This application program is a design support tool to compose a short
musical piece of sixteen beats and 23 parts, thirteen solos, two pianos,
and eight percussions. The basic mechanism is a type of
Interactive Evolutionary Computation,
of which roots can be found in the Blind Watchmaker by R. Dawkins. One
field window appears on the screen when you invoke
SBEAT, that includes nine sub windows showing individual scores of the
initial population. You can breed scores on this window by mouse, keyboard,
and menu operations.
You can listen to the individual music by clicking the sub window
through Tune Player of Quick Time Music Architecture.
The score window allows you to collect individual pieces
into a sequence of bars to build up a tune of several bars.
If your computer has additional MIDI sound resources other than QuickTime Music,
you can choose which sound resource SBEAT uses.
Selecting QuickTime from the control panel or control bar on MacOS 9,
or from the system preferences on MacOS X,
please check the items in music.
The score in both field and score window can be saved into a file of
SMF (Standard MIDI File) format by selecting Save as SMF item from
File menu.
It is available as a stuff of ordinary style of DTM composition
and arrangement by another tool.
A sample tune in SMF is here.
Please refer to
http://www.intlab.soka.ac.jp/~unemi/sbeat/
to get the newest information on SBEAT.