| Symbolic Composer
5.4 for the Windows includes re-engineered Tonality Menus and adds new
tonality processing fuctions, which complete the system, together with
earlier versions's Cresc and Cadar library addition, into music
composition powerhouse.
Tonality System now includes Positional Chord System, Chord
Enrichement System and Modulatory Scale Iterative System.
CRESC and CADAR libraries allow generation and processing of
dynamics, harmony, ornamentation variation, twelve-tone rows, Noergaard
Infinity Series, Messiaen, Strawinski and Hindemith processing,
suitable in contemporary composing.
Positional Chord System is suited in generating triad-based
(also 4, 5, 6, ... note chords are 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 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.
Also included are Desktop
Restoration, Interactive Lisp
Listener, Go Menu, Visualizer, Context Search and Integral Playback that make the
application easier to use.
Desktop Restoration
Desktop Restoration allows restores all the windows, their
size, position and edit position to the situation you last time exit
SCOM.
Interactive Lisp Listener
Interactive Lisp Listener enables to type in
commands and view the results interactively, which helps in
learning Lisp as well as to test out manually SCOM commands.
Go Menu
Go Menu list important places of code within
scores. This
feature is useful when editing large scores, or viewing the
documentation, allowing to quickly locate the right place.
Visualizer
Visualizer allows
to view symbols, vectors, tonalities and rhythms and find out
interesting material to explore.
Context Search
Context Search finds code that is
directly dealing with the current compositional problem, showing you
how the
function has been used in the Score Lib compositions.
Integral Playback
Integral playback launches the
SCOM-generated MIDI file into the default ".mid" file handler, that can
be basically any sequencer, notation software, etc. that supports file
handling by double-clicking.
For example, direct playback to Reaktor
from SCOM may happen using MidiYoke NT
as vritual MIDI cable,
that connects MIDI Player (such as MidRadio)
to Reaktor MIDI inputs.
It is also possible to import the MIDI file manually into the
sequencer, or make the sequencer the default ".mid" player and let SCOM
bounce the MIDI file directly to the production environment.
Making the Default ".mid"
Opener
To make the sequencer as the automatic ".mid"
loader: 1. Double-click a ".mid" file on
the desktop. 2. Select the Cubase application using the browse button +
select the Cubase application in the Program
Files/Steinber/Cubase folder. 3. Select the option to open these type
of files always with the selected application.
|
