[Qaedon]

Have you guys ever heard of these programs? AccompanEase plays the piano parts of the accompaniment, and it also plays the melodic parts for each of the characters. You can turn down any character you want, even turn off the piano, and just listen to one character's melody.

InstrumentalEase claims to do the same thing, except for the orchestra. It plays all the instrumental parts, and you just subtract those parts that are already in your pit. Don't have a percussionist but have everything else? Just turn off all the instruments on the AccompanEase except the percussion part. You can also change pitch adn tempo.

Anyway, I got this information from R&H Theatricals when they sent me the license agreement.

[Qaedon]

Oh, here's their website address:

http://www.rms.biz/Documents/AE_Web/Acc_Download.html

[Qaedon]

Did my new Avatar scare you guys? We're going to order it. I'll let you know if it's any use.

[ActingDude17]

Unless this program is exclusively for Mattress, this thread shouldn't be in this forum.

Anyway, I think we may have used the program (or at least something similar to it) today in Mattress rehearsal.

So yes.

[Qaedon]

I haven't checked out any other boards other than OUAM. I'll check it out.

[ActingDude17]

Either way, I just found out we definitely did use it last night for a Mattress rehearsal.

It's a really cool and useful program.