LANGUAGE UPDATES * German and Spanish version of Melodia improved BUG FIXES * Ties in scores were not loaded correctly in some situations * Melodia: Staff auto-scrolling during answering could go wrong * Melodia: Upper instrument locked to "staff" * Importing MusicXML with pitched percussion voices could result in errors * Exercise Options menu styling revised * Some sight-singing lessons had the "Play Count In" option turned off * Rhythm Error Detection: exercises with tied notes were not played correctly * Cloud login could hang if a local workbook was loaded in the home screen * Teachers only: Saving a workbook could crash the EarMaster program when selecting certain folders * ... and a number of minor adjustments and bugfixes

NEW FEATURES * New 'Melodia' course - Become a sight-singing master with EarMaster's take on the classic book ""Melodia"" by Cole & Lewis: 1500 exercises in 425 lessons for all levels. * New Swedish translation. * 'Solfege Fundamentals' improved and now also available in German and Danish. * The Functional Keyboard and Tone Ladder can now display absolute tone namings such as C, D, E or Absolute-Do Solfege. BUG FIXES * Fixed in Customized Exercise: Wrong first tone shown in Chord/Scale exercises when ""Execution"" was set to ""Random"" * ... and many other minor improvements and bug fixes!

NEW FEATURES * Brand-new course: "Solfege Fundamentals" - Learn to master movable-do solfege, as easy as Do-Re-Mi! * UI improvement: course icons in Preferences and lesson titles * Clapback and Singback exercises: new “Play Question" button * Improved Chinese translation BUG FIXES * Melodic Dictation: Stem directions was incorrect if a voice contained ties * Preferences: Transposing Instrument setting for Primary String Instrument would always get reset * ...and many other improvements and fixes!

BUG FIXES * Fixed error message: "tUserInfo.LoadFromIndexStream: Overwriting unsaved changes"

NEW FEATURES * The Rhythm Tapping input interface now sports a speaker-shaped button that lets you turn the clap sounds on/off * New setting "Select last used lesson or activity on startup" in the Home Screen tab of EarMaster's Preferences LANGUAGE UPDATES * French version of the free "Call of the notes" course * Updated translation in French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, Czech, Slovene BUG FIXES * Class assignments: did not show on first run and could not be used in offline mode * Melodic dictation: Dotted notes and triplets did not show up in the note toolbar when a melody with dotted notes or triplets was generated * Melodic dictation: Playing the user's answer could sometimes trigger an error message * Melodic dictation: Using a microphone as input method caused problems and errors * Melody Dictation: Stave marking with only one voice * Sight-singing and Singback exercises: moving the mouse cursor above the staff could cause the app to insert and drag notes erratically * When using the Tone ladder with melodies that included rhythmic note values, the highlighted tones were out of sync during playback * On some MacOS computers, no sound effect was played when evaluating an answer * In some cases loading workbooks from recent files failed with a missing permissions error * ... and many other minor improvements and bug fixes!

NEW FEATURES * New "Tone ladder" instrument for pitch-only sight-singing exercises! Sight-sing from solfege syllables displayed on a tone ladder, representing pitches and steps in a pedagogical way. * The pitch curve is now also shown on the "Note names" instrument, and of course on the new "Tone ladder" instrument. * The lesson list of a course in the home screen now shows which lessons you have completed, as well as your best score for each lesson. * New free course: "Greensleeves" - explore the English folk ballad Greensleeves with a series of EarMaster exercises. * New feature: "Bass line singing". You can now choose the chords of a lead sheet as the evaluated voice in sight-singing exercises. Then your task is to sing bass line of the accompaniment. * Improvement of the Melody Generator: The 6/8 time signature is now also available. * Improvement of the Melody Generator: Rests, Dotted notes and Triplets are now also available. * Improvement of the Melody Generator: The maximum number of bars has been increased from 4 to 8. * Improvement of the Melody Generator: You can now configure the melodies to start either on step 1, or on step 1, 3 or 5. * Improvement of continuous mode in sight-singing: If a lesson is in one single key, the tonic will only be heard before the first question. * Chord Progressions: It is now possible to define "progressions” consisting of one single chord. This makes it possible to create exercises in which you must identify one chord within the context of a key. * Bluetooth Latency Compensation: A second "Input Timing offset" setting dedicated to Bluetooth devices has been added in Preferences in order to compensate for the large delays caused by Bluetooth devices. LANGUAGE UPDATES * Traditional Chinese adaptation of the app text and the Beginner’s Course. Note: This is a computer conversion from Chinese Simplified, so please let us know if you find errors in the Traditional Chinese version! * Fixed the Dutch translation of the Beginner’s Course: some text lines where still in English. BUG FIXES * Fixed in lesson introductions: In some situations, the text of the lesson description could disappear when scrolling. * Presets were not always saved if the app went in the background after modifying presets. * The "Auto Submit Answer" option now works correctly with multiple-choice buttons. Before, it would always evaluate your answer, even when the expected condition was not met. It could also, in some situations, evaluate a wrong answer as correct. * Fixed error in the General Workshop "Rhythm Error Detection": some lessons could trigger the error message: "could not make changes with the chosen setup" * ... and many other minor bug fixes!

NEW FEATURES * Factory presets: in the Customized Exercise, each activity now includes a number of factory presets that can serve as inspiration or quickjumps to certain settings. * Highly improved graphical performance on MacOS. Animations now run much more smoothly than before. * Improvements to the General Workshops, especially in the melodic workshops. * Dictation exercises now allow playing a count-in when repeating a question or playing the user's answer * The Play cursor can now be placed on the time signature to indicate that the count-in should be played, or on any note to play from that note without playing the count-in. * While the count-in is played, the time signature is now highlighted on the staff (if visible). * When count-in is enabled, the rewind button now jumps directly to the time signature in order to play the material with a count-in. LANGUAGE UPDATES * New Dutch (Nederlands) translation included! (program text and "Beginner's Course" only). * Chinese (simplified) translation of the "Aural Trainer for ABRSM" course. * Update of the Chinese (simplified) app translation. * Major update of the Italian program app translation. * Danish translation of the "Vocal Trainer" course. BUG FIXES * Fixed: Functional Keyboard did not always update the text on the buttons when a new tone naming option was selected. * Teachers only: Fixed an error message in the Workbook Editor when editing the chord library. * The note toolbar on the staff did not move close to the notation staves when used on retina displays or screens with display scaling set above 100%. * Fixed critical issue on Macs with the "Apple M3" CPU that caused EarMaster to not run properly (introduced in release 7.5.76)

NEW FEATURES * Factory presets: in the Customized Exercise, each activity now includes a number of factory presets that can serve as inspiration or quickjumps to certain settings. * Highly improved graphical performance on MacOS. Animations now run much more smoothly than before. * Improvements to the General Workshops, especially in the melodic workshops. * Dictation exercises now allow playing a count-in when repeating a question or playing the user's answer * The Play cursor can now be placed on the time signature to indicate that the count-in should be played, or on any note to play from that note without playing the count-in. * While the count-in is played, the time signature is now highlighted on the staff (if visible). * When count-in is enabled, the rewind button now jumps directly to the time signature in order to play the material with a count-in. LANGUAGE UPDATES * New Dutch (Nederlands) translation included! (program text and "Beginner's Course" only). * Chinese (simplified) translation of the "Aural Trainer for ABRSM" course. * Update of the Chinese (simplified) app translation. * Major update of the Italian program app translation. * Danish translation of the "Vocal Trainer" course. BUG FIXES * Fixed: Functional Keyboard did not always update the text on the buttons when a new tone naming option was selected. * Teachers only: Fixed an error message in the Workbook Editor when editing the chord library. * The note toolbar on the staff did not move close to the notation staves when used on retina displays or screens with display scaling set above 100%.

* Fixed display issues with devices set to Turkish * Interval Singing: Tones were inserted too quickly * Pitch dictations: "Auto submit answer" was not working * Chord Progressions: MIDI Input has been fixed * Rhythmic Dictation: could accept empty answers as correct in some situations * Fixed bug in Jazz Sight-Singing, lesson 6.11 * Melodic Dictation: Voice soloing now possible in customized exercises using the score library * Rhythmic Dictation: the spacing between notes could be too narrow in the lesson intro Melody Singback: when playing legato with a MIDI input device, the pitch curve would not be drawn * Teachers only: Fixed an error when opening a question based on a score that contained chords We publish updates regularly to improve EarMaster. So if you see a problem in the App, please make sure to get in touch via the feedback button in the preferences. Have fun training your skills with EarMaster!

New EarMaster 7.5 update with tons of new features and fixes, among which: * User Presets - save your own customized exercise configurations for later use. * The notation editor has been completely reworked, allowing for a workflow that is closer to popular notation software. * Multi-voice dictation: In Melodic and Rhythmic dictation, you can now have multiple "evaluated" voices. This enables you to create exercises where the task could be to transcribe by ear the soprano and bass voices of a choral, or maybe all 5 voices of a quintet. * The first and last bars of questions based on scores can now be trimmed. Previously, you had to include the entirety of the selected bars, which could yield unwanted results. * The score viewer and the score question selection editor have been completely redesigned. * The staff toolbar can now show both notes and rests at the same time when there is enough screen space. * The staff toolbar now floats near the content of the staff, allowing for much faster note input and much less mouse travel. * In dictation exercises, a new play cursor enables you to specify where you would like the playback to start from. This makes it possible to listen to parts of a melody. A rewind button has also been added, making it possible to quickly move the cursor back to the beginning of the score. * When evaluating answers to dictation exercises, the correct and wrong answers are now grouped together for better clarity. * In dictation exercises, you can now solo a voice to hear it isolated from the other voices or the accompanying chords. * You can now specify how many bars of count-in you would like to have. Previously, you would always have a single count-in bar. * Rhythmic Dictation exercises can now include accompaniment voices. * In Melody Singback and Rhythm Clapback exercises, you can now choose whether the count-in bars should be played only before the questions, or both before the questions and before your answer. Also, if you have enabled the "Continuous call-response" mode, you also have the option to play the count-in only once, before the first question of a call-response streak. * "Always show staff" is a new customized exercise setup option for singback and clapback exercises. Enabling this option will display the notes of the question on the staff before you begin to answer. When that option is enabled, the exercise becomes a sight-reading exercise where you also hear the notes of the question before performing it. * "New key for each question" is a new exercise setup option in all exercises where you can select a key. When enabled (default), EarMaster works like you are used to. But when the option is disabled, EarMaster will pick a key once at the beginning of the exercise according to your settings, and then stay in that key for the rest of the exercise. If you repeat the exercise and you have selected multiple keys in your exercise setup, then EarMaster will pick a different key and stick to it for the rest of the exercise. * The Tonic chord of the key is shown permanently on the staff as a reference * You can click on the tonic chord in the staff to hear the tonic cue (keynotes, tonic chord, cadence, degrees 1 2 3 4 5, etc.) again. * The "First tone" of a question is now shown permanently next to the clef, and no longer as a temporary gray tone. The first tone is also indicated on the Piano, fingerboard (guitar, bass, violin.,, etc.) and Functional keyboard. * The Aural Trainer for ABRSM and Vocal Trainer courses have been revised and improved * A large number of minor improvements and bug fixes [Teacher mode only] * New permissions in the lesson configuration have been added. You can now force on/off the "Metronome during question" and "Voice soloing" settings in all relevant exercises.

Language updates * German, Polish, Turkish, Hungarian, and Czech translations revised Bug fixes * Melodic Dictation: pitch-only melodies could use the wrong accidentals * Sight-Singing: when singing from note names with the tone naming option "Movable-Do Solfege with La-based minor", the octave designations were wrong * Several lessons had their tone naming setting locked even when it was not intended to be locked. This could also happen for assignments and custom workbooks * Vocal Trainer: lessons 19.17 and 19.18 included the M6 interval instead of m6 * RCM Voice: lessons 30.5, 30.6 and 48.7 were set to a wrong tempo * Rhythm Sight-Reading: the exercise flow bars could show a wrong time signature * Fixed an error displayed in the lesson finish screen in some languages: "Exception in tVMLessonFinish.PrepareToShow..." * "Call of the notes" course: minor revisions * Cloud students in offline mode: class assignments did not show up * Fixed an intermittent error message “tAudioInputMacOS.GetDeviceList: Error query Device UID” * Teachers only: error messages could be shown in the Assignment Manager after a class was deleted * Teachers only: assigning a workbook to class could sometimes result in the assignment being temporarily disabled in teacher’s home screen until the next restart

Improved compatibility with macOS Sonoma on Intel Mac

NEW FEATURES * Design brush-up * New 100% free course for call-response ear training: ‘Call of the Notes’ (English only) * Text updates in Chinese, Czech, Danish, French, German and Spanish BUG FIXES * The metronome now plays during answers in singback and clapback exercises when a score has accompaniment voices. * Melody Singback no longer plays the first tone if there is only one tone in the question. * Minor adjustments of "Vocal Trainer" and "Aural Trainer for ABRSM" * MusicXml import: dynamics are now imported correctly

NEW FEATURES - Full Chinese translation of Jazz Workshops - Improved Chinese translation of app text BUG FIXES - Many improvements and fixes of "Aural Trainer for ABRSM" - Workbook editor: Fixed error when inserting certain lessons (e.g. lesson 7.3) from the Aural Trainer for ABRSM course into a custom course. - And a number of minor adjustments and bugfixes

NEW FEATURES - New course available: "Aural Trainer for ABRSM" - Vocal Trainer: Revision of the Chinese translation - Melody Singback: New Exercise option "Play first note" BUG FIXES - Fixed a number of errors in Rhythm Error Detection exercises: Lesson Introductions based on scores, generate shorter note values that wanted, the usage of clap and piano sounds - Fixed a number of errors in "Continuous call-response" exercises - And a large number of minor adjustments and bugfixes

NEW FEATURES - Vocal Trainer course now also in Chinese! - Rhythm Clapback: The "Convert to percussion" now only converts the evaluated voice, and not the accompaniment voices - Minor text updates in English, French, Spanish and Danish BUG FIXES - Sight-Reading: leading rests were not shown in exercises based on scores - Fixed the error message: "tEMStaffVoice.CalculateStaffProperties: ... Argument out of range" - When using the fingerboard interface and inserting a tone, an error could be shown if that tone was already inserted on another string - If the home screen listed a workbook that wasn't available anymore, an error message could be shown - If your EarMaster login username was partly identical to your macOS username, EarMaster was unable to save data - Teachers only: Filtering student results by date range has been improved - Multiple minor adjustments and bugfixes

FEATURES - Vocal Trainer course now also in Spanish! - Vocal Trainer: Minor update of French and German versions. - New help hints in Exercise Options and the Workbook Editor. - Improved handling of the last lesson in a course. BUGS - Fixed errors shown when editing score excerpts in rhythmic exercises (e.g. error message "...GetScoreRefTemp: Unknown TempoSource") - When using TAB and ARROW shortcuts to navigate the exercise windows, the Focus rectangle is now easier to spot. - Fixed shortcuts that had stopped working: control buttons F5-F8 and note toolbar. - Teachers only: Fixed an error in Student Results when retrieving results for students whose username contained a dash symbol. - RCM course updated with improved lesson description text and settings. - Using TAB to move the focus area to the Functional Keyboard was not working. - Fixed wrong enharmonic accidentals on functional keyboard when using "Closed Position" with 4-note chords.

NEW FEATURES * New course for the RCM Voice curriculum * Vocal Trainer course for German and French * Help hints are now available in Exercise Setup, Exercise Options and Workbook Editor * Improved Functional keyboard * Improved Home Screen * Improved transposition of intervals in Interval Singing BUG FIXES * Lesson Introduction did not always play examples with the correct tempo * And a large number of minor adjustments and bugfixes

NEW FEATURES: - Vocal Trainer - Become a better singer with hundreds of ear training, sight-singing and rhythmic exercises tailored for vocalists. Reboot of the RCM Voice Level 1-6 course with improvements. BUG FIXES: - Rhythm Error Detection: Ties are now handled correctly by the exercises. - An uneven accentuation/attack in pitch-only melodies could occur. - Chord Progressions: The name of the chords were not displayed in some situations. - And tons of minor adjustments and bug fixes

NEW TRANSLATIONS: - Japanese translation (Complete translation of program and all courses!) - Slovenian (App text and Beginners Course only). BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS: - Singing exercises are now better at detecting when you actually begin to sing - Lesson Introduction, new HTML rendering solution improves speed and fixes issues in Chinese and Japanese languages - Scale Identification: When Melodic Minor was played Ascending+Descending, it did not play the correct descending tones (flat 6 & 7). - Fixed bug with Interval Identification: Pressing "New Question" could freeze the app when using a large pitch range - Lesson Introduction: Fixed issue that pitch-only melodies could be shown with wrong (large) spacing. - Teachers only: Fixed Access violation in Assignment Manager when assigning a workbook uploaded for the occasion which overwrites another one with the same name. - Teachers only: Fixed access violation in Workbook Editor when more than 2 Answer input methods was forced ON. - Teachers only: Resizing the Workbook Editor could freeze the app. Fixing minimum size and resize handling as well. - Teachers only: Workbook editor on Macos now asks to save when pressing red close button in the window. - Teachers only: Error messages in Workbook Editor could be hidden behind the window, which could freeze the app. - Teachers only: Renaming modules in Workbook Editor often freezes the app. ... and a large number of minor adjustments and bugfixes

NEW FEATURES: - More free lessons! A selection of lessons in the General workshops can now be used for free. NEW TRANSLATIONS: - Turkish (App text and Beginners Course only). BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS: - Singback/Clapback exercises: recording of your answer now begins right after the question (or after a count-in if enabled). - Fixed an error shown when logging users in/out after having visited the Chord Progression music library. - Improved handling of permissions for using the microphone. - Solved a problem in Chinese where texts in the lesson introduction could sometimes be cut off. - Chord progressions in Flat keys: pressing bII, bIII, bV, bVI or bVII on the functional keyboard (e.g. bII in Gb major) would incorrectly insert a natural note (G) instead of the expected double flat (Abb). - Chord progressions: the automatic detection of whether a progression is in a major or a minor key has been drastically improved. - The Training Mode list now adapts better to long assignment lists. - Results: better handling of custom date ranges. - Teachers only: Several issues with CSV export of student results have been solved - Teachers only: The error "User does not exist" that some teachers could see in some situation has now been solved. - Teachers only: In the Workbook Editor, the textbox to input the lesson description was not shown at first. ... and a large number of minor adjustments and bugfixes

New Features * Enabled the Text instrument (note names) in Melodic Imitation * Restricted the calculated initial size of the main window (desktop only): now height is adjusted so it does not exceed a 3:4 ratio to remain in landscape. Before it could get portrait format on larger screens. * Teachers Only: List of classes in Assignment manager is now sorted Critical Bugfix (Teachers Only): Some messages shown in Workbook editor and Score Library was shown BEHIND the window, which would lock the workbook editor. Bugfixes * Fixed bug in Interval, Scale and Chord exercises: evaluation was always absolute, while before build 7.2.50 it was always "any octave". * Fixed error in Rhythm read Customized: when using score as source and switching to generated rhythm * In Customized exercise setup: Changing tempo in GUI now updates the ExSetup

NEW FEATURES * Sight singing exercise: you can now have the tonic and first tone played before starting the recording. It is played from the "Control" menu. * Singing exercises: the app is now better at ignoring metronome sounds that are picked up by the mic. * Sight-Singing: you can now turn off the metronome if other voices are played, so that you can follow those instead of the metronome. * Singback and Clapback: when listening to your answer, the options "Play lead-in" and "Play metronome during question" are respected. * Rhythmic Dictation now also has the exercise option "Auto repeat question" * New option in Preferences > Other options: "Use native HTTPS requests". This can be used to solve connection problems. * Added a "Remind me later" option to the auto check for update message * Changed Results and Preferences window from a pop-up window to a slide-in window * MusicXML import: now supports using whole note rests in meters shorter than a whole note (i.e. when it is used in the meaning "full-bar rest") LANGUAGES * New language: Hungarian translation (App and Beginner’s Course only) * Russian: Fixed wrong tone name "C" * English: In the Jazz Workshop “Chord Identification, the chord "mi(maj7,b5)" has been renamed "Dim,maj7". Also, all custom chords now begin with an uppercase. * French General Workshops: Revised the Interval Singing workshop to exclude movable-do solfege and use interval names instead. * French: minor revision of the App text * Russian and Polish: some lesson descriptions weren’t displayed correctly. This should now be fixed. * German, Italian and Chinese: Fixed a few typos and spelling errors in the Beginner’s Course. BUG FIXES * We fixed a problem with "Auto Submit Answer" in Melodic Dictation: if enabled while using a pitch-only exercise, it would still be enabled when switching to an exercise with rhythmic note values. However, the setting was removed from Exercise Options, so you could not disable it again. * In Interval Comparison, the "Show Interval Names" option did not work as expected. * Rhythm Dictation: the "Convert to percussion clef" setting is now working as expected. * The warning message "Could not generate a melody with the current configuration" could in some situations trigger an endless loop of additional error messages, making the App crash. This has now been fixed. * The “Play lead-in” option in Exercise Options for Singing exercises is now grayed out when a question requires that it is enabled. Before, the option was available but changing it had no effect. * In the Lesson Introductions of singing exercises, double-clicking the Begin button would display an error message. * Exercise Setup with a custom pitch range: tapping on the lower range option would play the wrong interval. This has now been fixed. * The pitch detection system could display an error on rare occasions. * Rhythmic Sight reading and Rhythm Clapback: when using scores with pitches in an exercise, the questions would be displayed on a percussion staff but with a vertical position based on their pitch (as if it had been displayed on a regular staff with a G-clef). * Exercises where tempo was controlled by an Exercise Setup: changing the tempo in Exercise Options only worked if done while recording an answer. It would then be reset on each attempt or if the lesson intro was displayed again. Now the tempo is only reset when a new question is generated. * Exercises based on lead-sheets: if the first bar of the selected range has no chord and the bar just before it has one, then the chord from the previous bar is now copied to the first bar of the user’s selection.

NEW FEATURES * Improved UI for the Functional Keyboard * New "dynamic" setting for the spacing of notes on the staff * The staff shown when editing question made of a library score now uses the new "dynamic note spacing" setting. Before that, it was time proportional, which made it difficult to use with 16th and 32nd notes. * Notes that fill the whole bar are now placed closer to the center of the bar, as recommended in "Behind Bars" p. 39. This happens only in "Dynamic note spacing" notation mode and when exactly one voice is visible. * Customized Exercise setup: when a custom pitch range was selected, it wasn't displayed in the master list. It does now. * Adds a "Back" button to the "Lesson Finish" page. FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS * Fixes an error message that would be displayed if "auto evaluation" was enabled and you pressed the "Evaluate" button while playing/singing a tone * Melodic dictation: tones would be removed when dragged during playback. * Fixes an error in clapping exercises: if double-claps were recorded with Mic input, then an error would be shown when playing your answer. * Results for customized exercise always showed "No Completed attempts" * Cloud Teachers: Solves an error message about "Assignment Course" not found. * Fixes a problem with melodies made of only one tone, which could sometimes be outside the chosen scale (non-diatonic). * Fixes a problem with staff labels overlapping with the first notes on the staff. * Solves a crash in Rhythm Dictation exercises (e.g. in "Beginner's course" lesson 5.5).

Cloud Teachers only: Fixed a bug causing some Cloud Students to not show up in Student Results and Assignment manager.