I have played a bit with Harmony Assistant and it does indeed look
promising ...
It's author wants $70.00 for it, which is probably not too bad, but I hate
to jump into another program without even knowing how its printed output
will look. The eval. version is very wounded .... can't save, can't
print. I can understand they don't want to give it all away, but that is
how I got stuck with G7. Sibelius' demo looks good, but only after buying
and working with it a bit have I found out how much I hate it!
Today's "feature", for example ....
I have a simple piece of music that's in 4/4. The first measure has a
dotted quarter note, then an eight note, another dotted quarter and an
eighth note. G7 lets me place the dotted quarter, fights, but ultimately
allows entering the 1st eight note. It allows me to place the next dotted
quarter, but then deletes the dot when I enter the last eighth note. Now,
I'm assuming that my arithmetic (and that of the original author of the
16th century piece) is correct ... that a dotted quarter = 3 eighth notes,
2 of those make up 6 possible eighth note spots and 2 eighth notes finish
it off for a complete measure without any rests.
G7 also has this weird ghost-note thing that once it puts those in you
can't delete them. (I'm really looking forward to a little discussion with
those people at NAMM this year!).
Don
At 03:32 AM 11/17/2004, you wrote:
From: "Phil Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The OP wanted graphical input. Not many abc programs will do that -
> offhand I can only think of MUSE, which is very out of date and
> whose author is now sadly deceased.
Harmony Assistant would be worth a try as a program to match his
requirements.
http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/harmony.htm
Jon
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