Tutorials

Time resolution and quantization
    These para­me­ters are saved in '-se' set­tings files asso­ci­at­ed with gram­mars and data. They are expressed …
Tonal analysis of musical works
Musical works using "sim­ple notes" can be analysed in terms of har­mon­ic or melod­ic inter­vals, and matched against spe­cif­ic tun­ing schemes …
Bach well-tempered tonal analysis
Tonal analy­sis of the com­plete set of pre­ludes and fugues by J.S. Bach in "The Well-tempered Clavier" …
Install MinGW
Install soft­ware to run 'gcc' on a Windows com­put­er …
XAMPP startup
Start XAMPP auto­mat­i­cal­ly after a reboot …
Quick install Windows
This is a sup­ple­ment to the page Bol Processor ‘BP3’ and its PHP inter­face. A one-click installer …
Quick install MacOS
This is a sup­ple­ment to the page Bol Processor ‘BP3’ and its PHP inter­face. A one-click nota­rized
Quick install Linux
This is a sup­ple­ment to the page Bol Processor ‘BP3’ and its PHP inter­face. This instal­la­tion is …
MIDI microtonality
This page is a demo of the han­dling of micro­tonal­i­ty in the real-time MIDI and MIDI file …
Capture MIDI input
Work in progress Capturing MIDI input opens the way to "learn­ing" from the per­for­mance of a musi­cian …
Produce all items

The core of the Bol Processor, in all its ver­sions, is an infer­ence engine capa­ble of gen­er­at­ing …
Install the Bol Processor (BP3)
Installing the Bol Processor BP3 does not require any pro­gram­ming skills. Just use the installers for MacOS
Control of NoteOn/NoteOff
This page is intend­ed for devel­op­ers of the Bol Processor BP3 (read instal­la­tion). It is not a …
Move data
In the stan­dard use of the Bol Processor, all data is stored in the "bol­proces­sor" fold­er locat­ed …

Examples

Harm Visser's examples
A pre­sen­ta­tion and dis­cus­sion of a few exam­ples com­posed on the Bol Processor by Harm Visser in 1998 …
Interactive improvisation with sound-objects
An inter­ac­tive BP2 gram­mar using sub­sti­tu­tion rules to cre­ate a uni­di­men­sion­al cel­lu­lar automa­ton …
A polyrhyth­mic piece "765432" com­posed by Andréine Bel for her CRONOS dance pro­duc­tion (1994) illus­trates the use of unde­ter­mined rests …
Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu playing a violin
A com­po­si­tion in Carnatic musi­cal style by Kumar S. Subramanian, June 1995 …
Grammar "-gr.ShapesInRhythm" was com­posed by Andréine Bel for her CRONOS dance pro­duc­tion (1994) …
Sarasvati vina
Full descrip­tion of a musi­cal phrase com­posed in 1995 by Srikumar Karaikudi Subramanian with the Bol Processor and Csound …
Dice animation
Bol Processor's imple­men­ta­tion of a musi­cal dice game attrib­uted to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart …
Importing MusicXML scores
Importing MusicXML scores to Bol Processor BP3 …
Comparing temperaments
Images of tem­pered scales cre­at­ed by the Bol Processor The fol­low­ing are Bol Processor + Csound inter­pre­ta­tions of J.-S. Bach's …
The Well-tempered Clavier
The com­plete set of pre­ludes and fugues by J.S. Bach known as The Well-tempered Clavier, books II and II, inter­pret­ed with pre­sum­ably "opti­mal" tun­ing schemes …