Allegro Rainbow Debuts Piano Wizard For Mac At Macworld Expo

Allegro Rainbow, a leading provider of music videogame software, is proud to announce the much-anticipated release of Piano Wizard for Mac. Piano Wizard is the revolutionary, award-winning video game that teaches anyone to play the piano within minutes.

Piano Wizard (Easy Mode and Premier) will now be offered with a dual-boot installation CD that will run on both Power PC and Intel-based Macs. Select Apple stores and www.apple.com will be first to retail the Mac version of Piano Wizard.

"We're thrilled that Allegro Rainbow has joined the rapidly growing community of developers creating Mac applications for the first time," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations.

Piano Wizard teaches how to play songs through a simple video game-style method. First, players follow vertically moving game objects as a guide for hitting the right notes. It then progresses by rotating the video screen, making game objects travel horizontally, thus mimicking the lines of the staff and providing insight into musical theory. Next, game objects transform into colored notes on the grand staff, then finally into traditional black & white notation.

Using any digital piano as a "joystick," Piano Wizard is fueled by MIDI song files, which are readily available for download at online sites like CYBERMIDI.com and the soon to be launched Wizardtunes.com. Players can add thousands of their favorite songs to Piano Wizard, keeping the lessons fresh.