Rangarajan

Hi, Glad that OM 3.0 is built on top of LispWorks. I am curious to know whether the licensed edition is "Professional" or "Enterprise". The latter has nice features that can add extra power to what one can do with Opusmodus. - Rangarajan

I agree completely. I too have experimented with GPT3.5 API (waiting for access to GPT 4) and I have learnt that we should be cautious while depending on this system. It tends to generate a lot of incorrect stuff, at the same time appearing to be quite knowledgeable! I am sure these tools will improve over a period of time, but I feel they lack the "creativity" of humans. I don't want to wade into any controversy ...!

Hi, After a long gap, I upgraded to Ver 3.0 a few days ago! Noticed the announcement regarding the book "Fundamentals of Composition with Opusmodus". Is it available in e-book form? Hopefully that will be less expensive and more accessible! - Rangarajajan

Thank you so much for sharing this information! - Rangarajan

Hi, Opusmodus team has done a great job in supporting L-system. I have been spending some time to understand this feature; seems quite powerful. I have just uploaded a blog post on this topic. Your comments and suggestions will be very much appreciated. Does OM implementation support the full functionality as outlined in this paper? - Rangarajan

I have created a 24-bar piece in Opusmodus. I use 10 instruments including Kalimba, Ghatam, Nadhaswaram, Mridangam, and Udukkai. Played through Reaper. The instruments are from UVI and Propellerhead Reason. - Rangarajan

Thanks. Wouldn't it be nice to add it to the official documentation?

Just downloaded and installed the latest version 2.1.26172. Documentation for the function "pprint-score" seems to be missing. - Rangarajan

It seems to me that Stephane's solution is the preferred one if the euclidean-rhythm is to be generated with different seeds. - Rangarajan

Thanks! I fully agree with your view on license fee, etc. I guess it is possible to view OM as a Lisp-based Library for music synthesis, if you exclude the IDE, etc. It is perfectly reasonable for the library vendor to charge developers a "royalty", based on the number of copies of their application sold, in addition to the one-time license fee for purchasing the library. - Rangarajan

Super! Thanks Stephane. - Rangarajan

Thanks a lot! "chord-interval-add" comes closest to what I want. Stephane's suggestion would be ideal if we want all chords to be the same size. If we need chords of different sizes, "chord-interval-add" seems better suited. Coming to a related point, I would love to take advantage of the huge collection of predefined chords in the OM library. For instance, something like the following might be useful (hope I don't sound silly): (harmonic-progression '(maj7 add9 11 7s/9/b5) '(c4 major)) This allows me to get different chord types in harmonic progression on a given scale. - Rangarajan

That is correct, but how to handle the special extended chords (like V7 as I mentioned earlier)?

There doesn't seem to be a direct way to do this in Ableton. However, it seems straightforward to take care of it in Falcon. In any case, would it not be better to support this in Opusmodus? Perhaps we can set a global variable for this?