--- VENICE, ITALY, 2003 SEP 22 --- Today Tonality Systems/Mrac Publishing have created another milestone in history of MIDI by releasing Symbolic Composer 5.0 Modular for the Windows Operating System. The announcement represents a milestone in the history of Symbolic Composer, bringing now the software available for the PC platform.

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Symbolic Composer 5.0 is the most advanced and largest music composition language available, widely appreciated by frontmost contemporary and experimental composers working on the Macintosh.

Among Mac-users Symbolic Composer has grabbed the imagination of MIDI professionals worldwide. In high-end research and music education it's already entered the key institutions. In the commercial field producers and composers alike have been utilizing the potential this system has to energise creative activity in the studio, whether its with a fractal/algo mix, DNA-rhythmic stabs or experimenting with virtual performance arts.

With the Symbolic Composer 5.0 Modular release this powerful music composition language becomes available for composers working with PCs, too.

Symbolic Composer 5.0 Modular totals hundreds of algorithmic tools suitable for music composition of any style and complexity. Included are also complete hyper-documentation, programmable phrase library, 300 chords/scales/tunings, and example score files.

Algorithms step beyond any other MIDI program, and include filter, shift, transpose, retrograde, mix, analyze, and morph. Generators include fractals and chaos, L-systems, programmable neurons, Fibonacci series, antenna theory, autocatalysis, Fourier analysis/synthesis, number theory, solar systems, filters and recursive structures. All are available to control melodies, chords, rhythms, velocities, MIDI controllers, and compositional structures.
 
Symbolic Composer runs side by side with all leading sequencers and scorewriters like Logic and Cubase. The resulting MIDI file can also be imported to Reason for realization of pure algorithmic music and sound design.

As Symbolic Composer helps to realize the full potential of the MIDI system, it is considered basic technology alongside the sampler, sound-module, software synthesizer and sequencer -- an investment that lasts.

For composers Symbolic Composer will be the most significant step they may ever take. Wherever the MIDI system is about to expand Symbolic Composer should be in the front-line of the upgrade planning. Without it one could easily find oneself a step behind.

The program ships with on-line hyperhelp manual and score template library.