HighC is a software application that creates music.

HighC's goal is to make music composition as simple and direct as sketching.

HighC is inspired from Iannis Xenakis' UPIC work of the mid 80's. UPIC was used by numerous contemporary music composers at the time.

Thanks to nowaday's progress in computing power, this tool is now available to a large audience on commodity hardware, with far more features and ease of use.

Novices and children can use HighC to experiment and learn about harmonics and sound composition. Professional musicians are able to explore a new approach at composition and create new parts or sorts of sound samples to incorporate into their compositions.

Requirements:

· Java 1.4.1 or later

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Printing functionality, enabling export to PDF file format
· Overview shows the cursor in all views during playback.
· Set the default pitch of imported sound samples (to correct potential pitch detection algorithm errors).
· Tune the sampled audio files.
· Audio file import in the FLAC format. FLAC is a lossless audio compression format that saves about 2/3rds of the original file size.
· Distribution reduced from 16 to 10Mb.