Can someone recommend some algorithmic composition software (Windows?)
Thanks
Algorithmic Composer Software?
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- KVRist
- 263 posts since 24 Oct, 2004 from Delhi, India
Tools are tools, they don't produce anything...
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 1949 posts since 21 Mar, 2003 from Labrador
Thanks for the link. Download speed is quite slow from there right now- 2kb/ when I'm used to 200kb/+ on this cable modem. Will try again latter.SonicBreeze wrote:http://www.smartcontroller.com.au/Algor ... poser.html
Cheers
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- KVRian
- 1206 posts since 10 Apr, 2002 from Born, living and probably dying in Germany
Jammer Professional:
http://www.soundtrek.com/content/module ... age&pid=25
Here are some reviews about this fantastic program
http://www.soundtrek.com/content/module ... page&pid=7
http://www.soundtrek.com/content/module ... age&pid=25
Here are some reviews about this fantastic program
http://www.soundtrek.com/content/module ... page&pid=7
Listen to some Monkey-Music-
- KVRAF
- 3345 posts since 8 Nov, 2003 from Amsterdam
This (old but still very valuable) thread is about one of the founders of algorithmic composition, Gershwin is one of his students!.
http://www.musesmuse.com/forums/index.p ... chillinger
I know, it's not software... it's much better: insight.
http://www.musesmuse.com/forums/index.p ... chillinger
I know, it's not software... it's much better: insight.
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- KVRAF
- 37506 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
My 4 favourites are:
Fractmus
Fractal Tune Smithy
Koan Pro
Sounder
Out of these Koan Pro is the deepest but also the most erratic - I gave up on it ages ago due to random crashes etc. Tune Smithy is superb and very flexible and can use and create any alternative tunings as well - probably the best all rounder. Fractmus is probably the easiest to use apart from Sounder but a bit inflexible. Sounder is the simplest by far but in some respects I like that - it uses a "bouncing ball" method but you can stack up a load of these and assign different keys to them so it's quite effective. They all need a virtual midi cable though if you want to play VST instruments with them (unless you have a very flexible soundcard like mine that has that routing capability built in).
Apart from Koan Pro they are all either free or cheap as chips
Fractmus
Fractal Tune Smithy
Koan Pro
Sounder
Out of these Koan Pro is the deepest but also the most erratic - I gave up on it ages ago due to random crashes etc. Tune Smithy is superb and very flexible and can use and create any alternative tunings as well - probably the best all rounder. Fractmus is probably the easiest to use apart from Sounder but a bit inflexible. Sounder is the simplest by far but in some respects I like that - it uses a "bouncing ball" method but you can stack up a load of these and assign different keys to them so it's quite effective. They all need a virtual midi cable though if you want to play VST instruments with them (unless you have a very flexible soundcard like mine that has that routing capability built in).
Apart from Koan Pro they are all either free or cheap as chips
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- Banned
- 181 posts since 9 Feb, 2006
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- KVRAF
- 6504 posts since 25 May, 2002 from Bobo-dioulasso\BF__Geneva/CH
I don't see yet something similar for the mac platform, isn't it ?
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- KVRAF
- 10163 posts since 16 Dec, 2002
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- Banned
- 181 posts since 9 Feb, 2006
I'll be porting GuruOneMP to Mac if I get some good sales, I promise ... I could then buy a crappy mac, I guess .... I know I could use a Mac emulator, but I think it'd be painfully slow to compile/debug/etc
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 1949 posts since 21 Mar, 2003 from Labrador
Great stuff, thanks guys. Now I have some exploring to do. Big fun!Improv wrote:Can someone recommend some algorithmic composition software (Windows?)
Thanks
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- KVRAF
- 4822 posts since 14 Mar, 2002 from Somewhere else, on principle
Just about every Algorithmic audio software that Ive tried has been clunky, convoluted and quirky to the point of being virtually useless. It's too bad that Koan Pro wasn't developed any further as it showed a lot of promise... despite it's clunky and convoluted quirkiness. 
Sounder is cool but a bit simplistic. You also need to use a virtual MIDI cable to get it to work with a VSTi Host. Which in my world is a major INCONVENIENCE. Almost as annoying as Rewire.
I use Ableton Live's "Follow Actions" and MIDI Effects for Algorithmic experiments. These tools, though a bit simplistic, are actually quite capable of some very interesting results. You just have to put a lot of "lateral thinking" into it. I get the feeling that most people are just not that aware of the Algorithmic capabilities of Ableton Live.
Sounder is cool but a bit simplistic. You also need to use a virtual MIDI cable to get it to work with a VSTi Host. Which in my world is a major INCONVENIENCE. Almost as annoying as Rewire.
I use Ableton Live's "Follow Actions" and MIDI Effects for Algorithmic experiments. These tools, though a bit simplistic, are actually quite capable of some very interesting results. You just have to put a lot of "lateral thinking" into it. I get the feeling that most people are just not that aware of the Algorithmic capabilities of Ableton Live.
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- KVRAF
- 4822 posts since 14 Mar, 2002 from Somewhere else, on principle
Oh yeah... there's also Upland BallSequencer. Kind of a VST/MIDIFX version of Sounder...
UplandToys - BallSequencer VSTi
UplandToys - BallSequencer VSTi
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- KVRist
- 460 posts since 13 Sep, 2004
The most powerful I know (steep learning curve though) => http://www.symboliccomposer.com/page_main.shtml