MFFM Vector Bass Files

Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Matt Flax <flatmax@cse.unsw.edu.au>

MFFM vectorBass is an example of a few things :
a] A melody line generation tool which lets you plot the pitch, volume and
   'generic waveform sound'. This means you can essentially hear a piece of
   music, grab and plot the synth. waveform and generate your own melody lines
   using this synth. Whether the synth be a persons voice, bass or whatever !
   This is accomplished by merging a FM (frequency modulator) and a Vector
   Graphics application (XFig).
b] Rapid prototyping using a vector graphics application as the front end
   and a custom engine as the back end.

For simple use ....
Open doubleOctave.fig in xfig :
			xfig doubleOctave.fig
Run octave and execute the function output2wav :
			output2wav "doubleOctave.fig" "doubleOctave.wav"

HOME PAGE : http://mffmvectorbass.sourceforge.net/
FTP : ftp://ftp.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/users/flatmax/MFFM_VectorBass.tar.gz

REQUIREMENTS : C++ compiler, XFig and octave http://www.octave.org

NOTES:
* Freq - The frequency with which the waveform is cycled
* Range - The semi-tone count from central scale to top or bottom
* Time - The total time for the output waveform

* Pitch curve plots the pitch vs. time of the melody line
* Volume curve plots the volume vs. time of the melody line
* Pitch and Volume operate relative to the same scale

* Waveform is a plot of one cycle of the curve to be cycled. It determines
  'generic sound' of the synth.
* Waveform is relative to its own scale.