Sunday, 8 September 2013

Cooliojazz's PMusic JAR app (UPDATED)

UPDATED:
Well, let me be frank.  I tried quite a number of randomly-seeded generations.  There is definitely similarity across results in terms of chord progression and rhythm pattern.



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http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=8ru1nme4mcibki1moujpfkf0m2&topic=16227.msg293424#msg293424

This is one of the better procedural music generator apps I have come across to-date.  (Of course, I prefer freeware apps to begin with, therefore I cannot comment on commercial music generators, as I have not purchased any yet.)

The creator of PMusic goes by the username Cooliojazz.  He has made it available in the Omnimaga discussion thread linked above.  The app is distributed as a Jar file, which launches and functions fine in my computers running Windows 8 (64-bit desktop) and Windows 7 (64-bit notebook).

Unfortunately, the jar file cannot be used on my iPad 5, iPod 5 nor iPhone 4.  neither can it be used on my Blackberry Playbook.  Why ? The answer is simple: These tablets do not run Java, which is required for Jar files.

Too Bad !  Got to generate the music using my Windows machines only !

Important note:  For the sake of disambiguation, I ought to mention that the term "PMusic" has been used in so many different ways for so many different things on the internet, that I doubt any one party can claim the right to use that name.  A simple Google search will return diverse results for the term "PMusic".  So, always search with a second term "cooliojazz", and that gets you closer to what you want.




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