What's new in EarMaster Pro 7.0.8
Nov 16, 2017
- Completely re-engineered user interface
- New interactive beginner’s course covering all the fundamentals of music theory
- Redesigned on-screen instruments (piano, guitar, bass, violin, cello, banjo, etc.)
- New improved voice detection algorithm
- New context-dependent help system
- New advanced statistics tool
- Revised General workshops
- Revised Jazz workshops
- New intuitive Mic Test assistant
- Revised lesson introduction screen
- New call-response mode for melody singback and rhythm clapback exercises
- New tempo presets
- Retina and full screen support (Mac)
- New instrumental profiles
- Hundreds of under-the-hood improvements
New in EarMaster Pro 6.2.5 (Sep 11, 2015)
- Melodic dictation: inserting tones with keyboard shortcuts now takes into account the selected note value.
- Fixed login issue for users with Chinese selected as language
- Solved in Interval Identification: if relative tone naming is chosen (e.g. solfege), wrong enharmonic spellings were sometimes used.
- Solved in Rhythmic dictation: Tying a note could delete it.
New in EarMaster Pro 6.2.4 (Aug 19, 2015)
- The Japanese and Finish languages are now published, so they appear in the list of languages.
New in EarMaster Pro 6.2 (Jul 8, 2015)
- New Jazz course to explore the roots of Jazz and Blues music:
- The new EarMaster Jazz course includes hundreds of exercises for sight-singing and ear training (melodic dictation and melody sing-back). The lessons cover such topics as «Blues Scales and Blues Songs», «1920's American Swing Hits», «Ballads and Blues in Minor», «Novelty Songs and Rhythms», «Irish Ballads & Folk Music», «Fun with Irving Berlin», as well as a variety of Jazz and Blues all-time classics such as “After You've Gone”, “St. James Infirmary”, “Mandy”, “The Sheik of Arabia”, “At the Devil's Ball”, “Missouri Waltz” and many more.
- Tuned-up user interface:
- The user interface of EarMaster 6 has been revised and updated according to user feedback, with a lot of adjustments in the color scheme, icon sets, and more., as well as a refined welcome screen. The result is a better-looking, easier-to-use and more intuitive program.
- Under-the-hood improvements:
- Improved pitch recognition algorithm for vocal input
- Automatic note stem direction
- Improved Music XML import
- Direct access to login type selection (Automatic, Manual or Cloud login)
- New tone range presets added for audio input: Guitar, Bass guitar
- New languages: Japanese, Turkish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Finnish
- New auto-proxy setting for activation and Cloud syncing
- New lesson introduction window
- New lesson type: Instruction lessons
- And many more...
New in EarMaster Pro 6.1.2 (Feb 25, 2015)
- Now also available in Norwegian Bokmål (except Courses)
- Automatic transposition of voice input: sing in any octave in exercises with real-time voice input, regardless of the octave of the original melodies
- New transposition option for custom exercises using the melody database: "No transposition" (keep the exact same pitches as the original score). When this setting is selected, the clef for each voice will also remain as defined by the original score.
- When EarMaster chooses a clef for transposed questions, it now also considers the selected vocal range (i.e. if vocal range is set to "Bass", but the question is so high that it is in the G-clef range, it will now remain in the F-clef)
- Minor facelift of the user interface
- New pitch range presets: Piano, Guitar, Bass
- The limit for the "Question replay" option has been increased from 3 to 10
- Various bug fixes
- Improved workflow when working with the melody database:
- After choosing a melody, EarMaster will display the score to let you specify a bar range to include in the question.
- In the list of questions based on melodies from the melody database, icons are now shown for each editable column.
New in EarMaster Pro 6.1.1 (Jun 20, 2014)
- Solfege keyboard now uses a different layout of buttons (minor layout) when key is minor and tonenaming is "La-based minor"
- Modified Std Course for Melodic exercises: module 17 should be in all keys, but was always am + Module 18 lesson 5+6 had wrong number of bars.
- Improved calculation of accidentals for tones input on non-staff instruments (piano, guitar, etc.)
- Results window: "Show all attempts" now no longer applies to customized results
- Chord progressions: degrees are now shown on Piano and Guitar
- MusicXML import: better feedback if import failed due to unsupported elements.
New in EarMaster Pro 6.1.0 (Jun 7, 2014)
- New languages added: Polish and Turkish
- New help files added: Spanish and Italian
- Updated languages: English, French, Chinese
- Improved evaluation of sung melodies
- New G-clef (8vb) option allowing Tenor singers, among others, to read from the G-clef but sing in the F-clef range
- 5- and 7- tuplets added in melodic and rhythmic exercises
- Rhythmic exercises can now also use music from the melody database
- Melody database now comes preloaded with royalty-free music (Jazz standards mostly)
- MusicXML import function added to the melody database
- Slash chords added to lead sheets
- EarMaster Cloud syncing option added (requires that your school has a EarMaster Cloud license)
- "Under-the-hood" fine-tuning
- And a whole bunch of bug fixes
New in EarMaster Pro 5.0.1 (May 21, 2011)
- Added languages: Korean, Slovene and Turkish.
- Improved balance between MIDI sound and sound effects.
New in EarMaster Pro 5 Build 509PXi (May 21, 2011)
- Added languages: Korean, Slovene and Turkish.
- Improved balance between MIDI sound and sound effects.