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"Announcing the release of "AUDIO CHALLENGER 1.7"
"Audio Challenger 1.0" was the first ear-training software released
for the NeXT computer and version 1.7 offers substantial improvements.
Audio Challenger randomly generates ascending
and descending melodic and harmonic musical intervals which can be used in
assisting music students in trying to improve their ability to
aurally identify musical intervals. Audio Challenger features
real-time synthesis on the DSP (digital signal processing) chip of
the NeXT computer which gives it the advantage of a more natural and
"lively" musical timbre than ear-training programs that currently
exist on other platforms. Audio Challenger is released as FREEware
to the internet archives by the researchers and students of DREAMS:
Digital Research (in) Electro-Acoustic Music (at) Skidmore College.
**To request a copy of Audio Challenger via NeXTmail, simply send your
request to: tholland@pars.skidmore.edu and be sure to make clear
your NeXTmail address.
**If you have access to the INTERNET, you can use anonymous FTP to get
your most recent copy of Audio Challenger (1.7).
[princeton.edu][sonata.cc.purdue.edu][cs.orst.edu]
AudioChallenger.app = .133 MB
AudioChallenger.tar = .141 MB
AudioChallenger.tar.Z = 63.6 KB
IMPROVEMENTS in Version 1.7 include:
1. Ability to have melodic or harmonic intervals.
(i.e. notes played one at a time or simultaneously)
2. A new "Sample Melodies" window, which will play "well known" tunes...
(incipits for you musicologists out there) to give you a memory
device for learning your intervals. (Special thanks to
Jennifer Kong at Skidmore for this part !).
SPECIAL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: only one, in order for the sample
tunes to work properly, you must do the following:
First, create the following path of new directories on your disk:
/LocalLibrary/Music/Scores
You're going to copy the scorefiles into that last (Scores) directory.
Now, highlight the AudioChallenger.app in your directory browser. Hold down the command key AND the shift key and press the letter 'o'. You'll see that AudioChallenger is actually a directory containing many files (all .app files are a type of directory) .
Now, find all the files ending with a .score extension in the AudioChallenger.app directory. These files are in the path:
Library/Music/Scores
"inside" the AudioChallenger.app.
Drag the mouse across all the .score files. In the browser you'll see a hand holding a bunch of cards. Drag this hand icon into the new
/LocalLibrary/Music/Scores directory you just created at the start. You should now be able to hear the tunes listed in the "Sample Melodies" window.
Comments, suggestions, etc. to: tholland@pars.skidmore.edu
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.