Mci & Mc16 Music Cards
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MCI & MC16 MUSIC CARDS D F:ST A J .tl.F-N-N. , {- tng ott ttt 4 J ilbh* I rr 3 SUB g SAAA FREE EFBSURE SAUE.FAHTASY# ENTER THE EXCITING FIELD has three voices per card (you can the applications just described for OF COMPUTER MUSIC use two MC16's to get six voices, the MCl, and is ideal for more Now getting into the exciting or three MC16's for nine voices). demanding applications such as fteld of computer-controlled music Each voice can play a melody like ear training, connection to other is easier than ever! ALF's model you could play on a piano using synthesis equipment, psycho- MCf and model MC16 Music only one finger. For example, a acoustic research and other scien- Cards are low-cost accessories for three-note chord would take three tific uses, and so on. your Apple Computer. Both come voices to play. Using nine voices, with complete software-in just you could play three such chords SONG PLAYBACK TS QUICK minutes you can play the sample at the same time. AND EASY songs provided. Entering your own The MCI is a low-cost card Whether you're playing the songs from standard sheet music ideal for most applications. It sample songs provided or songs is fast and easy (just follow the features nine voices all on one you've entered yourself, playback simple instructions in our de- card, three of which can produce is quick and easy. First, type RUN tailed manual). either notes (the piano scale) or PLAY. The prompt character for "white noise'3like effects such as the Play program (a period) will INSTALLATION percussive sounds and wind appear on the screen. To play the sounds. It has a six octave range, song DIXIE BOOGIE (provided Either Music Card simply plugs and 16 volume levels per voice. with the MCI), for example, you into any expansion slot in your These features make the MCI type PLAYDIXIE BOOGIE. The Apple II, Apple II +, Apple IIe, ideal for music entry and play- song will be read from disk, Basis 108, Frankling Ace, or and back, playing the disks of songs playback During similar computer. An audio cable will begin. available from ALF and others, playback, the screen shows the (provided) attaches to the Music sound effects in games, as a tool title, composer, and conductor of Card and plugs into your home for composition or experimenta- the song (or any desired text infor- stereo system. Installation is that tion, for notation practice, and mation). Above the text an easy. is many other applications. amazing color display of the music The MCI card can also be used The MC16 is the gourmet ver- as it plays (it is also suitable for on the Apple III. Except on the sion of the MCl. It has all the black and white monitors). The Apple IIe and Apple III systems, features of the MCI except the pitch of each voice is shown by a game paddles are required to use "white noise" feature. In addition, moving dot above a line a the Music Cards. with the MC16 has an eight octave "middle C" marker. The color of range, 256 volume levels per each dot indicates the current THE HARDWARE voice, and tuning accuracy which volume of each voice. Unlike sheet The MCI Music Card has nine is perfect for all practical pur- music notation, which is difficult independent "voices'1 The MCl6 poses. The MC16 is suitable for all to follow when racing across a A L F Pnoducts lnc. 131 5F Nelson St. Denven, CO AO2'1 5 ALF [3O3] 234-OA71 Telex: 4991E24 display, the lively color display The sheet music format display once for each voice, as in some allows you to visualize the melody lets you easily compare what systems), so you can change the ofeach voice (and how the voices you've entered to the notes shown sound of a voice from one note to are related) with ease. And of in the sheet music. And Entry the next. And a very powerfrrlcall/ course the sheet music notation automatically shows measure subroutine capability allows you to can be examined note by note with bars at the end of each measure. easily repeat sections, define stan- the Entry program, at your own By listening to the pitch of each dard sounds, make "rounds", and pace. note as it is entered, and compar- simplifu a variety of other musical The Disco program provided ing the music displayed on the constructions. allows you to play several songs in screen with the sheet music, you a row. Once set up, you type can catch little mistakes almost EASY EDITING EXEC ALBUM to play several immediately. You simply back up With Entry, you can easily songs in a preselected order, or and correct them easily. change, insert, and delete notes, RUN DISCO to play them in a The excellent "human engineer- rests, and commands. Entry has *replace" random order. Programs for set- ing" of Entry lets you work in a both and 'insert" modes ting up and editing the list of songs carefree mood-with confidence so you can use the mode that best to play are included. that anything done inadvertently suits the editing you're doing. You Additional songs are available is readily changed-that you are can even step through notes one on disk. "Songs for the MC16' "in control". It has been highly at a time, with the pitch of each contains 150 songs, and "Songs praised by both musicians and note played through the Music for the MCl" has 175. All are computer enthusiasts. (In fact, Card. This lets you find particular ready to play back instantly. Apple Computer's 'Apple IIe notes easily. MEASURE and Design Guidelines" booklet GOTO commands let you move to ENTERING YOUR OWN praises only two programs for particular sections without step- SONGS good human interfacing: ping through notes. VisiCorp's VisiCalc'" and ALF's You can easily enter songs from The Process program supplied Entry program.) As of this writing, sheet music in a simple, straight- lets you make major changes to thousands customers have forward fashion. The Entry pro- of a song. You can also append two used the Entry program, and none gram supplied lets you enter notes, songs together. Or, you can move has ever reported any "bug" or and display them in a sheet music a melody from one song to error. format. To enter a note, you select another. the type of note from a menu of A LARGE SELECTION notes on the screen. This is done OF FEATURES DESIGNING YOUR OWN using the left and right arrow keys SOUNDS Entry has one the largest on the Apple IIe or Apple III, or of features available in The Envelope program supplied with one game paddle on other selections of any personal computer music en- is used to experiment with the systems. Then, position the note try program. Nearly the full pitch envelope parameters used to on the treble or bass staff (shown range Music is create different sounds with the on the screen) using the up and of the Card the and bass Music Cards. A short melody can down arrow keys (or, with the available on treble posi- be entered along with various other game paddle). When the staves for entry in standard "octave parameters. The Envelope pro- desired position is selected, tional notation-no numbers" or other nonsense. The gram can play the melody while pushing a button causes the note full pitch range of the Music Card simultaneously drawing the to be drawn on the screen and (including the quarter tones be- envelope contour in high- sounded through the Music Card. tween the regular piano scale resolution graphics on the Apple Each note is automatically notes) is available using the display. You can change any corrected for the current key (0 to transpose feature. Pitches and parameter, and instantly play the 6 sharps or flats), which can be rests can have durations from melody again to hear (and see)the changed whenever the key whole to sixty-fourth, plus triplet new sound. Several sample pre- changes in the music. Accidentals and dotted-and all these "tied" melodies and sounds are (sharps, flats, and naturals) are together in any combinations. programmed. easily entered, and continue Non-standard durations can also within the voice throughout the be specified. WE\/E DONE ALL THE HARD measure (as required by standard There are commands to change WORK FOR YOU music notation). Unlike many playback tempo, time and key The Entry program is written other systems, both sharp and flat signatures, envelope and volume entirely in assembly language- notes can be displayed regardless settings, and much more. All the fastest and most efftcient of whether the current key these commands can be placed language on the Apple. Long exe- signature has sharps or flats. anywhere in the score (not just cution pauses and other annoying delays - often found in less See your dealer today. To be quency 63920/D Hz where D is an integer sophisticated programs-are vir- sure you get our top quality hard- from 1 to 1O24. MC16: 3 independent tually non-existent in Entry. And ware and software, remember to pitch generators per card, each produces any frequency 1782000/D Hz where D is since both Entry and your song fit ask for ALF Music Cards. an integer from 32 to 65536. entirely within the Apple's memory, there are no time- TECHNICAL DETAIIS & consuming disk transfers.