Universal Music Machine
(2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)
free compositional software tool developed by Steve Ricks and Morgan Quigley.
UMM assists the contemporary composer by taking care of the tedious computation required when working in some genres. For example, when composing a passage that needs semi-random phrases intermixed with a complicated hierarchy of nested phrases, it is quite tedious to work it out by hand. UMM allows the composer to enter the “source material,” supply an algorithm (such as “random,” “sequential,” etc..) and then quickly generate the resulting phrase and listen to it immediately.
A key element of the design of UMM is that it treats differing elements of music equally. You can generate sequences of rhythms and dynamic markings just like you can generate sequences of pitches. In fact, you generate these sequences simulataneously, and UMM will combine the pitch, rhythmic, and dynamic phrases to create a final MIDI sequence which can then be imported into score editors such as Finale or Sibelius for final editing by the composer. In addition, UMM can create multiple simultaneous tracks, allowing the creation of dense and complicated textures.
http://www.universalmusicmachine.com (797 clicks)
Popularity: 3%
March 16th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
This actually sounds quite practical. Shame, it seems to be dead now – at least, that link is.