On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 07:32 AM, Luigi Di Martino wrote:
Hi
Thank you Kurt and Erik for the useful insights. I won't give up trying to get my head around how to program, although I fear it will take me longer than my patience will allow. The shakabox (beat machine) idea is moving me closer to what I'd like to do. The main area that I will need to learn is how to map one midi note to another. Then to instruct the program to perform some other duties, like "take musical phrase around the intervals 1 3 #5", and "transpose circle of 5ths up by the ratio of a Comma (80:81)" . Basically I want a piece of software that allows me to compose my 'mirror' music ideas.
In 1997 a programmer did build me a basic mirroring program, called The Mirrormaker. It does the midi mapping. I am no longer in touch with the programmer and have no access to the code, and it was written for only windows anyway. If anyone is interested in hearing a few I have over a thousand midi files that I have mirrored with this software. To get the software to perform more scripts is what I would love to learn to do, but I have to start at the beginning again and find out about the mapping of notes.
Should I perhaps concentrate on the design of a program and find a programmer willing to write the code for such a design? Or perhaps someone can recommend me a cool book that is easy to understand (for dunces!)
Thanks for reading Lui
Flipping other's music to create a "new" piece is not original. I once heard of a student who thought he'd flip his professor's doctoral composition so that he wouldn't have to do much work. What came out was Beethoven's 9th!
It can be fun for a while, flipping Christmas music is hysterical!
Wouldn't you rather be creative on your own?
Cheers,
Rick Harrison
_______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
