MusicWonk 3.0
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MusicWonk 3.0 offers you a MIDI program to produce MIDI music based on algorithmic rules that you interactively create by connecting modules (graphical objects that represent functions and processes) in real time, adjusting the parameters as you go, in an interactive drag and drop environment especially designed to be fast to learn, fast to use. But MusicWonk did not achieve its ease of use by dumbing it down. Quite the contrary. With a starting palette of over 200 built in modules and functions, MusicWonk is one of the most powerful algorithmic composing programs available.
MusicWonk will drive MIDI synthesizers, soft synths and sound cards directly, effectively "playing" them in real time; it will also record directly to a standard MIDI file.
MusicWonk is essentially the same program as ArtWonk, but without the animation graphics components. It is the successor to a long line of graphical, modular, and interactive algorithmic composing programs created by John Dunn that were inspired by the big analog modular synthesizers, going back to one of the first if its kind ever produced for MIDI, MusicBox, released to the public domain in 1986.
While you can easily create analog synthesizer style step sequencers with MusicWonk, it goes far beyond its sequencer roots, to give you algorithmic composing tools of all kinds. MusicWonk is essentially a program language specialized for creating music, intended to be used by musicians. It is not a text based language like Java, C, or Lisp; instead it is a visual direct manipulation language that does not require you to take weeks to months to learn. You simply select graphical modules from a pop up menu, drag and drop their connections and interactions, listening to the results in real time as you build and modify your piece.
Major Features:
- Use Stand Alone or With Notation Based Sequencers
- Music you create with MusicWonk can stand by itself as full compositions, and it can also be imported into your notation based MIDI sequencer. Without changing your existing setup any more than you would to add a processor or soft synth, you get a fresh take on your music, including the ability to create riffs based on non traditional patterns such as DNA sequences, stock market trends, star maps, or virtually any other algorithmic process or data source.
- Real Time Ultra Arpeggiator
- With MusicWonk you can accept MIDI input from your keyboard, process it in innumerable ways, then send it out to your soft synth, sound card or MIDI sound module with no perceptible lag. This gives you an incredibly flexible tool for building ultra arpeggios that can take input notes and controller movements and generate complex musical phrases and effects, providing independent real-time control over rhythm, duration, accents, chord density, pitch bending, tonal variation, panning, repeats, randomization, etc.
- VST/VSTi
- MusicWonk works very well with popular VST host software such as REAPER, Cubase, Ableton Live, Sonar and FL Studio/Fruity Loops , or the free Wavosaur. Since the output of MusicWonk is a live MIDI stream, essentially an algorithmic keyboard player, it is not a VST application itself. But the VST host programs have MIDI inputs and outputs that can easily be set up to distribute the MusicWonk MIDI stream to the hosted VST and VSTi modules.
Enhancements: Free 1 hour phone tutorial with purchase
Requirements:
- MusicWonk runs on all Windows operating systems from Windows 98 on, including XT 64, Vista 32 and Vista 64.
- You also need a sound card or MIDI interface. Most sound chips built into PCs and laptops will work fine. SoundBlaster and similar cards, as well as Emu and other pro and semi pro sound cards work well also.
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