Interactive Music Control

Interactive Music trumpets the user's actions—in real time!

Internet Explorer 4.0 introduces the new Interactive Music Control—an ActiveX control that composes and plays music in response to a user's actions. The Interactive Music Control thus creates a soundtrack of the user's actions—in a computer game or guided tour of a Web site, for instance—all without using WAV or MIDI files that require time to download.

Do you like what you're hearing? You can learn more about getting "sonified" by checking out our Interactive Music Demo. To hear the demo, you must be running Internet Explorer 4.0 or Internet Explorer 3.02. If you are running Internet Explorer 3.02, click Yes if prompted to download the Interactive Music Control.

This lightweight, flexible music control adds life and excitement to Web pages and ensures consistent and configurable musical playback via any soundcard. The Interactive Music control delivers the following benefits:

Offers a variety of musical output, which engages users a lot more than hearing the same old thing playing over and over.

Dynamically performs harmonically correct motifs in response to mouse movements and other user input.

Transitions from one type of music to another seamlessly.

Plays a definitive musical exit when a user leaves a page.

Plays transitional music as you move between Web pages.

Special bonus pack available for Internet Explorer 4.0 users
Energize your web site with the power of music! Introducing the Interactive Music Bonus Pack, the quick and easy way to experience music on the web. Specially created for the Internet Explorer users, this pack features five new styles, including Heartland, Textures, Dark Chase, SmokinÆ and Lay Back. Once you have the Internet Explorer 4.0 Platform Preview, download the pack for Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0. Then check out our new Interactive Music site and soon your web pages will be humming a different tune.

To make pages sound even more dynamic, download the Microsoft Synthesizer. This add-on takes advantage the musical output created by the Interactive Music Control to add depth and definition to music that MIDI can't touch—regardless of what kind of sound card you have installed! To learn more about Microsoft Synthesizer and the Interactive Music Control, visit the Interactive Music Web Site.