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Experiments in Musical Intelligence: David Cope’s Emily Howell

David Cope is an “…American author, composer, scientist, and professor emeritus of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His primary area of research involves artificial intelligence and music”.2 I recently stumbled across an interesting article about the computer generated music by Cope which includes some interesting quotes by Douglas Hofstadter,3 a very well [...]

Turn Your KORG MS2000 into a Drum Machine with Bass Line and Lead

I recently got a chance to jam with a Korg MS2000B. Released in 2003, the Korg MS2000B is “a new version of the original Korg MS-2000 synthesizer with an updated sound set, black metallic color scheme and dedicated vocoder mic.”1. The original Korg MS-2000 uses virtual analog subtractive synthesis, has 2 ADSR attenuators, 1 resonant [...]