Fractal Tune Smithy

Create beautiful snowflake like fractal music. Vary the parameters and hear the tunes transformed! Send your tunes as musical e-cards to your friends. Play in historical or exotic tunings using a music keyboard or your p.c. keyboard.

Program Information

Version : 2.4	Release Date : 2003-06-10
Cost : US$ 14 GBP 9	Type : Shareware
Release Status : Minor Update	Install Support : Install and Uninstall
Install Support : Install and Uninstall	OS Support : Win95,Win98,WinME,WinNT 4.x,WinXP,Windows2000
Language : English

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Create beautiful snowflake like fractal music effortlessly. Choose a musical seed, or play a short musical phrase, vary the parameters, and transform it into a tracery of music! Send your tunes as musical e-cards to your friends. Explore historical, modern, world, and exotic tunings. Play the notes from your p.c. keyboard as well as a music keyboard. Save as small midi files for web pages. Sliding chords mouse theremin. Much more.

Company

Name : Robert Inventor	Address : 25 Lincoln Road Ditto Oxford, England, OX1 4TB, UK
URL : http://tunesmithy.co.uk/index.htm	Author Name : Robert Walker
General Phone : 01865243724	Contact Name : Robert Walker

Create beautiful music effortlessly - and discover your talent as a budding composer! Choose one of the tunes that come with the program or enter a very short musical phrase of a few notes, and hear it transformed into an intricate tracery of music. The music is fractal which means it is highly structured, but natural sounding too, like bird song, or the sound of the wind. Any tuning is possible; no need to restrict your creativity to the equal tempered twelve tone system or even the octave. Tune your music as freely as a bird when it sings. Try authentic historical temperaments with tunings for keyboards from Bach or Mozart's time. Try tunings for Indonesian Gamelans, or Indian music with drones. Try modern exotic tunings such as non octave scales, or musical geometries with highly symmetrical floating chord patterns. Explore the effects of instrumentation, and take ones first steps as a composer in an envionment where melody making is effortless. Suitable even for complete newbies to composing - and there is no need to be able to read music notation. Play in any of the tunings and temperaments yourself with a music keyboard. Even play melodies and chords on the p.c. keyboard - with the space bar as a sustain pedal, and the mouse scroll wheel as a modulation wheel :-). Play legato style (if your synth supports it) in microtonal tunings as readily as you do in twelve equal. What else - make fibonacci rhythms which are highly structured, but never repeat exactly. Make polyrhythm metronomes. A mouse theremin which can play sliding chords as well as single notes. Send your tunes to your friends as musical e-cards. Over a megabyte of help, tutorials, FAQ, example midi clips and tunes, etc. It is freeware / shareware - use it as it is with some limitations. Or buy at a very affordable price to hear your own tunes continue endlessly. You can also start a 30 day trial at any time to try it as it is unlocked, for free.

Other Program Information

Versioned filename : fts24.zip Previous filename : fts23.zip Generic filename : fts.zip Long filename : fractal_tune_smithy_setup.exe	Size : 3655 KB
Change Info : Many minor updates and enhancements	Category Class :
Specific Category : Audio	Categories : Midi,music creation
System Requirements : sound card

Distribution Permissions
Freely distributable. You may include this program on any CD compilation. You may not sell the evaluation copy.

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