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Tangent is a MIDI composer that deals with musical structures, not individual notes. It systematically builds a composition by creating periods of bass and polyphony. It can do this automatically or the user can determine the musical characteristics of individual periods. It can even take a few measures of user-defined melody and turn out an entire composition.
Tangent uses methods that are algorithmic and heuristic, deterministic and stochastic, generative and transformational to create polyphonic pieces that exhibit melodic, tonal, and rhythmic coherence. Tangent likes to use lots of instruments and can create polyphony that is large and lush, deep and dense, intricate and interesting. Tangent pieces can be traditionally orchestral, ethnically rhythmic, light and cheery, dark and foreboding, and forever surprising.
Features
- Load and Save compositions, orchestrations, user-defined scales and melody & beat patterns
- Automatic Composition, Elevator Music and Mutate Instruments modes
- Secondary Presence
- Auto-generated / User-selectable # of Periods, Tempo, Tonality, Composition Devices, Melody, Pattern, Beat Pattern
- Tonality Selections: Chromatic, Symmetric, Major, Minor, Pentatonic #1, #2, #3, Whole-tone, User-defined
- Period Parameters: Period length, Beat pattern reduction, Melodic material, Period transposition, Primary bass track, # of active bass tracks, Primary poly track, # of active poly tracks, Composition device probability, Rest probability
- Profile Functions for auto-generation of period parameters: Square, Square [inverted], Triangle, Triangle [inverted], Sawtooth, Sawtooth [inverted], Random
- Period Parameter Editor for manual definition of periods
- Composition Devices for melodic & rhythmic variation of individual tracks: Dynamic contrast (4 modes), Rhythmic contrast (4 modes), Tonic contrast (4 modes), Tuplets, Truncated long notes, Rising pitch (2 patterns), Declining pitch (2 patterns), Tuplets + rising pitch (2 patterns), Tuplets + declining pitch (2 patterns), Glissando, Trill, Quasi-ornamented (3 types), Random rests
- Orchestration Parameters for each of 16 tracks: Instrument, Transposition, Volume, Pan, Performance, Complex performance
- Performance Selections: Staccatissimo, Staccato, Legato, Tie, Double (7 semitones), Double (12 semitones), Double (19 semitones), Double (24 semitones), Triple (7 & 12 semitones)
- User-configurable MIDI Map
- Bass & Polyphony Track Allocation
- 3 Fader Options
 Purchase Information
Requirements
- Windows 95/98
- Pentium CPU (or equivalent)
- 32 MB RAM
- 5 MB disk space
- MIDI interface and/or sound card (quality wavetable synth recommended)
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