Busker - Score editor and player New version 4
Serenade -
Karaoke editor and player for MIDI files
Also Serenade
for MP3 files and
Serenade for ordinary CD's
MIDI
plugins for Cakewalk/Sonar and compatibles
MPL - MIDI
Programming Language
Follow Me -
Learn to play without notereading
Chord
Player for Arranger Keyboards
Band Minus One -
Accompaniment maker
Free
sheet music for traditional songs Midi files included
Note reading for keyboard players Free online course
What's your pleasure?
Keyboard playing
Real-time auto
accompaniment: turn any piano or synthesizer into an
arrranger keyboard (OMB)
Using VST instruments and Soundfonts in a live arranger setup
(OMB)
Play a pre-entered sequence of chords using the styles in
your arranger keyboard (Busker, Chordplayer)
Creating and editing styles for Yamaha keyboards (OMB)
Arranging/Sequencing
Create arrangements using (free available) styles in Yamaha
format (OMB, Busker, Band
Minus One)
Edit MIDI files in batch and create your own MIDI tools (MIDI Programming Language)
Karaoke
Add lyrics to MIDI files (Serenade)
Add lyrics to Mp3 files (Serenade for Mp3)
Add lyrics to ordinary CD's (Serenade for CD)
Create MIDI files with lyrics (Busker)
Note reading
Learn to read notes (Tutorial)
Sheet music (Traditional songs)
Learn to play notes (Busker)
Learn to play an
instrument with or without note reading
Keyboard, recorder and guitar (Busker, Follow
Me)
Traditional songs
Sheet music and midi files (Sheet music for
traditional songs)
Play ABC files (Busker)
Problems? 
Solutions!
Whether
you are a live performing artist, a studio musician or a home
musician, some of the following problems may be familiar to
you.
- My arranger
keyboard can't play the great quality sounds of
the software synthesizer that I have on my PC. One Man Band allows
you to use softsynths in both melody and
accompaniment.
- I find the
quality of the keys on all arranger keyboards that
I've tried not satisfactory. I want 88 keys with good
feel. Use
any MIDI keyboard controller in your One Man Band
arranger setup.
- I have my
mind set on this fantastic synthesizer but it hasn't
got a built in arranger. I do like to
play automatic accompaniment now and then. Hook up to a
PC and let One Man
Band be your arranger while you use
both the keyboard and the sound of your synthesizer.
Actually converting your synthesizer into an arranger
keyboard.
- I'm a
little bored with the styles in my arranger keyboard.
I can download plenty of other styles from the
internet but find it a pain to load each style
with a floppy. With One Man
Band you can browse and load styles
directly from your PC's hard drive.
- My arranger
keyboard can't load new styles. One Man
Band let's you play the enormous
collection of Yamaha compatible free styles on any
keyboard that has a MIDI connection.
- I need
midifiles with backing tracks to accompany me while I
play my favourite piano pieces. The sequencer
window in One Man
Band let's you create an
accompaniment quickly by dragging and dropping chords
and styleparts.
- A friend of
mine has a complete orchestra in
his keyboard. I can't get such a sound
from my digital piano. Turn any digital piano or
synthesizer into an arranger keyboard with One Man Band.
- I want to
make my own styles for my Yamaha arranger keyboard. I
find it very difficult using the built in tools
for that. You
will find it easy using the stylemaker in One Man Band. Turn
MIDI files into styles and mix existing styles.
- I play
styles on my Yamaha arranger keyboard that were
converted from other keyboards. They sound a bit odd.
With the mixer in One Man Band you
will find it easy to adjust all settings and try
different voices for each track while the
accompaniment plays.
- I don't
want to pay thousands of dollars extra to get a hard
drive (instead of a floppy), sufficient internal
memory and a decent screen in an arranger keyboard. I
already have all that in my PC and paid much less. Add the
hardware that you already have in your PC to your
arranger setup with One Man
Band.
- I want to
turn the songs in my songbook into music, but I don't
play the keyboard very well. With Busker you
can drag and drop notes, chords, lyrics and music
symbols to create the same picture as in your
songbook. Then pick a style and press the play
button.
- I can't
find the karaoke files that I need. If you can
find the songs with staff, chords and lyrics in a
songbook then create your own karaoke files with Busker.
- Can
somebody show me how to play the keys of my keyboard
for this song. The notes and chords in my songbook
are Chinese to me. You don't need to read music. Just enter
what you see in the songbook in exactly the same way
in Busker. Press
play and the on-screen keyboard will show you how to
play the chords and melody. Follow Me is a songbook
that offers the same "teaching by example
method" for 50 traditional songs.
- I'm trying
to record a MIDI file on my arranger keyboard but I
keep playing wrong chords. Any arranger keyboard with
MIDI connection has a remote control feature. When
the remote control is in effect the automatic
accompaniment synchronises to external MIDI clocks
instead of it's built in clock and it follows the
chords from external MIDI notes. Chordplayer uses
this remote control to play chord sequences that you
can type in advance.
- I find it
very complicated to add text for a Karaoke song in a
normal sequencer. Type or copy the text into Serenade and
then use the ctrl-key while the midifile plays to
insert each word or syllable at the right time.
- I need
backing tracks for my solo performance. The easiest
accompaniment maker is Band
Minus One.
- None of the
MIDI tools that I've tried does what I want to. Create you're
own MIDI tools (batch and real-time processing) with MPL.
One Man Band -
Live-on-stage arranger New
version 10.1