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I'll be sure to invite you to the non-composers forum when I get it up and running :) Sometimes short cuts are bad, sometimes they are good. That way you can expand on it, and use your brain power for other things. I think part of what happens when you grow as a composer is that you internalize the kind of possibilities that a certain figure or phrase, or whatever can have, and then you have the ability to chunk that, meaning you don't have to use as much brain power to do the same thing. Its just that the computer is doing it for you. The ideas the guy has, for instance, creating figures, having those figures maintain applicability with a certain harmony, whether transposed or inverted, or whatever, is the same kind of stuff that goes on in my brain when I am composing. We should be open to the possibility that new tools bring. Saying that it doesn't belong here seems a little bit backwards thinking. Could it open people's eyes to a world beyond I-IV-V. And the price for that is relatively low.Ĭould it be used for 'evil'. Looking, for instance, at the harmony navigator software, it allows you to get quick feedback on different chords and progressions. Now, now Raymond, no need to be so harsh. Its not a DAW, its not a notation program.

The ability to try out experimental notations.

This would help you identify specific things like chords, voicings, melody lines, and such. This way, you can start to find your own style and think about what you have written, and how you can develop it further.

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This is basically something where you could write your own musical rules, and then have the program generate possibilities for how to use these rules. Additional, you would have to be able to easily break up this continuous recording, and classify, or trash ideas.Obviously, with a microphone, it would have to be very compressed, depending on the length of the session. That way, you won't lose an idea that you have and don't realize until its too late, and you forgot what you played. When you start, it records everything you play into you keyboard/controller, or even microphone, from start to finish. Continuous recording of a composing session.

Specifically, I am thinking something that also has articulations, phrasing, and additional data, just beyond the notes and their length.

I don't know a ton about music xml, but I am sure it is a great start. The ability to export in some sort of open source language that is easily readable by any DAW and notation programs, so that you could get much closer to the final product of either, without much extra effort.

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Some specific criteria that the software would require: Notation software is good, because I can look at the music and understand it much more, but the entry always seems much more tedious. Most of the software out there, seems to be aimed at either notation, or getting a realistic sound, but they seem a little clunky on the actual composition side.įor instance, I am not the worlds greatest piano player, so when I try and play a line into a sequencer, it never quite sounds like what I have in mind. Would it require some special piece of hardware, like a specific controller? What kind of functionality would it have? But if you were to build a new piece of software from the ground up, what would it look like? I am not specifically saying computer generated music, although, that could be a part of the program. Really, what I am thinking about is, what can be done, that isn't being done right now? How can we rethink the possibilites of composing, with the aid of computers? I have been thinking about this recently and I would like to get everyone's ideas on what would be the ideal music composition software. Posted by Jon Brantingham on Maat 1:36am in Music Technology