Mazzika   Home | Details | Download | Buy | Contact | عربي Play music using your computer keyboard Use 1/4 tones and maqams (for middle-eastern and Arabic music) Let MIDI files animate the piano keys Features 5-octave piano keys and 128 musical instruments Allowing 1/4 tones 21 predefined maqams, with all their possible transpositions (different “tonic” notes) Support for bi-directional maqams where the maqam notes depend on whether the musical movement is ascending or descending The piano keys visually reflect the selected maqam via highlighting the maqam keys and indicating 1/4-tone shifts Recording the played music and saving it as MIDI file Replaying recorded music and MIDI files, with key animation, maqam changes, and channel filtering 2 independent aspects of channel filtering: sound and key animation On-the-fly speed control during replay for slowing down the replay or speeding it up Minimal screen area to allow playing while reading sheet music from another program Sample melodies from classical Arab-music in different maqams