Dear Maxers!

I just released UB standalones of two “classic” realtime compositions that I started to develop in the early 1990ies when I was working at IRCAM:

Lexikon-Sonate (1992-1997)
algorithmic music generator

Amazing Maze (1993-2007)
interactive realtime composition for sampled sound particles

Both projects were started as works-in-progress on the IRCAM Musical Workstation (a NeXT machine equipped with a custom made DSP card) which contained a predecessor of Max and MSP. Parallel to work on both pieces I began the development of a software library nowadays known as the “Real Time Composition Library” (RTC-lib) which is widely used for algorithmic composition under Max and its derivates.

Both pieces run on Apple computers with PPC or Intel processors and can be download as freeware from:

http://www.essl.at

Spread the news!
   — Karlheinz Essl

Dear MAXers!

I am glad to announce the release of RTC-lib 4.6 (Real Time Composition
Library). This software library for algorithmic composition which was started
as early as 1992 finally found its way into the Brave New Intel World – thanks
to the help of friends and neighours.

Free download from: http://www.essl.at

This version works best with Max/MSP 4.6 on Intel or PPC processors under MacOS
X 10.4

Please spread the news!

Cheerbies,
   — Karlheinz Essl

Dear Maxers!

Before I am officially releasing the Universal Binaries savy version of the RTC-lib (Real Time Composition Library for Max) I’d like to post the final candidate for public testing which you can download from:

    http://www.essl.at/works/rtc-beta.html

This software library – a collection of patches and externals for Max/MSP/Jitter) – offers the possibility to experiment with a number of compositional techniques, such as serial procedures, permutations and controlled randomness. Most of these objects are geared towards straightforward processing of data. By using these specialized objects together in a patch, programming becomes much more clear and easy. Many functions that are often useful in algorithmic composition are provided with this library – therefore the composer could concentrate rather on the composition than the programming aspects.

Best regards from Vienna,
    — Karlheinz Essl