--- VENICE, ITALY, 2007 JUN 11 --- We are proud
to introduce
you the latest version of Symbolic Composer. Symbolic Composer
5.4 is one of the most advanced and largest music composition language
available. Included are 1500 page SCOM Reference Manual with detailed
examples and tutorials.
Tonality System now includes Positional Chord System, Chord
Enrichement System and Modulatory Scale Iterative System.
Positional Chord System is suited in generating triad-based
(also 4, 5, 6, ... note chords supported with given semitone distance
between chord notes). Chord
Enrichement System enables to enhance the positional chord notes with
logical rules. The rules are programmable by the user and may take in
account of similarities and differences in successive chord notes, and
enrich them in various ways.
Modulatory Scale Iterative System allows to generate scale
series
that have the least amount of differences between notes. Source scales
can be of any type - not just major or minor - which allow to find
psychologically pleasing modulatory tonalities for the compositions
also in contemporary styles.
Chord processing functions allow now mixing of sequential
tonalities, for example, when starting with simple chord sequence,
interesting complex chords can be realized mixing the previous and
successive chords together. This makes it possible to predict tonality
changes in a melody, while the actual tonality change will happen later
in other instruments.
The additions are useful in post/ultra/cyber-neoclassical styles, which
unite classical tonality thinking with chromatism - alterations are
based on logical rule sets, and hence the source tonalities can
preserve psychologically meaningful 1-4-5 deep-structure, even in case
of chromatism.
"There's evidence that MIDI interaction seriously constrains conceptual
reflection. Symbolic Composer steps forward providing composers with an
environment for thinking, experimenting and modelling complete
multi-orchestrated works without the confusion of performance data.
Symbolic Composer is the closest equivalent to paper-based composing
there is, only far, far more powerful", says composer Nigel Morgan (UK).
SCOM 5.4 is the most powerful music language available for
computers, appreciated by experimental and contemporary composers
worldwide. The software
also includes Common Lisp interpreter that lets the composer extend and
customize the composition functionalities. Symbolic Composer 5.4 totals
over 1000 music
algorithms, suitable for modern, dance, classic, electronic, ambient
and experimental styles.
The tonality system covers 300 microtonal
world-music and theoretical scales, and all chords and scales used in
the last 500 years of music history -- with SCOM 5.4 now with extensive
tonality processing rules. 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 5.4 is a massive collection of
computer music and research algorithms packed in an efficient music
composition language and interactive development environment. It's rich
music molecule dictionary enables the composer to extend musical
capabilities in many ways:
Generate fractal and chaos music with extensive set
of functions. Define any elements of composition including MIDI
controllers with algorithms. Model compositions with a comprehensive
set
of classic processors. Explore all scales and chords and apply music
element libraries to efficient music regeneration. Extend musical
vocabulatory with integrated Lisp-programming and build new extension
modules for others to share.
In Symbolic Composer MIDI data comes directly from
the compilation of a program and not from interaction with
multitrack-style recording and the limitations of your keyboard
performance. This program can be made from midifile analysis, graphic
and gestural visual processing, as well as interaction of function
variables and expressions, all immediately available from the menus.
Compilation to midifile is virtually instantaneous, and a score can be
playing on your sequencer or scorewriting in seconds.
Tonality is an extended concept in the system.
Most scales, modes and chords are predefined, including many
non-western
forms. New tonalities can be described by interval series, notes or
algorithms.
Beat/Space, descriptive of a mode of rhythmic
organisation found in many non-western musics, but also in
drum-computer
programming, is a dynamic feature and a powerful visual metaphor for
rhythm.
Timesheets extend this beat/space thinking to
outlines of complete scores and include tonality descriptions and
change
points. You can create a large-scale score plan controlling any number
of instruments, processors or mixer configurations.
Sequencing can be both linear and pattern-based,
but can be infinitely more powerful and flexible. Loop control and
processing is integral.
Lengths and Zones, that is note durations and
section durations, can be generated from maths and fractal functions.
This way even a tiny rhythmic cell or 'hook' can spawn cogent and
relevant rhythmic material, and whole musical structures.
Dynamics, either from MIDI velocity or continuous
controller values, can originate from fractal sources and be mapped
across the entire duration of an instrumental part. These natural
dynamic contours can be wonderfully expressive particularly when
converted to manipulate reverb depth, envelope shaping or modulation.
Neural processing from the powerful Neural Expert
can be used to add intelligent accents and other dynamic details.
Articulation, the position of a note's onset in
relation to a beat plus the note's actual rather than virtual duration
plus its attack dynamic, can be processed by fractal or mathematical
intervention creating virtual instruments with user-definable
characteristics.
Symbolic Composer 5.4 is a masterpiece of
musical
engineering, that now allows you to realize the full potential of your
studio investments, and realize your masterpieces of music - not by
MIDI editing, knob-tweaking or hand-playing, but on the purest
algorithmic level!
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