Dhalang MG

For someone with a computer science background, it was quite interesting to try Markov chains and state machines for music generation. But the way I see it, it is more like an experiment/academic study than actual music creation: I can't really see how you can produce good music with it. But I'm a computer scientist, not a musician. The software itself offers a lot of more features to play with, different types of synths, and it supports MIDI keyboards and ASIO output - something you often miss in the Steam store music production software/games. As for synths - I've seen better, but here it's more about the variety of things to do than doing a great synth at the level of the VST plugins.

I'd say if you already have ASIO4ALL driver installed on your PC, you know there are chances to make good acquaintance with this software, which ain't especially user-friendly. The screenshots are quite explicit: every aspiring sound engineer must feel acute arousal from the oscillator envelope geometry and the promised microtonal tuning of scales. Seems to be a competent tool for writing electronic music with original interaction & visualization. Not a pro by any means, but after 2,5 hours of being astonished (with slightly impaired hearing from unexpected peaks) i figured out at last how to send my piano-roll feed into my synthesizer module #1 and successfully saved the project. Hoping to return later! It really asks for *gamification* (especially being presented on Steam) - with an achievement-based tutorial this could become a strong educational resource about the physical nature of sound vibration.

Has alot of promise, but still needs alot of development before ready for prime time. I was attracted to it because of the flexibility with using different scales and the ability to create your own. I'd say it succeeds in this department, but it makes the other deficiencies seem that much worse, because this would be an extremely useful piece of music software otherwise. There are several issues, but the worst one, that I feel really needs to be addressed before this is a usable product, is that signals overload and "block out" way too easily for software from the 21st Century. By this I mean, let's say you're using the Analog synth, for example. You start tweaking it out to get your sound - you then discover that only a small number of settings are actually usable because many of them cause the signal to completely overflow - it feels like a mathematical overflow where it runs away and completely clips out to the point of having no sound. This isn't something I've encountered in soft ...

amazingly diferent

excellent product! does more than it indicates! good job! well done! ~7