QUADERNO > THE MUSICAL EXPRESSION QUADERNO is a program for MIDI sequencing and an aid to musical composition and research. QUADERNO was created by two musicians who envisioned a program that would serve their needs as composers. This software is the result of 5 years of intense work and musical research. It was first developed on the Atari and since one year for the PC . It's a program based entirely on MIDI; you can perform many types of data transformations very quickly allowing immediate feedback based upon your musical idea. The interface is attractively colored; it allows you to link music and color in a very intuitive way. A virtual Remote-Control panel allows you to: 1- determine your Recording choices 2- use special Functions to transform your music 3- access the different "Spaces" (various views of your musical data) [NOTE:On the Falcon version, the menu items at the bottom of the screen represent what was later made into the remote control panel described above] 1 - RECORDING can be done in different ways: - Normal MIDI recording with a keyboard or any MIDI instrument - Simple Recording with the mouse (1 Pattern) - Multitrack MIDI recording with the mouse (up to 56 Patterns all together) - Multitrack MIDI recording (16 tracks or 16 MIDI instrumentalists) in real-time. 2 - FUNCTIONS: The functions are very powerful mathematical algorithms that allows you to transform your music with a single click of the mouse. Quaderno's Functions include: Accents- Agitation - Random - Rhythm Analysis - Arpeggiator - Cadences - Calculation - Canons - Chords - Conversions - Untie - Echoes - Melodic Evolution - Expression - Harmonization - Legato - Morphing - Suppress Controllers - Reduce Controllers - Progressions - Quantize-Random - Quantize-Fill - Quantize-Logic - Quantization Reduction - Re-Injection - Harmonic Resolution - Rhythm Tracker - Staccato - Suppress Doubles - Suppress Recovey - Send Sysex - Tessitura - Melodic Transposition - Formula - Sorting - Wave Creation . 3 - SPACES: > SESSION: The basic space of the program . It is made up of a large checkerboard filled up with 196 small squares, each square is called: an Area. Each Area is characterized by a name, a number, a MIDI channel, a synthesizer, a sound, a Scale and a Quaderno. On the left of this large checkerboard you can find a column with numbers from 1 to 56. Each number represents a Pattern. Around this axis revolve 14 "satellite" spaces. > LIBRARY: For saving all the files you create in the different spaces with a very convenient feature, the ability to audition items from the Library before importing them. > SONG: For structuring and organizing all the Patterns (musical figures) you have developed in the SESSION space, in the same manner as with a classic sequencer but with functions specific to Quaderno. It's also the place for export/import of MIDI files. > MICRO-EDITION: A graphic representation of all the MIDI events of the selected Pattern. Each curve is a linear event representation of the various parameters of your music. You can modify each of these curves independently and use functions specific to this space: expansion, compression, horizontal and vertical inversion. > NOTE-EDIT: Note events on a grid that represent the pitch on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis. You can make modifications and transformations on the selected notes instantaneously, and choose to visualize the color of notes according to their velocity or pitch, > CHORDS: This space allows creation and auditioning of all sorts of chords according to the set of available scales in use in QUADERNO. You can use your chord grids in different ways (send them to a free Area, or use them to reharmonize one or several Patterns). > HARMONIC MODULATIONS : To create principles of harmonic modulation that you will be able to apply in several ways. These harmonic modulations can be used in real time. > MIDI SETUP: To manage and program all Midi peripherals. > MONITORS: To "see" the music that you have created in a very original way. The different Monitors translate into images (color, speed, movement..) the MIDI events of your music. > MUSICAL ANALYSIS : To analyze the harmonic contents of any Pattern and see immediately which scales the harmony involves and also to extract a chord grid from this harmonic analysis and use these results in different ways. > ORCHESTRATION: To select and extract the different musical elements of a Pattern according to 7 criteria and 2 Modes. Once you have selected the desired elements, you can sort them out and send them into different Plans (up to 6 Plans). > DYNAMIC PADS: To re-write in real time your sequence by playing with the mouse on the 4 fundamental elements of a Pattern: Velocities, Durations, Notes and Rhythms. > COMPOSER: To algorithmically generate MIDI sequences without user input (without keyboard or mouse). You'll select several musical parameters (rhythms, notes, durations, MIDI controller ) and QUADERNO will generate music based upon your program (up to 70 tracks). > REAL-TIME: Today, we are no longer work in a linear fashion but rather from a multidimensional perspective. It is in the Real-Time space that you will understand this new approach. Here, multiple MIDI instrumentalists can play and record together. Thank you for taking the time to familiarize yourself with QUADERNO .We hope that QUADERNO will enable you to compose in a completely different way and that you will discover a new and pleasurable approach to making music. _____________________________________________________