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Versatile, creative, original. Well worth investigating.
Sawcutter is a real original and is software that I keep returning to, despite using several other examples of 'music composition' software. It's single screen is designed to avoid endless drop-down menus and although this makes it initally complex to understand, a little perseverance soon overcomes any doubts. You can easily, rapidly (and in real time) create 'building blocks' of sounds. These can be endlessly looped until you are happy with them - and they can then be used as elements within longer compositions. Monophonic riffs can be created and (again in real time) can then be converted into polyphonic, chorsal riffs by experimenting with a very neat 'keyboard' panel. Waveforms can be imported or drawn and re-shaped .... once again, in real time. In fact, that's the key - everything is in real time. If the software has any weakness it is that there are only four main tracks onto which 'building blacks' can be laid. The variation of the 'piano roll' (which is where all your composition takes place)is a trifle small if you want to span several octaves. But taking everything into account - this is a really unusual piece of software and is ideal for those of us who enjoy experimentation and who aren''t. perhaps, the greatest thing in the world when it comes to using piano keyboards as input devices.
And best of all - if you visit the main Sawcutter website, you will find Sawcutter1 which is an earlier - and now free - incarnation of Sawcutter2.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. I love it.
-- Alan Sturgess
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April 14, 2004 03:46:55  |
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