***************************************************************************** * * * Nerveware presents RIFFGRABBER: real-time MIDI input to Deluxe Music 2.0! * * * * RIFFGRABBER captures the Amiga musician live! * * * *****************************************************************************  The new version of Deluxe Music is a welcome arrival, however it still does not allow for real-time input from a MIDI instrument. Enter RIFFGRABBER... RIFFGRABBER captures your live MIDI performance and exports it to Deluxe Music via ARexx. Play a composition or improvise a solo; RIFFGRABBER will notate your performance and send it to Deluxe Music! RIFFGRABBER is logically divided into three components: CREATE, PERFORM, and EXPORT...  CREATE  You have the choice of importing an existing Deluxe Music score directly into RIFFGRABBER via ARexx, so that you can play along with it later. Import the whole score, or specify a range of measures. Or start from scratch: Create any number of blank measures, each with its own time signature if you wish!  PERFORM  Here's where you play your MIDI instrument live into RIFFGRABBER. If you imported a section of a Deluxe Music score into RIFFGRABBER, you'll hear that accompaniment as you record a new part. Or, if you started with a custom batch of empty measures, record your performance along with RIFFGRABBER's metronome which clearly accents the "one" of each measure.  EXPORT  RIFFGRABBER transcribes your performance, and exports the results directly to Deluxe Music 2.0 (which multitasks with RIFFGRABBER), or to a SMUS file! No matter what style you play in, RIFFGRABBER can be customized to fit your performance. It recognizes sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes, quarter and eighth note triplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, and septuplets. RIFFGRABBER analyses your performance and exports an accurately notated version to Deluxe Music or SMUS. Converting a human performance to standard musical durations is called "quantization". Unfortunately, the vast majority of music software does a rather awful job of quantizing: either producing a confused jumble of tied thirty-second notes, or over-simplifying the rhythm of your performance.  RIFFGRABBER solves these problems by allowing you to customize its quantizer to suit you. If your performance feels more like a Bach fugue, you can activate sixteenths and thirty-seconds (for those trills and ornaments), and shut down triplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, and septuplets. On the other hand, if your solos are more of the Frank Zappa variety, you'll want to make use of RIFFGRABBER's full range! *********************************************************************** * * * RIFFGRABBER is an essential tool for all Amiga musicians who need * * to convert live musical performances to standard musical notation. * * * ***********************************************************************  To order RIFFGRABBER, send $49.95 plus $2 shipping to: Didkovsky/Nerveware 118 East 93rd Street, Apt 9C New York, NY 1O128 Tel (212) 369-1733 Fax (212) 996-4214 Email: 7225O.3313@compuserve.com RIFFGRABBER ships October 15, 1993. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: MIDI interface, MIDI instrument such as MIDI keyboard or MIDI guitar, Amiga with minimum 1 meg ram, Workbench 1.3 or higher. Since you can create a performance from scratch with RIFFGRABBER and export it to SMUS, Deluxe Music 2.0 is not strictly necessary, although it is a highly recommended companion to RIFFGRABBER. ************************************************************************ Also by Nerveware: Copyist Companion, which translates Deluxe Music Construction Set v1.0 scores to The Copyist. (Copyist Companion does NOT translate the new file format used by Deluxe Music 2.0)