melos (release 1.0), German version ! THIS THE GERMAN VERSION. ! THE ENGLISH VERSION MELOS10E.ZIP WILL BE SOON AVAILABLE melos analyzes the sound that you present to it using a microphone (voice or instrument) or by opening an unisono WAV file. It immediately shows the information in musical notation. You can save the notes as a MIDI file. Important ! The result strongly depends on your cooperation. Please avoid any noise and sing or play clearly. Try to choose the correct parameters. In most cases you will need a little exercise to get good results. For using melos you need: - PC 486DX or higher - Windows 3.1 or higher - at least 4 MB RAM - at least 1 MB on your harddisc - a sound card (+wav driver) - a microphone for real time analysis - a mouse To install melos: - copy capella.ttf, capella.fot and ctl3d.dll to the windows system directory - copy melos.ini to the windows directory - copy melos.exe and the sample files to a directory you like - install the True Type Font capella - start Windows for using melos How to use melos melos is nearly self explaining because it looks like a tape recorder. First choose the mode: wav or real time. Set correct values for the parameters, threshold=about 8 for soprano, threshold=about 4 for bass wav mode: open the desired wav file real time: press the start button (red), sing or play, press the stop button (black) For further information there is a German documentation named melos.doc. The English version will include an English documentation.