Music Maestro

Another great APDL-ProAction compilation CD. Contains -

• Serenade (16 track MIDI sequencer)
• Vox Box, includes Perform, VoxBeat, VoxSaple and VoxSynth)
• Rythmm Bed, MIDI utilities
• ReMidi
• A selection of samle files, including Voices, MIDI, etc.

Serenade is a desktop MIDI sequencer. A great deal of effort has gone into creating a user interface that gives access to the power of Serenade without making it complex to use. No knowledge of musical notation is required - just connect a MIDI keyboard to your computer via a MIDI card and play. Serenade captures the music ready for editing.

A Serenade screen.

• Multi tasking 16 track MIDI sequencer
• Intuitive interface
• Audition feature allows undo of most functions
• Guitar chord input
• Full editing facilities
• Accurate keyboard capture
• Automatic quantization
• Real time parameters including Transpose, Quantize etc
• Transfer scores to Rhapsody via Standard MIDI files
• Accepts Standard MIDI files
• Editable instrument names are used to select instruments
• Real Time MIDI Events enabling real time mixing, panning, etc
• Event list editing
• Track locking to prevent accidental erasure
• MIDI input and output filters allow selective recording of MIDI data
• Remote control triggering via MIDI keyboard
• Sync to external source of MIDI Time Clock
• Auto start and sync with RhythmBed

Serenade excels. It is powerful, overflowing with functions and represents a leap forward in interfaces.     Online
Powerful and easy to use.. many sophisticated features.      RISC User

RhythmBed

RhythmBed is a program which lets you create percussion tracks for controlling drum machines directly, for export to sequencers, such as Serenade or for use with your computer's own internal voices.

Percussion tracks are built up using a simple yet powerful grid-editing technique. Rhythm-Bed is primarily a MIDI package for use as a drum machine but it can also access up to eight separate internal voices. RhythmBed is also ideal for primary schools as it allows children to quickly experiment with creating percussion tracks.

A RhythmBed screen shot

• MIDI compatible with a range of keyboards and drum machines supported
• Can use computer's own Internal sounds
• Very easy to use grid based entry method
• Data can be saved as MIDI file for export to packages such as Rhapsody and Serenade
• Sequencing facility so you can build up a long rhythm from short patterns
• Full editing facilities (cut/copy/insert/add etc etc)

Vox Box

This package is a combination of four separate applications. Together they provide a very useful addition to the Rhapsody program, also available from APDL-ProAction.

The four programs are:

• Perform - an application enabling you to play Rhapsody and MIDI files as well as sound samples without the need to have Rhapsody present.
• VoxBeat - an application to turn sampled percussion sounds into a useful module that enables a user without access to a MIDI instrument to obtain realistic percussion accompaniment to his or her score.
• VoxSample - an application to convert sound samples into usable RISC OS voices for use with Rhapsody, Maestro or any other application using voices.
• VoxSynth - an application to synthesise RISC OS voices digitally.