What
does the Basic Edition of the Player do?
DanceMaster Player’s
main function is to let you use your portable computer (laptop)
instead of mini-disks or records to teach and cue round dances.
You don’t need to carry boxes of records or a stack of mini-disks
and a notebook of cue cards to a dance because all the music and
cues are in the computer.
Whenever you select a dance the cues are shown on the screen automatically
and the music is ready to play at the touch of a button. No more
searching through record boxes or disk indexes for a particular
dance – just type part of its name and “Poof” – it is ready to play.
However, the DanceMaster Player
(the Player) can do much more than simply replacing conventional
equipment.
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It creates a menu of your dances, listed alphabetically, for
you to choose from. A couple of keystrokes or mouse clicks will
change your menu to show your dances of just one phase and/or
rhythm (all your phase IV waltzes, for instance), to make it
easy to choose a dance.
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You can pre-program your evening – decide which dances to do
in what sequence, and the Player will play them for you in that
order. Of course, you can mix dances from your pre-programmed
list and from the menu at will. You can even save your dance
program on disk and re-load (and re-play) it at a later time.
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You can adjust the playback speed of any given dance and the
Player will always
play it at that speed from then on (if you want it to).
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the Player will
remember the correct volume, tone and music/cues balance for
each dance too.
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You can set and save “bookmarks” in each dance so you can jump
to / play / repeat particular segments of the dance for teaching.
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You can make corrections to your cue cards on the fly.
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You can record and edit your cues independently of the music
- record the music when you get it, then add (or edit) your
cues after you have practiced them a bit.
- You can use Dance Modules to
easily move dances between computers.
The Basic Edition of
the Player does all this
and then some
But
Wait! The Advanced Edition of the Player
does lots more...
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