Generative Midi Soundscapes Software

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This program is for Mac Classic and requires Midishare to work.
Midishare can be downloaded from this midishare site

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The Drone Music Machine has been written to generate automatic process driven drone music. Again I have created it with the intention of it being a generative machine that once configured is then played and left to itself to sound things out - but perhaps some occasional and casual intervention to manipulate its parameters in order to shift its texture growth. Although it has the name DRONE MACHINE I have already been using it to create more glichy electronic music textures, so it is versatile.

The program works by sending up to 16 channels of sustaining notes which then has a stream of continous controller and sys-ex data (specifically MU128 XG) gestures to manipulate the tonal and textural qualities of each voice. This is derived from some of the techniques and experiments I was researching when working on the Sonic Agents projects - which I termed extended Midi techniques or AvantMidi, that operates up within the edge boundary of the standard maximum Midi data transfer rate of approx. 3125 bytes per second..that's about 1000 CC messages per second.

DroneMusicMachine has being designed specifically for XG Midi based tone generators (yamaha mu128) though general midi tone generators can still be used, but it won't get such good results.

For each channel a number of effect types/CC types can be configured using the interface to determine the mixture of basic gestural forms to apply to each type. The basic data generators that can be combined to produce the actual gestures of CC/Sys EX are sine, square, pulse, exponential, saw, ramp, whitenoise, pinknoise,unstable patterns, fractal, logloop, verhurst, walk,spikes, peaks, random square, random ramp.

For MU128 users there are a couple more editing modes in which to change the effect settings, voices and master equalisation.