Symbolic Composer is the largest and most popular high-level music language available for computers. Symbolic Composer 5.4 totals over 1000 music algorithms suitable for modern, dance, classic, electronic, ambient, contemporary and experimental styles. Symbolic Composer 5.4 also includes Common Lisp interpreter that lets the composer extend and customize compositional functionalities.

Symbolic Composer covers 300 microtonal world-music and theoretical scales, and all chords and scales used in the last 500 years of music history. Besides providing the composer a toolbox of traditional composition tools Symbolic Composer also enables the composer to explore advanced fractal and chaos mathematics to determine compositional elements.

Besides frontline contemporary composition styles, Symbolic Composer 5.4 supports any other frontline styles as well, no matter if they are techno, ambient, neo-classic, or exprerimental styles -- the flexibility of SCOM comes up from its free music languge that allows any musical expressions to take place. Shortly, Symbolic Composer's rich music molecular language enables the composer to extend musical capabilities and helps to realize the maximum power of existing studio investments spent on synthesizers and sequencers.

Features:

• Context-Free Scoring Language allows composing music of any style and complexity
• Historical & Contemporary Music Functions supply the classic compositional power-tools
• Mathematical Generators & Processors provide fractals, chaos and number-theory utilities
• Symbolic Generators & Processors allow recursion, l-systems, fibonacci etc. sequences
• DNA/RNA Processors enable to turn genetic data into music
• Programmable Neurons supply added intelligence to instrumentation
• Programmable Phrase Library allows sequential drum and chording pattern generation
• Free Score Library provides templates to start with
• Build-in Hyper-Documentation helps using the system
• Standard MIDI file output enables to use any sequencer, hard disk editor, sound module, or software synthesizer for playback & final assembly
• Integrated Lisp Language allows to write own functions, documents and menus
• Modular Plug-in Expansion helps to distribute own developments to other users
• 300 Chords, Scales & Microtonals supply a complete coverage of tonalities used in our planet - and you are naturally free to discover your own
• Over 1000 Algorithms included, anyone can be connected to anyone in the processing net for maximum creative freedom

Changes in v7.1

• MIDITrail playback buttons, provide convenient control over playback.
• Sidebar buttons, that quickly handle mostly-used commands.
• Insert buttons, which insert comment labels, empty scores and custom templates.
• Quick Menus - keep mouse down to show them. Make changes quick.
• Go-menu labels allow improved tracking of important score places.
• Visualizer, Notation and Locate remember now preferred screen location.
• Signatures & Tempos, those did cause sync errors, now auto-corrected.
• Tempo markings, removes values when not changed.
• Signature marks, reduces these for better readability.
• Guitar Synth, enter frets and SCOM converts them to tonalities, symbols, etc.
• Apply Fret Chords, Tablatures, or Algorithmic Guitar Entries.
• Plain guitar chords in all keys added, easy single-entry chords system-wide.
• Detuned scales, octavization, semitone shift, custom string tunings.
• Covers all fretted instruments.
• Plus improved font scaling.
• Redef-section randomization tools were added
• Tonality additions, new functions, and few fixes also included.
• Symbol-replace - sequential list replacements.
• Filter-replace - symbol replacements.
• convert-mask - converts symbols and rests to plain mask.

Changes in v6.5.6

• Stochastic Search Functions
• Degree Tonalities.
• Vector Crunching
• Ornaments
• Length Functions
• Matrix Processing
• New Chord System & Chord-Analysis
• Other enhancements

Changes in v6.5.7

• Added catalan, hailstone, factor and other new functions for the math-oriented composers.
• Class System update
• Stochastic Search Functions
• Degree Tonalities
• New Chord System & Chord-Analysis
• Length Functions
• Matrix Processing
• Vector Crunching
• Ornaments

Changes in v6.5

• Mountain Lion and Retina Display compatibility
• Improved workflow, visualizer scaling and tonality issues
• Interface adapts to screen resolution changes
• New menu system
• New scale and chord system
• New chord analysis
• Improved Conversions and Mappings

Changes in v6.4.11

• Bugfixes for MIDI output
• Bugfixes for project handling
• Improved compatibility
• New menu commands
• Customize your editor layout
• More themes and 2 icon sets
• Grouped browser listings and backup control