About Winsor's Computer Composer's Toolbox

Enter the world of computer-aided composition. It is easy with Phil Winsor’s Computer Composer’s Toolbox. Discover the enormous creative and time-saving potential of computerized music composition. Whether you are a musician hoping to see what the computer can do for you or a computer hobbyist interested in learning about music, Computer Composer’s Toolbox has something to offer. More than 100 ready-to-use subroutines are included to illuminate key concepts throughout the book.

Included are:

• Instructions for programming in BASIC—perfect if you are a musician or music student just getting acquainted with computers
• A beginning course in musical composition, showing in detail how to create a variety of sounds with the computer
• Insights into contemporary trends in both music composition and computerized sound
• A practical, hands-on library of 117 music music-generating subroutines, with descriptions of the results you can expect from them
• Actual program modules that you can use as models or even plug into your own compositions immediately

Table of Contents:

1. Utilities
2. Series and Motive Operations
3. Probability Distribution Functions
4. Sorting and Searching
5. Sound/Text Composition
6. General Composition

Printed on demand.