Symbolic Composer 5.3 review

Symbolic Composer is one of the most advanced and largest music composition language available with over 1 music algorithms, suitable for modern, dance, classic, electronic, ambient and experimental styles.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: MRAC Publishing Buy Now Price: $395.00 Updated: 13 Feb 2006

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Symbolic Composer is one of the most advanced and largest music composition language available with over 1 music algorithms, suitable for modern, dance, classic, electronic, ambient and experimental styles.
Symbolic Composer is the largest music composition language available.

Here are some key features of "Symbolic Composer":
Tonality is an extended concept in the system. Most scales, modes and chords are predefined, including many non-western forms. New tonalities can be described by interval series, notes or algorithms.
Beat/Space, descriptive of a mode of rhythmic organisation found in many non-western musics, but also in drum-computer programming, is a dynamic feature and a powerful visual metaphor for rhythm.
Timesheets extend this beat/space thinking to outlines of complete scores and include tonality descriptions and change points. You can create a large-scale score plan controlling any number of instruments, processors or mixer configurations.
Sequencing can be both linear and pattern-based, but can be infinitely more powerful and flexible. Loop control and processing is integral.
Lengths and Zones, that is note durations and section durations, can be generated from maths and fractal functions. This way even a tiny rhythmic cell or hook can spawn cogent and relevant rhythmic material, and whole musical structures.
Dynamics, either from MIDI velocity or continuous controller values, can originate from fractal sources and be mapped across the entire duration of an instrumental part. These natural dynamic contours can be wonderfully expressive particularly when converted to manipulate reverb depth, envelope shaping or modulation.
Neural processing from the powerful Neural Expert can be used to add intelligent accents and other dynamic details.
Articulation, the position of a note's onset in relation to a beat plus the note's actual rather than virtual duration plus its attack dynamic, can be processed by fractal or mathematical intervention creating virtual instruments with user-definable characteristics.

What's New:
New functions implement 17th century rules for 3..7 note chord progressions, minimum energy modulatory sequences, chord enrichments, iterative melodic progressions, harmonisation and ornamentation for 2-voice simulated improvisation.
New score library additions include dopamine DNA music template, Kraftwerk's Autobahn and genral simplepop based on Madonna analysis and synthesis templates, rhythmic element libraries, Ian Clay Teratunings, and spiral form graffities.

Requirements:
External or Software Synth for MIDI playback.