Here is what easy beat offers:

	up to 16 song tracks plus a metronome track
	multiple views of individual tracks: score, keyboard, TAB, drum, chord and controller views
	export to GarageBand.
	MIDI import and export as well as export to QuickTime movies and AIFF files
	tempo controller
	can use all instruments provided by QuickTime or CoreAudio and/or an external synthesizer
	compatible with Roland's GS and Yamaha's XG standards
	WYSIWYG editing with a simple modeless point-and-click user interface
	background music (play songs while you edit them or do something else)
	real-time recording (requires a MIDI adapter and a MIDI instrument)
	high-quality score printing with on-screen preview
	stylistic variations (shuffle, delay, emphasis, arpeggio and simulation of human musicians)

An easy beat song window gives you an excellent overview of all tracks. Collapse tracks you don't want to see, mute tracks you don't want to hear, control playback, loop and tempo, edit notes, create effects, follow the song while it plays - you can do all that in a single window.

Use the buttons in the window header to play and stop songs, define the starting position, set and enable a loop, and record notes from an external MIDI instrument.

easy beat is one of the very few MIDI programs that let you bring your creative work over to Apple's GarageBand easily.

Regardless whether you compose your own song and want to finalize it in GarageBand, or wether you got a finished Midi file which you just want to polish and then bring over to GarageBand: easy beat is the perfect tool for these tasks.

Just use the "Save As" command to export all tracks of a song into a format suitable for GarageBand import. To import the tracks into GarageBand, create a new song in GarageBand and drag the desired tracks from the Finder window to the GarageBand window.

Click here to watch a small movie (1.1 MB) demonstrating how easy it is to bring your song over to GarageBand.

easy beat can display the tracks of a song in a variety of views, depending on your needs. You can even open multiple view for the same track, edit notes in one view and see the changes reflected in all other views.

Score View

The score view displays the notes in conventional notation. To edit a song, you simply draw the notes, easy beat automatically arranges the notes, and inserts rests where needed.

Keyboard View

The keyboard view displays notes as horizontal bars. It shows an exact representation of the duration and timing of notes. Even if you are not familiar with score notation, the keyboard view lets you easily turn your creative ideas into great music.

Drum View

Drum tracks are best edited in the drum view. Every line in a drum view corresponds to a percussive instrument; easy beat arranges them in groups and displays every drum hit as a triangle.

TAB View

If you are a guitar player, you will appreciate easy beat's TAB view. Notes are shown as fret numbers on strings; you can even specify the tuning and the number of strings. For example, you can also use the TAB view for bass guitar and mandolin.

The TAB view also lets you see and edit selected notes laid out on the neck of a string instrument. See the finger pattern, transpose notes, and find the best fret for playing a melody - all with a few clicks.

Controller View

Controllers let you modify certain characteristics of notes, such as volume, modulation, pitch and reverb (to name just a few). In a controller view, you can specify controller changes by drawing lines or freehand curves, smooth and scale curves. This example shows a short "string bend" in a guitar lick.

Metronome and Tempo

Every song has a special master track that lets you enter arbitrary metronome ticks to be repeated during an entire song. These can be simple clicks as well as sophisticated drum patterns. There is also a tempo view that lets you speed up and slow down the tempo of parts within a song.

If you use the built-in software synthesizer of QuickTime (Mac OS 9) or CoreAudio (Mac OS X), you can select from more than 100 instruments (all General MIDI instruments plus the instrument set from the GS standard by Roland Corp.).

If you use an external synthesizer with additional instruments, you can extend the instrument set even further.

easy beat makes all instruments easily accessible from a single pop-up menu that organizes the instruments in groups.

Print score sheets, copy notes as pictures, scale and transpose notes, add a "human" variation, create a "shuffle" feel with one click, globally emphasize certain notes, fade out tracks, add special effects, change the velocities of notes, create multiple copies of a range of measures, play songs in the background, import MIDI files, save in MIDI format to share songs with other musicians, save songs as QuickTime movie tracks or in AIFF format, fix inaccuracy of recorded notes, and so on.

Since we cannot list all features of easy beat here, we suggest that you download easy beat and try yourself.