MusicWonk 4.2
- License: Shareware
- Language: English
- Release: 2010-09-01
- Size: 4 Mb
- Cost: 49.00 $
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MusicWonk is a MIDI program that produces 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.
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Latest User Reviews:
Steep learning curve, 2007-05-12 15:45:37
Version: 2.2
Hello
Thanks for the opportunity to try out your algorithmic composition program "MusicWonk"!
I got the following mysterious error message while installing the program:
Error 1911.Could not register type library for file
C:\WINDOWS\system32\MWHEEL.OCX. Contact your support personnel.
But when I clicked "Ignore" it went through with the installation and the program seemed to run without problems.
I am very impressed with the multitude of possibillities for designing algorithms for generating music. Some of the examples will of course generate monotonous and not very interesting sequences most of the time, but that is how it is with algorithmic composition.
You have to be persistent in order to strike gold :-) Seeing it build up the Lorentz Attractor and hearing it set to music is a
great effect, and the musical result was actually very interesting. I may try to vary the instrumentation on that and see what may come out!
I haven't had the time to try my own patches and it seems like a steep learning curve to learn the functioning of all the bits and pieces and since I am not a music professional, I don't think this is the program I would be able to find the time to explore and do justice to - sorry guys :-)
To answer your 2 questions, I would say that if I had to come up with a musical idea for some background music (film, art gallery etc.), I
would consider a program like this. It could run live or form the basis for new musical ideas.
Hope this is in some ways helpful!
Best regards
Kurt Marcussen, Denmark
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