Harmony Assistant9.9.2e

Name: Harmony Assistant
Price: 85.00 $
Rating: 4.6667 (1 reviews)

19 October 2020

Write computer-assisted musical compositions.

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Overview

Harmony Assistant helps you write computer-assisted music compositions. Its harmonizing capabilities enable the composer to build quickly and efficiently accompanied tunes, with multiple instruments and drum background. Its full page edit and engraver modes will ease editing and page setup of your scores. Support an additional Virtual Singer module that sings lyrics of your songs in multiple languages or voices (man, woman, child...).

What's new in Harmony Assistant

Version 9.9.2e:

Improvements:

Adjustement of palettes look and feel in dark mode
Display of some lines : chord line frames, divisions on accordion and harmonica tablatures, ghost rests...
Dock activation has been sped up
Part of video export has been rewritten to use multiple processors.
Better management of staff type change
Improvement of score page layout when importing MusicXML files that don't include objects position or size
Windows: pixel accuracy (DPI) information is taken into account in JPG/PNG graphical export
macOS: Icon size in menus
macOS : Better reactivity of events on window.

Fixes:

Changing color of text objects related to staves could change their size
Possible crash when inserting a note fails
Affichage des jauges.
Crash in undo/redo
Low level problem when displaying thin vertical or horizontal lines
Non-resizable windows could be unwillingly resized
Crash when attempting to resize a windows with a negative size
Ornaments icons display in Dock when dark mode is active.
Fixed item update problem when importing digital tracks
WAV export could produce invalid files
Fixed crash when clicking on VSTi module list when empty
Fixed played notes display in scroll mode without automatic scrolling
Display of scroll mode when switching from page mode with mirror mode active
Fixed rest insertion in grid drum staves
Fixed crash when inserting previous measure repeat symbol failed.
Harmony Assistant : User instruments were destroyed when loaded with a different program version
SVG Export : fixed some problems of character fonts
macOS: Fixed problem of SoundFont selection in SoftSynth output
Windows / Linux : opening menus or displaying alert boxes could become very slow
Windows : wrong calculation of graphical height of character fonts

12 Reviews of Harmony Assistant

I'm updating my review to a '5'. This application is packed with features that I've learned to appreciate and use over the past several months. The developers have responsive to improvement suggestions ... --> http://www.myriad-online.com/en/docs/meloharmowhatsnew.htm I am very happy to see the Harmony improvements for MusicXML. I find Harmony works nicely to produce MusicXML for SeeScore on the iPad/iPhone.

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anonymous-deer-2515

13 March 2012

Version: 9.6.2f

Melody Assistant is the smaller sibling of Harmony Assistant (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/5533/harmony-assistant) After reviewing the Myriad software demos and offering, I opted for the more featured Harmony Assistant. Works on Lion 10.7.3

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I found the demo quite useful in determining the capabilities and limits of Harmony Assistant prior to purchase. The good: Nice, fun notation/midi app. The plus is the wide range of supported formats and the extensible scripting architecture. In particular, Harmony Assistant can properly put lyrics in midi file (for example karaoke .kar, rich midi and standard midi files) which can not be done by either Sibelius or Finale. The Virtual Singer add-on is also an interesting computer sing-along singer. The bad: Some edges could be improved like the support for chord diagrams on the import/export within MusicXML 2.0. The ugly: The UI could really use some visual polish. Switching out the icon set (as provided by the UI) did improve the look. Overall, I use Finale as a primary tool and Harmony as a nice adjunct for things that Final (and Sibelius) can not do.

Updating my review now that they have re-sizable tool buttons! That is really nice and modernizes the feel a lot. The old ones were too small. See my previous comments/review for other details

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This program is incredible. Despite being much smaller company than the Finale / Sibelius folks, this has maintained competitiveness in many areas. This program does certain quirky things, including support for all sorts of world instruments, microtonality, a virtual-singer program... this is very flexible and well-designed software that is just a bit outdated in terms of GUI. At any rate, for the price it deserves strong consideration. This isn't some simple software for beginners, this is fully capable, professional software that can do very many things, and some are things no other program yet can do.

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Free until they tire of no getting money and call Intel Macs a new "platform" like Windows an get you to cough up another 15.

I have used Harmony since the early 90s. Since I bought it I NEVER paid 1 more cent for upgrades: they are all FREE forever. That's service! An invaluable tool to composition and a recording studio, I have found Harmony excellent in every respect and the developers very responsive both to support and delivery. The new sound base (Gold) is worth buying too!.

Harmony assistant is simply awesome both for features and price. Documentation is excellent and so is the web site. Highly recommended. Get GBMidi and the score can be directly imported to Garage band as midi.

Great update! The interface continues to improve (still some minor cosmetic glitches). New installation process works great (No more installing into ~/Applications). Can't wait to see how I can use this with GarageBand!!

Purchased through Kagi and I got my license string the next day. Everything works as advertised under Mac OS X 3.2 This software is a GREAT value. It is packed with features at a phenomenal price. It is good for composing in the classical sheet music tradition. It is also great for practice exercises with complex rythms which can be hard to decern with some sheet music. It will loop play any number of notes or measures. It can be better than a metronome in getting those rythms just right. You can't go wrong trying their demo which has all the features except saving your work and printing.

This is a great low-end music composition and midi sequencing program. For OSX, it is about all there is for those of us on a budget. It lacks some features for midi-sequencing, but it also has some unusual features, like auto accompaniment. The worst thing is that their kagi link for the U.S. does not work. I took a chance and purchased it through the European portal. Haven't received my registration code yet, so I'm crossing my fingers.

Well, lets just say the best just got better. Its cheap, its easy to use, and it has so many features you wonder how it costs only $65! You have to try out this program.