piano trial software / shareware for mac

PianoHead 2.08 is considered as a feature-rich and trustworthy software product which teaches fundamental music theory skills in a fun, game-like format.

Explore self-paced practice areas for note recognition, scales, intervals and key signatures. A practice-and-play interface helps you learn through repetition, feedback, and increasing levels of difficulty. When you're ready to move on, play the PianoHead Challenge, a game that combines all of these skills in 16 challenging levels.

An online scoreboard lists the top scores of players from around the world. PianoHead is not a replacement for a piano teacher or music education books, but it is a powerful supplementary tool for solidifying the foundational skills required to read and perform music.

Enhancements: Version 2.08 includes minor updates and bug fixes.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

PianistEnvy allows anyone with a Mac and QuickTime to instantly unleash 120 crystal-clear instruments built-into Apples 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 Macs keyboard as an alternative.

ScalePhobia is a tool created to help you learn to recognize scales/modes when you hear them. In ScalePhobia, you will see/hear most of the scales/modes from the major scale to the Locrian mode.

In ScalePhobia, you will see/hear most of the scales/modes from the major scale to the Locrian mode.

• Scale/Mode Tonic: C, C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, G, G#/Ab, A, A#/Bb, and B
• Scale/Mode Types: Major (Ionian), Natural Minor (Aeolian), Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Locrian, Whole Tone, Blues, Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic, Whole-Half Diminished, and Half-Whole Diminished.
• Play Modes: Scale/Mode Dictionary, Training, and Lesson.
• Note Orders: Ascending, and Descending.
• Interval Display: e.g. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8, PU-M2-M3-P4-P5-M6-M7-P8, C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C
• Piano Keyboard Display
• Staff Display

Clarion is a music utility which allows you to practice and be quizzed on your ability to recognize musical intervals.
Clarion helps you improve your ability to recognize musical intervals.
Enhancements:
- Major improvements have been made to the configuration of "interval sets" (called "scales" in previous versions). The new configuration options finally make it possible to constructs interval sets that quiz the user as expected for descending intervals! You can explicitly define your interval sets based on whichever ascending and descending intervals you desire (within an octave).
- A "Practice Piano" has been added ot the user interface, making it easier to "grasp" for the right answer while taking a quiz. If youre stuck on an interval, just pull down the piano drawer and peck at the keys until you hear something similar to the interval being played.
- The audio generation capabilitiies have been brought up to date with support for the latest audio API from Apple: CoreAudio. With this support, Clarion can play intervals through Apples built-in software synthesizer and through third party software synthesizers packaged as AudioUnits.

Based on a programmed learning model, Intervallogic offers a wide range of ear-training exercises for musicians of all levels of experience. Intervallogic uses unlooped sampled piano notes as well as percussion sounds to generate chords, melodies, rhythms and chord progressions.
Intervallogic encourages practice in the high repetition, fast-paced mode that is difficult to create in a classroom or private instruction setting. Ideally, a user will work within a given exercise for approximately 5 to 10 minutes maximum in one session, but may return several times a day for more practice. The scores for each exercise are automatically recorded once the exercise ends, and can be reviewed or archived at a later time.
In the basic identification exercises, chords or intervals are generated and presented as multiple choice options. The overall framework is to achieve 100 correct answers within a 5 minute time limit. There is no option to repeat incorrect answers, the user is intentionally moved forward into the next question. Immediate feedback to each response occurs visually with the movement of the progress bars, and in the event of an incorrect response, the correct answer is briefly highlighted before the next question is played.
While not intended exclusively for use in the Royal Conservatory system, where applicable exercises have levels matching the grade requirements for ear-training of the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto).
Main features:
- multiple user environment with individually stored preferences and results for each user
- basic tools to manipulate the user results files
- minimal formal music background required, melodic answers are given in standard solfege symbols
- customizable user interface, individual settings for target scores, time allowed etc.
Enhancements:
- New installer, registration requirement added for demo use.
- New plist structure for preferences and results files.
- New inversions exercise, also the option to require inversion naming in the triads and seventh chords exercises.
- Revisions to the default and Jazz 3 levels of the chord progression exercise.
- More stable preferences handling, esp. on first launch.
- Minor bug fixes.