MICROTONAL COMPOSITION AND NOTATION
Microtonal Composition Software for Composers
Opusmodus provides an integrated environment for generating, transforming, playing and notating microtonal music. Work with quarter tones, eighth tones, cent deviations, tuning ratios and other pitch divisions as part of an algorithmic composition process.
Microtonal material remains connected to OMN, musical functions, playback and staff notation. Composers can move between symbolic pitches, numerical values, frequencies and tuning information without separating tuning from the wider musical structure.
MICROTONAL CAPABILITIES
Work with Pitch Beyond Twelve-Tone Equal Temperament
Opusmodus treats microtonal pitches as structured musical information. They can be written symbolically, generated algorithmically, converted between representations, transformed and displayed in staff notation.
Quarter and Eighth Tones
Represent microtonal pitches with OMN symbols and display them using corresponding accidentals in conventional staff notation.
Microtonal Quantisation
Quantise numerical pitches, pitch symbols or OMN material to semitone, quarter-tone or eighth-tone pitch grids.
Tuning Conversion
Move between pitch symbols, intervals, MIDI values, frequencies, cents, ratios and tuning values for compositional and analytical use.
Algorithmic Transformation
Generate, map, filter, transpose and reorganise microtonal material while preserving its tuning information and musical relationships.
MICROTONAL WORKFLOW
From Microtonal Pitch Material to Notation
Microtonal pitches in Opusmodus remain part of the same symbolic workflow used for conventional musical material. Composers can write them directly in OMN, generate them with functions or derive them by converting frequencies, cents, ratios and numerical pitch values.
Because the tuning information remains attached to the musical material, pitch structures can be transformed without losing their microtonal identity. Rhythms, dynamics and articulations can be developed independently and then recombined with the resulting pitches.
Create
Write quarter tones and eighth tones directly, or generate pitches from numerical and tuning data.
Transform
Transpose, map, filter, reorder and quantise microtonal pitch structures.
Hear
Audition the material using the appropriate microtonal playback configuration.
Notate
Display the result with corresponding microtonal accidentals in staff notation.
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