The lab also provides Music Education instructors with a resource for supplementing course content in major music courses. The lab is equipped with an impressive assortment of notation, sequencing and music education software. Most class MIDI projects, however, are produced using Finale and Cakewalk as primary notation and sequencing tools, respectively. Yamaha, Korg, and Roland keyboards are used along with multitimbral sound modules and outboard sound processing gear. The lab provides students a basic understanding of computer operations using a graphical user interface.
Final projects demonstrate the student's ability to digitally create a complete musical production.
Commercial sequencing techniques, drum tracks, sampling, etc. are explored on a minimum basis. Each year, the Technology component of the Department of Music produces the Digital Musician, a publication which highlights activities in the MIDI computer laboratory. Compression DBX Sound Enhancers Yamaha, DEP5, Lexicon, Alesis Midiverb, Quadraverb Alpha Multiverb, etc. Tascam Player, Sony Mini-Disk, Scanner ScanMaker II Drum Machines Roland Software Finale, Cakewalk Pro Audio, Practica Musica, Jazz Pianist, Blues Pianist, Frontpage, Simply 3D, Sound Forge, Practice Studio, Wordperfect Suite, Encore, Classical Music, Beethoven's 5th, Musical World of Professor Piccolo, The Viking Opera Guide, Digital Beethoven on Cyberspeed, Pagis, Music Time, Performer, Master Tracks Pro, Score Writer, Teach Me Piano.