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Virtual Composer is a graphical multiple track musical sequencer and analyzer for the Macintosh, designed for perfect execution of complex polyphonic music using QuickTime's Musical Instruments libraries or using custom SoundFonts libraries to replace QuickTime's instrument waveforms.
Virtual Composer is mainly a musical renderer and sequencer and thus is predominantly performance-oriented. It is NOT a musical notator as it contains only a minimal (but sufficient) set of notation capabilities. If you want to quickly turn your doodles into printable music, this program is not for you.
Virtual Composer is mainly intended for performers who want to generate high quality musical executables. Playing is effected via QuickTime's internal Musical Instruments synthesizers or via SoundFonts so you don't need MIDI cables or external devices and all upsampling and downsampling is done automatically via QuickTime.
The Help Manual is included with the download in .pdf format and describes the program's more elaborate program functions. You can also read it here.
The projects below have been created by exporting Virtual Composer
scores
into AIFFs and then encoding them as .mp3s at 128/112 kbits and 44.1
kHz.
Click on an .mp3 project to download it so you can listen to it:
Depending on your System, you must download and install:
| Macintosh | Operating System [1] | Application and Fonts [2] | Supporting Files [3] | QuickTime [4] |
| 68k | MacOS 7.x | Virtual Composer 68k (350 KB) | Manual, Examples and Scripts (2.2 MB) | 4.0.3 |
| 68k or PPC | MacOS 7.x-9.x | Virtual Composer FAT (590 KB) [5] | Manual, Examples and Scripts (2.2 MB) | 4.1.2/5.x/6.x |
| PPC | MacOS 7.x-9.x | Virtual Composer PPC (410 KB) | Manual, Examples and Scripts (2.2 MB) | 4.1.2/5.x/6.x |
| PPC | MacOS X | Virtual Composer X (588 KB) | Manual, Examples and Scripts (2.2 MB) | 7.x |
[1] The table above assumes that you are BOOTING into the indicted OS. The Virtual Composer applications are not guaranteed to work if you are booting into a different OS or if you use the applications in Classic mode emulation from OS X.
[2]/[3] Downloading the application without the examples or the opposite (the examples without the application) will be an exercise in futility/frustration. You need to download BOTH, for the corresponding version of your OS.
[4] You may need to install a different QuickTime version depending on your System configuration. For more details, consult the program manual.
[5] The FAT application is basically identical to both 68k/PPC versions and is provided for people who don't know if they are running on a 68k or a PPC machine (it will run on both). If your machine is PPC, download the PPC version to minimize download times.
Latest version is 3.5.9, build #0 of 7/11/2005, for MacOS 9 and 3.6.1 of 7/11/2005, for MacOS X.
The Classic version, Virtual Composer, is freeware. Contact the author of the Classic version for a registration number. If your system can still run MacOS 7-9, you can edit with the free Classic version and play with the OSX version, since files are interchangeable between both versions.
The OSX version, Virtual Composer X is $50 shareware. The unregistered version is fully functional except that you cannot save files in the program's internal format (You can still save in all other supported formats). You can register online, through Kagi. Please make sure you specify Virtual Composer X when you are ordering on Kagi's ordering page, because the Classic and OS X versions have different registration numbers. After you register, you will immediately receive a registration number by email from Kagi which you can use to activate the saving function.
The author of the Classic version can be contacted here. The author of the OS X port can be contacted here.