Hi Floyd, In the old days an oscilloscope and two frequency generators would give you both aural and visual display of beating of coincident partials. For a while there was a program that ran on the Mac that would allow one to "mouse" for various partial matches--but as computers got faster--the developer didn't bother to keep it current. Too bad--I had a demo copy of the program and it was quite wonderful. At 09:45 PM 1/2/2009 -0600, you wrote: >This is probably a hare-brained idea, but I'm curious. > >Are any of you aware of anyone who has developed computer software to visual >the beating of coincident partials in real time? For instance, the user >might enter the names of two pitches, play the notes on a piano, and see the >beats he is hearing displayed as visual pulses on the screen, maybe even >with the beat speed of each set of coincident partials displayed. The >objective the program would be to speed the training of the ears/aural >awareness through visual reinforcement. > >With all the software development happening "out there", I can't imagine >that I would be the first to come up with the idea. Maybe someone has >explored it and found it doesn't actually help anyone, but I'm still >curious. > >Floyd Gadd >Manitoba Chapter > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat mailto:pianotuna at yahoo.com http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 306-539-0716
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