Recently Apple released a piece of software for the Mac platform that was supposed to allow people to produce music and I picked up this little gem of software last week and really hadn’t had a chance to play around with it enough to fully understand all of its capabilities, but I thought I would share with you guys what I produced from it:
Nice! 
There are some parts that seem to be out of scale which sounds a bit weird especially because it is otherwise arranged quite nicely. But maybe this was intentional for the game?
The strings sounds are very good.
Erik
Good rythm, cleverly dischordant (luck or flaw?)
Cas 
Yeah, outside of an initial ‘tempo fart’ in the opening (its like 1/8 a second off and only at the end of the intro) - the rest of the tempo anomolies are intentional I did that to just kinda throw things off.
Just curious, do you know of any 3rd party tools for creating and executing interactive music, maybe something pluggable to Java? Something like Microsoft’s Direct Music?
Don’t know of anything that would be Java compatible I’m afraid. The closest you’ll get is Java Media Framework and it itself is a poor option for all but the most basic compositions. Eventually I’m sure people will build something on top of JOAl to allow something comparable to DirectMusic, but to be honest - DirectMusic is grossly underutilized.
What about QuickTime for Java? QuickTime plays .MP3 files, for example.
Don’t personally know the current state of the API, but it’s been around for years.
DirectMusic does a lot more than simply play music though. DirectMusic is an API for setting sound themes, fonts, and cues so that music can be dynamiclly rendered and tempo’d.
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Would you be talking about “Soundtrack”?
Just wondering, do you actually need talent to make something decent with it :)?
I like what you’ve done.
If you have a mind that is good with patterns and have a taste for music - Soundtrack and Reason (picked up a demo of this) will make it easier for you to put something together without having a lot of experience in actual music theory.