![]() For those with a 19" monitor (for TT High: 1,280x960 resolution) MIDIGEN is a real treat as you can spread out all the generator and parameter screens at once. MIDIGEN works well on all STs, Falcons and TT030s with at least 1 MB RAM. You can have one generator set up for percussion, others for bass, and another for melody or complete random craziness! (Which seems to be its strong point) Careful planning on which generators to trigger can be part of the compositional process when working with MIDIGEN. Thus you can generate all sorts of things all at the same time. You can select a generator by hitting a QWERTY key or function key. The live element comes into play when you are on the main generator screen. ![]() Once you change a parameter, you can select the little check-box next to it to activate it. You can also create tonal effects as well as random events, such as automatic patch changing, for some real interesting textures. Then stop everything and try entering parameters of your own within the parameter screen, select Play and hear the results. Experiment by clicking into control boxes in the main screen to see what is programmed in them. If you click into the main screen (or close the generator screen) and then click into any of the "control" boxes with zeros in them, this brings up a screen in which you can change the playing parameters.Ĭlicking into Play will cause what is programmed into the generator screen to output its data. Notice you can scroll the windows left and right. When MIDIGEN loads, a generator screen comes up over the main screen. Timer P: The same for generating program-changes. Timer T: Adds a random timing interval from a range. Mono: For monophonic synths, sends a Note Off before playing the next note controller only, switches off note generation for that generator (mostly to preserve computational power). Tone interval: Sets the interval to 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 or 1/16 of a note (using pitch-bend).ĭauer: Length of generated note (the polyphony is 5 notes per channel). Parameters for applying the 12-tone rule (has to go through all notes of scale, before a note repeats). MIDI and controllers have basically the same generation algorithms: random within range, intervals within range (ascending, descending and permutational-order) for generation of MIDI notes there are additional features: It can send data on four MIDI channels, up to six controllers are available. It was designed for use in his live set-up, for improvised music. According to Jochen, MIDIGEN was planned to be a "simple" MIDI event generator (for mostly note on/off and controllers), to overcome the poor user interfaces of the early '90s synths. It sounds like M, Tunesmith and Schoenberg Composer all rolled into one. However, it is now being released to the unsuspecting Atari MIDI community in hopes it will be used in exploring other facets of music. MIDIGEN is an algorithmic MIDI GENerator created for Jochen's personal use by his companion Petra Wolf. The last offering and perhaps the most interesting is MIDIGEN. The next offering is Prophy, a Korg Prophecy bank loader. These include ZEUS, an editor/librarian for Emu Morpheus/Ultra Proteus. These were developed in Germany by Joker Nies and his companion Petra Wolf. In doing so, he responded very positively by providing as freeware several previously commercial applications. I decided to contact him for availability. In my web searches, I stumbled across a programmer's page in which a certain programmer was writing about some SysEx utilities he developed for the Atari platform. ![]() Here is a little review by Tim Conrady, a Atari and MIDI enthusiast:Ītari MIDI-Generator programmed by Petra Wolf-Nies You can download MIDIgen (and other Atari software from us) here: Installation at Hotel Pupik, Schrattenberg, Austria, 2012. It is still working fine, though the backlight is down to a contrast ratio of about 1:10 My Schlepptop (7 kilos) was a Atari Stacy with 4MB and a 120MB HD. In fact, in 1992, I was a early laptop-player. ![]() MIDIgen is the prominent event generator for most of the sounds on the two CDs of my duo with Jeffrey morgan (saxophone), Pair a Dice, Snake Eyes and Near Vhana. I have used MIDIgen exensively for live improvisation from around 1992 to 1998. The range of control, even on simple sound-modules is amazing and could not be achieved with any other software for Atari by the time. The 16 sets of up to 21 Generators can be controlled via keyboard-shortcuts external MIDI-CCs. The program generates MIDI-data based on algorhythms or ranged random behavior. Parameters could be accessed though via the MIDI-protocol though, that is still in use today. MIDIgen has been developed by my wife Petra Wolf-Nies and me in the early 90s on the Atari computer as a event-generator for the 19“ soundmodules of the time, that lacked any tangible hardware controls. ![]()
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