This shortens the amount of time and money which will have to be spent on toll calls to send and receive information. The faster modems can also communicate at slower speeds if necessary. Some modems have the ability to send and receive FAX documents. Once notes are entered the user may easily change the tempo, transpose the music, extract parts, or otherwise edit the music. See figure 2.
Most synthesizers can produce only eight, sixteen, or thirty-two notes at a time.
Eight notes at a time would seem to be adequate for real-time performance since most performers only have ten fingers and seldom use them all. The indiscriminate use of the pedal, however, may cause the synthesizers polyphonic limit to be exceeded. In these cases, a synthesizer with sixteen or thirty-two voice polyphony is required. The device which transfers information from the computer to paper. Random Access Memory - Temporary storage and work space used by the computer for tasks such as editing documents, redrawing the screen, and running several programs at the same time.