A variety of audio files will be used in this
course. You will need to be
able to play MIDI files. An important part of this course
involves the use of the SCORCH Browser plug-in. Test it
here. SCORCH will be needed for viewing and hearing musical
examples.
Viewing and playing musical scores on this site - uses
the "SCORCH" plug in by
Sibelius. It is FREE, quick and easy to download and it automatically is set up
for your browsers to use. It is well worth downloading because it enables
you to:
see full scores,
follow them as the music is playing,
transpose the piece into any key,
alter the tempo of the piece,
go to any bar on any page,
play any section by just clicking on the bar you want
to hear.
If you can't hear the audio as you would expect, you may find the help
you need here. If not, be sure to email with details of the problem you are
experiencing, giving details of your computer, browser, sound/audio card,
and the specific problem you have.
No sound at all:
Check that your sound card is working normally for other programs and
is connected correctly to an Audio system or headphones.
The instruments don't sound anything like the instruments they say they
are:
The quality of the sounds is dependent on the sound card in your
computer.
The MIDI files and SCORCH examples on this site are all produced
using General Midi [GM] sounds, and so if you use an old Keyboard that
doesn't have GM sounds, to play the MIDI, some instruments may be quite
different.
Default Media Player:
Windows Media Player / RealOne / QuickTime and others can play Audio
files such as .MID .WAV. MP3 etc. In your preferred Media Player, go
into the Tools or Options or Preferences menus and find 'File Types.'
make sure that the file types you want to play with that Media Player
are checked.
Sometimes, if you have more than one Media Player in your system,
when you use one, it may change the preferences so that it becomes the
default player. For example, I use RealOne Player for Real Audio files
but found Windows Media better for MIDI files, but whenever I played a
Real Audio file, I found RealOne would become the default for MIDI files
as well. I reset the Preferences and both Players to prevent
this.
These pages designed by H Grant Eaton
Last modified: 01 September, 2005