Mickey Sadler suggested Harmony Assistant as an interesting program
to make organ books. I took a look at this program and it is great.
Simple to work with, a user friendly interface and of course the
possibility to make organ books and rolls for any kind of organ. It
lacks one feature: the possibility to edit your music in a piano roll
window.
When you make an arrangement, you listen to it and make a lot of little
changes, such as shortening notes or groups of notes, add ornamentation,
let bass notes start a little earlier than other notes because of their
slower response, and so on. All these changes are much easier to do
when you work in a piano roll screen. You just select the blocks that
represent the notes, move them, make them smaller, add some other ones
with a click and so on.
I really hope they decide to add this feature to their program at
Harmony Central. This would be a major bonus. Hope they read this
message.
Jacques Thijs
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