Music Animation Machine MIDI Player

Music Animation Machine MIDI Player (Windows freeware)

Read (or right-click to download) the latest (2010jan28) User Guide.

With this program you can listen to your own MIDI files (or play live) while viewing these visualizations:

Original bar-graph (short name: MAM)

Circle of fifths color wheel (short name: WHEEL)

Interval types (short name: DYAD)

Interval types + pitch (short name: YARN)

Shapes (short name: SHAPES)

Harmonic staff (short name: STAFF)

Harmonic compass (short name: COMPASS)

Harmonic compass + pitch bars

Triads (short name: LATTICE)

Part sequence (short name: LINES)

Part motion (short name: BALLS)

Part trajectory (short name: WEDGES)

At this point, the program is too simple to need an installer.

Just take it out of the ZIP file and run it.

Open a MIDI file (or a MAMX file; see below); press the space bar.

See what happens.

Explore the menus.

No warranties expressed or implied (but see MAMPlayer Technical Support).

Here are some MAM-format files (*.MAMX) to try it with:

Bach, WTK Book 2, Fugue 17, A-flat major (this is the first piece to appear on the MAM, in 1985)
Bach, In Dulci Jubilo (current MAM logo piece)
Chopin, Etude, opus 27, no. 2 (this works well with the YARN, harmonic staff, and tonality compass displays)
Chopin, Berceuse (this works well with the WEDGES display)
Debussy, Clair de lune (good for tonality-related displays, and harmonic coloring)
Bach, WTK Book 1, Fugue 13, F-sharp major (this is the a good piece for the SHAPES display)

Here are some MIDI-format files (*.MID) to try it with:

Here are the previous releases: