Fractal Tune Smithy 3.0
CREATE BEAUTIFUL SNOWFLAKE LIKE FRACTAL MUSIC
Create beautiful music effortlessly - and discover your talent as a budding composer! Choose one of the tunes that come with the program or choose or play a 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 on many layers - 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 tunings that repeat at an octave. 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, in an envionment where melody making is effortless. Suitable for complete newbies to composing - there is no need to be able to read music notation. Just choose one of the fractal tunes, vary the instruments, and vary the parameters to make your own new tunes.
Play directly in any of the tunings yourself with a music keyboard. Retune your own compositions to any tuning. Play melodies and chords on the PC 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 in the same way you do in twelve equal.
Play rhythms, long bars, and polyrhythms. Enter any chord progression as text and play it in any tuning. Make fibonacci rhythms which are highly structured, but never repeat exactly. A mouse theremin which can also play sliding chords. Send tunes to your friends as musical e-cards.
Built in wave shape player to play mathematically exact waves. CSound support. Much more.
The program comes with extensive help, an on-line wiki, tutorials, FAQ, example midi clips and tunes, etc.
You can use Tune Smithy to make musical fractals. These are a musical version of those renowned visual fractals, often used to make fractal landscapes with trees, mountains, clouds and so on with details within details. Composed music similarly often has a feeling of structure at many time scales - and natural sounds also. So this may be why the musical fractals sound so satisfying.
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 highly structured on many layers - but natural sounding too, like bird song, or the sound of the wind.
The original musical fractals of Tune Smithy are Sloth Canons - the same tune played at several speeds simultaneously. The simplest examples of this to hear are the 3, 5 and 4 beat fractal tune examples in the Sloth Canons folder. Play the 4 beat fractal tune four times slower or faster and it sounds exactly the same - except that you lose some of the finer detail when you play it at the slower tempi. This combined with the other feature, that any phrase you hear will get played again many times as the tune continues, makes it a musical equivalent of a visual fractal such as the Koch snowflake.
All this is done for you automatically. You can enter a phrase as the seed for a new sloth canon and the entire canon is constructed for you. Or you can take one of the existing tunes and adjust the seed. Then change the instrumentation as you like, and vary the other parameters to make your new tunes. Or the lazy way, use the handy Randomize button to make a new tune - until you find one you like.
When you get more into the details of how it works, there are many ways you can transform the tune. These include chord progressions, permute, rotate or invert the seed phrase as the tune continues, use of polyrhythms, and if you want to do it in fine detail you can also script any of the effects to switch on or off or vary the parameters at particular times in the fractal tune.
Tune Smithy is also much in demand for its support of the whole gamut of possible tuning systems. These include historical tunings from medieval times and later (Pythagorean, Meantone, Well temperings etc), gamelan tunings, tunings for Indian music, tunings for African music, Japanese, Arabic music and so on. Any tuning is possible; no need to restrict your creativity to the equal tempered twelve tone system or even tunings that repeat at an octave. The SCALA archive has over 3000 scales.
Other features include the rhythm player which can play complex polyrhythms and long bars, the chord progression player, an audio pitch tracer which is particularly good at transcribing bird song, a scale construction task for those interested in microtonal scale construction, and tasks for the harmonious Lambdoma matrix of pitches.
What is new in 3.0 software version? - Many new features. Now has support for easy use of CSound instruments just by selecting them from a drop list. Major overhaul in the user layout. This is a major update over 2.4.. What is expected in the future? Newly-made Fractal Tune Smithy 3.1 be downloaded from current page, we also looking forward to unconfirmed 3.2 release build. You may download FTS_Setup.exe directly, estimated download time by ADSL or EDGE [~1.8 Mbit/s] is 0:00:29. Just write the reviews of the Fractal Tune Smithy. Buy Fractal Tune Smithy safely through the one software industry's premier registration commerce providers. System requirements are sound card. Program has been scanned and verified by the several antivirus and anti-spyware applications and Fractal Tune Smithy found to be clean. The following languages are supported by Fractal Tune Smithy: English.
