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How to convert decimals of &pi into music?

First start a Musical Generator. If you don't have it, download it. When a Musial Generator is properly started, it looks like this:

On the upper right of the opening screen you see several tabs with so-called vectors. Vectors can be fractals, numbers, text or whatever. Each of the tabs has its own collection of vectors that belong together. Vectors that have no family relationships with each other are collected in the tab labeled 'Other'. If you click on it you should see the picture below.

Click on &pi and enter 250 in the dialog that pops up to ask you how many decimals you would like to have. A vector pops up in the vector pane as you can see in the next picture.

Why have two different spots to collect vectors you might wonder? Well, the tabs contain templates of the vectors with predefined parameters. But quite often you want to edit the vectors. So when you click on a vector in a tab, a copy is made in the vector pane. There you can edit the vector as you wish. You can have several copies of the same vector and edit them in such a way that they are all different.

How to make music out of this? Click on the vector that you want to hear and drag it to the notes button and drop it there. Now drag the pi vector and drop it over the notes button. You should see something like this.

Now just press the play button and you should hear your first created music.

You will often see graphs or plots of the vectors. The plot example on the previous page contained &pi and a random function. You can create this plot easily for yourself. Click on the tab labeled 'data' and click 'f(x)'. Click 250 in the size box and choose the random function.

This should yield the following:

Now press the shift key and successively click at both vectors so that both are selected. Release the shift key and right click on one of the vectors. Choose plot from the pop-up menu. The result should be something like the picture below.

Easy, isn't it? Now go back to the &pi page and read on. There are more examples to follow.


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