Tangent v1.00
Windows 95 / 98 / NT

Requirements: Pentium (or equiv.), 24MB RAM, 5MB hard disk, sound card or external MIDI

Tangent is a "top-down" 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, 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, Inverted Square, Triangle, 
  Inverted Triangle, Sawtooth, Inverted Sawtooth, Random
+ Period Parameter Editor for manual definition of periods 
+ Composition Devices for melodic & rhythmic variation: Dynamic contrast, Rhythmic contrast, 
  Tonic contrast, Tuplets, Truncated long notes, Rising pitch, Declining pitch, Tuplets + rising 
  pitch, Tuplets + declining pitch, Glissando, Trill, Quasi-ornamented, 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 


For more, see http://www.randomtunes.com

Free version can not export compositions as distributable MIDI files.
Registered version costs $25.

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