HarmonyKeen 1.1
What's new in HarmonyKeen 1.1
HarmonyKeen 1.1 is our biggest update yet, and it's free for everyone who owns HarmonyKeen.
01 / Voice leading
A voice-leading overhaul
We reworked how HarmonyKeen leads each harmony part from one chord to the next, in the chord styles. The parts now follow the rules of music theory more closely and move more like real singers and players would. Your melody stays exactly as you wrote it.
02 / The score
A score you can edit
Open your harmony as sheet music and edit it right there. Write notes from the on-screen keyboard or a MIDI keyboard, turn on chord names and click one to swap the chord, and hear each note as you write it. Hairpins are new, dynamics and articulations now play back as written, and MusicXML can export a separate staff for each part.
03 / MusicXML in
MusicXML in
Open a score from MuseScore, Dorico, Sibelius or Finale. Pick which part is the melody, harmonize it, and send it back to your notation app. HarmonyKeen tells you anything it couldn't keep.
04 / Your rules
You set the rules
Three new Shaping settings decide how the parts move, where your style offers a choice, with two or three harmony parts: how far they may leap, whether they may move in parallel fifths and octaves, and how strictly classical voice leading applies. Same melody, same settings, same result every time.
05 / And more
And more
Faster editing on the grid and in the score: set note lengths and split notes from the right-click menu, insert or delete bars, play or loop a selection, and jump back several steps from the Undo list. The full list is in the release notes.
Get 1.1
Already have HarmonyKeen? The update is free: HarmonyKeen offers it the next time you open it.
New in 1.1: HarmonyKeen now runs on Intel Macs too. If you’re on one, we’d love to hear how it goes.
New to it? Try every feature free for seven days. Introductory price: $59 until November 30, then $79.
HarmonyKeen for iPad is out too, as a separate purchase on the App Store.
Every change, version by version: the release notes