Pocket Christmas Carol Player

Join in the Christmas festivities this year with the Pocket Christmas Carol Player, which plays over 20 well-known Christmas Carols. Watch the onscreen keyboard playing the tune and see the musical notes whizzing by, or better still dive in and play them for yourself! Pocket Christmas Carol Player will show you which notes to play and when.

You can change the musical instrument sounds, speed the playing up, slow it down, or even let it automatically adapt to your style of playing. Pick the backdrop from a number of Seasonal backdrops, or let the Pocket Christmas Carol Player pick them for you.

We've even included Auld Lang Syne and bagpipes for that traditional New Years Party too.

Key Features (Purchased Mode)

• An auto-play on-screen musical keyboard allows you to watch the keyboard player playing music based on the standard piano / synthesizer keyboard layouts.

• An onscreen musical manuscript shows the Carols melody in musical notation as it is played.

• You can choose from a number of sounds - pipe organ, oboe, saxophone, clarinet and others. You can even pick different sounds for the backing to achieve more orchestral sounding effects. The sound can be optimised for the internal speaker, or for hi-fi and headphones. Pocket Christmas Carol Player uses high quality audio synthesis to produce sound that has to be heard to be believed - particularly when using hi-fi / headphones.

• If you want to play the Carols yourself then Christmas Carol Player will help you - it will show you which note to play next on the onscreen keyboard and when. It will also name each primary key on the keyboard and automatic musical accompaniment provides backing as you play - Pocket Christmas Carol Player's artificial intelligence can adapt the backing speed, to match your playing speed as you are learning. As your playing becomes more advanced you can even try different ways of playing - using the stylus in different ways you can glide (gliss), or play staccato.

• If you want to learn more about music, the documentation includes a detailed beginners guide on how music works and how to read it.

Trial  Mode

Pocket Christmas Carol Player operates in two modes. By default it operates in trial mode, which limits some of the features, allowing it to be tried before purchase. Following purchase the licence key can be entered and the software becomes fully functional.

This application requires the compact framework to be installed on your device - new devices have this installed by default - others will need it installing. It is available at microsoft.com for download.