Paladin Enterprises Debuts Maestro 2000

Maestro's Real-Time Window (Click for larger picture)

Paladin Enterprises releases Maestro 2000, a computer aided performance system (CAPS). Maestro 2000 enhances and extends musicians' performance capabilities. Conceived by a composer/musician with the desire to create and perform music not possible using traditional methods, the goal of Maestro 2000 is to allow for the performance of any composition that might be dreamt up.

In addition to providing numerous performance tools, Maestro provides real time analysis for measuring the quality of a performance. Maestro's duration analysis view shows a moving bar graph for each note as it is played and released. This feature is accurate to 1/64th note, and the view automatically scrolls as you perform. You can easily see when you should release the notes you are playing. Notes that are held too long based on the current tempo are shown with an increasing shade of red.

Maestro provides a variety of performance controls that can be operated remotely via MIDI. There is an easy to use capture feature that allow both notes and controllers to be set as remote triggers. The advantage of using a controller is that you can turn or push the controller to move each event that the maestro control it is mapped to. For example, mapping a control knob to the beat forward button will scroll the song forward by beat. Maestro provides a jump button to jump to any point in the song, and remembers where you last starting practicing a particular part of a song. You can also easily switch between sequencer play back of what you are practicing and performing it yourself.

There are many other features such as sending MIDI sync on any output, a status control bar, variable analysis resolution, etc. A demo is available for download, and the best way to really understand what Maestro is all about.