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Madplayer
Madplayer was a portable music device that started selling in 2001. It was conceived by Alain Georges (a.k.a. Doctor Mad) and a group of engineers and musicians who started to work on it in 1998. As opposed to other devices and/or software pieces in the same application field, the music composing technology behind the MadPlayer was not Loop (music)}loop-based but rather composed of multiple layers of algorithms that eventually generated each note for each instrument, chosen on the basis of music genre definitions. An embedded synthesizer technology was in charge of producing the music based on the generated score. According to Alain Georges, "the name 'MadPlayer' came from the fact that the 'songs' that were created from scratch by the technology were based on algorithms (rules) uniquely dependent on the music genre that a user picked, and at some point of experimentation [it was] decided just for fun to create a new 'music genre' that would mix all the algorithms from all the styles. [As can be guessed], this could yield to pretty wild results, and sometimes sounded like they had been composed by a mad man.…
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Madplayer was a portable music device that started selling in 2001. It was conceived by Alain Georges (a.k.a. Doctor Mad) and a group of engineers and musicians who started to work on it in 1998. As opposed to other devices and/or software pieces in the same application field, the music composing technology behind the MadPlayer was not Loop (music)}loop-based but rather composed of multiple layers of algorithms that eventually generated each note for each instrument, chosen on the basis of music genre definitions. An embedded synthesizer technology was in charge of producing the music based on the generated score. According to Alain Georges, "the name 'MadPlayer' came from the fact that the 'songs' that were created from scratch by the technology were based on algorithms (rules) uniquely dependent on the music genre that a user picked, and at some point of experimentation [it was] decided just for fun to create a new 'music genre' that would mix all the algorithms from all the styles. [As can be guessed], this could yield to pretty wild results, and sometimes sounded like they had been composed by a mad man.…
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