Installing Harmony Space on a PC  

Download Harmony Space as a zipped folder from here. Unzip this Harmony Space folder and put it somewhere convenient (e.g. on the desktop).

Running Harmony Space on a PC

In the Harmony Space folder, drop ‘Harmony Space.image’ onto Squeak.app. (Optionally, to make it easier to find the two files, sort the folder by size, large at the top.)  

If Harmony Space is not already running, press the green button marked “Press to start Harmony Space”. If everything looks well layed out, you are good to go. If the screen looks a bit jumbled, visit setting up the right layout for your screen size

Possible Installation issues on PC version

1/ Left clicking (or right clicking) on a note circle should give you a sound. If not, see midi setup on a PC.

2/ Right clicking on a note circle should also give you a sound. It should not give a pop up menu, or cause coloured icons in circles to pop up around the boundary of the note circle area. If either of these things happen, see adjusting modifier keys.

Quitting Harmony Space

On the HarmonySpace Menu bar select Harmony Space > quit  and answer ‘Yes’ to the question ‘Are you sure?’.

Saving Work

If you have created any chord sequences, or created any new chords or chord maps that you want to keep, you should save them to disk using the relevant menu popup menus or the options under the main menu item ‘Recordings’. See also saving work for more detail.

Experimental Feature: Saving the state of the system

At present the system has an experimental system to allow you to continue sessions where you left off. It is still essential to first save to disk any chord sequences, chords or chord maps you created that you don’t want to lose , but you are welcome to try this system. Please let us know about any problems you may find. To use it, exist sessions using Harmony Space >save and quit, in which case the state of the previous session will be restored exactly next time you restart. The down side from this way of working is that after restarting a number of sessions, the system may get in to an undesired state, in which case you may need to partially re-install the system, and then restore any saved chord sequences, chords or chord maps you want to restore from previously saved versions.

To do a partial re-install of this kind, copy the two files (HarmonySpace.image and HarmonySpace.changes) from your installation zip or incremental update zip, which ever is more recent, into your Harmony Space folder, overwriting the two existing files of the same name.