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macmelodious

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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 1984 18:53
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From: Bill Croft <croft@safe>
Thanks for posting this, Jeff and Dan.  Great program!

Have you ever fooled with the Casio keyboards?  When they store
a melody, the length that you hold down a key determines its
time value (roughly).  Any time after storing the initial tune,
you can go back and touch up the time values.  They do this with
a key (actually 2 buttons, because alternating fingers can fire
faster than a single one) called "one key play".  This mode reads
the pitches out of memory, but the note time values 
(and rests) are determined by how long you hold down (or release) 
the "one key" buttons.  Thus you can play the tune sloppy
the first time with the white and black keys, and then get the
timing right with another pass using "one key".

It would also be nice to get some use for your other hand, perhaps
using the space bar as a backspace key.

Thanks again for your community spirit in sharing this with info-mac!

[Ed. A correction to the location of these files on SUMEX. They are
under <INFO-MAC>MACMELODY.HLP and <INFO-MAC>MACMELODY.DL]
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