I'm happy to announce the release of JChordBox 0.5b ! JChordBox is a MIDI musical accompaniement generator software. It is a java 1.7 software. Giving a chord progression and a music style (containing music templates also called grooves), JChordBox generates a MIDI backing track. main features - build music templates from a MIDI file by adding markers to delimit each groove - songs written in XML format (chord progression) - mainly command line oriented : (GenerateSong, CreateStyleFromMidiFile, SongPlayer ...) - provides java API for future WYSIWYG software integration. - interactive text user interface called SongPlayer that can play MIDI files and JChordBox song (runs in terminal) - french and english translations Screenshot, download section and help (forum, mailing list) on sourceforge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jchordbox/ Home page and user guide: http://jchordbox.sourceforge.net Laurent Schwartz