Non-Midi Music Utilities KGDU,01 . Key, Guitar, Drum Utilities 1 - 17 Files - 334848 Bytes Used On Disk * Ear Trainer . This utility will play 2 notes on your monitor speaker and you must determine the correct interval between the notes. Tests for 12 possible responses . File was written for students of the Dick Grove School of Music. * Interval . This shareware utility is another ear training program . Program will present intervals in groups of 10 after which the answers are displayed * Guitar Chords . Will display any requested chord on a fretboard (tablature) * Conversion Utility . This is a collection of several useful utilities in one program. It will convert frequency to note or notes to frequencies, displays a table of musical instrument ranges, and has a key transposition calculator and will print staff paper with 9, 10, 12 or 18 sets of lines per page to an Epson FX, IBM graphics printer or a printer which is capable of IBM graphics * AV Production . Article about getting started in audio for video production. * DDL/Tempo Utility . Used to determine accurate rhythmic digital delay times. * SMPTE Time Code Calculators . Five programs designed to assist in SMPTE time code manipulations. Includes time code addition and subtraction, checking of off-line edit decision lists, run time calculations, synchronization offsets KGDU,02 . Key, Guitar, Drum Utilities 2 - 29 Files - 245760 Bytes Used On Disk Disk consists of programs and support files for a JBL speaker design package. Although JBL sales of raw components to the home-grown market has continuously expanded since the 50's, JBL as a company has done so well in the professional audio market over the past decade that the proportion of JBL's total sales of raw components has been overshadowed. Many of the consumer calls received by JBL Professional are inquiries into building the "ultimate" system. This disk of files is the instructions for the building of a complete full range system. KGDU,03 . Key, Guitar, Drum Utilities 3 - 23 Files - 352496 Bytes Used On Disk * Metronome. Adjustable tempo indicator will 'tick' from your speaker or cause a flash to your monitor. Tempo can also be entered by key stroke frequency. * Tune Up . This program generates a 440 Hertz tone (A) to monitor's speaker. * Convert Clicks . A utility to convert clicks to measure/beat and vice versa. * DDL . Determines rhythmic, accurate digital delay times for any given tempo. * Scale Master . A guitar player's learning and practice aid for mastering a specified musical scale in any key signature. Displays a fretboard to screen * Turbo Guitar . Allows you to create, edit, and play songs as you enter notes from the screen displayed guitar fretboard. Requires a graphics adapter card * Real Drum. Text file teaches you how to turn your drum machine or synth into accurate and human-sounding drum patterns - with tips on rhythm sequencing. * Studio Tricks . Two text files which cover repairing off-pitch vocal tracks, creative echo applications, getting accurate feedback echoes, recording of and includes a discussions of overdrive, distortion, EQ, preamps, and more. KGDU,04 . Key, Guitar, Drum Utilities 4 - 37 Files - 357376 Bytes Used On Disk * Scale Master was designed to drill you on musical scales. Scale formulas are always available when you make errors - helpful for a novice, refreshing for the more experienced. Detailed explanations about scale formulae is included * Sounds Good is a sound editor for the PC speaker. It lets you create, edit, and play sounds for use in your programs. Along with this editor program is a set of library routines so you can easily use the sounds you have created. * This program displays a conversion scale and is used for note transposition. * Copyright, A Proposal for an alternative to current copyright and patent law * Jingle, An an outline for a presentation made on the jingle business to APRA * Key Signatures, A text listing of Major and Relative Minor with Root Triads. KGDU,05 . Key, Guitar, Drum Utilities 5 - 17 Files - 362496 Bytes Used On Disk * Beats Per Minute. This is a tool for measuring a tempo of recorded material. The use is easy - While the record you want to time is playing, tap a key in time with the record. User entered information such as song name, along with the tempo, will be written to a log file so you can build databases of songs * Music1 . This is an interactive musical education progam which will help you learn to read and identify musical notes. This program only functions over 2 octaves, the octaves directly above and below middle C. This file requires a color graphics card and monitor. This is MIDI compatible. If you use an MPU or compatible, it will be detected and uses Channel 1 for playback and input * KORDCALC . This Guitar Chord Calculator displays three different fingerings for 31 types of chords in all 12 keys, for a grand total of 1116 chords. KGDU,06 . Key, Guitar, Drum Utilities 6 - 9 Files - 346112 Bytes Used On Disk This disk contains CHORDMASTER V.2, a state-of-the-art chord chemistry program for specific use by guitarists. Though it was created with guitarists in mind, the concepts explored can be readily applied to a variety of different musical instruments, as this program is designed as an educational and a reference aid for a variety of educational and compositional purposes. KGDU,07 . Key, Guitar, Drum Utilities 7 - 28 Files - 317440 Bytes Used On Disk Room Acoustics Designer calculates Absorption Coefficients for room surfaces. This allows you to enter six sets of numbers total square feet by surface with surface types indicated for the 4 walls, ceiling, and floor. Surface material support in the program allow selection of Brick unglazed,Brick painted, Carpet on concrete, Carpet on 40-oz hairfelt/foam, Carpet - impermeable latex backing on 40-oz hairfelt / foam, Concrete block coarse, Concrete block painted, Light velour 10 oz/sq.yd on wall, Hard velour 14 oz/sq.yd draped, Heavy velour 18 oz /sq.yd draped, Concrete or terrazo floor, Linoleum, asphalt, rubber/cork tile on concrete, Wood floor, Wood parquet in asphalt on concrete, Large panes of heavy plate glass, Ordinary window glass, Gypsum board 1/2 in. nailed to 2x4s, Marble or glazed tile, Plaster, gypsum, lime, on tile/brick, Plywood paneling 3/8 in. thick and Owens-Corning fiberglas mounting. This program supports rooms with 6 surfaces and this data is entered for each surface. Sabins of absorption are calcualted at center frequenciesof 125 Hz, 250 Hz, 500 Hz,1kHz,2kHz, and 4kHz. A graph can be displayed showing Sabins of Absorption at the center frequencies. The program also allows you to enter a goal reverb time for rooms. The goal reverb time will indicate the Sabins of Absorption required for a specific room reverb time. This program requires an IBM/compatible computer with 640K RAM memory and graphics display. Monochrome (Hercules graphics) and Color (CGA, EGA, VGA) graphic monitors are supported. KGDU,08 . Key, Guitar, Drum Utilities 8 - 9 Files - 354304 Bytes Used On Disk * PIANO . This is a utility program for musicians, piano tuners, and also MIDI hackers. It will calculate and generate tables of the entire equal-tempered musical scale to three-decimal-place precision. This program was originally offered to readers of an article the author wrote for Popular Electronics. * PIANOWAY . This program is written toassist music students and hobbyists in piano/keyboard study to assist new players with learning chords and scales. This allows you to select chords, scales and songs and play samethrough the built-in speaker of your computer, while the keyboard action issimulated on screen. Inversions of chords may be chosen as well asMAJOR, HARMONIC MINOR or the MELODIC MINOR Scale of the current note. Notes of the various chords, scales and songs may be played different ways to enable study of the music. * SOUND MAKER . In this program, the versatility of the computer as a musical instrument is demonstrated. Five different modules are presented as follows: 1.Keyboards 2.Rhythm Generator 3.Random Music 4.Sound Effects 5.Song Demo KGDU,09 . Key, Guitar, Drum Utilities 9 - 13 Files - 328704 Bytes Used On Disk NoteWorthy is a music printing and editing program. It is NOT a program which interfaces to any other form of music data files. The program is controlled by the computer keyboard and doesn't support a MIDI interface. Once mastered, you will find this program allows very fast entry of music onto a sheet. This is page-oriented and currently only handles 1 page of music at a time. The editor works on monochrome Hercules displays, and on color or monochrome EGA and VGA video systems. The editor will work from a 720K floppy disk or twin 360K disks but operates faster from a hard disk. It drives common 9- and 24-pin printers, and other systems which can emulate them, such as bubble-jets. It can operate a LaserJet-compatible printer in 150dpi (dot-per-inch) or 300dpi modes. Non-MIDI Music Entertainment MENT,01 . Musical Entertainment Disk 1 - 29 Files - 362496 Bytes Used On Disk * Composer . Shareware music composition program features many pre-programmed songs, two windows for programming two songs at once, a full line of musical symbols and notes, an option which converts songs into Basic, 11 different key signatures, both bass and treble clef, copy and erase commands, keyboard macro command support, and also includes a complete demonstration program. The file requires 128K RAM, color graphics display card and a color monitor. This entire disk consists of programs, support files, and songs for Composer MENT,02 . Musical Entertainment Disk 2 - 76 Files - 358400 Bytes Used On Disk This disk contains the program Pianoman. Pianoman lets you play your computer keyboard like a piano and record these sequences to memory and then store them to disk. Complete sequence edit features are available as are other advanced transform functions such as harmonize & creation of fugues. This disk includes many sample songs. Utilities are provided to turn saved sequences into stand- alone programs or files for use in your Basic or Turbo Pascal programs. MENT,03 . Musical Entertainment Disk 3 - 58 Files - 359424 Bytes Used On Disk * Mr. Organ . This program allows you to play your computer's keyboard like a single note organ. Mr. Organ starts a note as you press a key and holds it as long as you hold the key down. It is memory resident, so you can play a song while you use other program or you can use it with a typing tutor file to get audible feedback . Includes DUMB.COM - A program that does nothing. * VMusic . Although this file is not necessarily one of the easiest to use, it creates polyphonic music (enter using text files) playable by your computer. You can create either 2 or 3 part pieces . Includes four sample song files. MENT,04 . Musical Entertainment Disk 4 - 16 Files - 274432 Bytes Used On Disk This disk contains the Rock 'N' Roll Trivial Matters trivia game program. This game is for 1, 2, 3, or 4 players and keeps a history file of your scores. The program allows you to turn sound on or off. The object of the game is to score the most points by answering timed trivia questions that appear on the screen. Non-MIDI Music Programs For Windows 3.1 MUSW,01 . Windows Music Program Disk 1 - 13 Files - 354304 Bytes Used On Disk The following programs require Microsoft Windows drivers on MSE disk, MIDW,01. * SoundWAV is a program to select & randomly change Windows 3.1 System Sounds. This is fully compatible with sounds cards or Microsoft's PC Speaker Driver. * The VOC2WAV program converts a Creative Technology Sound Blaster VOC file to Windows 3.1 WAV files and includes a program to go from a WAV to a VOC file. * Wave convert is a DOS utility for converting 8-bit sound files among many of the most common PC formats. It will convert a file to or from any following file types: Covox SpeechThing/VoiceMaster, Microsoft Windows 3.1, DSound 2, SoundTool/Wired for Sound, SoundBlaster, and straight 8-bit file data. This lists information including file size, sample frequency, play time and title MUSW,02 . Windows Music Program Disk 2 - 11 Files - 361472 Bytes Used On Disk The following program requires Microsoft Windows drivers on MSE disk, MIDW,01. This disk contains VB MIDI Piano version 1.1 by Artic Software. This program is a playable graphic MIDI piano that shows you how to send MIDI OUT data with Visual Basic. You can play the 3D piano keys with your mouse, control general MIDI patch changes, and control panning, volume and octaves. MUSW,03 . Windows Music Program Disk 3 - 11 Files - 362496 Bytes Used On Disk The following programs require Microsoft Windows drivers on MSE disk, MIDW,01. * Wave Info 2.0 . This program provides extensive information about .WAV files. You can simply drag the sound file from File Manager onto the program's icon. This program will also allow you to play the .WAV (Wave) Sound files. * Staff Sargeant . This is a simple Windows utility for the printing of various types of music manuscript paper including plain blank staff paper or with the clefs and braces preset for many different types of music including piano and keyboard, organ, guitar tabulature, string quartet, brass quintet, and more.