Kangas Sound Editor QI is a very easy to use application that allows the user to create music and sound-effects.

Here are some key features of "Kangas Sound Editor QI":

· It uses a system of frequency ratios for pitch control, rather than conventional music notation.
· Instruments, both melodic and percussion, can be created from scratch by specifying harmonics/inharmonics.
· There is a cellular-like structure to compositions, with cells representing entities at low levels of abstraction (e.g. harmonics) and at higher levels of abstraction (e.g. chord groups). For details of cell types used by the program, click here
· User-definable graphs are widely used in the program, e.g. for control of volume and pitch envelopes, and for shifting the balance of stereo over time.
· Audio output is to uncompressed .WAV files.
· The Kangas Sound Editor uses an external database engine (MySQL) for storage of compositions and other data (e.g. graphs and harmonics), whereas the Kangas Sound Editor QI uses an internal database engine (HSQLDB).
· From version 3, users can collaborate with and build on the work of other users through an XML import/export facility.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Precision of numbers displayed and input-able with Graphs, Anti-harmonic Bases and Variations has been increased from 3 to 6 decimal places, precision of Harmonic/Anti-harmonic factors has been increased from 3 to 8 decimal places.
· A new display-only column 'Frequency Multiple' and an additional validation check on save have been introduced to Anti-harmonic Bases.
· Graphs, Harmonics, Anti-harmonics, Anti-harmonic Bases and Variations have a new color scheme, and their finder dialogs have a new slider control 'Axis detail level'.
· Axis labels now have a grey, semi-transparent background to improve their readability whilst not totally obscuring the data.
· Rendering of Anti-harmonic and Anti-harmonic Bases has been improved.
· A bug in the XML import of 'Keep intermediate file' flags has been fixed.
· A bug relating to the input/validation of columns 'Initial interval' for Variations has been fixed.