed transitional graphic problem when exiting the note settings edit box
· Fixed crash when defining a displayed time signature of 0/0
· Fixed wrong management of forced stem direction in the staff display mode edit box
· Fixed problem in MIDI output/export: some staves beginning with a rest became mute.
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· Harmony : Fixed crash when moving a chord grid cell edge in page mode.
· Windows 95/98/ME : fixed management of the Windows' clipboard content
· 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 "ACAMPREFMyriad"