Musician - A Music Processing and Synthesis System

MUSICIAN is a system for music processing and, synthesis intended to work with a digital or analog S/nthesizer. It is best lised for experimentation withsounds and sound effects. ,The MUSICIAN system is a basis for building interactiYely high leYel effects from low leYel music and signal.processing opera/ions. In this sense it is a first step lowar'!s all object-oriented programming environment for integratcd synthesizer/sequence.' sysle~r:zs. The ",er of MUSICIAN can define for himself musical !/ata types. transformations and instrument architectures which fit' his aestMtic predilectionin his musical work. It stresses the construction of new ,. soun~fromprevious/y buill sound structures rather than SJ..1}thesizing each sound s!.'"ucture!rom sera/ch. It supports modularity and gives feedback in alphanumeric. graphic. or acoustic form. MUSICIAN. once miniaturized and productized. can serve as d userfriendly device for restructuring sound iffects. TM present prototype of MUSICIAN is wril/en iii FORTRAN'l7 and· runs on a PDPIIIRSXIIM or VAXI I!VMS environment with an aI/ached MiniMap Array procesSor, TM array processor is. included to • give tM system almost realtime capabilities.