Onyx 2.0 Adds Intelligence to Sequencing and Arranging
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August 29, 2003
Jasmine Music Technology, together with NTONYX, announced its
flagship product - Onyx 2.0, an intelligent sequencer/arranger,
intended to add creativity and speed to
music creation.
For more than 20 years, sequencers for midi
editing have focused on elementary events like notes
and controllers. But communicating with each other, musicians use
such high-level concepts as key/scale, tune, chord, pattern and
manner of playing - something that sequencers fail to
"understand" completely.
Onyx 2.0 operates not only with notes,
but with musical objects which have certain properties such as harmony
type, performance manner, instruments, and meter. Of course,
these features can be adjusted in a range of parameters.
Musical objects can be morphed with one another. This simplifies the arranging process.
Onyx creates musical objects (named OOStyles - Onyx
Orchestrator Styles) from ready midi-files or recorded fragments.
This allows the musician to create a song from 2-3 slices (for
example, a verse and a refrain) He or she just has to specify
some crucial parameters, and the program does the rest.
100 OOStyles included in Onyx basic package and 400 OOStyles are
available for free download from the company's web site.
Onyx Musical Object Morphing (MOM) is able to make any
song sound in the manner of any other song (e.g. Jingle Bells in
the style of Metallica). It is possible to change the harmony, tune,
style, performing manner, even the rhythm and meter of a style in
any way you like. Or to keep them as they are - in this case they
will be preserved to the smallest detail - volume, pitch and even
tempo nuances.
NTONYX has collected harmonization rules for the
majority of musical styles and genres. This resulted in
Intelligent Auto-Harmony (IAH), used in Onyx 2.0. The program
offers a choice of harmonization variants
for your melody. Onyx knows more than 100
types of chords. Just
give the program orders about genres.
Onyx is on purpose arranged as
a conventional sequencer or a multitrack editor. It comes
complete with all the familiar tracks, clips and effects (midi-effects are included in
the package). Onyx has sequencer functions that a common
computer musician is already probably used to, but the program's strength is that of an intelligent auto-arranger. Onyx can also be an assistant for music
training in harmonies, accompaniment rules and arrangement.
Planned future releases of Onyx will add audio and support for DXi and VST instruments, enhanced by
Performance Modelling.
System Requirements:
- 500 Mhz processor
- Windows-compatible sound card
- 128 MB RAM
- 30 MB hard-disk space for program installation
- Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP
Jasmine Music Technology page:
www.jasminemusic.net
NTONYX page:
www.ntonyx.com
www.jasminemusic.net/onyx20.htm - main product page
www.jasminemusic.net/onyx20_examples.htm - examples
For more information, visit their web site at www.jasminemusic.net. | 
