Symbolic Composer 6.3 provides solid and
mature system for the experimental composing providing advanced musical
and mathematical functions that operate on melodies, tonalities,
rhythms and even compositional structures.
And now it has syntax coloring and interface themes, too.
SCOM's intecface is very simple and minimal. In the middle bottom
you'll notice the QuickTime Player. This plays back the score on
draft-quality sounds (like a piano, which all the great composers used
to compose their fully-orchestrated pieces with).
The score happens in the code windows at the left. On the right
side you see browser windows that let you quickly browse through the
functions. In the middle you see the document windows - use these to
copy and paste score-snippets to your score.
Then press the compile buttons and the score plays in a second. And you
can let SCOM launch the MIDI file into your sequencer (or softsynth)
for further assemblage and sound-tweaking.
More commands are found on the System, Tonality and Library menus,
providing full algorithmic control on any MIDI parameters.
Syntax
Coloring
Symbolic Composer 6.3 lets you adjust the appearence of
interface
items to suit your preferences, mood or studio lightning conditions.
There is also Syntax Coloring to help you - this allows easily to
recognize SCOM commands from your data - or you can switched it off for
pure Lisp-Machine appearance, too.
The Mrac, Cadar and Cresc menus has been programmed by
contemporary composers, and provide structurized access to extended
SCOM algorithms, which cover contemporary, general and historical music
styles.
System Menu provides access to orchestral and arrangement
defintions. You will also find mathematical, symbolic and conversion
functions here. Documentation includes short code snippets that you can
copy and paste to your score.
And you can visualize score data and algorithms with a
press of a button.
Tonalities-Handling
Lady Gaga is maybe happy with one tonality, but Symbolic
Composer 6.3 gives you access to not just those commercial tonalities
but provides all the historical, comtemporary and algorithmic
tonalities as well.
The functions
enable to
add, delete, mix, modulate, distort, generate, enrich, interpolate and
analyze tonality
progressions.
And much, much more is available on the SCOM 6.3!
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