Creative SB0100 User Guide - Page 40

Creative Keytar With Creative Keytar, an easy-to-use and highly interactive edutainment software for beginners, you can turn your multimedia computer into a virtual rhythm guitar system immediately. Click a picture at the top of the screen to choose your favorite guitar. Press a function key (F1, ..., F12) to activate a chord, and you can start strumming or plucking your favorite tunes. Just hold the chord with one hand until it is time to change the chord and use the other hand to strum or pluck the strings according to a tune's rhythmic variation. You don't need to worry about notes, all you need is a sense of rhythm and to remember your chord keys. Creative Rhythmania Creative Rhythmania lets you create a MIDI file, choosing from a professional set of backup rhythms and instruments. Creative Rhythmania allows you to: ❑ Perform with auto-accompaniment in Rhythm mode: • Four-part Rhythm section • Preset backing styles • Interactive backing arrangement • Chord Palette system • SoundFont support ❑ Choose between two Keyboard types: PC (QWERTY) keyboard or MIDI keyboard connected to your PC. Rhythmania is essentially a pattern-based software: ❑ You play a Pattern to provide auto-accompaniment for your melody playing. ❑ You create or modify a Pattern by building or changing it Section by Section in Rhythm mode. ❑ Then, you combine a Pattern and a melody to create a Sequence in Sequencer mode. Using Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 3-15