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Symbolic Composer 5.5 For The Macintosh
SCOM Ident--- VENICE, ITALY, 2008 FEB 14 --- Tonality Systems/MRAC Publishing today lauch Symbolic Composer 5.5 Virtual for the Mac Intel - no problem - fully tested and certified to run on a virtual machine - seamless integration with OS X and pure pleasure to have the SCOM on Intel Mac running in blazing speed.

New functions implement 17th century rules for 3..7 note chord progressions, minimum energy modulatory sequences, chord enrichments, predictive chord-sequence mixing, iterative melodic progressions, harmonisation, and ornamentation for 2-voice simulated improvisations.

New score library additions include dopamine DNA music template, Kraftwerk's Autobahn and general simplepop based on Madonna analysis and synthesis templates, rhythmic element libraries, Ian Clay Teratunings, and spiral form graffities.

Symbolic Composer 5.5 for the Mac is the largest and most popular high-level music language available for computers. Symbolic Composer 5.5 totals over 1000 music algorithms suitable for modern, dance, classic, electronic, ambient, contemporary and experimental styles. Symbolic Composer 5.5 also includes Common Lisp interpreter that lets the composer extend and customize compositional functionalities. 

Symbolic Composer 5.5 covers 300 microtonal world-music and theoretical scales, and all chords and scales used in the last 500 years of music history - great news for the music educator

Besides providing the composer a toolbox of traditional composition tools Symbolic Composer also enables the composer to explore advanced fractal and chaos mathematics to determine compositional elements.

Symbolic Composer is a massive collection of computer music and research algorithms packed in an efficient music composition language and interactive development environment.

Symbolic Composer's rich music molecular language enables the composer to extend musical capabilities and helps to realize the maximum power of existing studio investments spent on synthesizers and sequencers.

Features

• Context-Free Scoring Language allows composing music of any style and complexity.

• Historical & Contemporary Music Functions supply the classic compositional power-tools.

• Mathematical Generators & Processors provide fractals, chaos and number-theory utilities.

• Symbolic Generators & Processors allow recursion, l-systems, fibonacci etc. sequences.

• DNA/RNA Processors enable to turn genetic data into music
• Programmable Neurons supply added intelligence to instrumentation.

• Programmable Phrase Library allows sequential drum and chording pattern generation.

• Free Score Library provides templates to start with.

• Build-in Hyper-Documentation helps using the system.

• Standard MIDI file output enables to use any sequencer, hard disk editor, sound module, or software synthesizer for playback & final assembly.

• Integrated Lisp Language allows to write own functions, documents and menus.

• Modular Plug-in Expansion helps to distribute own developments to other users.

• 300 Chords, Scales & Microtonals supply a complete coverage of tonalities used in our planet - and you are naturally free to discover your own.

• Over 1000 Algorithms included, anyone can be connected to anyone in the processing net for maximum creative freedom.
 

System Requirements
 
Mac OS 8-9, OSX, Intel VMware certified 1024-4096 MB RAM
Windows 1024-4096 MB RAM


Authorization


Symbolic Composer uses a personal keycode that unlocks the software for full operation. The user can make backup copies of the authorized software. In Demo Mode most functions are cancelled. Full user support is available for no extra costs.

Composer Comments:

"I love SCOM because it is so pure. SCOM lets me explore fractals, chaos, DNA, neurons and mathematics, and program my own algorithms. It's really the most wonderful tool I never seen for music composition."

"SCOM steps beyond notation and enables to realize compositions with complete control on instrumentation and score structures like no other software can do."

"I generate unique beats and patterns with SCOM, and drag them on my sequencer for further tweaking. Thanks to SCOM I’ve now got full music pro grade without studying the theory for 10 years.”

“We use SCOM to teach music theory. SCOM covers both historical and contemporary composition approaches. It also lets to learn all chords, scales and micro-tonal tunings. It is both in tune with the history and opens up the future.”

SCOM in Media:

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"Exciting"

“Symbolic Composer was one of the first systems that I encountered that explored the art of algorithmic composing interactively. The system functions are selected from hierarchical menus and pasted on the editor, so it’s a completely different approach to musical composition, and an exciting one. It’s like composing music from one’s DNA structure.”, Composer Richard Devine.


"Ingenious"



"Nowadays, symmetries are widely used in musical composition, for instance in the various transformation tools of sequencers, and explicitly in the author‚s prestor (see chapter 49) and in Opcode‚s MAX or in music software with fractal composition tools as realized by Mesias Maiguashca [220] or by Peter Stone on his ingenious Symbolic Composer software",  Mazzola G., Author of Topos Of Music (If the direct link has changed due publisher, search the title at Springeronline


"Wonderful"



"I wish to thanks some people that have contributed in indirect but important way to the creation of this book:
    Peter Stone and all the developers of the wonderful algorithmic composition software Symbolic Composer,  that I have used for the composition of the exercises.
    Douglas R. Hofstadter for the beauty and the fecundity of his ideas on the perception, making analogies  and on the use of the crowded parallel scansion in the field of the artificial intelligence.
    Wayne Shorter for the originality and the passion of  his music, whose sound has sweetened many of my days.", Claudio Martini, Author Of I Pattern Automutanti.



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