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Systems today launch Symbolic Composer 6.4 Alpha for the
Macintosh for the OS X Lion.
Symbolic Composer is a library for inspiration.
It is a toolbox for experimentation. It is a rehearsal
room, and a concert hall. Search for
inspiration an experiment with Symbolic Composer's vast
libraries and tonalities. Rehearse your score, and
finalize the production in your favorite sequencer, or
notation environment.
Just in few seconds Symbolic Composer turns even highly
complex contemporary composition into a MIDI file. It lets
you try out variations, progressions and experiment with
the themes, rhythms, harmonics and dynamics.
Symbolic Composer operates in a
deeper, symbolic level, in harmony with the mind-work,
before any note is being transcribed, or a keyboard
played.
Hunt visually for inspirational material provided
by thousands of functions. Imagine their flow on a
notesheet, or in sequencer assembly sheet. Symbolic
Composer is the symbolic music notation of the
future.
Symbolic Composer 6.4 includes
nearly
all world-music tunings, and its libraries
cover past 500 years of compositional traditions. It suits
in any music styles, no matter if it is modern, dance,
classic, electronic, ambient, contemporary or
experimental.
Symbolic Music
Language
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Symbolic Composer's
Music Language allows composing music of any style
and complexity. It uses intuitive and flexible Zone
System to organize time and melodic space.
• Historical & Contemporary Music functions
supply the Classic Compositional Tools. There are plenty
of them. Discover the secrets of Bach's contrapuntal
methods as well as Schoenberg's 12-system, among the
others.
• Complete chord, scale and micro-tonal libraries
maximize creative freedom to choose your approach. And
you can create your own tonalities, too. Tonalities are
essential in composition. For some chromatic thinking is
the right way to go, while some think in terms of
chords, scales, or tunings.
• Mathematical Generators & Processors provide
advanced fractals, chaos and number-theory functions for
experimentation. These are the essential tools of a
modern composer. Pick a function here, and other there
for a creative mashup.
• Symbolic Generators & Processors supply recursion,
l-systems, fibonacci, brownian, pink, 1/f noise, or
apply sine and other synthetic waveforms. Transform,
morph, analyze, organize and combine melodies, chords,
rhythms, dynamic, and scale, transpose and tweak
them in full creative freedom.
• Programmable Neurons add programmable intelligence
to the scores. Quickly convert anything into any other
with these tools, without any programming experience.
• Programmable Library allows sequential drum,
melodic, dynamic and harmonies to be used and looped,
with added intelligence. Lay out material in libraries,
and use templates to pick them randomly, still in strict
structure.
"SCOM is a
complete musical encyclopedia at your fingertips. It
covers both the past and the contemporary music
making. It also suits perfectly in trendy chart music
composing", says composer and music educator Nigel Morgan from
UK.
System Requirements
Compatible with Lion, Leopard and Snow
Leopard, 2 GB RAM minimum, 4-16 GB RAM suggested.
Compatible with Windows XP/Windows 7, 2 GB RAM
minimum, 4-16 MB RAM suggested. Windows 8 not yet
tested - please give your feedback.
SCOM 6.4 OS X PPC Tiger version available on a special
request. Specify your target and we will make it.
Using Logic Express?
Check Out Our Powerful SCOM
Express that supplies inspiring and carefully
selected collection of algorithms for music making for the
Logic Express users.
Authorization
Symbolic Composer runs first on Demo
Mode, which cancels most functions. The interface and full
documentation can be browsed. Check out System, Tonality,
Library and Project Menus for more. Authorization restores
full functionality to the program.
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"Exciting"
“Symbolic Composer was one of the first systems
that I encountered that explored the art of
algorithmic composing interactively. The system
functions are selected from hierarchical menus
and pasted on the editor, so it’s a completely
different approach to musical compositione. It’s
like composing music from one’s DNA structure.”,
Composer Richard
Devine.
"Ingenious"
"Nowadays,
symmetries
are widely used in musical composition, for
instance in the various transformation tools
of sequencers, and explicitly in the author‚s
prestor (see chapter 49) and in Opcode‚s MAX
or in music software with fractal composition
tools as realized by Mesias Maiguashca [220]
or by the ingenious Symbolic Composer
software", Mazzola
G.,
Author of Topos Of Music (If the direct
link has changed due publisher, search the
title at Springeronline
"Wonderful"
"I wish to thanks people that have contributed
in important way to the creation of this book:
All the developers of the wonderful
algorithmic composition software Symbolic
Composer, that I have used for the composition
of the exercises - and Douglas R. Hofstadter for
the beauty of his ideas on the perception, and
parallels to artificial intelligence", Claudio
Martini, Author Of I Pattern Automutanti
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