procedural-music

What's a good api for creating music via programming?

I'm looking into playing around with procedurally generating music. I'm hoping to find a really simple API where I can just call out instrument, note, duration and string together a song (I'll take anything of course but that would be my preference). Does anyone know of any library that does this? ...

Dynamic Audio Generation Actionscript 3

I'm looking into making a music theory lab application, where you can see the graphical relation between music theory concepts. I would like this to be available online, so Flash and Silverlight come to mind. But I would like to dynamically generate tones and chords etc from user input. This is something I know is a very underdeveloped...

Finding free individual note sounds for procedural music

If you want to make procedural music, generally you're going to need individual note sounds (for whatever instrument) which you can string together. Is there somewhere i can get these for free, preferably usable for commercial purposes? ...

Procedural snare drum

So I've got something like: void createSinewave( short * array, int duration, int startOffset, float freq, float amp ) ; void createSquarewave( short * array, int duration, int startOffset, float freq, float amp ) ; Other functions "slide" a wave form from some low frequency to some high frequency, and accept two frequency pa...

Procedural music generation?

Anyone have good book / article recommendation for procedural generation of background music? (No vocals, just instruments). I'm not interested in: How do I generate the sound of a particular note on a particular instrument I'm interested in: How do I generate the melody / score for the music. Thanks! EDIT: Thanks for the refere...