Melody Assistant
What is Melody Assistant?
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.
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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Supported Languages
- English
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Tags
- Music Production
- scorewriting
- score-editor
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Audio & MusicRecent user activities on Melody Assistant
Paul added Melody Assistant as alternative(s) to CalmusNotation
msori added Melody Assistant as alternative(s) to DaCapo Editor
Buffalo de Bill reviewed Melody AssistantThe 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.
The best application for writing new & editing music that there is (well, besides its bigger sibling, the Harmony Assistant):
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.