Pedalman (2008) Interactive Music System || vjmanzo.com

The PedalMan software was designed to give musical freedom to performers who use MIDI footcontrollers such as these Studiologic footpedals. This software, which is shown here running on a small touchscreen computer, allows the performer to select a tonic and mode for which to perform. Then, when the user presses on one of the velocity sensitive pedals, the software builds up a chord from that pitch based on the key that the user had previously selected. Non-chord tones become secondary leading tone chords. The performer is not required to hold down the pedal in order to sustain the chord. The chord will sustain indefinitely until this pedal is pressed. The chord voicing itself can also be changed on the fly.

by V.J. Manzo
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purchase at http://vjmanzo.com/_/pedalman.htm

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Music

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• interactive music
• Max/MSP
• algorithmic composition
• music education
• music technology
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• EAMIR
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• modal object library