Freestyle is the first trackless sequencer with instant music notation. Powerful, yet easy to use, FreeStyle gives you the freedom to concentrate on what is most important to you - your music.

Create compositions intuitively using ensembles, players, takes and arrangements. Get inspired with FreeStyle’s dozens of drum riffs. Notate your performances as you play. See your music on screen exactly as it will print. Get started quickly with built-in support for dozens of popular MIDI instruments, including any General MIDI device. FreeStyle provides both tape recorder and drum machine style composing.

Features

• Write music in any meter and place meter changes at any barline
• Choose any key and mode (major or minor) for proper note spelling and transcription
• Draw, record and edit unlimited tempo changes
• FreeStyle follows your tempo instead of you listening to a metronome click
• Add, duplicate, name and delete as many different tempo maps as you want for a section
• Tempo adjustments can be easily made and recorded with the tempo slider, even if it already has an elaborate tempo map
• Layer sounds by assigning more than one sound to a player (track), even from different MIDI instruments
• Automatic and manual MIDI channel allocation
• MIDI Monitor window tells you what's going on with your MIDI gear and FreeStyle's MIDI output
• Name-able takes helps you keep track of multiple takes for a player (track)
• Note spelling algorithms improve automated transcription
• Score transposition displays a player in any key you choose in your scores
• Transpose to any key on the fly, as you record
• Tweak notes length, velocity and other effects in one step while music is playing
• Copy an entire take in one easy step
• Read and write Type 0 and Type 1 Standard MIDI Files.
• Full SMPTE syncronization support (all frame rates)
• Transmits MTC (MIDI Time Code)
• Change a player's (tracks) sound in mid-performance, even to a different MIDI instrument

Purchase Information

• $199
• Upgrade to 2.0 for $79

Requirements

• Windows 3.1/95
• 486/66 (Pentium recommended)
• 16MB RAM (24MB RAM recommended)
• MIDI interface (supports