To see the Java applet
Synthesis
making music with your computer
(R. Bigoni)
The applet on this page allows you to:
*.midi
format to a folder
on your system;*.midi
format to a folder on your system;*.syn
.Of course it is necessary that your system is equipped with tools of sound reproduction (speakers, headphones, etc.).
To simulate the notes of an instrument:
New Instrument
: a piano keyboard appears;ottava +/-
; when this button is active, if you click on a key of the last octave, you get the corresponding
note in the next octave; if you click a key of the first octave, you get the corresponding note of the previous octave;Instruments
and click on a key of the keyboard: you get the output of the note;To record a new melody:
New Instrument
: a piano keyboard appears;COMPOSE
: under the keyboard you can see the figures of the durations of the notes
(quarter note, eighth note, demisemiquaver, etc.. plain or dotted or in triplets);END
.LISTEN
button);tempo
(see the table below);volume
; the minimum value is 10,
the maximum of 127, the default value is 60;CONTINUE
;New Instrument
in the
applet menu; a new keyboard appears; proceed as for the previous keyboard.tempo | bpm |
---|---|
Largo | 40-60 |
Larghetto | 60-66 |
Adagio | 66-76 |
Andante | 76-108 |
Moderato | 108-120 |
Allegro | 120-168 |
Presto | 168-200 |
Prestissimo | 200-208 |
When composing a melody, by clicking on the button TABLE
, you get the display of the sequence of notes
entered up to that moment. Acting on this table, you can check and modify the sequence of notes entered, their type and their duration.
Opening the tables of two or more instruments, the values in column tick
allow you to check their synchronization.
You can:
CORRECT
and re-enter note, duration and type;DELETE
button;INSERT
button and enter note, duration and type;COPY
button;PASTE
button;EXCERPT
button;
CRESCENDO
button;volume
field,
we will have a crescendo; if the final value is less than that in the volume
field,
we will have a decrescendo; the final value must be between 10 and 127;
volume
field: click the VOLUME RESET
button.At the end of the composition of one or more melodies, you can:
Listen
in the applet menu;change the rhythmic pace from a certain point onwards: to this end
tempo
in the applet menu;the entered tempo is effective until end of the piece; to return to the previous value, or change tempo again, repeat the sequence of the previous steps;
*.midi
format, and save it to a folder on your system:
click on Save Midi
in the applet menu;Save Source
in the applet menu.The Save Midi
item of the applet menu starts a procedure that asks you to name the file to be produced
(plain name, without the extension, that is mandatory *.midi
) and to confirm the operation.
If you confirm, you are prompted to select the folder on your system. Choose the folder and confirm, to download the file from the server of this site to your system.
The *.midi
format is recognized by most of the sound player programs. So, if you open the destination folder
and click on the file icon, you should listen the music played by the default audio/video program or by another
you may have installed in your system.
The Save Source
item of the applet menu starts a procedure that asks you to name the file to be produced
(plain name, without the extension, that is mandatory *.syn
) and to confirm the operation.
A source file encodes only the notes and their durations, not the possible volume changes, which are effective only in listening
or in the production of the *.midi
file.
To reprocess or recompile a source file (with extension *.syn
), previously saved to a folder on your system,
you must first upload it to the server, where it is kept for an hour.
To do this, click on the Upload
item in the applet menu and select the source file to be loaded.
Only after your *.syn
file was reloaded on the server, by clicking the File
item in the applet menu, you can select it and work on it, that is expand it, fix it, save new versions,
create new *.midi
files, etc.
From these midi files, saved to a folder on your computer, you can create files in other more popular formats like *.mp3. To get these files, you can use applications available on the Internet, like, for example, SolMiRe.
Three examples of audio files generated with the same source but with different combinations of two instruments
Some pieces from the Book of Anna Magdalena Bach.
Anthology of 17th and 18th centuries
A well-known piece of Beethoven: Für Elise.
last revised: 30/11/2015