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Perfect Pitch Enhancer
V1.1
By Steven Selick
This program has been placed in the public domain by the
author in the hopes that people will be able to develop their
sense of pitch. Please send me e-mail and tell me what you think,
and what your scores are! I'd love to hear of any ideas on
improving the program, and I will help you out if you are having
troubles getting it running on your midi system.
The main goal of the perfect pitch enhancer is to develope
your sense of pitch over the full range of the average 5 octave
synthesizer keyboard range. The computer will choose a note within
your given range, and it will play it on a SEPARATE machine from
the keyboard that you are using for input. Then you must search
for the note that the computer played. Simple enough, however you
are not supposed to be able to hear the notes you play. Only what
the computer plays. The midi setup is generally simple. You plug
the MIDI OUT of your controller keyboard into the MIDI IN of the
computer. You then plug the MIDI OUT of the computer into the MIDI
IN of the sound module that you are going to use to play the
sounds. This can sometimes be accomplished with one machine if you
can turn local keyboard control OFF.
I have been able to do the entire range of the keyboard in
under 1 second average for 300 tries. This is considered by most
to be outrageous. My girlfriend does one octave in about 1.8
seconds. She is a violin player though. I would like to hear
anything that people have to say. Would you like to see graphs?
What would be a useful graph? Please drop me an e-mail and tell me
what you think of the program, and what your scores have been. I
am very interested in what other people think. My internet address
is:
selick@csa.bu.edu or:
engcyjc@buacca.bu.edu or:
be824@cleveland.freenet.edu
The only real difference in v1.1 is that I had lost the source
code to much of the later developments in 1.0, and had to re-
invent the wheel, so to speak, to be able to move on. It has also
been re-compiled with GFA basic v3.5, so it may be a bit faster. I
also corrected a little problem with the interval counters that
was giving slightly wrong results. That works fine now. By the way, the
weird mouse thing where it switches to a hand is really annoying. If
anyone knows how to fix this (I used the on menu gosub function in the
manual) please e-mail me.
Enjoy!
-Steve