All Blue Ribbon music software products are based on SCORE technology, the patented music composition algorithms. This technology allows everyone from the tone deaf to the music professional to create great sounding songs and music tracks by allowing users to take on as much of the musical decision making as is appropriate to their skill level, and leaving the rest of the work to the computer. In keeping with its commitment to making music composition software accessible to everyone while maintaining usefulness to musicians, Blue Ribbon offers a range of programs graded from easiest to more complex. Here, in order from easiest to use to most complex, is a list of available products and a brief description of each application.
SCORE Saver
SCORE Saver is a screensaver with an interesting aural twist -- it composes music that plays along with animated screen graphics. You select the style, personality and instrumentation for the music, or let SCORE Saver choose randomly. Either way your computer will compose continually changing, original music while your screen displays synchronized graphics.
EasyKeys
EasyKeys transforms your PC into a fully-functional virtual MIDI keyboard. The musical keyboard and front panel of an electronic keyboard are graphically represented on your computer screen. Clicking with your mouse accesses the fully functioning buttons and keys. Choose from ten musical styles and add a sound effect, introduction or ending, then use the one-touch chord playing and automatic melody maker to create a great tune. Control everything from tempo, to musical key, to the instrument playing the melody. EasyKeys is designed to encourage you to take full advantage of the musical capabilities of your soundcard.
Soundtrack Express
With Soundtrack Express, even the most musically unsophisticated users can create music tracks for their home videos or multimedia presentations. You compose by interactively determining the music's speed, pitch, density, instruments and other musical variables. Then type in the exact length of the composition, choose whether or not you want an introduction and ending, and click on the abracadabra button. Voila: you have created a completely original, copyright-free music track, perfectly timed to fit your presentation.
Melody Maestro
Melody Maestro adds a bit of musical sophistication to Soundtrack Express' method of composing. In addition to choosing all the musical settings previously mentioned, you can add a melody to your composition. A melody is created in one of four ways. You can sing your melody into a microphone, which is included in the software package; play the melody in from a MIDI keyboard; enter your melody by pointing and clicking on your computer screen; or let the software generate a melody. Once you have a melody you like and have selected the desired musical settings, click on the abracadabra button and Melody Maestro composes the backing tracks to fit your melody. If you don't like the result, click on the button again until you hear a result that is satisfactory. All songs and music tracks can be exported as standard MIDI files to be used in other applications.
SuperJam!
This is the most musically sophisticated of all these programs. In fact, even professional musicians can get a lot of use out of this powerful composition package. SuperJam! utilizes many of the features found in Melody Maestro and Soundtrack Express, but adds advanced editing features to further shape your compositions. Instead of merely selecting an appropriate musical style, you can edit existing styles or even create your own from scratch. SuperJam! features an intelligent six-person backing band, full MIDI implementation and many other advanced features.
