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.

The software can be used freely for any purpose whatsoever (including making videos used commercially).

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: