Should have mentioned:  the web app looks best
on Safari if you've got a Mac - otherwise Firefox
and IE should work OK though there are some UI
problems - mostly aesthetic  (Will hopefully be
able to hire some pro web/seaside programming
support soon to get closer to a production version)
-Jay

> Posted this to the Seaside group a few days ago -
> reposting here for anyone interested checking out
> a Squeak-based music app
>
>>A Squeak-based music remixer with a Seaside web GUI,
>>is (intermittently) online at: http://tone23.org/qtone.
>>Will hopefully be incorporated into a commercial site
>>eventually, but for now this (alpha) version is there
>>for the curious, running on my home machine (a 4-processor
>>Macintel).
>>
>>Aesthetically it's real simple (visually) so far, with
>>some evident hacks owing to my limited experience with html
>>and web apps. This was essentially an exercise at duplicating
>>a desktop-based (Morphic) app in Seaside. (No facility for
>>importing MIDI/audio files yet - only preset choices)
>
> The output (for now) is MIDI - so your web browser will
> need to have a plugin that handles MIDI. An upcoming
> version will incorporate tagged audio loops, and produce
> results as audio (MP3, etc).
>
> Additional info for computer music geeks:
> The software analyzes the note content of music
> tracks drawn from disparate sources, and combines them
> into a new piece after performing harmonic and rhythmic
> manipulations to improve musical coherence, and to
> produce variations.
>
> In this version the domain is limited to a database
> of groove-based music snippets that each consist of
> some combination of drums, bass, lead, accompaniment,
> and pad parts.
>
> (and for ultra geeks)
> The algorithms combine rule-based approaches, applies
> well-formedness and preference rules for handling voices
> and segments within parts, exploits connections between
> binomial coefficents and rhythmic displacements in
> contrapuntal voice leading, and various other approaches
> from math and music theory. Genetic algorithms carry out
> most of the optimizations (these have been ported to C++
> via FFI for speed).
>
> I'll try to keep the app online as much as possible,
> as long as people seem to be using it - will hopefully
> find a more reliable hosting solution soon.
> Any problems/questions/comments/rants to jayh at panix.com.
> Thanks to anyone who plays with the software (and you
> should also send me your name if you do so I can hopefully
> provide free access to beta users if/when the thing goes
> commercial)
>
> Jay Hardesty
> jayh at panix.com
> 646-537-5715
>
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