Intervallogic 1.0.9 review

Based on a programmed learning model, Intervallogic offers a wide range of ear-training exercises for musicians of all levels of experience.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 8235K Developer: RSM Records Buy Now Price: $40.00 Updated: 12 Apr 2006

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Based on a programmed learning model, Intervallogic offers a wide range of ear-training exercises for musicians of all levels of experience. Intervallogic uses unlooped sampled piano notes as well as percussion sounds to generate chords, melodies, rhythms and chord progressions.

Intervallogic encourages practice in the high repetition, fast-paced mode that is difficult to create in a classroom or private instruction setting. Ideally, a user will work within a given exercise for approximately 5 to 10 minutes maximum in one session, but may return several times a day for more practice. The scores for each exercise are automatically recorded once the exercise ends, and can be reviewed or archived at a later time.

In the basic identification exercises, chords or intervals are generated and presented as multiple choice options. The overall framework is to achieve 100 correct answers within a 5 minute time limit. There is no option to repeat incorrect answers, the user is intentionally moved forward into the next question. Immediate feedback to each response occurs visually with the movement of the progress bars, and in the event of an incorrect response, the correct answer is briefly highlighted before the next question is played.

While not intended exclusively for use in the Royal Conservatory system, where applicable exercises have levels matching the grade requirements for ear-training of the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto).

Here are some key features of "Intervallogic":
multiple user environment with individually stored preferences and results for each user
basic tools to manipulate the user results files
minimal formal music background required, melodic answers are given in standard solfege symbols
customizable user interface, individual settings for target scores, time allowed etc.

What's New:
New installer, registration requirement added for demo use.
New plist structure for preferences and results files.
New inversions exercise, also the option to require inversion naming in the triads and seventh chords exercises.
Revisions to the default and Jazz 3 levels of the chord progression exercise.
More stable preferences handling, esp. on first launch.
Minor bug fixes.

Requirements:
Quicktime 6 or later.