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Keyboard Wizard is used by professional musical theater and major contemporary artist keyboardists. It does sound module and virtual instrument management, sophisticated MIDI keyboard note mappings, and musically-intelligent responses to music that the keyboardist performs. It has accompanied performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, Wolf Trap outside Washington, D.C., as well as those featuring singers Melissa Manchester, Michael Feinstein and Linda Eder, The 5th Dimension's Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., as well as actors John Lithgow, Ray Romano, Brad Garrett, Kathy Lee Gifford, and Tony D'Anza. It has been used in the pit orchestras of the professional regional theatre and touring shows The Full Monty, Wizard, and the 2008 and 2009 Pageant of the Masters, as well as the Cal State Fullerton production of "Miss Saigon". In Hollywood, it has served on the scoring stage for the USA Network's The Starter Wife series, and enhanced the scoring session at the legendary Sony Pictures Studios Scoring Stage, Culver City, California, for the animated film The Princess and the Frog, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Information about these and other professional performances using Keyboard Wizard are at broadway-performance-systems.com/performances.aspx.
I am the sole inventor, architect, and developer of Keyboard Wizard, written in Java 5/Java 6. This software is a Java version of my earlier Swan software, both of which do sophisticated MIDI processing of MIDI keyboard data, such as is necessary in professional musical theatre productions.
Keyboard Wizard had its public premiere on Saturday, April 14, 2007, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California (former home of the Academy Awards ceremonies) where it was used to enhance the orchestra accompanying the Spotlight Awards, hosted by actor John Lithgow (hear it filling in harp and bassoon on "The Light in the Piazza"). The production was broadcast over KCET-TV (PBS) in Los Angeles on Dec. 29, 2007. Keyboard Wizard next enhanced a private benefit performance at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA, on May 12, 2007, backing former The Fifth Dimension singers Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., as well as singers Michael Feinstein, Kathy Lee Gifford, and Miss America 2007 Lauren Nelson, in an evening hosted by Everybody Loves Raymond actors Brad Garrett and Ray Romano. (More images.) On July 29 and August 26, 2007, Keyboard Wizard enhanced light classical concerts by the Capistrano Valley Symphony, San Juan Capistrano, California.
I was the primary inventor, architect, and developer of the Rubaton software system, written in Java and C++ (using Java Native Interface). Oversaw and led a team of ten full-time developers, including having weekly virtual development meetings with them. The system is intended for professional and amateur musical theatre productions, and provided a "virtual orchestra" controlled in real-time by a human musician, and integrated control of the MIDI keyboards, the house sound mixing console, the lighting board, and a "virtual" stage manager.
Continuing to market Cygnet, the successor to Swan. Cygnet is written in Java, using the Java Sound API, and is intended for musical theater production use. Cygnet allows a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) sequence to "follow" a conductor and other live players, rather than the conductor and live players having to follow it, thereby permitting real-time enhancement of live performance.
Designed and developed Swan, original MIDI software for advanced musical keyboard performance systems, for use by professional musical theater pit orchestras. Software written in C++, using the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) library and Microsoft Visual C++ 6. Designed and implemented a unique, revolutionary system for tracking real-time performance of MIDI keyboards, allowing a single keyboardist to play and control an entire orchestration by themselves, without MIDI sequencing.
February 2002: Wrote a custom application in Perl that does specialized sorting and organizing of database records, to conform to U.S. Postal Service requirements for The Fund for Animals' bulk mailings.
August 1998: Wrote JavaScript validation routines for the on-line data entry portion of the National Transportation Library (www.bts.gov/smart).
December 2001: Worked with JetForms software for law firm client Poppleton, Garrett & Polott, P.C., Rockville, MD; programmed custom batch files to automate lengthy conversion process.
June 1996 to February 1997: Modified, improved, and expanded their MaintX and FleetMgr LAN management software using Borland's Delphi 1.0, Borland's Delphi 2.0, and Borland Pascal 7.0.
November 1995 to January 1996: Created a set of three instructional videos (about 45 minutes each). Researched and wrote the script for the videos, created and prepared screen shots of code samples, and appeared on-screen as the host and presenter. The videos were professionally produced and distributed:
Published November 1990 to 1992 and sold worldwide by Passport Designs, Inc., (formerly of Half Moon Bay, CA). ScoreInput provides real-time MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) input into Passport's SCORE music typesetting system, thereby increasing data input speed. ScoreInput is a DOS program, written in Borland Turbo Pascal 6.0 (using objects), in which I created an original user interface, wrote the routines to read and write MIDI data to the MPU-401 port, and devised unique musical quantization routines. Throughout ScoreInput's commercial life, I continued to improve and upgrade the program, incorporating suggestions from users of the program. Although not currently being updated, ScoreInput continues to be used around the world by SCORE users.
