[Openmcl-devel] OpusModus?

[David McClain]

Thanks for sharing that information, guys. I look forward to delving into it for a while…

Cheers,

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> On Mar 30, 2017, at 13:57, R. Matthew Emerson <rme at acm.org> wrote:
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>> On Mar 30, 2017, at 1:24 PM, Andrew Shalit <alms at clozure.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Dave - 
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>> Opusmodus (note the lowercase m) was designed by Janusz Podrazik.  Janusz also did the initial implementation.  A few years ago he hired Clozure to help him expand and finish it. Most of the Clozure work was done by Matt Emerson and Bill St. Clair. In the early days Greg Pfeil did some work on it as well.
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> Luke Palmer worked on it for a little while also.
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> I did the Cocoa user interface programming, MIDI playback, the animated piano roll display, the plots, and so forth, with lots of direction and design help from Janusz.  Basically, anything Macintosh-specific was my thing.
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> There is a *lot* of documentation (in both English and French) and examples included with the software.
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>> I am neither composer nor musician, so I can’t really comment on it beyond saying that it looks really cool, and that I like some of the music I’ve heard that was written with it.
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>> Andrew
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>>> On Mar 30, 2017, at 4:19 PM, David McClain <dbm at refined-audiometrics.com> wrote:
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>>> I just saw mention of OpusModus on another thread. I spent some time perusing it, and looking for comparisons with Symbolic Composer, and Open Music from IRCAM, and Sibelius. Unfortunately, not a whole lot of information out there yet, apart from some composers holding their noses at the very idea of mixing math and music (Heh!).
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>>> I’d be very interested to hear some of the details about who was involved in the OpusModus project. I just downloaded its trial version to see what it is like.
>>> 
>>> - Dave
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