Music Processing Suite 1.8.1 was released on April 3, 2021.

New Features and Enhancements:

• Enhanced analysis of implicit harmonies
  • New analysis feature: chord inversions are exported along with the detected chords over time (and over measures)
  • New analysis feature: chord inversion distribution
• Analysis view enhancements
  • View now opens in the center of the IDE as opposed to the bottom area
  • Improved initial user feedback and feedback for non-plattable data files
• Added documentation for progression graphs
• Improved documentation for MuseScore installation

Bugfixes:

• Fixed ClassNotFoundException when running composer
• Fixed a bug which caused measures with upbeats not to be aligned correctly when parsing MusicXML files
• MPS can now process non-compressed MusicXML files with file extension *.musicxml (before, the IDE only processed *.xml files)
• Fixed handling of minor seventh chords in LilyPond export
• MIDI files are now included when scanning corpora
• Fixed a problem when aggregating analysis result files with time signatures

Music Processing Suite 1.8.0 was released on January 31, 2021.

New Features and Enhancements:

• Scores can now be exported to MusicXML in order to be opened with MuseScore or other music notation software
• Scores PDFs can be generated directly in MPS using MuseScore as backend
• Music analysis reports can now be generated incrementally (only plots with changed data are re-generated)
• All time-dependent X axes can now have measures as unit (as opposed to absolute time). This is now the default X axis configuration.
• Added min/max pitch plot in analysis reports
• Replaced min/max pitch plot in overview plot with piano roll plot
• Enhanced alignment of X axis in overview plots
• Analysis report PDFs now have headlines containing the name of the file/folder which was analyzed
• LaTeX files for analysis reports now contain the inlined analysis data. This makes configuration for LaTeX escaping obsolete.
• Launch configuration are opened when created initially
• Console is automatically shown when generating music analysis reports with LaTeX
• Implicit harmony analysis is now enabled by default
• Enhanced mechanisms to locate GraphViz/LaTex/MuseScore executables on various operating systems
• Improved documentation for LaTeX installation

Bugfixes:

• Fixed bug which caused lyrics from different verses to be mixed up under certain conditions
• Fixed bug which could cause lyrics to be in the wrong sequence in case cue notes were used
• Lyrics containing quotes are now processed correctly
• Repeat alternatives are now processed correctly
• D.S. al coda (dal segno al coda) can now be handled when expanding MusicXML files
• Partials (anacruses) with measure number 0 are now processed correctly when parsing MusicXML files
• MusicXML parser can now handle the file extension *.musicxml
• Columns are now aligned/skipped correctly in overview table
• Fixed NullPointerException during analysis when comparing time-duration-note tuples
• Fixed FileNotFoundException when generating aggregated analysis reports for corpora
• Tuplets endings are now only processed once (were processed twice under certain conditions)
• Analysis view now refreshes appropriately when selecting resources from other projects
• When running analyses without GraphViz installed, no error dialogs will be shown
• Deactivated MusicXML key editor due to serialization issues that will be fixed in a future version

Music Processing Suite 1.7.1 was released on September 13, 2020.

New Features and Enhancements:

• Tools for MusicXML processing available when right-clicking a MusicXML file under MusicXML Tools:
  • Extract compressed MusicXML (*.mxl) files
  • Compress MusicXML (*.mxl) files
  • Edit Key Specifications in MusicXML (*.xml / *.musicxml / *.mxl) files
• New Analysis Features relating to loudness: Loudness over time and loudness distributions
• Updated documentation for loudness literals and values
• Pitch-related plots now have plot axes divided in 12 semitones with meaningful labels rather than numbered blocks divided in 10 semitones
• Enhanced data filtering for aggregated dissonance distribution plots and simultaneously audible interval plots. Also filtered out zero values in aggregated circle of fifths distribution plots.
• Improved analysis progress reporting
• Composition Language preferences are now listed under the MPS category

Bugfixes:

• Major internal enhancements for algorithms involving resolution of pitches and circle of fifths operations which fix the error java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not resolve circle of fifths index for harmony eu.hfm.mps.model.composition.impl.TonalSystemNoteImpl@[address]