Package: Siren

Siren -- See http://www.create.ucsb.edu/Siren

The Siren system is a general-purpose music description and composition system; it is a re-implementation of the Musical Object Development Environment, MODE, the software component of the Interim DynaPiano project.

Siren is a collection of Squeak Smalltalk class libraries for building musical applications; the current version is known to work on Squeak on an Apple PowerPC Macintosh computer with support for the Opcode MIDI System (OMS) drivers and CD-quality stereo audio I/O.

The Siren release is available via anonymous Internet ftp file transfer from the directory pub/Smalltalk/Music/Siren on the server ftp.create.ucsb.edu (i.e., the URL of the directory is ftp://ftp.create.ucsb.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Music/Siren). There's a web page describing it at http://www.create.ucsb.edu/Siren

Siren has many elements:

• Smoke music representation language: music magnitudes, events, generators, functions, and sounds;
  
• voices, schedulers and I/O drivers: real-time and file-based voices, sound and MIDI I/O;
  
• user interface components for musical applications: UI tools and widgets;
  
• several built-in applications: editors and browsers for Siren objects.