Music Mouse

Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument by and © 1986 onwards Laurie Spiegel Table of Contents _____________________________________________________________________ 3 Why Music Mouse? - An Introduction _____________________________________________________________________ 4 What Music Mouse Is _____________________________________________________________________ 5 Setting Up and Running Music Mouse 5Using Music Mouse with the Macintosh's Internal Sound 5Setting Up for MIDI 6Using Music Mouse with a MIDI Instrument 7Changing MIDI Channels for Music MouseOutput 7Playing Along with Music Mouseon an External MIDI Instrument 7Patching MIDI Through Music Mouse 8Recording Music Mouse's Output 8Other Setup Considerations _____________________________________________________________________ 9 Playing a Music Mouse 9The Mouse 9The Polyphonic Cursor and Pitch Display 9The Keyboard 10The Menus 10In General _____________________________________________________________________ 12 Music Mouse Keyboard Controls _____________________________________________________________________ 13 Types of Keyboard Controls _____________________________________________________________________ 14 Music Mouse Keyboard Usage 141 - General Controls 152 - Type of Harmony 163 - Transposition 174 - Addition of Melodic Patterning 195 - Voicing 206 - Loudness, Muting, and Articulation 227 - Tempo 238 - Rhythmic Treatments 249 - Internal Sound Selection 2410 - MIDI Sound Selection and Control _____________________________________________________________________ 27Using Music Mouse with Other Software 27Switcher[TM] 27MultiFinder[TM] 27Tempo[TM] 27Recording Using the TempoDesk Accessory 1 _____________________________________________________________________ 30 An Idea Bank and Short Course on Composing and Playing with Music Mouse _____________________________________________________________________ 31Mouse Excercises and other Things to Try 31Moving the Mouse 32The Mouse Button - Supprussing and Repeating Notes 33Value Oscillations and Grouping 33Articulation 33Some Keyboard Chops 34Tempo 35Loudness 35Using Timbre 37Harmony Handlers 39Transposition 39Automated Melodic Patterning 41Symmetries 42Some Two Part Counterpoint 42Combining Music MouseControls into Compositions 44MIDI Manipulations 44Why Music Mice Have Big Ears _____________________________________________________________________ 45Music Mouse Keyboard Controls - A Quick Reference List 45General Controls 45Pitch Content Controls 45Voicing 47Temporal Placement 48Sound Selection and Characteristics _____________________________________________________________________ 50Macintosh[TM] Music Mouse Keyboard Map 2 Music Mouse -- An Intelligent Instrument Why Music Mouse? -An Introduction Up to this time, of the new powers which computers bring to music, commercially available music software has focused mainly on…