
I'm pleased to announce the release of my program

	mma - Musical MIDI Accompaniment
	version: Beta 0.5
	
MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks
for a soloist to perform over from a user supplied
file containing chords and MMA directives.

MMA is very versatile and generates excellent tracks. It comes
with an extensive user-extendable library with a variety of
patterns for various popular rhythms, an extensive user manual,
and several demo songs.

MMA is a command line driven program. It creates MIDI files
which need a sequencer or MIDI file play program.

MMA is written in Python. You'll need version 2.2 of Python
for MMA to function.

MMA is supplied in a tar archive. Included in the archive:

   mma - the executable python script
   lib - a set of standard library files which contain MMA
         patterns for different rhythms.
   songs - about 125 demo songs (mostly jazz)
   mma.ps - a 100 page postscript manual.
   mma-tut.ps - a short tutorial.
   mma-lib.ps - reference to the standard mma library.
  
   
The entire download is under 600K.         
	
MMA is currently in BETA. We are looking for lots of help in debugging
the program, creating songs for distribution, and new and improved
library files.

Best of all, MMA is free. It is released under the terms of the GNU
public license. It has been developed on a Linux platform, but should
be usable on just about any system. 

MMA is available on my personal home page:

	http://www.kootenay.com/~bvdpoel/mma/mma.html
	
If you have any questions or comments, please send them
to:

	bvdpoel@kootenay.com
	
Enjoy!

Beta 0.6 has changed the Python code to modules, new packaging
and installation, general cleanups and a few new commands.


Comments appreciated!



