Harmony Assistant for Mac
Write computer-assisted musical compositions.
$85.00
In English
Version 9.9.2eWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Harmony Assistant 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 version 9.9.2e
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
Harmony Assistant for Mac
$85.00
In English
Version 9.9.2e
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User Ratings
May 31 2012
Version: 9.6.2
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 ...
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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.
Mar 13 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
Mar 13 2012
Version: 9.6.2f
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.
Jun 10 2010
Version: 9.5.1
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
Mar 28 2010
Version: 9.4.7
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.
