Music composition software utilizing algorithms for efficient and innovative music creation.
If you enjoy composing music, then the AC Toolbox software should be high on your list of essential tools. As a Macintosh application, it is both powerful and gracious, allowing you to explore new ways of creating exceptional music through algorithmic techniques.
The software includes several models that let you define musical events, such as sections, shapes, masks, or note structures. Additionally, you can play, plot, modify, and examine objects in a number of ways. The help menu is extensive and will guide you through the entire process.
One of the most useful features of this software is its ability to produce files that are suitable for use as data in other programs. For instance, you can produce score files for Csound and binary OSC files for SuperCollider. You can also use the software to generate real-time floating-point MIDI output via a FireWire interface to a Capybara, which is a powerful sound computation engine.
To assist you in creating data, the software has a number of generators. These come in handy if you want to create unique musical material, and include tendency masks, stochastic functions, chaotic systems, transition tables, recursive subdivisions, metric indispensabilities, morphological mutations, etc.
The software is implemented in Lisp and input syntax reflects the conventions of this language. This means that you can also extend the Toolbox by adding your own Lisp functions. This includes additional generators, tools, and transformers that you can define in Lisp to use with the software.
Lastly, the AC Toolbox is distributed as an application. The source code is not distributed, but an extensive tutorial in HTML format and a folder of files containing objects related to each chapter of the text is included in the distribution. A PDF version of the tutorial is also available, making it easy to dive in and get started with all the features of this wonderful application.
The software includes several models that let you define musical events, such as sections, shapes, masks, or note structures. Additionally, you can play, plot, modify, and examine objects in a number of ways. The help menu is extensive and will guide you through the entire process.
One of the most useful features of this software is its ability to produce files that are suitable for use as data in other programs. For instance, you can produce score files for Csound and binary OSC files for SuperCollider. You can also use the software to generate real-time floating-point MIDI output via a FireWire interface to a Capybara, which is a powerful sound computation engine.
To assist you in creating data, the software has a number of generators. These come in handy if you want to create unique musical material, and include tendency masks, stochastic functions, chaotic systems, transition tables, recursive subdivisions, metric indispensabilities, morphological mutations, etc.
The software is implemented in Lisp and input syntax reflects the conventions of this language. This means that you can also extend the Toolbox by adding your own Lisp functions. This includes additional generators, tools, and transformers that you can define in Lisp to use with the software.
Lastly, the AC Toolbox is distributed as an application. The source code is not distributed, but an extensive tutorial in HTML format and a folder of files containing objects related to each chapter of the text is included in the distribution. A PDF version of the tutorial is also available, making it easy to dive in and get started with all the features of this wonderful application.
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