It also allows you to print out real sheet music, and you could follow your voices on-screen as they played. This is a 6 voice sound card which turned out to be a sine or square wave generator with simple attack, sustain, and delay parameters. Another intriguing idea of the program is that it was shipped with the "Mindscape Music Board" intended for people who didn't have Tandy or PCjr. These range from a long excerpt from Tchaikovski's "Nutcracker Suite"' to Scott Joplin rags and "On Top of Old Smokey." This last song is used as the basis for the program's tutorial, which quickly teaches how to operate the keyboard commands and use them to start writing music.
To demonstrate finished results, Music Writer has includes a dozen complete pieces of music you can read and edit. Each of the four separate voices is highlighted in different colors as each note is played, like a follow-along bouncing ball. Notes already entered can be erased with a keystroke, and the music you have already notated can be heard at any time. If you make a mistake, the program's error protection alerts you and prevents the note from being entered. Four is a quarter note, eight is an eighth note, and so on. Although it helps if you can already read musical notes, that isn't a prerequisite for the program: Mindscape includes a clear and concise 64-page documentation - an introduction to music fundamentals that will teach the most tone-deaf neophyte such basics as notes, tempo, pitch and melody (I will try to scan this manual sometime soon )) Writing notes on the screen music "paper" is a very simple affair of positioning the cursor at the line corresponding to the note you want, and pressing a number key. Bank Street Music Writer is an excellent music composition program that not only teaches you the basic concepts of music, but also allows you to write and "play" music as well. Offering educational genre, it is now an abandonware. publishes Bank Street Music Writer, a game for the DOS system.
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