Music Ace Doodle Pad

Also designed for elementary and middle school students, Music Ace Doodle Pad, which is available separately but is also included with Music Ace, allows a student to compose music by dragging different sized notes onto a grand staff. Six different MIDI instrument sounds are available, each represented by a different color. While being dragged, the notes produce a sustained sound that changes as the note is moved higher or lower. At the same time, the note has a balloon that identifies its pitch and the keyboard on the bottom of the screen shows where the pitch lies on the keyboard. Music created in Doodle Pad can be saved.

Music Ace. Harmonic Vision. Evanston, Ill., 1996.