SCOM

Symbolic Composer is one of the largest high-level music language available, and it is context-free, which means it suits in any styles, has complete coverage of the world-music tunings, and its libraries cover past 500 years of compositional traditions. SCOM also includes a complete collection of mathematical libraries, together with integrated LISP programming environment to make hacks.

Symbolic Composer 6 now runs native on the Mac Intel, and Windows Platform, and brings up many new functions, that are new for the previous SCOM Mac PPC users.

Take a look on the new Pink Noise Algorthms. Tweak these master the universe simply by adjusting the parameters, personified. While Nikolai Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi were inventing the radio-waves, SCOM invents the audio-waves for the future. “Cool to get it running on my MacBook Pro. We are very happy with the LispWorks environment and ‘LispWorks’ great support on the Mac, Windows and Linux alike”, who maintains the code base intercompatibility issues.

The new architecture includes separate MRAC Library plugin architecture, which can now be updated without requiring to update SCOM itself. This allows faster development cycle and reduce the cost of keeping up the developments for the contemporary composers.

Now on the Intel Mac! By default SCOM6 launches QuickTime Player for MIDI output. Works also with Rondo and Sweet MIDI player that allow external MIDI device playback, ands also with IAC for other music programs.

SCOM & Reaktor Template update: You are free to modify the scores and sounds for your purposes, but it is not naturally possible to publish the exact same piece on your name. So, modify and tweak them to your style, and get on feedback what you’d like. They show you how SCOM & Reaktor is a powerful combination for both score and sound architecture on programming both music & sounds in detailed level.

Overview on the Symbolic Composer

Symbolic Composer is one of the richest music programming environments available for the Macintosh. It is not the simplest music language, but that’s due music is a complex structure of hierarchies. If you want to learn more music composition and programming Symbolic Composer is great music composition environment for the Macintosh and PC. You’ll find here the basic concepts how a score is put together, and the hierarchies you’ll be dealing. The topics cover all the SCOM basics, which are timesheets & zones, symbols, tonalities, metrics, functions, sections and classes, and motives & methods.

Basic Concepts

Symbolic Composer uses 2 grammars to define the section and instrumentation structures: The section grammar and the instrumentation grammar. Both are tree-like structures with as many elements and levels as needed. Each node contains definitions of class properties.

Class properties are inherited with the inheritance trees of the section and instrumentation grammars, like in above. Inheritation mechanism allows to define common properties among instruments and sections.

Multiple grammars can be used when inheritation and section structures differ, or when class properties are to be inherited differently.

Symbolic Composer