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For Immediate Release M-Audio™ MIDI Keyboard Is Instrumental In Rapidly Growing Fervor Over Piano Wizard™Video Game Software. Revolutionary New Music Learning Video Game Finds The Right Tampa, FL, December 27, 2005--Chris Salter, the music visionary behind the revolutionary new music video game, Piano Wizard, has always felt the reason more people don't play musical instruments is because the study of music is taught backwards. Salter has long believed that because conventional music teaching starts with intimidating musical notation, it causes the overwhelming majority of people to give up quickly. So he developed a delightfully fun video game and an ingenious way to reverse the teaching method. Now the Piano Wizard video game Salter invented enables people of all ages to play the piano instantly, without being daunted by difficult musical notation. And the beauty of the game is that the piano players actually begin to learn the musical notation in the process—initially without even knowing it. When Salter saw his software dream finally manifested in the PC video game software he had first envisioned some five years earlier, he knew other key components would be required for the success of the concept. First time piano players would need a keyboard to play the songs that the game would enable them to play, quickly and easily. So Salter and his team at Piano Wizard's parent company, Allegro Multimedia, bundled the software with a USB MIDI controller keyboard from M-Audio, The Keystation 49e. The team chose the M-Audio keyboard because of its sleek, compact design and compatibility. The M-Audio keyboard features plug and play class compliancy with both Windows and Mac operating systems and its USB bus-power, requires no external power supply, making it a fine companion that simply plugs into the USB port of the computer to get people playing immediately. M-Audio (spokesperson; name title) agreed, "The bundling of our M-Audio Keystation 49e with the Piano Wizard Video Game Software… etc) Salter also devised a system of color-coded stickers for the keyboard to represent the notes, common across the octaves of all piano keyboards. The colored stickers coordinate with a colored keyboard on the player's computer screen. The game uses notes, initially disguised as brightly glowing colorful characters that move with delightfully engaging motion. Colorful turtles, spaceships, ladybugs, aliens and a host of other cute icons, chosen by the player, travel on a line toward a matching color-coded keyboard on the computer screen. The player then simply hits the same colored key on the M-Audio keyboard when the traveling characters reach the keyboard on the screen. In the process, children as young as three can play simple tunes instantly. And people of all ages can quickly play music from Beethoven to the Beatles, from Mozart to Madonna and any other style of music in just minutes. Salter commented, "the M-Audio Keystation 49e, bundled with our Piano Wizard software adds intrinsic value to our video game offering because it eliminates the need for a MIDI controller cable and external power for the keyboard making the package simple to install to get people playing quickly and easily". The Piano Wizard PREMIER software package bundled with the M-Audio 49e Keystation is now available on the Piano Wizard website at www.pianowizard.com as well as an increasing roster of online and brick and mortar stores nationwide. |
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