>>How much control do you actually have in this program?
>
>Well..perhaps Chris is more able to answer that...

Oh, I doubt that. :-) How long is a piece of string?

>The PDF is pretty good in explaining all the details, but experimentation is
>the Key to this program!

Yes, that's absolutely true. My process for coming up with my initial 
material for a new piece is to randomise all the parameters on a 
track, then just run it over and over to see what happens. If you 
don't like what it's producing, just hit the space bar. This 
interrupts and discards what it's just done, re-randomises the 
parameters and starts 'fractating' from the top. Once you get 
something you feel you can work with, keep the results and 
de-randomise the track and you've got your starting material.

From there, an approach that can often produce interesting results is 
to copy the parameters to another track then just tweak one of them 
slightly (or less slightly if you prefer) and you should get a 
variation on the original. If you change nothing but the pitch 
expansion parameter, you'll get exact rhythmic unison with the first 
track, but different notes - more or less widely spread, as the 
parameter's name suggests.

I know it may be a bit heavy going, but it really is worth ploughing 
through Chapter 5 in the PDF (pp 41-48) to get a handle on what's 
actually going on in there.

Oh, and I meant to say this about the PDF - sorry the contents are a 
bit out of whack. This is the first PDF I've made from PageMaker, 
using the automatic Table of Contents feature, which is based on 
paragraph styles. The result is that there are more entries in the 
table than there should be! Just ignore those blank ones - the others 
do work. Similarly, through my own inexperience at doing this, not 
all the references in the index are hyperlinked as they should be. I 
hope this doesn't inconvenience you too much!

Whatever - have fun.

-- 
  Cheers ... Chris