Earope is a a full-featured eartraining software package for users of all levels.

In the design of Earope, the relevance and musicality of the problems has been emphasized, both in the selection of problems and in the construction and playback of the problems. Earope actually sounds good.

Another feature unique to Earope is the option to activate the build-in EarTutor, which acts as your personal tutor, and gradually increases the level of skill based on previous results and errors.

Features

• Interval Module - Intervals going up or down up to 3 octaves. Melodic, harmonic or sustained playback. Fixed, selectable or random root note. Notation is included.
• Scale Module - 28 fixed, named scales, incl. diminished, chromatic, blues and pentatonic scales.
• Chord Module - 48 fixed, named chords + alternate positions, 128 chords total. Melodic, harmonic or sustained playback. Fixed, selectable or random root note. Notation is included.
• Inversion Module - Triads and 7th chords. Each inversion can be included or excluded. Melodic, harmonic or sustained playback. Fixed, selectable or random root note. Notation is included.
• Melody Module - Length of melodies 1 - 15 notes. Play in any key. Choose between 8 tonalities (scales: major, minor, pure minor, melodic minor, harmonic minor , major pentatonic, minor pentatonic, chromatic). Define interval sizes. Notation is included (melody dictation). Includes sight reading. Supports singing.
• Rhythm Module - Time signatures: 2/2, 3/8, 3/4, 4/4, cut time, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8. Up to 6 bars at a time. Optional note values from whole note to sixteenth notes with or without triplets. Optional rests, dots and ties. Optional middle bar. Selectable rhythmic sensitivity. Includes pure listening, pure reading and combined listening/reading.
• Chord Progression - 2, 3 and 4 step progressions. Answer by point-and-click or by keyboard/popup-list. More than 40 progressions in fixed or variable key.
• Built-in EarTutor provides controlled training, leading the user through a session of exercieses based on their profile. The EarTutor updates the profile and "remembers" the user's level from session to session.
• Output to a connected MIDI synth or sound card, PC-speaker (does not support harmonics), written music and "Fingerprint" on the on-screen piano.
• Multi-user support

Purchase Information

• $107 Retail
• $67 Direct

Requirements

• Windows 95/98/2000/Me
• 486/25 MHz or faster (486/66 MHz recommended)
• 4 MB RAM (16 MB recommanded)
• 4 MB disk space
• 640x480, 256 color display or higher (800x600, 16-bit color recommended)
• Sound card or MIDI interface (MIDI interface and MIDI keyboard recommended)