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- !Help for !Riff 0.01 (14 Dec 1994)
-
- !Riff generates random repeating patterns on an attached MIDI instrument.
- A new note is added each time the pattern is played unless the note chosen
- would be unharmonious in the position chosen for it. Sometimes a section
- of the pattern is copied to one or more other locations in the pattern,
- possibly with a pitch shift and with channels interchanged. Very
- occasionally the pattern is cleared completely and the whole ghastly
- business starts again, probably producing a different pattern. The tempo
- also changes randomly between certain limits.
-
- !Riff displays the current pattern in a window. There are no controls
- except Quit. All you can do to relieve the monotony is change the
- instruments assigned to MIDI channels 1 to 4 or change the value of Seed%
- near the start of !Riff.!RunImage.
-
- !Riff requires a version 3 MIDI podule with the MIDI_FastClock SWI (mine is
- version 3.14).
-
- This program is Copyright 1994 Denis Howe. You may distribute verbatim or
- modified copies of this program provided each such copy is distributed with
- a copyright notice and distribution conditions identical to these.
-
- History
- =======
- Please send me a copy of any changes you make and add the details here.
-
- 0.00 12 May 1992 Written by Denis Howe
- 0.01 14 Dec 1994 WIMP version
-
- If you like this kind of infinitely boring music (I love it!) you should
- hear "Drumming" by Steve Reich or anything by Philip Glass or Micheal
- Nyman. If you have any comments on this program feel free to mail me.
-
- Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- 48 Anson Road, London, NW2 3UU
- +44 (181) 450 9448
-