Music Mouse Specifications

All Versions -

High Level Realtime Musical Controls:

• Chromatic, diatonic, pentatonic, middle eastern, octatonic, and quartal harmony

• Transposition, and interval of transposition controls for harmonic modulation
• Parallel and contrary motion, voicing, and grouping switches
• Loudness and tempo faders
• 4 rhythmic treatments: chord, arpeggio, line, and "improvisational"
• Mute / Punch In keys for each of the 4 voices. Global sound on/off
• Staccato / Legato /Half-Legato switch keys
• Display user input (mouse position) or musical output (notes being played)
• 10 preset melodic-harmonic patterns, with realtime adaptatation to harmony type, scale degree, transposition, voicing, and tonal or modal inversion

Realtime MIDI Controls (via keyboard faders):

• Velocity

• Preset (sound number) Control
• Global Channel Loudness
• Portamento Rate
• Breath Controller
• Aftertouch
• Modwheel
• Foot Controller

Atari ST and Macintosh Versions Only -

• User selectable MIDI output channels

• MIDI Through (MIDI Merge for live input from an external source)
• Realtime on-screen diplay of all values

Amiga Version Only -

• Uses any IFF sampled sound, with realtime control of looping and envelope decay

• Uses Amiga Standard IFF sampled sound format, compatable with all Amiga samplers
• Plays up to 4 different sampled sounds at once
• Envelope on/off switch and Decay Rate Faders
• Sound cycling
• Microtonal pitch space and mouse-controlled pitchbend
• 2 graphical drawing modes plus 2 note display options
• Independent RGB color intensity fader control for each of the 8 screen colors
• Color cycling
• Color inversion
• External video can be genlocked and keyed into screen background
• Key repeat rate controls (for fader response time and keyboard switch oscillation rates)
• Can be run simultaneously with other Amiga music programs, such as sequencers or notation programs, or with other copies of itself under Amiga multi-tasking

Note: The Macintosh and Amiga versions work with either MIDI or the computer's built in audio. Atari ST version works with MIDI only. All Music Mouse controls are completely realtime interactive and random-access available from the computer's alphanumeric keyboard.

Also Note: There have been so many new Macs, I strongly suggest downloading the demo to ascertain compatibility with your configuration.

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