Kangas Sound Editor features
- The user can create music and sound-effects with it.
- It uses a system of frequency ratios for pitch control, rather than
conventional music notation.
- Instruments, both melodic and percussion, can be created from scratch by
specifying harmonics/inharmonics.
- There is a cellular-like structure to compositions, with cells representing
entities at a low level of abstraction (e.g. harmonics) and at a higher level of
abstraction (e.g. chord groups). For details of cell types used by the program,
click here
- User-definable graphs are widely used in the program, e.g. for control of
volume and pitch envelopes, and for shifting the balance of stereo over time.
- Audio output is to uncompressed .WAV files.
- The software is open-source, and is free to download and use.