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From: mketch@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael D. Ketchen)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Markovian Music
Keywords: Music software amiga
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Date: 8 Aug 89 12:49:32 GMT
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In article <1273@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan) writes:
>There is a piece of software for the Amiga called "M."  I've heard
>wonderful things about it.  I don't know if it can also use the 
>Markovian method, but I suspect that may be one of its many options.
>It allows one to do analysis and composition based on a number of variables.
>I'm not familiar enough to answer any specific questions about it, but
>someone in comp.sys.amiga may.  So far M has had pretty good reviews.

M is not really a music analysis program so much as it is a composition aid.
It uses random processes to alter your musical data according to several
variables (note density, rhythm, amount of randomness, etc.) that the user
can set.  You can use it to add a "human" feel to your music, to experiment
with different musical ideas, or just to play around.  It's a very powerful
composition tool.  However, I don't think it has any features for music
analysis.  (I used it last semester in a class with the guy who designed
the program, and both from his descriptions of the program and my use of it,
I don't see how one could use it for analysis.)

- Mike
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