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ChordEase v1.0.14.000

billon on 23 Sep 2018

ChordEase makes it easier to play music with complicated chords. No matter what the chords are, you can play as if they were all in the key of C. You don't need to play sharps or flats, because ChordEase automatically adds them for you. Although ChordEase is primarily intended for jazz, it could be useful for any type of music that modulates frequently. ChordEase alters your notes in real time in order to make them harmonically correct, while preserving their rhythm and dynamics. By delegating rapid music theory calculations to ChordEase, you gain freedom to concentrate on other aspects of musical performance, such as feel and aesthetics.

The program is a translator that takes MIDI notes as input, and produces MIDI notes as output. The input notes are translated to the current chord scale, so that the output notes fit the chord progression of a song. Supports various mapping functions which determine how the translating is done, can handle multiple translations at once for multiple performers to play through a single instance using any number of MIDI instruments. Parameters can be remotely controlled via MIDI for additional effects and can also record its own output as MIDI data.

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Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ChordEase.exe.
What's new? See:
http://chordease.sourceforge.net/relnotes.html
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Taf on 2014-09-03 07:32

Nice proggie! For Music lovers is a "must have"

Taf on 2014-09-03 07:42

Why this program is signed as "NO STEALTH"?

victimofleisure on 2014-09-03 13:14

Hi Taf,

That "NO STEALTH" setting is because I created the database entry myself. I tried pretty hard to get it right but apparently not quite. What should it be?

Chris

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X-VisualMusic v1.1.0 [rev2]

webfork on 27 Dec 2016
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Taf

VisualMusic lets you play 128 musical instruments on your PC including flute, bagpipes and even whistle. You can even record, edit, and save what you are playing. If you not expert with the keyboard, the program provides you an easy scripting language to create music just by entering what key in which instrument you want to play for how much time.

X-VisualMusic is the portable version in win-PenPack format.

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Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: MSVBVM60.DLL
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch X-Visualmusic.exe.

X-LenMus v5.3.1 [rev5]

webfork on 1 Dec 2021
  • 24MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 May 2014
  • Suggested by Taf

LenMus (Phonascus) is a program for learning music, allowing you to focus on specific skills and exercises covering both theory and aural training. The different activities can be customized to meet your needs, and the program provides interactive feedback until mastery of each concept is achieved. It also includes an score editor.

X-LenMus is the portable version in win-PenPack format.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPLv3
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch X-LenMus.exe.
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Midas on 2014-09-21 11:53

From http://lenmus.blogspot.com.es/2014/07/lenmus-reaches-its-end.html:

"It is with my deepest regret that I have to announce the closure of the LenMus project.After a decade-long run, LenMus is no longer being developed. I began LenMus because I was studying music theory and needed interactive exercises for practicing. At that time (2002) there were no much free software for musicians and music students and I programmed some exercises, especially for ear training. I was soon attracted by the computational problems derived from the complexity of this domain. But world changes very fast and I alone can not do all and move as fast as this requires. I always failed in attracting more developers to the project and the result is that LenMus is increasingly lagging behind the increasing complexity of the project and the fast pace of changes on computers (notebooks, mobile phones), the web (HTML5 interactive applications), and the available teaching materials on the web (videos, free web schools). As I can not do it all alone, all development was stopped five months ago. Probably I will not to resume development again."

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X-Solfege v3.22.2 [Rev 13]

webfork on 15 Oct 2018
  • 78MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Mar 2014
  • Suggested by dot

Solfege is computer-aided music training system, which you can use to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills. The program is indented to help music students with their ear training.
Some of the existing exercises:

  • Recognize melodic and harmonic intervals
  • Compare interval sizes
  • Sing the intervals the computer asks for
  • Identify chords
  • Sing chords
  • Sing tone from chords: root, third, fifth, etc
  • Scales
  • Dictation
  • Rhythm dictation
  • Remembering rhythmic patterns
  • Theory: name intervals and scales
  • Cadences
X-Solfege is a portable package/wrapper for Solfege.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch X-Solfege.exe.
What's new?
  • Updated Esperanto, Portugese and Turkish translations to the users manual.
  • Updated Spannish and Turkish messages.
  • Distribute solfege/tests/lesson-files/*.
  • help/C/scales/modes.html are never translated. So we must link to the C-locale file in every translation.
  • gettext tweaks to make the test suite work both when run as "test.py" and "test.py test_lessonfile".
  • There is still something wrong because we have to disable the test to run debuild.
  • Distribute solfege/tests/lib/* and solfege/test/include/*.
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runner75 on 2007-04-05 00:09

The linked site is an italian site of a proget of completely portable software called Winpenpack.
the X-laucher provides (for example) to add and remove registry key or redirect the .ini and users customizations
there is anc english help in the forum

Regards
Runner

zap on 2007-04-08 03:45

Has anyone got it working? I take edit, preferences, Midi setup. I have no such midi file players as listed. Windows multimedia output doesn't work.

der seb on 2007-05-05 04:34

Ecellent! I wish i had known about it when I was still at school!Really great!

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