This software is a full-featured music composition tool that includes a score editor for creating and editing musical scores.
One of the standout features of this program is its ability to process almost all the break symbols used in musical writing and incorporate them into the music as it plays. The powerful editor lets you easily place and move notes on the staves, and you can insert black and white or color graphics in BMP or PICT format at any point on the score. Text and comments can also be added wherever you want.
Melody Assistant also excels at handling tablatures and displaying chord diagrams for guitarists. You can even define your own stringed instrument and calculate tablatures for it. The program comes with a complete library of guitar chord diagrams that you can customize by adding your own chords.
The integrated digital instrument database provides high-quality music, even if you don't own professional hardware. The digital sound editor lets you record your own sounds from a CD or microphone and use them as instruments in your compositions. The program supports importing and exporting music in MIDI or CMF format and can also read 'Band In A Box' style files and MOD files.
Lyrics can be associated with your compositions, and the music can be played in Karaoke mode using the MIDI Karaoke file format (KAR). Melody Assistant offers flexible printing options that let you define which staves you want printed and whether you want the ruler, tune name, or complete lyrics below the score. You can even print a customized handbook of the complete sorted list of guitar chord diagrams.
Melody Assistant is available in English, French, Italian or German and is an excellent choice for anyone looking for a versatile and easy-to-use music composition program.
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