Symbolic Composer

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Alone in the planet with your ideas? Discover Symbolic Composer that resonates. It is the practical tool to get a deadline finished on Sibelius, Finale, Logic and Digital Performer - with a twist of the masters themselves.

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STEP BEYOND SEQUENCING

Does It Run on My System?

SCOM runs on Mac OS X 10.4-10.6 (full Intel Native, runs also on PPC Macs, can run in older OS X versions). SCOM runs on both Windows XP and Windows 7, too.
    On both platforms SCOM provides blazing speed of even very complex scores in seconds, and its MIDI files are full compatible with all music software (all can import MIDI files).
   SCOM uses integral playback through Apple's Quicktime Music Synthesizer and Windows' Media Player, which launch by default after SCOM compilation.
    This feature provides convenience to test out quickly your themes, chords and rhythms using General MIDI Synthesizer draft-quality sounds - and later use sequencer to finalize the mix.
     SCOM can also launch another MIDI File Player application. This is a nice feature, since it allows SCOM play instantly with high-quality sounds with software synths and samplers. Playback is realized with "virtual cabling" from the MIDI player into the synthesizer. On Mac there is build-in MIDI Bus, and on Windows it requires to install either MidiYoke or LoopBe, both freeware software.

Can SCOM Launch My Sequencer?

SCOM can also launch the MIDI file directly into a sequencer or notation software - it solely depends on the capability of the sequencer itself.
    SCOM uses this mechanism for launching. Most music apps (such as Logic, Cubase, Sibelius, just to mention few) are capable to launch MIDI files this way.
    On Mac launch settings are done by entering the name of the launcher program in SCOM's settings file, and on Windows by specifying ".mid" File Type Opener on a Windows Control Panel.
    If direct sequencer-launching is important to you please check the launching mechanism works before bying SCOM right away!
    On Mac try dragging the MIDI file on the sequencer icon, and on Windows try double-clicking the MIDI file icon (remember to define the Windows ".mid" file opener to use your sequencer first).
    If MIDI files just won't launch into your sequencer that way, you still may use SCOM in your composition: compose with draft sounds (you'd be amazed how many top compositions were made with just piano or guitar as an instrument), and once the score is ready import it into your sequencer for final mastering - all of them still supply Import MIDI Command on the menus.

How Do I Run SCOM?

First, write your composition in an elegant and efficient music language. That's easier than you think in SCOM's interactive music programming environment. Press the Compile button, and in seconds your score turns into MIDI and sound.

What Tools Does It Has?

SCOM has all the tools you need for writing a symphony, or a cool club mix, and just about anything in between. The 1000 power-tools let you transpose, retrograde, invert, mix, analyze, convert, ornament, filter, shift, scroll, and morph, just to mention few of them. Apply them to melodies, chords, rhythms, durations, velocities, channels & program changes, controllers and tempos. Let SCOM handle all the time-consuming calculations for you.

Can SCOM Handle My Music?

You'll find SCOM boosts your musical ideas from tiny seeds into large-scale super-structures. SCOM also deals perfectly with irrational rhythms and tempo changes, thanks to its Free Resolution Technology. This is invaluable when writing music for human performers, or scoring complex electroacoustics.

Can SCOM Help Me Compose?

The web-like HyperHelp gives you on-line help with a click of a keyword. With SCOM's menus using a music language has never been easier. Its generators handle all the hot buzzwords such as "fractals", "chaos", "fibonacci series", "neural networks", "astronomy" and dozens of others. SCOM recognises tonality as a fundamental aspect of music, and gives you access to all scales, chords and tunings found in western music - and it is fully expandable, of course.

Does It Grow With Me?

SCOM is one of the few music systems that you can truly customize and extend. Build libraries from MIDI files and create your own power-tools which can be integrated onto macro menus and HyperHelp. Care has been taken to enable the working composer to learn the system quickly but thoroughly. SCOM is basic technology alongside samplers, sound-modules, sequencers and softsynths.

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Technical Specifications
System Requirements Macintosh computer PC computer 1024-4096 MB suggested when running SCOM, sequencer and softsynths at the same time.	Ordering Information Download the application on the SCOM download page Registration through Kagi online payment page Receive by email the authorization that unlocks the application for full operation
Symbolic Composer Features
Powerful Music Composition Language Transparent music language without visual clutter Handles all aspects of music composing in any style and complexity Perfect for the contemporary and experimental composer Powerful production system for film music composers Special effects generator system for techno, ambient, new age and trance composers What-if Composing Scenarios Large contributed scores library copyright-free to modify with own purposes Complete with Tonalities Custom Scale-Definition with Cents and Frequency Ratios Overtone Series Tonalities Kurenniemi Harmony Theory Scales N-tet Equal-Tempered Scales Tonality distortion, enrichment, positions, compression, reversion, folding, interpolation, mixing, transposition and shuffling Complete coverage of traditional chord and scale systems 300 world-music and experimental tunings Flexible Pattern Processing Pattern filling, templating, filtering, removing, finding, masking, mixing, inversions, retrogrades, mirrors, resizing, compression, scaling, scrolling, shifting, transposing, trimming, triggering and interpolations Applicable to melodies, tonalities, velocities, rhythmics and compositional structures Template-constructed element libraries of melodies, tonalities, velocities, drum patterns and rhythms	Contemporary Composer's Package Generation and processing of dynamics, harmony, ornamentation and variation Generative interval series and rhythmics Element conversions, variations and combinations Chordisation, expansion and permutation of elements Ambitus Notation Schilling System Noergaard Infinity Series Messiaen, Strawinski and Hindemith processing Twelve-Tone rows Pitch Class Sets Experimental Composer's Package Fractal & Chaos Theory Magic Squares Dimensional Forms Energy Fields, Solar Systems Number Theory, Fibonacci Series Connel and Polygonal Sequences Fourier Synthesis and Analysis Hypercubes, Autocatalysis Parallel Expansions, Grammars, L-System Loops, morphs, Palindromes Randomization, Brownian, Gaussian and White Noise Expandable Programming Environment Add-hook new function additions by the user Build-in Common Lisp Language Complete with Hyperhelp documentation and tutorials	Comprehensive Structural Control Individual definition of instrument's symbol, length, duration, groove, velocity, tuning, tonality, program, controller and zone classes Unity Checker for validizing definition integrity Hierarchic section and orchestra definitions with inheritation Fade in/out automation Custom harmonization rules Section processing and cloning Tempo and signature control Natural Performance Simulation Brownian Noise randomization of event start, duration and velocity data Custom randomization methods for performance tuning and tempo variations Free-Resolution Tick Technology enables perfect timing of very small rhythmic elements Integration With The Studio Work-Flow Instant compilation into MIDI files Draft-Quality instant playback on iTunes and WinAmp through software GM/Sound Font-synthesizer Automatic launch of the MIDI file & full MIDI Export support to Cubase, Logic, Igor, Finale, Reason, Reaktor sequencers, notation software and software synthesizers.

Technical Specifications

Symbolic Composer Features