The new KidiPads software has been designed for use with young children and for students with disabilities. It teaches many musical literacy concepts and is designed to work with the MidiPads touch pad hardware.
Mouseover the coloured
buttons triggers a midi note or a wav file - or use nnumbers 1 to 8 on
your computer keyboard.
Instrument categories provide
shortcuts to Brass, Strings etc.
Use the Arrows or Keys L (left) and R (right) to change the
selected instrument.
Use the Arrows or Keys U (up) and D (down) to change the octave of the midi
notes.
The Open button is used to open previously saved dnc files.
The
Save button saves the current settings.The Teacher Menu provides options that
add or subtract visible features
eg add or remove staff lines/clef, have
students use mouse click instead of mouseover to trigger sounds, show or hide
the Open and Save buttons, show or hide the Audio/ wav buttons, the All Notes
Off menu item to turn off all sounds and finally the Save Preferences menu
to
have your favourite preferences used each time you launch the software.
Note:
Right mouse button on the Audio/wav file select buttons removes audio/wav files
from the MidiPad
