| Excuse me, something happened while writing it. My question was
does anyone have any pros/cons on the different music programs.
I only want to buy one. I have zero knowledge in music although
I like to listen to it, while my daughter plays the classical guitar
and would probably get more detailed than I in doing whatever you
do with the music programs beside listening to them...
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| Deluxe music construction set is the best program for the price,
using scores, printing scores, meter per bar, key per bar, clef
per bar per staff, tempo per bar, chords on one staff, up to 16
lines at once, 8 staffs, 2 lines per staff if desired.
& etc. playing out the sound port or midi. But it doesn't make
instruments, so get Synthia a little later when you need to make
more instruments.
Tom
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| re .1 I've had DMCS for about 10 days now, I am using it
in roughly the following manner:-
Enter a small score from a method book, playing it back every
few bars or so to see how it sounds/feels. Set the tempo to something
I can just about manage at the piano. Insert about 1 1/2 times
as many rest bars at the end as there are bars with notes in them.
Set it to play repeatedly. Then I go over to the piano (its really
a synth, but I have to avoid the term "keyboard" for obvious reasons)
listen to it play, then try to play it during the rest bars. It repeats,
I listen, I try again, etc. When I've got it together I play along
with the Amiga as well as during the rest bars, later I take the
rest bars out, eventually I move the tempo up to what the score
demands. Sometimes I'll put a metronome in the rest bars, usually
only if I'm finding the rhythm difficult.
In short its my programmable personal music teacher - well,
not quite. The next phase will be to record to it so that I can
see my mistakes more clearly. As soon as the midi interface arrives
(~ $47) it becomes a listening teacher as well as an example playing
teacher.
About the only (cutsie) thing that Tom didn't mention is the
picture of a (piano)keyboard that can be used for note entry, i.e. you
can pick up a note value and click on it either with the note image
on the staff or with the pointer on the picture of a (piano)keyboard.
There is a "player piano" setting that causes the piano keyboard
notes to flash as well as the score notes as the score is played.
Like I said, "cutsie", nice if you like it, I guess.
Oh, all the cut and paste and copy sorts of things one would expect
of a decent word processor, PLUS the ability to transpose (up,
down or not at all) while changing key signatures.
Reg
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