Game Notation and Chess Game Notation File Converter Software for Windows

Happy Note! Play It By Ear
$29.95 - Happy Note!

A real computer game (with points and lives to win and lose, a Hi-Score list etc.) that teaches you to recognize music notes by ear. Easy to customize, Happy Note! Play It By Ear lets you learn at your own pace. It requires no previous knowledge of music. Its user-friendly interface allows you to start playing and learning right away, and its "Cartoons" option makes it even more fun. You can choose between the syllabic (Do Re Mi...) and alphabetical (A B C... - or A H C for German speakers) notation systems. With a simple click, you can also decide how many lives and bonus points you'll start the game with and how many notes you'll have to hear and recognize to win. It features the same Learning menu as the game Happy Note! Treble and Bass clef. Both games are therefore fully compatible and complementary.

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Happy Note! Treble Clef and Bass Clef
$29.95 - Happy Note!

A real computer game (Lives, Points, Bombs, etc.) that will teach you how to read music even as you play. People of all ages can play it: it's as easy or as difficult as you want it to be. You can let the game teach you from scratch (with the Learning menu) or use it as a fun complement to more traditional lessons (by selecting yourself the notes you want to play with). You can choose to play in alphabetical (A, B, C...), german alphabetical (A, H, C...) or syllabic notation (Do, Re, Mi...). You can set your own pace (3 different speeds available) and level of difficulty (2 gaming modes available: Beginner and Expert). You can activate or deactivate the bombs with a simple click. And all kinds of other things that will make learning how to read music fun and easy!

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QuickScore Elite Level II
$179.95 - Sion Software

QuickScore Elite Level II is Sion Software's premier music composition and notation software - incorporating scoring, arranging, MIDI and audio sequencing and recording. Use it to create publication-quality scores, musical content for the desktop and world wide web, audio CDs, MP3s and soundtracks for film, video and games. Winner of the 2007, 2006 and 2005 Top Ten Reviews Gold Award for music notation software, and winner of Electronic Magazine's 1998 Editors' Choice for music notation software upon its introduction.

"If I were building a MIDI sequencer, this is what it would look like... If your musical endeavors take you anywhere near musical scores and notation, I highly recommend it." - Electronic Musician

?If you are serious about composing music, QuickScore is the best package that I have ever seen.? KickstartNews.com

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Happy Note! Tetris
$0 - Happy Note!

Music notes are dropping from the treble clef at the top of your screen. Using your keyboard's left and right arrow keys, your objective is to steer each note so it lands on its name at the bottom of the screen. But be careful : if a falling note collides with a dynamite stick, it explodes and you lose one Life! Three mode (BEGINNER, ADVANCED, EXPERT), three musics, two notations (alphabetic and syllabic), a Hi-Score... And it's FREE!

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Bridge Studio
$0 - alexey slovesnov

This program is fast and powerful solver of bridge double dummy problems. The basic features are

* full tree investigation to the end, the solver always will find the exact solution, which includes best move and number of tricks in optimal game for [north/south] and [east/west]
* option of estimation of all moves. Program can estimate not only best move, but all other moves and show number of tricks.
* one can setup not only double dummy problems, but problems with any number of cards, for example double dummy problem without very first turn
* loading problems from pbn (portable bridge notation) files
* save problem to html file in ansi or unicode formats for publication on the web, or add the problem to the existing html file
* save/add problem to html file with best move and/or number of tricks in optimal game
* skin support
* the solver will find the second, third etc moves much faster than the first one, because of storing positions which already have been calculated
* multilanguage support, english and russian interfaces are available now.

One can download problems library which uncludes about 840 of double dummy problems. The library creating from double dummy corner webpage of Hugh Darwen.

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Fractal Tune Smithy
$28 - Robert Inventor

Create beautiful music effortlessly - and discover your talent as a budding composer! Choose one of the tunes that come with the program or enter a very short musical phrase of a few notes, and hear it transformed into an intricate tracery of music. The music is fractal which means it is highly structured, but natural sounding too, like bird song, or the sound of the wind.

Any tuning is possible; no need to restrict your creativity to the equal tempered twelve tone system or even the octave. Tune your music as freely as a bird when it sings. Try authentic historical temperaments with tunings for keyboards from Bach or Mozart's time. Try tunings for Indonesian Gamelans, or Indian music with drones. Try modern exotic tunings such as non octave scales, or musical geometries with highly symmetrical floating chord patterns.

Explore the effects of instrumentation, and take ones first steps as a composer in an envionment where melody making is effortless. Suitable even for complete newbies to composing - and there is no need to be able to read music notation. Play in any of the tunings and temperaments yourself with a music keyboard. Play melodies and chords on the p.c. keyboard - with the space bar as a sustain pedal, and the mouse scroll wheel as a modulation wheel :-). Play legato style (if your synth supports it) in microtonal tunings as readily as you do in twelve equal.

What else - make fibonacci rhythms which are highly structured, but never repeat exactly. Make polyrhythm metronomes. A mouse theremin which can play sliding chords as well as single notes. Send your tunes to your friends as musical e-cards. Over a megabyte of help, tutorials, FAQ, example midi clips and tunes, etc.

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