Features

• Up to 6 articulations -PPP, PP, P, MF, F, FF and FFF
• Sustain pedal up, sustain pedal down and 4 articulations for the release-triggered samples
• Recorded with pristine sound -24-bit Prism sound with ProTools and Waves processing was used
• Multiple velocity release layers - up to 16 levels of velocity, ultimate staccato, and sustained pedal-down samples with carefully chosen resonance
• Over 5GB of great piano samples

Features

• Includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand music application
• Use iLife to have more fun with digital media
• Easily create professional-quality slideshows, music, movies, and DVDs
• Seamless integration--iLife applications work together better than ever before
• Single installer that updates all existing iLife applications

Reviews (3)

Crashes constantly
This is a huge step back for Apple's iApps, particularly iPhoto, which is an absolute disaster in this release. We typically cannot launch iPhoto without crashing unless we trash three catalog files. Importing more than once a day is impossible - the app says it cannot access .../iPhoto Library/month/date the second time you try to import.

Add to that the continued game of keep-away with iDVD, which will not work with external DVD burners. If you bought anything less than the highest-end Macs, or models like the Cube or iBook that have never had built-in DVD burners as an option, well, too darn bad! Kind of obviates the coolness of FireWire when peripherals are deliberately not supported by Apple.

Crashing and losing user data is NEVER acceptable. Apple, more than anyone, is supposed to know this. The company should be absolutely ashamed of this pathetic product, and should not offer it for sale until they work out the bugs and stop being such jerks about DVD burning.

great product but lousy license
The the 10.3 Family Pack and the iLife Family Pack license have exactly the same language -

"as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household".

For those who respect intellectual property and read their licenses carefully, this means that the 10.3 Family Pack cannot be installed on a Powerbook which then is taken outside the same household nor on another Mac located at another of your personal residences. Apple has confirmed that this is the correct interpretation of their license language.

All Apple had to do with both Family Pack licenses is change "located in the same household and used by" to"located in the same household OR used by".

Unfortunately the lawyers cannot seem to agree with that simple change so don't waste your money on the Family Pack unless you can comply with the license or choose to ignore it.

Superb product but lousy license
The iLife Family Pack license has exactly the same language as the Panther family pack -

"as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household".

For those who respect intellectual property and read their licenses carefully, this means that the Family Pack iLife cannot be installed on a Powerbook which then is taken outside the same household nor on another Mac located at another of your personal residences. Apple has confirmed that this is the correct interpretation of their license language.

All Apple had to do with both Family Pack licenses is change
"located in the same household and used by" to
"located in the same household OR used by".

Unfortunately the lawyers cannot seem to agree with that simple change so don't waste your money on the Family Pack unless you can comply with the license or choose to ignore it. ... Read more

Amazon.com Review

The extraordinary thing about The Great Operas is the amount ofmaterial the producers have managed to cram onto one CD-ROM. Thefigures on the box are impressive enough, but once inside you have tosuspend disbelief and prepare for a long wallow in an operatic goldmine.

The work is in six sections: operas, composers, great interpreters, theworld's top 25 opera houses, history, and a glossary. Of course it isnot comprehensive--some of the information is a little outdated, andthe sound quality is not wonderful--but this is a tremendousintroduction to the world of opera. One impressive feature is thatunlike many works aimed at a wide audience, The Great Operas does notshirk the 20th century, offering extracts of 20 of the century's greatoperas.

Artist biographies have audio excerpts, complete with the score, and asa bonus there are five marvelous video clips, including Callas,Sutherland, and Pavarotti--all in black and white, but well worthincluding. The history section has direct links to audio examples, andeven a few seconds of listening provide a flavor of the work that noprinted volume could ever hope to achieve. --Keith Clarke ... Read more

Reviews (2)

Great for everybody
I think this is the best cd rom for opera lovers and those who are learning about opera. You enjoy the images as well as the audio and it is fun to browse around any opera , libretto or composer review.

A Opera Mother's Dream
My mother, who grew up with opera, absolutely loves this product. She says that not only does it bring back old memories, but it shows all the important things about the different operas. According to her, this opera miracle doesn't leave anything out, and even I was amazed at some of the opera parts I heard. Thanks to this product, my entire family is now officially opera fans! Thank you Montparnasse Multimedia! ... Read more

Product Description

Because Allegro uses the same notation engine used by the world's top music publisher and film copyists, your sheet music is the exact same quality you'll find in your music store. You can even post your scores on the Web so the world can play, hear, transpose and print your scores. Hyb for Windows or Mac. INCLUDES SCANNING SOFTWARE, MidiScan by Musitek! ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

In this CD-ROM, the lives and works of prominent composers are set against the history, arts, science, culture, and politics of their times. Music history comes to life as you journey through the Renaissance, as well as the baroque, classical, romantic, and modern eras. Navigate a timeline to visit various eras in musical history while you listen to background music from each respective era. Hypertext links provide word definitions and musical examples. The interactive life-span timeline shows when each composer lived, relative to stylistic periods and other composers. Multimedia History of Music and Great Composers includes the MediaCheck diagnostic utility. ... Read more

Reviews (1)

Music History
This was a very informative cd. It covered all the periods of the creation of music. From Baroque to Contempory. It had a breif discription on each of the time periods as well as a breif discription on some of the major composers. This program loaded easily onto the computer but it was not very easy to go from composer to composer. Either it loaded incorrectly into my computer or it was bad programming but I had to shut down the program each time I wanted to go to a different composers information. I did not have to do this for the history blurbs though. Very informative but very frustrating. ... Read more

Features

• Listen to each instrument separately -- hear the individual sax, piano, bass and drums while you play along
• Transpose the music to different keys
• Looping feature lets you hear any section of the music over & over
• Use the 1/2-Time tool to slow down parts of a song & hear it better
• Integrates seamlessly with MIDI and notation tools