MusicDevelopments has released RapidComposer, a rapid music prototyping software designed for composers, song-writers and musicians of all musical styles.

Imagine an innovative software environment where you have access to everything you need during composition at your fingertips:

  • EXTENSIVE DATABASES of scales, chords, chord progressions, phrases, instruments, song templates
  • INTUITIVE EDITOR with incredible editing capabilities where you can edit the structure, chords, phrases and all other aspects of the composition in a non-destructive way. All phrases and notes automatically conform to the current chord and scale.
  • TOOLS for generating phrases, creating sophisticated motifs using the dozens of built-in phrase variations, assigning chord progressions, manually editing phrases and chord progressions, filling lines/verses with phrases and variations, even generating a multi-track composition based on your rules!
  • VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS – you can use your existing VSTi plugins and soundfont (.sf2) files

RapidComposer features

  • Advanced tools for phrase editing, phrase generation, phrase grouping, motif development, chord progression editing.
  • 2D view of the composition with structure editor as opposed to 1D view of DAW applications.
  • Intuitive drag and drop environment (you can drop chords, progressions, scales, phrases, instruments to the composition).
  • Extensive scale, chord, guitar chord databases.
  • Instrument management with the capability of adding tags to instruments that allows the composer to find an instrument by tag.
  • The IdeaTool generates a multitrack composition based on the parameters and rules that you specify.
  • Unlimited undo and the ability to make several versions of the same composition.
  • Virtual instruments (VSTi v2.4 plugins) support.
  • SoundFont (.SF2) support.

RapidComposer is available for a limited time introduction offer of $395 USD.

More information: MusicDevelopments