We are glad to announce the latest release (0.6) of the Orchidea software for computer-assisted orchestration.
Orchidea represents the state-of-the-art system for assisted orchestration and the new release is deployed as Max package, GUI standalone and command line tool:
Assisted orchestration can be thought as the process of searching for the best combinations of orchestral sounds to match a target sound under specified metric and constraints. Although a solution to this problem has been a long-standing request from many composers, it remains relatively unexplored because of its high complexity, requiring knowledge and understanding of both mathematical formalization and musical writing.
New features included in this release:
Datasets - new versions of TinySOL, OrchideaSOL and FullSOL with new licenses
GUI standalone software - first release to the public
Max package – several improvements
Concept, research and development: Carmine-Emanuele Cella
From an original idea by: Yan Maresz
Max package design and development: Daniele Ghisi, Carmnine-Emanuele Cella Interface design and development: Alessandro Petrolati, Daniele Ghisi, Carmine-Emanuele Cella Command line tools: Carmnine-Emanuele Cella
Associated composers: Michael Jarrell, Kit Soden, Victor Cordero, Luis Naon, Núria Giménez-Comas, Marc Garcia Vitoria Thanks to: Jean-Louis Giavitto
Please feel free to contact Carmine-Emanuele Cella or the affiliated institutions for any inquiry or for bugs report
