Symbolic Composer Changelog

What's new in Symbolic Composer 6.3

• Documentation:
• Re-organized Menu Structure (easier to browse and locate functions).
• Extended Documentation (added special functions used in Score Lib scores, now fully covering and correct).
• Extended Essential Lisp (Lisp forms mentioned in the documentation are now covered, too).
• Extended and Customized System Index (quick browsing of all the main SCOM categories + define your own menus).
• Interface:
• Output folder (launch SCOM MIDI files from System Index).
• Easy Desktop Placement (memorizes Window size and placement).
• Scrolling Grapher (allows bigger graphs to be scrolled).
• Listener (fixes high-light problems and auto-scrolling).
• Launch Web Pages (composition-related sites, Lisp Docs and SCOM User Group integrated in the Menus).
• Workspace Management:
• Improved Desktop Restore (restore now also graphs, memorize index menu selection, places last Editor on top, easier to continue later).
• Snapshots (make a snapshot of current windows, and restore them later, quick project recovery, easy to switch between larger projects).
• Editor:
• Def Evaluation (quickly evaluate a command in docs, or score without selecting it at first).
• Indent Selection (indents selection with a command, custom indentation also possible).
• Copy/Paste (standard paste/write over selection).
• Close Other Editors (close unrelated documents to clutter up screen).
• Hide/Show Windows (access Windows desktop).
• Menus:
• Go Menu (extended set of SCOM commands covered, quick jump to document subtitles and Lisp forms).
• Related Menu (shows related documents and their categories, answers the question "where am I?").
• Intuitive save-path (save & open uses the topped editor path below, which is the mostly likely candidate to work with).
• Null-Compiler added to Eval Buf command (clears Class System bindings between songs, no strange errors due score overlapping).
• Selection-based commands and keyboard equivalents added to the menus.
• Error Handling:
• Terminal Blocking (error-trapping spots errors before, minimized Terminal Window messages, more smooth SCOM operation).
• Freeze Blocking (all processes including searches now run concurrently and are stoppable, no halting).
• Functions:
• Advanded Tonality Processing (sorting, mixing and compatibility between tonality functions works now transparent, re-organized Tonality Menus).
• Modulations (find the best solutions between transitions of given scales).
• Positional Chords (for commercial/film styles).
• Enrichment Rules (emulate Pop-Music chord-voicing, extend position chords into chromatism).
• Tonality Analysis (analyze scale and chord progressions, find the best candidates with minimum or maximum differences and energy).
• Tonality Symbols (attach notes to a symbol, and realize tonality symbols with SCOM's symbol generators, or with manual entries).
• Tonality Library Notelists (define tonality library entries with ad-hook notelists).
• Recursive Section Handling (control generative section contents).
• Number Theory Additions (number sequence-generators added + web interface to integer sequences provided for more).
• Cosmix Toolbox (many additions, requires manual tune-ups due http protocol in LW win is not compatible with the websites used).
• Added Conversion and Supplementary Functions (in many categories).