piano accompaniment
MIDI Companion 2.0
MIDI Companion is a highly-efficient, high-quality remote interface to the best keyboards in existence, the Kurzweil K2500/K2600/K2661. more>>
MIDI Companion 2.0 is a highly-efficient, high-quality remote interface to the best keyboards in existence, the Kurzweil K2500/K2600/K2661.
This is the Mac OS X version, there will be no further updates to the Mac OS 9 version. The Companion allows you to control your Kurzweil from your Macintosh. This saves wear and tear on the Kurzweil buttons and it allows you to work more efficiently. Take the simplest task on your Kurzweil. You've just created a new program, or layed down the first track in a sequence.
The Kurzweil wants a name for this new object, and you sit there for 5 minutes spinning the data wheel or pecking at the keypad to enter "Rad Piano" or "Techno Song". Forget it! Now just reach over to your Mac keyboard and type on a normal keyboard! And that's just the start. The Companion allows you to see your Kurzweil screen remotely, allows you to enter numeric data for things like frequencies, select programs from a complete, searchable list instead of 8 crowded lines, export the list of objects in your machine, and more.
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or later, and a two-way MIDI connection between your Mac and your Kurzweil.
Piano notes music game 09
After a lot of research, I realized that the software I was looking for just didnt exist, so I decided to create it myself. Five months later... Pian... more>> <<less
Piano 2.2
Piano - Brings you the full range of General MIDI sounds supported by Mac OS X on your dashboard. more>> Write your grocery lists and organize your recipes. Shopping lists are composed in seconds by clicking on items or adding from recipes. ShopNCook includes a database of nearly 2000 grocery items that makes it a snap to start writing shopping lists without having to input hundreds of items. By organizing the items according to the aisles of your supermarket, you save considerable time and efforts during shopping. The recipe manager lets you input your own recipes and search the recipes by title, categories, and ingredients. You can scale the quantities for the number of servings, and add the ingredients of a recipe to the shopping list with a click. ShopNCooks unique browser tool lets you localize and import recipes directly from internet. Have fun uncovering hundreds of thousands of recipes scattered in internet archives. Other features includes: nutritional information, e-mail tool to send shopping lists and share recipes with friends, sublists, automatic unit conversion, import/export, direct access to TheRecipeDatabase.com.<<less
Piano Theory 1.0.2
Piano Theory - Play piano right on your dashboard more>>
Basically, it brings a basic reference for piano theory right to your desktop. Sound interesting?
PS: Special thanks to Jared R. White for allowing me to use his excellent MIDI plugin :) This is great, because it allows you to actually hear the piano.
World of Copland v5
World of Copland, the fifth series, is a set of 63 superb icons ranging from Lava Lamps, to Life Vests and Diaries, to iMacs, Pianos, Crayons, and Hammers more>> World of Copland, the fifth series, is a set of 63 superb icons ranging from Lava Lamps, to Life Vests and Diaries, to iMacs, Pianos, Crayons, and Hammers. A preview of some of the icons is shown below.
System 7.0 or later.
Lava Lamps, to Life Vests and Diaries, to iMacs, Pianos, Crayons, and Hammers. A preview of someRainbow piano for kids 12.18
Rinbow piano for kids. Look at the pannel and press the same note. Look at the pannel and press the same note. Look at the pannel and press the same n... more>> <<less
prodatum Alpha 39
Free cross-platform preset/patch/SysEx editor for the E-MU Proteus 2000 synthesizer family more>> Free cross-platform preset/patch/SysEx editor for the E-MU Proteus 2000 synthesizer family
prodatum is a simple yet powerful free cross-platform preset editor, aka SysEx-editor, for the E-MU Proteus 2000 synthesizer family.
Written in C++, using portmidi for MIDI communications and FLTK for its user-interface, prodatum is available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.
prodatum features some "hand-made" and optimized widgets like a Virtual Keyboard with range-sliders, an Envelope Editor with drag-zoom and a Master Monitor with control guarantee.
Supported sound modules:
- Vintage Pro
- Audity 2000
- Proteus 2000
- Proteus 1000
- B-3
- XL-1
- Virtuoso 2000
- MoPhatt
- B-3 Turbo
- XL-1 Turbo
- MoPhatt Turbo
- Planet Earth
- Planet Earth Turbo
- Proteus 2500
- Orbit 3 - Keyboards: Vintage Keys, PK-6, XK-6, MK-6
- Ensoniq Halo - Command Stations: PX-7, XL-7, MP-7
Main features:
- Intuitive editing by putting parameters into context where possible. For example: to set the transpose value for a layer you just middle-click the key on the virtual keyboard that should play middle-C.
- Quick-edit: You turn a knob and thats it; there is no explicit saving needed and you can switch presets back and forth without losing any data ever.
- Undo and Redo
- Preset parameter cache: Makes preset-switching a breeze once data has been cached.
- Utilities: Copy presets around randomize presets or manage (load/save/rename) your multisetups.
Enhancements
- improved piano drawing and master monitor drawing (implicit outlines, to save some CPU cycles)
- added an about tab
- always close portmidi on exit. this hopefully fixes prodatum hanging on exit as some experienced
- bug: when you selected a different instrument for layer X, then switched to layer Y, then pressed "Undo" for layer X, the layer button didnt update the instrument name. fixed
- code cleanups
Calcium Supplements 1.0
Free Dashboard health widget for your Mac more>> All in one: SAMPLIT is the ultimate solution for sampling your midi and real instruments. Everything is here: automated recording, naming, truncating, compression, normalization, looping, resampling and even playing. Samplit sends the midi notes to the midi hardware, records all the individual sounds and create ready-to-play Sampler instruments with a few mouse clicks.
Formats: SAMPLIT currently supports 9 sampler formats:
Halion (Steinberg)
EXS24 (Apple)
Kontakt (Native Instruments)
Sampletank (IK Multimedia)
Reason (Propellerheads)
VSampler (MAZ Sound Tools)
Soundfont (EMU)
Gigasampler (Tascam)
Structure (Digidesign)
Quality: SAMPLIT uses the ASIO driver on PC and the CoreAudio driver on MAC.
Supported sampling rates: 44.1, 48, 96 kHz (depending on your audio card)
Supported bit resolutions: 16, 24, 32 bits (depending on your audio card)
You can always convert to a lower sample rate and bit resolution. For example you can record a piano in 96/24 and create a nice 96/24 piano in Kontakt format and a lighter 44/16 piano in soundfont format. All the operations on samples are non destructives.
Interface: The main window gives you a clear view of your current project. Anything that you do has an immediate visual impact. You can add or remove a velocity, select or deselect a note, listen to any sample, erase a sample that you dont like...
Recording: With SAMPLIT, you are in control. The recording window allows you adjust all the recording parameters in real time: thresholds, pre-recording, post-recording, recording limit, recording pause... You can also decide if you want to record by velocity or by note.
Midi: Every program inside a project records the bank change program change and control change. When you select that program, all these midi parameters are sent back to your midi synth like a total recall. But you dont need a midi interface to use SAMPLIT, you can also record any kind of non-midified sounds.<<less
Music Assistant 2.1
Music Assistant is a tool for you to set a tempo and tune your instruments. more>>
Enhancements:
- Adds the capability to see flashes (vice hear clicks) in the Metronome Mode and use pitches other than the standard 440 Hz for A4 notes in the Tune-up Mode.
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
Pandora Widget 1.0.2
Pandora Widget - Widget for the music streaming service more>>
Well, I made a Dashboard widget for Pandora.
Caveats (not my fault):
1) Dashboard in Tiger doesnt pass events through to Flash applets very reliably (its a known issue), so its can be hard to click on things (try clicking in rapid succession). But it plays music fine. Its probably easier to set up your account and music preferences in your web browser first, and then just use the widget for listening to music (think: "It shuffles music for you").
2) Pandora takes a while to load (like 10 seconds).
Enhancements:
- Minor update for Pandora system changes.
Apple GarageBand Update 5.1
Apple GarageBand Update is a helpful program helping you to learn to play piano and guitar more>> <<less
RandomMIDI 1.0
RandomMIDI - Produces random sequences of pitches from notes more>>
The voice and tempo can, of course, be changed by the MIDI file-playing application or device. Files produced by RandomMIDI open by default with the QuickTime Player application.
Entering a note more than once will "weight" the sequence towards that note; this can be useful in creating more tonal-sounding sequences.
Ebony & Ivory 1.8
Ebony & Ivory - Provides information about chords and scales for pianos, keyboards, etc more>> <<less
Set Grouping by Category 1.0
Set Grouping by Category - Make use of the new grouping tag in iTunes 4.2 more>>
Put songs into categories like situations to listen to, instruments or languages and create smart playlists that make use of these meta-categories.
Example: Set grouping categories of tracks like: sit:dream (Situation for dreaming), instr:piano (Instrument is piano) and create a smart playlist with: match all conditions, grouping contains sit:dream, grouping contains instr:piano for a romantic piano mix.
RandomMIDIX 1.0
RandomMIDIX is a mighty effective program that produces random sequences of pitches from notes played on an on-screen piano keyboard. more>>
RandomMIDIX 1.0 is a mighty effective program that produces "random" sequences of pitches from notes played on an on-screen piano keyboard. Randomly assigned note duration values range from whole- to sixteenth-notes. The sequences are saved as "type 1" MIDI files using the default piano sound (GM voice 1) at 120 BPM (beats per minute). The voice and tempo can, of course, be changed by the MIDI file-playing application or device. Files produced by RandomMIDI open by default with the QuickTime Player application.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
