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Previously developed similar software

• "Sharle" - Chong Yu, MIT 1996
  • Java source available
  • Uses objects and hierarchy heavily - can Max handle this sort of computation?
  • Uses expert system decision making
  • Uses weighted probabilities

• "Experiments in Musical Intellegence" - David Cope, 1981-2006
  • Attempts to replicate composers' styles by mimicing rhythmic patterns
  • Utilizes LISP heavily
  • Supposedly artificially intelligent - sounds pretty much like identical rhythmic patterns used with different notes
  • Clearly not as random as the goal application

My Design

• Development
  • Cycling '74's Max
• Data Storage
  • Single Note
    • Start time
    • Expected duration/end time
    • Instrument
  • Phrase / riff
    • List of notes
    • Used as a guideline - possibly have the ability to randomize or interact with other instruments' lines
    • Possibly generate a bunch of phrases before the song is "written"
    • Possibly don't tie phrases to "real notes" - instead use "relative notes" so phrases can be applied to whatever key the song is in when the phrase is used
  • Phrase Order
    • Have a way to organize the song
    • For instance, maybe a chorus happens ever 8 bars in a particular song. The song ends in 48 bars. There's a beginning phrase and an ending phrase that need to be played on time
• Process Flow
  • working on it...