Melody Assistant

Name: Melody Assistant
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

Melody Assistant is dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering. Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities. Now used by a very active community of thousands of people, it has become a favored tool for creating music.

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Buffalo de Bill

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Top positive comment •Sep 27, 2021

The best application for writing new & editing music that there is (well, besides its bigger sibling, the Harmony Assistant):

Highly intuitive & fine-tuned interface, suitable for use by all, ranging from beginners to professionals.

you can write notes in standard keys or go for tablature / drum grid editing mode or just insert the chords or.. all is fully up to you
every instrument's properties (the look / editing style / corresponding instrument setup etc..) can be set-up per your desire within seconds
general no-nonsense settings for every aspect of the application

A plethora of options available to modifications; the pre-selected defaults are very reasonable.

as mentioned earlier, global settings follow a no-nonsense approach, are super-easy to understand and be modified
templates (modifiable / expandable) are providing a quick 'let's do things' option right out of the box

Quite fine digital sound samples, that can be replaced by your own; if needed, you can create your own sound-set and save / export it for future use - or just import an existing one you like.

you don't like this or that sound and have a better one? import it; you can import / export / save any sound(-s) / soundset(-s) you create for future use
you have a song in mind, so you write it and then you play it - during the latter, you can modify instruments / their properties / production / etc.. giving you an excellent on-the-fly feedback

MIDI.

you don't want to go with digital sounds? switch to MIDI - either by default or per instrument - it's fully up to you

Printing output capabilities.

once you have your score finished, you can print it or export it in graphical format, readable by many other 'industry-standard' applications

Personally, I use it (mostly) to have DRUMS track available for my later live-instruments recording (using Zoom R16, a digital multi-track recording & mixing device). Starting with version 3.4.0, I imported real-life drum sounds, as well as a few guitar / bass / keyboard ones - and all work 100% even in the latest version. So the process is - I have an idea for a song, so I write it down (typically tablatures & drums grids), then play around with its finesses - and when I'm done, I just export the drums (I mute the rest) into a stereo WAVE file (which I then import to Zoom R16 as a drum track). While I work on the score (and listen to it) I actually learn it as well, so the recording then is super-easy. Also, if I want to change a beat here or there ex-post, I just modify the corresponding drums track(-s), re-export them and replace the original (e.g. in Cubase) - as long as the starting point is the same, it's 100% OK.

All in all, this is, sadly, a vastly underrated application, that everyone creating music (no DJs/MCs/let's loop disco/hip-hop/rap samples type of 'musicians' (!!!)) should give at least a try. It's definitely worth the price (30 EUR).

LbnL I tried RoseGarden and NoteEdit (and a few other apps I do not recall the names of) - and NONE CAME EVEN CLOSE - in terms of intuitive & user-friendly UI and variety of options and possibilities.

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Melody Assistant information

Developed by
Myriad Software
Licensing
Proprietary and Commercial product.
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Supported Languages
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Melody Assistant, and it has gotten 4 likes

Melody Assistant was added to AlternativeTo by Danilo_Venom on Jul 16, 2010 and this page was last updated Nov 25, 2017.

What is Melody Assistant?

Differences between Melody Assistant and Harmony Assistant: http://www.myriad-online.com/en/docs/diff.htm

The program is Multi language: English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese.

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