piano business / commercial software for mac

PFC Piano Practice Level 3 1.0 is a full featured and advanced software exercises for practicing and memorizing with a computer and a piano/keyboard simultaneously. They bring the multimedia dimension to traditional cardboard flashcard sets: Piano exercises & answers are automatically displayed on the screen, with animations and sounds. The logical path to each answer is clearly demonstrated in a coherent multimedia form. Piano exercises & answer specifics, as well as coherence between sets, have been designed by Piano teachers members of the New England Piano Teachers Association, in accordance with current learning methodologies. It is PowerFlashCards mission to develop the contents of its software flashcards in collaboration with professionals and educators, to insure effectiveness in memorizing piano matters.

Major Benefits:

1. Multimedia Piano Questions (exercises) and Answers cards use animations and sounds to improve memorization.
2. Ideal teaching complements. Follow widely used curriculum paths.
3. Organized flashcards sets with sequential levels (like successive chapters of a piano schoolbook). The student focuses on the level which matches his/her current skills.
4. Automatic flash of cards: hands are free to play piano!
5. User friendly, doesnt require computer experience.
6. Rapid, effective and fun memorization tools.
7. Great value: $7.99 / flashcards set. Respects schools and parents budgets.

Major Features:

1. An average of 45 virtual cards per product, covering one specific piano level.
2. Each piano card is made of an exercise, followed by the answer with its rational.
3. Exercises (questions) and answers are successively and automatically displayed on the screen with sound and colorful animations.
4. User-selected options include: o Choice of random or sequential cards display. o Time allowed to answer each exercise. o Choice of viewing answers or not. o ...

PianistEnvy X 2.0 is a must- have tool which allows anyone with a Mac and QuickTime to instantly unleash 120 crystal-clear instruments built-into Apple's QuickTime software. Each instrument can be extensively manipulated to create the right sound through Octave, Pressure and Duration controls. And if you find the "point and click" approach to piano playing tedious, simply use your Mac's keyboard as an alternative. PianistEnvy is a great tool for anyone who wants to make a little music with their Mac.

Perfect Guitar X 1.9.1 has come as a smart and creative program which helps you explore alternate tunings and provides an easy way to switch tunings quickly. It allows both a graphical approach, where you drag the mouse to pluck virtual strings, and a keyboard approach. It allows you to save and load alternate tuning sets.

Major Features:

1. Customize, save, load, and delete tuning presets within the application, and add comments to each tuning -"pick" virtual strings with the mouse
2. Use number keys to pluck strings
3. Mute strings by clicking in or around sound hole
4. Strum whole chord with one click -auto tuning: each string is played over and over at a user defined interval, until you click the Next String button
5. 5 different instrument sounds: Classical Guitar, Steel String, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, and Grand Piano
6. Volume control
7. Mute all other strings as each new one is played with Mute Others
8. Overlay string letter names and numbers on guitar picture
9. Beautiful interface with multiple looks possible

Requirements:

• Quicktime Musical Instruments
• Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
  

Transcribe! 7.51 brings you a very useful editor tool which is designed for working out a piece of music from a recording. The usual technique is to copy the music to cassette and then listen repeatedly to each bit, using your ear and your brain to work out what is happening. You would also need a piano or a guitar handy to check out which note is which.

Transcribe! effectively replaces the cassette machine and the piano. Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow down the music without changing its pitch, and to analyse chords and show you what notes are present.

Requirements:
Practica Musica 4.1 or later (full registered version).

Enhancements:
Version 5.121 Release Notes are extensive, and can be viewed at the Ars Nova Homepage here.

Practica Musica is the great Ars Novas award-winning music theory and ear training software, has received its most significant upgrade to date: Version 4.
Now compatible with both Windows and Macintosh, Practica Musica 4 has many new features that make it the new standard for music education software.
Main features:
- Fully customizable learning activities that meet a wide variety of needs, from beginning students to advanced theory and ear training.
- Polyphonic capabilities (try 2-part rhythm tapping or 4-part dictation).
- Practica Musica 4 works with or without MIDI (use the screen piano or use the computers letter keys as a piano), but it is now compatible with USB MIDI on the Macintosh, as well as QuickTime Instruments and built-in sampled sounds. The Macintosh version supports OMS, FreeMIDI, and MIDI Manager via QuickTime; the Windows version supports sampled sounds, MIDI and internal synthesizer sounds as per the capabilities of your sound card.