[Announcement] Orchidea 0.6 - assisted orchestration
New software announcement from ACTOR collaborator Prof. Carmine Cella of UC Berkeley:
Dear all,
We are glad to announce the latest release (0.6) of the Orchidea software for computer-assisted orchestration.
Although we know that our contribution is very small, we hope that, by releasing this new version of our free software, we can bring some relief to the people that are now at home for the emergency.
Orchidea represents the state-of-the-art system for assisted orchestration and the new release is deployed as Max package, GUI standalone and command line tool:
http://www.orch-idea.org
We also have a new YouTube (Orchestration idea) channels with video-tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQqqpZmCWSIy6k4urWKjIw
Assisted orchestration can be thought as the process of searching for the best combinations of orchestral sounds to match a target sound under specified metric and constraints. Although a solution to this problem has been a long-standing request from many composers, it remains relatively unexplored because of its high complexity, requiring knowledge and understanding of both mathematical formalization and musical writing.
New features included in this release:
Datasets
- new versions of TinySOL, OrchideaSOL and FullSOL with new licenses
GUI standalone software
- first release to the public
Max package
– added buffer support to all orchidea.* modules
– global refactoring of orchidea.solve, and of all the orchidea.solution.* modules:
now default export is via buffers and Max dictionary, first two outlets are
reversed
– added support for any sample rate and 24-bit files
– added reverb parameters
– two new tutorials on building a workspace and working with scores
– new orchidea.fromfile.toroll module module for converting a command line
solution into a bach.roll
– new orchidea.play~ module to play directly from a bach.roll
– new orchidea.solution.tollll module
– fixed bug causing quirks with dynamics with equal sign (e.g. f=pp)
– support for pipes in instrument names (doubling)
– added "list" segmentation policy, to manually provide segmentation points
– improved progress bars and notifications for orchidea.solve and orchidea.db.gen
– fixed multiple bugs in orchidea.solve causing errors in solutions
– fixed bug in orchidea.solution.toroll causing wrong marker display
– added "nullmode" in orchidea.db.query
Good luck to everybody and keep safe.
The Orchidea team
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Concept, research and development: Carmine-Emanuele Cella
From an original idea by: Yan Maresz
Max package design and development: Daniele Ghisi, Carmnine-Emanuele Cella
Interface design and development: Alessandro Petrolati, Daniele Ghisi, Carmine-Emanuele Cella
Command line tools: Carmnine-Emanuele Cella
Associated composers: Michael Jarrell, Kit Soden, Victor Cordero, Luis Naon, Núria Giménez-Comas, Marc Garcia Vitoria
Video Tutorials by: Louis Goldford
Thanks to: Jean-Louis Giavitto
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Please feel free to contact Carmine-Emanuele Cella or the affiliated institutions for any inquiry or for bugs report
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