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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 and extended
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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 can [...]

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.
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http://mars.pingdynasty.com/software.oml (892 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 [...]

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, be [...]

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 input and [...]

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 modules for [...]

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 variables [...]

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.
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/iannix/ (593 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.
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/meloncillo/ (208 clicks)

An Application for the Creation of Geophonic Music
Have you ever wondered what climate cycles of the last million years SOUND like? What would happen if you turned tide level data into sound waves? If geological cycles could make music - what would the melody be? The harmony?
Maestro Frankenstein is a unique application that is designed [...]

Multitemporal note generator
ValEVarion Evolved is another offering from Unbearable Devices in the Multitemporal Audio Tools series.
ValEVarion is MIDI based and before you start complaining, think. Think that all
your software based samplers and softsynths can be controlled by MIDI. So even
if you don’t have an exquisite sounding hardware MIDI sound generator, all you existing software [...]

This is an experimental program for extreme stretching the audio. insanely extreme..
Requirements:
- audiofile library
- libvorbis
- fltk library
- portaudio library
- not required, but you can use the FFTW library
This algorithm/program is suitable only for extreme [...]

TAPESTREA : Techniques And Paradigms for Expressive Synthesis, Transformation, and Rendering of Environmental Audio
what is it? : TAPESTREA (or taps) is a unified framework for analyzing,
transforming and synthesizing complex environmental sounds. Given one or more recordings, it provides well-defined means to: (1) identify points of interest in the sound and extract them into reusable [...]

For those who have any interest in Binaural Beats , I have made a Cocoa+CoreAudio application : MacBinauBeats.
This is a 2 sinewaves and pinknoise oscillator controlled by GUI sliders. MacBinauBeats generates beats on your demand.
Note that you shuold use a stereo earphone or headphone. MacBinauBeats works on MacOSX10.2 or later.
http://www.ictnet.ne.jp/~oohata/english.html (282 clicks)

this app will provide the pop and jazz improvisor with that ‘play along’ practice that is so ubiquituos; it differs from other software-based playalongs in that the user clicks on a staff to place the roots of choice. The random create part puts the app in the algorithmic composition categorie as well.
http://homepage.mac.com/ronmiller2/RonsSite/playalong.html (251 clicks)

Micromontage technique allows the composer to work a musical figure point by point, shaping each sound particle with microscopic precision. The software presented in this paper combines graphic and script editing with algorithmic generation and manipulation of sound sequences. It provides several tools to enhance both creation and organic development of the musical material under [...]

MRP Sequencer is a software step sequencer conceptually very similar to vintage analogue step sequencers such as the ARP 1601/1603 and Korg SQ10, and recent digitally controlled step sequencers such as the Frostwave Fatcontroller and Colin Fraser’s P3.
MRP Sequencer goes a little beyond the feature set of most step sequencers.
sequences of up to 64 steps
track [...]

COOPER is a patch written in Max/MSP. The idea of COOPER is to have a flexible environment which can be controlled from a meta-parameter-level, all the audio processing is split into modules (generators and modulators), which are connected to each other through a matrix.
Every input you give to a module (with input devices like [...]

MaxScore was originally designed to demonstrate algorithmic thinking in computer music. It is loosely based upon Barry Truax’s POD systems of the 1980s.
MaxScore follows the POD design of events contained within notelists (scores). This convention is also used by many other computer music programs, including Csound and MIDI sequencers. This version of MaxScore is limited [...]

mlooch is my first attempt to write a complete Macintosh app using the snazzy music DSP/synthesis language Max/MSP from Cycling74. I probably got a little bit carried away fooling with some of the interface stuff (menus especially), but I do get a kick out of the resulting sounds. If you enjoy droning, ambient sounds that [...]