BigBand - composing music for small ensembles

Features:

• Fast note entering for instruments and percussion.
• Piano-roll or staff display.
• Instrument sounds from extended FM synthesis, additive synthesis, samples (GUS patches) or mono synthesizer.
• Percussion from WAVE samples.
• File- and directory chooser.
• Meter and key changes at any moment.
• MIDI file import and export.
• WAVE file export.
• C file export (to be used by another program).
• Patch creation from WAVE file.
• Printable scores, with chords and annotations.
• Help for the deriving of chords.
• Audio output from ALSA or Jack.
• MIDI output to ALSA sequencer bus.
• Copy/paste notes from another BigBand program.

Downloads:
The manual.
Source code: bigband-1.3.tar.gz (may 7, 2012)
NB! To compile, a recent version of gcc is needed, supporting lambda expressions (gcc option -std=c++0x).

Platform: Linux. Porting should be easy because SDL libraries are used for the GUI.

Listen:	Lekker Boos [mp3]
Listen:	Me Like The Springtime (Michel Fabre) [ogg]
Listen:	How Low (from MIDI output) [mp3]
Look:	the score of this piece (for saxes, bass and drums) [pdf]
Listen:	3 times the same tune: Native BigBand sound (where the final chords are sung by our cat) [mp3] Melody from amSynth (a single-voice polyphonic synthesizer), drums from Timidity [mp3] Melody from MiniComputer (an 8-voice monophonic synthesizer), final chords from Aeolus (a superb church organ), drums from Hydrogen [mp3]

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