Logiciel libre pour l'apprentissage de la lecture musicale

23 avril 2013 : Jalmus is discontinued

I’ve stopped to develop and maintain Jalmus Software. It was a great experience and I hope my little work was useful for some musicians to learn read music.

Best Regards,

Christophe

PS : I’ve just fixed on version 2.3 the rest breve and semibreve inversion on Score Reading

5 septembre 2012 : Version 2.3

• Adding Greek translation (thanks to John Lakkas)

Minor fixes

• Fixing bug with speed faster than largo on Rhythm/Score reading (speed is between 0 and 200). Thanks to Ian Tierney
• Fixing bug when saving Score Reading with no custom notes . Thanks to Ian Tierney
• Update level when changing key on Score Reading preferences

23 avril 2012 : Version 2.2

5 février 2012 : Version 2.1

New version of Jalmus is available with :

 BUG FIX : turn off keyboard sound.
 BUG FIX : Tempo settings for rhythms reading.
 NEW FEATURE : "route" keyboard sound to an external midi device to avoid latency when playing notes.

Thanks to Henrik for this update.

26 décembre 2011 : Version 2.0

New version 2.0

 All exercises could be saved on Preferences panel. After saving your exercise, you can load it from your personal lessons directory.
 Exercises (note reading, rhythm reading and score reading) can be mixed in a same lesson.
 Custom notes with accidentals on Score Reading exercise. Accidentals doesn’t affect other identical notes in the measure like they do (it’s in to do list).
 Some graphics improvements for rhythms (stem up or down according to pitch ...)
 Adding dotted half on rhythm exercises
 Jalmus could work with any acoustic instrument by using Prodipe Solo
 Few lessons for violin and sax alto (more to come)
 New shortcut in lesson’s menu to open lesson’s directory and modify/create/delete directly the XML files (with any text editor).
 In lesson mode you can pass an exercise by Escape key
 Fixing permission problem installer for Windows 7

If you create lessons, please send me to adding them on next release.

5 octobre 2011 : Version 1.8

Version 1.8 with some new features (credits to Massimo Callegari) is available on new project at SourceForge.

Changelog :

MAJOR UPDATES

• added an option to choose the measure tempo. For now just 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4 are supported
• possibility to resize Jalmus window. With this feature the user can choose how many measures to play
• added time signature indication after alterations
• removed speed cursor parameter
• added an option to show Metronome beats and cursor progress

TECHNICAL UPDATES

• removed BareBoneBrowser class. Jalmus now requires Java 6 to natively open a web browser
• removed GIF pictures to display notes
• notes are displayed through the MusiSync truetype font (credits to Robert Allgeyer)
• when rhythm game options are changed, the score is renewed (same as score reading game)
• GIF background converted to PNG to be ligther
• metronome now uses MIDI channel 10, to take advantage of drums samples
• most of the source code has been translated in english