Symbolic Composer Changelog

What's new in Symbolic Composer 7.3.2

Dec 20, 2016
  • Fixes a bug on Listen Background and Multi-Input Templates, and adds variable-length zon specification to def-timesheet.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.3.1 (Dec 20, 2016)

  • How about turning Plutonium, Einsteinium or Californium into music? This update adds Periodic Table of Elements to SCOM's vast arsenal of exclusive music making tools. Atom Orbitals suits the best in Contemporary and Experimental Music Styles.
  • calc-orbits - calculate atom-orbit wave functions from periodic table projected in 2D space using phase/frequency-encoding
  • get-orbit - calculate certain orbit wave from atom
  • get-electrons - calculate atom's probabilistic electrons in orbit
  • number-of-electrons - utility to calculate number of electrons of atoms

New in Symbolic Composer 7.3 (Oct 11, 2016)

  • Adds MacOS 10.12 Sierra compatibility, plus tons of new functions, scores and features.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.2.6 (Jun 10, 2016)

  • This is maintenance update and adds fix-repeats, which allows to quickly remove repetitions from generated melodies and chords and replace them with iterated gambiata. Adds also direct method to turn symbols into tonality zones. The release is suggested for all users. OS X 10.6-10.11 compatible.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.2.5 (Apr 14, 2016)

  • Maintenance update and it focuses on easier new/old user installation. It also fixes OS X related load errors and adds :bit control to gen-binary. The release is suggested for all users. OS X 10.6-10.11 compatible.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.2.4 (Mar 13, 2016)

  • Nigel's Archetypes that show how to make it happen.
  • Has vowel/consonant handling and word-chunking, and arranges poem for woodwind orchestra.
  • Slow down tempo and experiment with synth textures using your own text to music conversion.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.2.3 (Feb 24, 2016)

  • Timings, Impulses and Clusterizations in the style of 50's Stockhousen + Tonality Reduction & Spreading are now included in your toolbox. Added with hi/lo length selections.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.2.2 (Feb 24, 2016)

  • Adds El Capitan compatible MidiTrail. Included is also bus mixer, which provides quick summing devices for symbols, velocities, lengths, tonalities and vectors.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.2.1 (Oct 13, 2015)

  • Discover gen-pi, core of Armstrong Economic Confidence Model, a deeper message for a composer, too.
  • Dup-sections with ease, and use gen-symlen to turn symbol repeats into meaningful rhythms (to refurbish with chain-ornament).
  • Apply gen-remarkov for improvisation simulation, and slim down arrangements with pulse-timesheet using quantum-wave intelligence.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.2.0 (Aug 20, 2015)

  • Now full compatible through OS X 10.6 - 10.10.5. This release adds stability and new functions. It also provides functional demo-mode, which allows you to check it out what this de-facto music composition application can offer to your studio, too.
  • Included are support for Sibelius 7.5, Reaper and Renoise applications. Compiler provides now upto 30% more speed while taking care of very large scores, and intelligently reducing typical errors.
  • Also adds new functions for the advanced composer. Included are transpose & ornament chains, random chords, tonality belong-filtering, and quick section inversions and reversions.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.1.5 (Feb 19, 2015)

  • Fixes bugs and it is suggested for all user.
  • The fixes smooth out work-flow on extensive music making sessions, and provide now also possibility to play sections with simply selecting a string such as "sect-a" in the editor.
  • It also adds store-section, which allows plain non-evaluated section definitions which are later evaluated with redef-section.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.1.3 (Nov 24, 2014)

  • The update adds tonality ranking, tonality trimming, general modding, grid-based length-resizing and length distortion utilities for advanced SCOM programming needs. The update also makes new minimal startup screen even more minimal while using just single line for the load-up messages.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.1.2 (Oct 27, 2014)

  • Reinitializes random generator on Reset and Compile. Prevents jamming caused by accidental wrong entries. Tonality Search Tools allow to find scales by their length to make variants of the score. Multiple def-sections simplify cloning when just few changes are needed. Groupings allow riffs to be joined for def-section input + new startup-screen matching Yosemite minimalism.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.1.1 (Sep 26, 2014)

  • OS X 10.10 compatibility.
  • Activate-tonality-eval extended types often needed in custom tonality functions.
  • Separate Show button commands for Play and Listen stacks, helps finding latest MIDI snippets.
  • Gen-random-successive fix prevents infinite loop errors in random score generation.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.1 (Aug 19, 2014)

  • Adds user-friendly Quick-Tool buttons, which make it fluent to use for both new and experienced composers. It also adds guitar synth, guitar chords, insert templates, adaptive-correction, bug fixes, and new functions.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.0.5 (Mar 17, 2014)

  • Fixes Airbook display error and adds new startup randomization that enables random scores produce random results without extra coding.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.0.4 (Dec 16, 2013)

  • Adds melody/chord/vector hybridization, length and masking tools, and fixes ornament-length and audio&rig cache refresh.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.0.3 (Nov 11, 2013)

  • Adds Mavericks compatibility, random score creation tool, new length and symbols functions & important interface & MIDI fixes.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.0.2 (Oct 23, 2013)

  • Adds unique and successive random sequences, tonality selections and tuning search, pascal sequences and distorted noise.
  • Includes also workflow streamlining.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.0.1 (Oct 1, 2013)

  • Add launch support for latest Digital Performer 8 & Logic X and earlier MainStage v2.1.3 - 2.2.2, use compatible MIDI title/signature/tempo display + load custom rig at startup option.

New in Symbolic Composer 7.0 (Sep 2, 2013)

  • Point and Play:
  • Instant playback available with a click of a button. Listen symbols, functions, tonalities, rhythms and drum percussion. Play sections, modify, and play again, then chain them up. Let background instruments play along while listening new functions.
  • Chain Sections Easily:
  • Add instruments on fly without extra maintenance, move instruments between sections, move sections between scores, then just chain them up.
  • Pro-Audio Quality:
  • Use 96 MIDI IAC channels for advanced orchestrations. Apply MainStage, Ableton Live, Reason for realtime pro-audio playback. Use AU and VST synths, effects and mixing while scomposing. Click rig app to record and bounce your pro-quality composition for distribution.
  • Instant Notation and 3D MIDI:
  • Examine score in instant LilyPond musical notation. Enjoy instant playback in final production sounds right from SCOM. View score details in sophisticated 3D MIDI animation. Create realtime notation for concert performers, too.
  • De-Facto Integration:
  • Symbolic Composer works together with Quicktime, VLC, Rondo, MIDITrail, LilyPond, Logic-compatible MainStage 2 and 3, Reason 7, Reaktor 5, AU Lab, Ableton Live 9, Logic Express, Logic Pro, Logic X, Digital Performer, Sibelius 6 First, Sibelius 6, Sibelius 7, Finale SongWriter, Finale PrintMusic, Finale, Encore, MusicTime Deluxe, and MuseScore.

New in Symbolic Composer 6.5.7 (Apr 2, 2013)

  • Adds up catalan, hailstone, factor and other new functions for the math-oriented composers.
  • Included are also Class System update, Stochastic Search Functions, Degree Tonalities, New Chord System & Chord-Analysis, Length Functions, Matrix Processing, Vector Crunching, Ornaments and much more.

New in Symbolic Composer 6.5.6 (Mar 14, 2013)

  • Includes Class System update and adds up Stochastic Search Functions to the composers arsenal + Degree Tonalities, New Chord System & Chord-Analysis, Length Functions, Matrix Processing, Vector Crunching, Ornaments and much more.

New in Symbolic Composer 6.5.4 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • Adds up Matrix Processing Tools to enable added creativity. Other updates include 21th Century Nu-Metal Crunching, 18th Century Ornaments, and 20th Century Stochastics, included in SCOM 6.5.4.

New in Symbolic Composer 6.5.3 Alpha (Nov 28, 2012)

  • SCOM 6.5.3 adds distortion applicable to composition source data. In popular music "fuzz" created a new genre of music called "heavy metal". What would it do for your tracks as abstraction?
  • Other updates include length filtering, traditional ornaments and classic stochastics support.
  • Visualizer now works as a designer-workhorse to view compositional and score parameters. Lots of symbol-processing, intervals, splitpoints, displacements, sorting, dividing, repeating and very powerful vector-mapping were added, too.
  • Mountain Lion compatibility

New in Symbolic Composer 6.5 (Aug 30, 2012)

  • Includes Mountain Lion and Retina Display compatibility, fixes and new features.
  • New Features:
  • The update focuses on smooth workflow, visualizer scaling and tonality issues. The 6.5 series add up also new functions, essential compiler fixes and logical menu system, that now provide guides how the functions operate: no guessing anymore what some cryptic function name means.
  • New menu system is a very important step when SCOM keeps growing up, as it enables to find quickly the required function for the composer, and snap in new functions in their logical places during the subsequent SCOM development. Function documents were also extended with examples applicable to different cases of composition requirements.
  • The interface now adapts to screen resolution changes allowing to work with a laptop on the go and continue the project back in the studio with a large external Full HD or Retina display. New desktop also places score windows, libraries, tutorials, preferences and tester scores in separate areas in the screen to allow smooth workflow without cluttering each other.
  • Tonalities got a big boost, too: the new scale and chord system covers all the standard chord names, and allows to produce degree variants of scales, chords and tunings. And there is now even chord analysis, that finds out chords, scales and their inversions in the tonality material!
  • Conversions handle everything imaginable plus some cool mappings into other
  • mappings. The producer-composer appreciates the new multi-compress that can tweak and custom-suit waveforms and process velocities - or shape noise probablities with mathematical perfection modeling everything from classic compression to Hollywood ultra-maximized productions.
  • SCOM 6.5 adds also 10 octave extended symbol range support, natural and grid length quantization, and conversions just between anything. Not to mention fluent vector/list equality, multi-list tonality processing, random weights, length compressing, and many others.
  • Lion & Mountain Lion Compatibility:
  • Extended compatibility from OS X 10.5 to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
  • From Air displays up to full HD & Retina resolution.
  • Chord Analysis:
  • Finds direct matches, inversions and combinations.
  • Finds mostly resembling scales and chords.
  • Chord Symbols & Degrees:
  • Standard chord symbols & new scales.
  • Powerful degree activation of chords/scales/tunings.
  • Makes it easy to achieve the same effect as transposing all the symbols of all instruments at once & special effects.
  • Symbols:
  • Targeted transpositions.
  • Targeted inversions, and inversions in own space.
  • Reduction of symbol material.
  • Fragmentation & iterations.
  • Lengths:
  • Symbol to length conversion and matching.
  • Length trimming and interpolations.
  • Native & Grid quantization.
  • Random Weights:
  • Flexible random generator with custom probability weights.
  • Velocity & Noise Probability Shaper:
  • Shapes dynamic, numeric, symbolic and rhythmic material.
  • Shapes noise probability characteristics.
  • Includes classic compressors, expanders, limiters, gates and maximizers.
  • Tunings:
  • Searches interesting tunings by the number of steps per octave.
  • Allows to use tunings as length values.
  • Compiler Fixes:
  • Transpose symbol fix when used as the first symbol of a section.
  • Exact def-expression index scaling and humanizer range scaling.
  • Warning added when lengths are too much off from section zone lengths.
  • Flexible Multi-Conversion:
  • Symbol, integer, float, ratio, length symbol, notelist conversion.
  • Extended derivate/integrate functionality.
  • Symbol/Vector Transparency:
  • Vector function process and return lists without extra conversions.
  • This makes it easier to use numeric and symbolic processing side by side.
  • No need to use vector-to-list and list-to-vector between symbol/vector functions.
  • Other Function Updates:
  • Symbol-derivate, symbol-integrate, apply-derivate fixed.
  • Symbol-inversion fix for negative chord symbols such as -b-da.
  • Uniq option added to gen-random.
  • List option added to symbol-repeat.
  • Scale option added to symbol-interpolate.
  • Native added to length-simplify.
  • Activate-tonality accepts notelists as arguments, for ad-hook tonalities in the score without making it a scale. It also allows to make a function that returns notelists and use it freely within activate-tonality together with other chords, scales, tunings and algorithms.
  • Undef fixed.
  • String exploding added to explode.
  • Non-destructive sort-len, sort-sym and sort-list, which does not mess up original list order.
  • Nil parameters can be omitted from symbol-divide.
  • Fixed replace-string to replace all instances.
  • Filter-pass, filter-midcut, filter-midpass, filter-lowcut, filter-highcut, filter-delete accept lengths, and numbers such as intervals or floats, and work with vector functions.
  • Symbol-transpose-select, symbol-transpose-to, symbol-transpose-to-tonality added.
  • Init-soup, gen-catalyze and gen-catalyze-variate fix, this bug happened during 6.4.9 - 6.4.11.
  • Target notes to transpose-tonality and integers-to-tonalities added.
  • Symbol-repeat adds new options to repeat sequences.
  • Symbols-to-length-proportional-linear and symbols-to-length-proportional :rest-value added.
  • Tonality and find functions sublist processing added, reduces need to use mapcar.
  • Menus (System, Tonality, Library, Projects):
  • Re-engineered menu hierarchy.
  • Guide menus that help locating functions by their functionality.
  • Similar and related items added to Editor Go Menu speed up access to related documents.
  • Video tutorials menu gives access to a range of SCOM tutorial videos produced by Stephane Boussuge.
  • Recent menu shows items in access order (placing recents on the top).
  • Windows Menu:
  • Windows menu displays interface items grouped in categories.
  • Display items in window stack order, from top to bottom.
  • Modified file is shown with (unsaved changes) notice at the beginning of filename,
  • Selected item is brought on top.
  • Selected group brings all files of the group on top.
  • Press command key down and open Windows menu to close all files of the selected group.
  • Visualizer Fixes:
  • Displays setq variable names and range selection in def- functions.
  • Displays transpose symbols using chromatic mapping.
  • Displays extended symbols covering 10.5 octave range.
  • Inverted chord symbol display bug fixed.
  • Visualizer warns when too long material is been tried to view.
  • Auto-scale option that allows to quickly view short and long material.
  • Short and long graphs fit in single view without the need to scroll them.
  • Short material enlarges for easier viewing.
  • Graph setq variables are cleared when its document is closed, this reduces graph setq variables from displaying in other graphs.
  • Documents have been edited to show material to allow better visualization.
  • Visualizer adapts to color scheme and font size.
  • Interface & Listener:
  • Screen layout scaling from Air to Powerbooks to the latest Retina Macs and Full HD displays.
  • Font sizes cover smaller are larger options (from 4 up to 20 point sizes).
  • Interface uses relational sizes to allow them to adapt screen resolution changes.
  • Desktop and session snapshots scaling between laptop screen and external display.
  • Font size setting scales Documents Browser and Go Menu font sizes proportionally.
  • Lookup search anomaly not finding and open certain files fixed.
  • Listener shows most unslashed symbols the way the are written without unslashing.
  • Command-w command (close window) works now with all windows (except listener).
  • Cancel option added to close window, when window content has changed.
  • Eval selection may include --> prompt which is skipped.
  • Extended Symbol Range Support:
  • 10.5 octave extended symbol range.
  • Listener shows extended symbols.
  • Visualizer shows extended symbols.
  • Desktop Maintenance:
  • Default layout will minimize desktop clutter accumulation.
  • Document editors stack down to reduce horizontal screen clutter.
  • Library items, tutorials and extension files stack on the bottom right.
  • Full lisp manual appears on bottom right outside editor range.
  • Webpages and video tutorials align next to Documents Browser.
  • Editor and document windows can use short titles (set in System Settings).
  • Workflow modes allow free-flow and static placement of windows.
  • Free workflow restores editor sizes and positions.
  • Static workflow placement setting allows fixed editor and documents placement.
  • Desktop Cleaning:
  • Clean SCOM desktop command clears project window size and position information.
  • Allows to clean up accumulated project mess and enable to open scores in a new screen layout.
  • Session restore remembers its default window layout sizes and positions.
  • Refined default editor and documents editor layout setting procedure.
  • Themes:
  • Themes are grouped in color categories for easier selection.
  • Re-defined theme color and font handling, this prevents leaking theme settings leaking to other themes.
  • Power Settings can switch on black or gray visualizer theme overdrives.
  • Documentation:
  • Documents align to window resize and font size.
  • More examples how to use the functions added.
  • Typo-corrected documentation (mostly).
  • Simplified function description (when possible).

New in Symbolic Composer 6.4.11 (Apr 2, 2012)

  • Adds MIDI file versioning that helps to quickly generate material for sequencer assemblage.
  • Also include new Visualizer that displays all SCOM types, and is suited as a designer-tool for pre-compositional and score development.
  • New functions include symbol-sorting, symbol-derivates, symbol-integrates (intervals) splitpoints, displacements, length sorting, dividing, repeating and very powerful vector-mapping.

New in Symbolic Composer 6.4.10 (Mar 4, 2012)

  • Adds new Visualizer that displays all SCOM types, and is suited as a designer-tool for pre-compositional and score development.
  • New functions include symbol-sorting, symbol-derivates, symbol-integrates, splitpoints, displacements, length sorting, dividing, repeating and very powerful vector-mapping.

New in Symbolic Composer 6.4.9 (Dec 5, 2011)

  • Adds new Visualizer that displays all SCOM types, and is suited as a designer-tool for pre-compositional and score development.
  • New functions include splitpoints, displacements, length sorting, dividing, repeating and very powerful vector-mapping.

New in Symbolic Composer 6.4.8 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • SCOM 6.4.8 adds new Visualizer that displays all SCOM types, and is suited as a designer-tool for pre-compositional and score development.
  • New functions include splitpoints, displacements, length sorting, dividing, repeating and very powerful vector-mapping.

New in Symbolic Composer 6.4.1 (Sep 12, 2011)

  • Digital Performer Support.
  • Splash Screen with startup progress information.
  • Faster startup, theme and snapshot changes.
  • Sophisticated transition effects.
  • Locate Progress Bar.
  • Full Permissions Lisp Modifications.
  • MRAC Compatibility Problem fixed.
  • Layouts, with icons or without, top, left, bottom.
  • Plain directories (no additional file items).

New in Symbolic Composer 6.4 (Aug 16, 2011)

  • You can realize even the most complex scores of your imagination and turn ideas into full-orchestrated MIDI files in few seconds.
  • includes complete coverage of the world-music tunings, and its libraries cover past 500 years of compositional traditions. It suits for any styles, on modern, dance, classic, electronic, ambient, contemporary and experimental styles.
  • Covers the most complete collection of mathematical libraries, and has integrated programming environment that lets the composer add new features.

New in Symbolic Composer 6.3 (Nov 20, 2010)

  • Documentation:
  • Re-organized Menu Structure (easier to browse and locate functions).
  • Éxtended Documentation (added special functions used in Score Lib scores, now fully covering and correct).
  • Extended Essential Lisp (Lisp forms mentioned in the documentation are now covered, too).
  • Extended and Customized System Index (quick browsing of all the main SCOM categories + define your own menus).
  • Interface:
  • Output folder (launch SCOM MIDI files from System Index).
  • Easy Desktop Placement (memorizes Window size and placement).
  • Scrolling Grapher (allows bigger graphs to be scrolled).
  • Listener (fixes high-light problems and auto-scrolling).
  • Launch Web Pages (composition-related sites, Lisp Docs and SCOM User Group integrated in the Menus).
  • Workspace Management:
  • Improved Desktop Restore (restore now also graphs, memorize index menu selection, places last Editor on top, easier to continue later).
  • Snapshots (make a snapshot of current windows, and restore them later, quick project recovery, easy to switch between larger projects).
  • Editor:
  • Def Evaluation (quickly evaluate a command in docs, or score without selecting it at first).
  • Indent Selection (indents selection with a command, custom indentation also possible).
  • Copy/Paste (standard paste/write over selection).
  • Close Other Editors (close unrelated documents to clutter up screen).
  • Hide/Show Windows (access Windows desktop).
  • Menus:
  • Go Menu (extended set of SCOM commands covered, quick jump to document subtitles and Lisp forms).
  • Related Menu (shows related documents and their categories, answers the question "where am I?").
  • Intuitive save-path (save & open uses the topped editor path below, which is the mostly likely candidate to work with).
  • Null-Compiler added to Eval Buf command (clears Class System bindings between songs, no strange errors due score overlapping).
  • Selection-based commands and keyboard equivalents added to the menus.
  • Error Handling:
  • Terminal Blocking (error-trapping spots errors before, minimized Terminal Window messages, more smooth SCOM operation).
  • Freeze Blocking (all processes including searches now run concurrently and are stoppable, no halting).
  • Functions:
  • Advanded Tonality Processing (sorting, mixing and compatibility between tonality functions works now transparent, re-organized Tonality Menus).
  • Modulations (find the best solutions between transitions of given scales).
  • Positional Chords (for commercial/film styles).
  • Enrichment Rules (emulate Pop-Music chord-voicing, extend position chords into chromatism).
  • Tonality Analysis (analyze scale and chord progressions, find the best candidates with minimum or maximum differences and energy).
  • Tonality Symbols (attach notes to a symbol, and realize tonality symbols with SCOM's symbol generators, or with manual entries).
  • Tonality Library Notelists (define tonality library entries with ad-hook notelists).
  • Recursive Section Handling (control generative section contents).
  • Number Theory Additions (number sequence-generators added + web interface to integer sequences provided for more).
  • Cosmix Toolbox (many additions, requires manual tune-ups due http protocol in LW win is not compatible with the websites used).
  • Added Conversion and Supplementary Functions (in many categories).

New in Symbolic Composer 6.2 (Jun 4, 2010)

  • Symbolic Composer 6.2 adds many new and revoluationary concepts into composing.
  • Imagine being able to compose without physical playing-techniques to restrict your creative freedom. Click on a menu, draft an idea, and compose the music.
  • It's hard to believe we could put all the compositional knowledge from past 500 years into a program. SCOM covers all music algorithms, and all chords and world-music tunings.
  • Thousands of algorithms are made just for the SCOM. Its an unlimited resource to tap for novelty musical ideas and cool sequences - in all styles, and complexity levels.
  • Extensive Tonalities:
  • SCOM 6.2 adds the best tonality functions to the system, letting the top-front composers to take full advantage of the rebirth - the Reneissance of Tonalitities.
  • Enhance, add, delete, sort and mix tonalities and break the limits of static 12-Tone and Diatonic Systems. Step beyond and ochestrate tonality progressions seamlessly together with all the rest of SCOM functions.
  • Leading-Edge Algorithms:
  • SCOM 6.2 also includes a complete collection of mathematical libraries, chords, scales and microtonals. With SCOM 6.2 you can now compose music no other software can do.
  • Tap with the NASA satellites for Space Weather information, expand your scores with Fractals, Chaos, Physics and Math, and delve into the Fourier Synthesis - or even the DNA Code - for additional inspiration.
  • Apply algorithms and tonalities over 500 years of the past - and step ahead into the future - from advanced club mixes to leading-edge contemporary styles and electro-acoustic experimentations - in any style and compexity.
  • SCOM The Music Language:
  • Complete Chord, Scale and Microtonal libraries, and you are free to discover your own ones, too.
  • Mathematical Generators & Processors provide advanced fractals, chaos and number-theory functions.
  • Symbolic Generators & Processors allow Recursion, L-systems, Fibonacci, and other special solutions.
  • Programmable Neurons supply added intelligence to your instrumentation.
  • Programmable Phrase Library allows sequential drum and chording pattern generation.
  • Standard MIDI file output. This makes SCOM a perfect partner no matter of the software and hardware you are working with.
  • Build-in HyperHelp & Search helps using the system.
  • Music Language, that allows composing music of any style and complexity.
  • Historical & Contemporary Music functions supply the classic compositional tools.
  • Over 1000 Algorithms included, each freely combinable to each other for exponential creative freedom.

New in Symbolic Composer 6.0.1 (Feb 13, 2009)

  • Includes Reaktor playback template (SCOM score, Reaktor Ensemble and playback loader).
  • This provides user-modificable SCOM score and sound solution for the Reaktor.

New in Symbolic Composer 6.0 (Nov 28, 2008)

  • New additions include pink-noise, asymmetric and popcorn noises.
  • Pink noise is the noise of the nature itself, based on n-level depth quantum fluctuations arising from the depths of the universe.
  • While pink noise is the most difficult noise to produce computationally, SCOM re-invents it in musical way, with additional controls of the spectra, waves and internal processing, yielding in new-generation waves of change.
  • Additionally, there are popcorn and asymmetric noises available. You'll find the noise functions on the System/Generate/Vectors/Noise menu.
  • While pink noise is a large source of inspiration, also the VRML 3D generation forwards into the future. Create 3D worlds based on music, or make music from 3D spaces.
  • SCOM is fully documented. It has efficient help system and search. It covers both music and programming details. It provides algorithms based on math, physics, genetics, fractals, chaos and beyond what nobody has not yet imagined. Included are all chords, scales and tuning systems, and historical compositional methods, too.