MetaMix (2002)-Software Audio & Art

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MetaMix is a cross between a musical composition, a digital audio player, an interactive experience, a software tool, and a work of conceptual art. Feed MetaMix your favorite audio track and listen as familiar music is transformed into a new listening experience. MetaMix superimposes new musical structures onto existing music by turning special mathematical integer sequences into new musical forms. These musical forms are used to “remix” the audio track you choose.

I recorded a short piano piece and processed it through MetaMix:

Abstract Piano Piece #1

BEASTmulch: Project For Large-Scale Multichannel Electroacoustic Composition and Presentation

BEASTmulch System is a software tool for the presentation of electroacoustic music over multichannel systems. Designed primarily with a classic ‘live diffusion’ model in mind, it is nevertheless flexible enough to be adapted for a number of purposes, and can support input and output configurations of arbitrary complexity (i.e. live inputs, soundfiles with varying numbers of channels, etc.).

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Melody Generator is a Tool for the Construction of Tonal Melodies-OSX & Windows

This Page is not Available Now, I found the Archived Site at :

Archive.org

But the Download Section is not Linked.

This Is A Great Creative Tool For Generative And Algorithmic Composition On OSX And Windows

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“In spite of its name, the generation of tonal melodies is not the principal aim of Melody Generator II. Its goal is scientific: to establish our understanding of tonal music by developing an artificial music generator and evaluating the well-formednes and ‘quality’ of the melodies it yields.

For this purpose, Melody Generator II incorporates a large amount of knowledge about tonal music, collected in theoretical and experimental research, which forms the basis for the construction of tonal melodies.”

Melody Generator II differs from systems that help users to create melodies by providing a platform for generating music that assists the user to obey the rules of tonal music (e.g. non-chord tone resolution, voice leading, motive development). These systems basically constrain the selection of tones and chords but the actual selection is still made by the user. Melody Generator II carries out the complete process of melody construction, although the user can edit the result in various ways.

Variety Of Sound-Sound Design & Audio Effect Programming

Windows Vst Plugins Including Including FerricTDS Winner of KVR Developer Challenge 2009

“As a computer scientist and musician, I’m enjoying designing DSP algorithms and plug-in concepts. It’s a pleasure for me to share my efforts with other people without having to worry about commercial interests. In each of my effects there is a special technical design, workflow or concept combination I haven’t found in existing tools. Many developers these days just stick to old concepts, but you will never see a straight copy of existing gear from me. I always add some innovation, or find a way to evolve and take it to a new level.”

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MU.LAB: Hi-Quality Music Application for Mac OSX and Windows

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• Create, record, edit and play audio & MIDI
• Integrated hi-quality synths, samplers and effects
• Supports VST plug-ins, both audio & MIDI
• Easy workflow
• Flexible modular architecture
• Hi-quality audio engine
• Sample accurate sequencing
• Automatic mono/stereo handling
• ReWire Master
• Available on Mac OSX and Windows
• Can be used from a USB memory stick

 

Quartz AudioMaster Freeware 4.6 (Windows)

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Impressive Freeware For Windows

“Quartz AudioMaster Freeware is a powerful, yet easy-to-use audio and MIDI sequencer for Windows 95/98/NT/2000. It features four stereo audio tracks, 16 MIDI tracks, effects plug-ins, a per-track EQ, Aux buses, video sync, score, GM/GS/XG, and piano roll editors. It also has all the capabilities required to easily share musical projects across the Internet.”

Sine Wave / Harmonic / Delay Workshop Max/Msp Software (OSX)

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Sinewave Workshop: A drone machine in Max/MSP

 

GUidMachine: Step Sequencer/Sample Player (OSX)

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“The Guid Machine is a Step Sequencer combined with a sample player. The Step sequencer has 4 X 16 steps while the sample player can load 4 samples simultanuously. Nothing new so far, but what makes the GUIdMachine special are a few unique features.

First of all you can easily shift any of the sequences up and down by any number of steps and you can decide the length of each raw. But even this is not news. What’s special about it is that you can randomize this modifications and so the pattern will never be constant if you want.

“The velocities can be randomized too so the accents will also change during time
and make the loops more interesting. But the most unique feature is that the 4 sequences can play at 4 different BPMs!

The Sample Player section is a fairly straight forward 4 voices sample player with a good envelope section and the possiblitly to change the pitch , the length , the start point all on the fly.

It also features a 4 tap delay section, a master Vst insert and the possiblity to record audio files of what you are doing.”

 

Elysium: An Interactive Generative MIDI Sequencer (OSX)

I haven’t had much time to work with this application but I can see a lot of potential here. The interface is so different than a standard MIDI sequencer that it forces you to adapt yourself to a new style of composition.  It’s not hard to use and the MIDI data flowed nicely into Logic.  There are a lot of options with this software and if you are a Mac user, give it a workout.

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MIDI Reference:

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Melisma Stochastic Melody Generator:

 

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Output is MIDI or Notes