Jalmus Changelog

What's new in Jalmus 2.3

Sep 5, 2012
  • Adding Greek translation
  • Minor fixes:
  • Fixing bug with speed faster than largo on Rhythm/Score reading (speed is between 0 and 200).
  • Fixing bug when saving Score Reading with no custom notes.
  • Update level when changing key on Score Reading preferences

New in Jalmus 2.2 (Apr 24, 2012)

  • language selection fixing

New in Jalmus 2.1 (Apr 24, 2012)

  • BUG FIX : turn off keyboard sound.
  • BUG FIX : Tempo settings for rhythms reading.
  • NEW FEATURE : "route" keyboard sound to an external midi device to avoid latency when playing notes.

New in Jalmus 2.0 (Jan 18, 2012)

  • All exercises could be saved on Preferences panel. After saving your exercise, you can load it from your personal lessons directory.
  • Exercises (note reading, rhythm reading and score reading) can be mixed in a same lesson.
  • Custom notes with accidentals on Score Reading exercise. Accidentals doesn’t affect other identical notes in the measure like they do (it’s in to do list).
  • Some graphics improvements for rhythms (stem up or down according to pitch)
  • Adding dotted half on rhythm exercises
  • Jalmus could work with any acoustic instrument by using Prodipe Solo
  • Few lessons for violin and sax alto (more to come)
  • New shortcut in lesson’s menu to open lesson’s directory and modify/create/delete directly the XML files (with any text editor).
  • In lesson mode you can pass an exercise by Escape key
  • Fixing permission problem installer for Windows 7

New in Jalmus 1.8 (Oct 6, 2011)

  • MAJOR UPDATES:
  • added an option to choose the measure tempo. For now just 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4 are supported
  • possibility to resize Jalmus window. With this feature the user can choose how many measures to play
  • added time signature indication after alterations
  • removed speed cursor parameter
  • added an option to show Metronome beats and cursor progress
  • TECHNICAL UPDATES:
  • removed BareBoneBrowser class. Jalmus now requires Java 6 to natively open a web browser
  • removed GIF pictures to display notes
  • notes are displayed through the MusiSync truetype font (credits to Robert Allgeyer)
  • when rhythm game options are changed, the score is renewed (same as score reading game)
  • GIF background converted to PNG to be ligther
  • metronome now uses MIDI channel 10, to take advantage of drums samples
  • most of the source code has been translated in english

New in Jalmus 1.7 (Oct 5, 2011)

  • Fixing problem when selecting chords or intervals on preferences panel Show name of interval or chord only for learning exercise
  • Adding Polish translation
  • Fixing Italian translation

New in Jalmus 1.6 (Jul 8, 2010)

  • Score reading exercise
  • Improving main menu and preferences window
  • No more sound when mouse is moved on keyboard at screen (note reading exercise)

New in Jalmus 1.5 (Jun 7, 2010)

  • Adds a rhythms exercise with possibility to give answers with SPACE key or better a MIDI keyboard connected to your computer.