To help teach composition. Today's sequencers allow a composer to easily input a student's composition, then hear how it will sound when performed. Both Reality and SurReal are 16 voice multitimbral, with SurReal playing up to 64 simultaneous notes and reality playing up to 128. This allows them to put their music online, either for collaboration with others of for submission to instructor for grading. Help teach synthesizer programming.
Students can combine visual and aural learning for the best retention and ease of learning.
Now you can add quality piano, brass, percussion, guitar, bass, classic synth, techno, ambient and many other musical instruments and sounds to your computer, getting the most out of the audio power offered by today's Pentium processors and sound cards. SurReal takes the most popular synthesis formats and lets you access the power of each. These formats are Sampling, FM, Physical Modeling, classic Analog and Modal synthesis. Up to sixteen different channels can play up to 64 notes at one time. Thousands of sounds are available, both from standard Reality banks and through the use of SoundFonts, a sampler format popularized by E-mu.