VIRTUOSO DESKTOP PERFORMANCE STUDIO - introduction, concepts andapplicationsWelcome to the VIRTUOSO area of the Atari 8 bit forum. Those of you who already have Desktop Performance Studio,congratulations, please feel free to upload and download piecesto and from this forum. For those of you who have not gotten Virtuoso yet, download theVPLAY.OBJ file and the demo pieces. VPLAY.OBJ is a play onlyshell program that allows you to see and hear any DesktopPerformance piece. You will not have any editing capabilitywithout the full Desktop Performance Studio program, this is aplay only feature. To order Desktop Performance Studio, please use the ElectronicMall (GO VC) or contact Virtusonics directly. Our phone number is212 316 6945.All of the graphic, music and text images from demos were createdon an Atari 130XE using Desktop Performance Studio Software. Ourgraphic, music and text editors make animation easy, quick andexciting. What you are seeing is not frame by frame animation. Wehave developed a methodology for expressing graphic, music andtext data in a "dataflow" format that allows for the real timeanimation of multiple objects. Graphic objects are animated bypath and scale patterns (8 animated geometric objects, 3 spriteobjects, 16 filled background objects). Music is animated byshift, volume, and envelope patterns (4 animated music objects).Text is animated by scrolling (4 animated text objects). Eachanimator (path, scale, shift, volume, scroll) has its own loopand speed variables. Speed is the concept. Virtuoso is a new perspective that controlsas many parallel, independent, variable speed parameters as arerequired to execute ideas. Desktop Performance Studio is ourfirst application of this kind of thinking.If you have any comments, ideas, questions or suggestions pleaseleave me a message, I will respond. I would like to share our thinking about the design of VirtuosoSoftware in terms of its application to different hardware andsoftware concepts; its relationship to a conceptual manner ofthinking; its interaction with reality; and its presentapplication in Desktop Performance Studio. We are interested indialogue about the Virtuoso Software concepts and the DesktopPerformance Studio applications.All Virtuoso Software users are encouraged to share their workswith others. Please upload and download freely through DL13. Onceyou have downloaded and reviewed a piece from the DL, you can usethe NEW command to erase the time stream and use the libraries tomake your own pieces. This is one of the exciting elements ofVirtuoso. We can all share each others pieces and performances,and then use each others libraries to make our own new pieces.Joseph Lyons,President of Virtusonics Corporation[70007,1565]
