Musical Examiner is an application developed to help you test your musical hearing.
Your task is to hear and find sounded note or precisely guess one of 36 notes (or chord type or sequence of 2...5 notes).
Musical Examiner is aimed at training the user's ability to seize music using musical ear and perform it at once. This gives practical experience no textbook can give, and that can only be obtained by performing music.
Here are some key features of "Musical Examiner":
· Examine your ear for music. Result logs will show your progress and how precise you orientate on keyboard looking the right pitch of sound.
· «Music Examiner» examines (and trains) your musical memory. «Music Examiner» has exercises for memorizing not only one tone, but melodic sequences from one to eight notes. All exercises are generated by the program, therefore no duplications of note sequences on every start are possible.
· Choice of tasks of two-note sequence on chromatic scale is very useful relative musical ear training exercise.
· Suggested mode choice introduces main natural modes. Being based on the «mode sense», practicing in these modes develops ear for music, which is the main solfeggio direction.
· In mode tasks the knowledge of scale notes is supposed. Turning the extramode sounds off the selected mode helps to cope with the «Mode and Key» chapter and gives hints during task fulfillment.
· Listening skill and ability to recognize the sounded note in specific mode are developed. This ability depends on how good the ear for music is developed and also on music memory that should keep «to yourself» stable mode sounds.
· Tasks with two-note sequences in mode develops both mode-sense (transforming instable sounds into stable) and inner ear as well as ability to recognize intervals in mode. Knowledge and ability to hear melodic sound of all basic triad and seventh types chords are given at task selection.
· «Music examiner» is provided for the possibility of a real solfeggio test as, during the studying process, the log file is created and it contains information on how often the user had used the program, and how much time it had taken
· Exercises results are kept in special log of marks for all kinds of tasks. According to this log a music teacher can evaluate pupil's progress.
· Work time is automatically accounted in TimeLog.txt in installation folder (short cut in Start menu for easy access). TimeLog.txt is automatically created after entering the registration code on shutting down the program. The file can be edited or deleted (it recreates and updates automatically). TimeLog.txt allows parents or music teacher to control time pupil works with the program.
· «Music examiner» is equipped with 16 channel MIDI sequencer which can be used as an editor for making-up musical phrases (including polyphonic) in studies. Music teachers can participate in making up drills for the program. To do so, contact the developer. «Music examiner» uses MIDI sequencer available in any soundcard.
· Additional options include metronome with visual indication and continuous tune oscillator for tuning musical instruments.
Requirements:
· Sound card
Limitations:
· Program will require input registration key and a name of the user each time it starts.
· As exiting the program there will be a reminder that the bought program has some advantages.
· Program is capable to work free of charge only 10 minutes. Then it can be restarted and used again for 10 minutes.
· Free use of the program does not allow to take pleasure in possibility automatically to write down all your actions and results in log files, but it is possible to do it manually (for example, using pencil and paper).
· Sequencer is accessible even to not registered users, but to save the created musical fragment files is only for registered version.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Two new task type — Chord playing
· In MIDI options you can enabled or disabled hardware MIDI keyboard
· After you press [Listen to a new task] you can't change Mode and Key until you do not execute current task.
