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An infinite realtime composition that creates an astounding sonic cosmos by manipulating instrumental sound particles in time and space. It takes advantage of composition algorithms that have been developed by Karlheinz Essl since 1985. The generation process can be conducted by an automatism or by user interaction. What’s New in this Version – completely rewritten [...]

live-improvisation software environment The ixiQuarks tools are divided into the following categories: basic utilities, instruments, effects and filters. These tools all manipulate audio on audio channels and the idea is that the user routes audio from one tool to another, like connecting guitar effect pedals together. There are 52 Audio Channels by default, but that [...]

Provides accompaniment to the improvising musician. Never tires, never gets bored. Never plays off key. Comes with a bunch of scales and easy to add more. // http://mars.pingdynasty.com/software.oml (2377 clicks)

The AC Toolbox is a Macintosh application to assist the algorithmic composition of music. Several models for defining musical events are included. They can be used by defining objects such as sections, shapes, masks, or note structures. It is also possible to play, plot, modify, and examine objects in a number of ways. Extensive online [...]

RandomMIDI produces “random” sequences of pitches from notes played on an on-screen piano keyboard image. Randomly assigned note duration values range from whole- to sixteenth-notes. The sequences are saved as “type 1″ MIDI files using the default piano sound (GM voice 1) at 120 BPM (beats per minute). The voice and tempo can, of course, [...]

The Conductor Program — computer-mediated musical performance Remember how you could record a melody in your casio and how you could play it back only with 2 fingers and with a different timing ? well, this is the basic idea of Tapper. Give it a midi file to use as a score, select the MIDI [...]

Open Source Package for Composition & Performance . Jade is a flexible, relatively easy-to-use, environment for composition and performance. For many Jade has made approaching the complexities of interactive music possible. Now it is available for free as an open-source project. The basic unit in Jade is a Module. Jade has a number of ready-made [...]

Strasheela is a highly expressive constraint-based music composition system. The Strasheela user declaratively states a music theory and the computer generates music which complies with this theory. A theory is formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) by a set of rules (constraints) applied to a music representation in which some aspects are expressed by [...]

IanniX is a graphical editor of multidimensional and multi-formal scores, a kind of poly-temporal meta-sequencer, based on the former UPIC created by Iannis Xenakis. // http://sourceforge.net/projects/iannix/ (1251 clicks)

Meloncillo is a standalone Java program for composition of spatial sound. A GUI allows the placement of interacting objects and editing of trajectories which can generate data evaluated by a sound synthesis application such as SuperCollider or CSound. // http://sourceforge.net/projects/meloncillo/ (615 clicks)