Aim: To familiarize the user with musical instruments and their
names, or to create musical pieces and save them.
Upon entering this module, youll have to choose one of the two
activities.
Note: You can choose to allow access to only one of the two parts (
see the "Preferences..." section of this guide ).
The object is to click on the instruments name. A correct answer
produces a pleasant sound, and fills the right-hand cylinder. The
little hand shows that one must click to obtain the next
instrument.
An incorrect answer produces another sound and empties the cylinder.
One must try another answer.
A filled cylinder shows a winning message, an empty one, a losing
message.
The following window shows up. On the left, a scale shows the sound
level : dragging the button downward puts the volume up. ( One can
drag the button by clicking on it with the mouse button and sliding
the mouse while keeping the mouse button in the downward position.)
The picture with the instrument shows what type of sound will be
produced. Clicking on it changes the instrument.
There are two ways to produce music notes; with the mouse or with the
keyboard. With the mouse, all one has to do is click on the musical
keyboard shown in the window. With the keyboard, there is a one to
one correspondence between the key you strike and the note played.
For example, the lowest C note is heard by hitting the letter q( the
keyboard note on the screen is also lowered as if it were played );
the following D note corresponds to the letter w, etc. This is shown
in the following pictures.
The user may want to save his piece of music by using the upper
right-hand commands :.
The buttons are, in order : start, play, rewind, forward, stop. To
record, you must at first click on the start button. Then, you play
the sequences of notes. To end, you must click on the stop button.
The play button now shows up green instead of gray. To play the
recorded piece, you must at first rewind it and then play it.
To save the piece of music as a document, select "Save" from the
"File" menu in the menu bar at the top of the screen or hit the
command key and the s key at the same time. Youll create a new
document.