BigBand - composing music for small ensembles

Last updated: febr 2010

Features:
- Fast note entering for instruments and percussion.
- Piano-roll or staff display.
- Sound from extended FM synthesis, additive synthesis, or samples (GUS patches)
- MIDI import and export.
- WAVE export.
- Printable scores for the conductor and for the musicians, with chords and annotations.
- Help with deriving chords.

Source code with documentation: bigband-1.1.tar.gz
Platform: Linux. Porting should be easy because SDL libraries are used for graphics and sound.

Listen to: Lekker Boos [mp3]
Listen to: How Low (from MIDI output) [mp3]
Look at: the score of this piece (for saxes, bass and drums) [pdf]

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