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
What's New in version 1.8:
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
What's New in version 1.6:
Score reading exercise
Improving main menu and preferences window
No more sound when mouse is moved on keyboard at screen (note reading exercise)