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DanceMaster Player’s main function is to let you use your portable computer (laptop) instead of mini-disks or records to teach and cue round dances. You don’t need to carry boxes of records or a stack of mini-disks and a notebook of cue cards to a dance because all the music and cues are in the computer. Whenever you select a dance the cues are shown on the screen automatically and the music is ready to play at the touch of a button. No more searching through record boxes or disk indexes for a particular dance – just type part of its name and “Poof” – it is ready to play.
However, the DanceMaster Player (DMP) can do much more than simply replacing conventional equipment.
| • | It creates a menu of your dances, listed alphabetically, for you to choose from. A couple of keystrokes or mouse clicks will change your menu to show your dances of just one phase and/or rhythm (all your phase IV waltzes, for instance), to make it easy to choose a dance. |
| • | You can pre-program your evening – decide which dances to do in what sequence, and the Player will play them for you in that order. Of course, you can mix dances from your pre-programmed list and from the menu at will. You can even save your dance program on disk and re-load (and re-play) it at a later time. |
| • | You can adjust the playback speed of any given dance and DMP will always play it at that speed from then on (if you want it to). |
| • | You can set and save “bookmarks” in each dance so you can jump to / play / repeat particular segments of the dance for teaching. |
| • | You can make corrections to your cue cards on the fly. |
| • | You can store your dances and move them between computers in the form of Dance Modules. |
The Basic Edition of DMP does all this and then some…
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