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BP2 documentation - Contents

BP2 documentation - Title Page

• Bol Processor BP2 -- a 'QuickStart'
  • A few notes on BP2
    • 1.1 Install BP2
    • 1.2 Try it
    • 1.3 Run a script
    • 1.4 More notes
    • 1.5 Performance controls
    • 1.6 What else can be controlled?
    • 1.7 Entering the arguments of performance controls from MIDI
    • 1.8 Articulation
    • 1.9 Parametric performance control
    • 1.10 Ranges of performance control arguments
    • 1.11 Changing note convention
    • 1.12 Polyrhythmic sequences and polymetric expressions
      • 1.12.1 The period notation
      • 1.12.2 Polymetric expression s
  • Sound-objects
    • 2.1 Recording a sound-object
    • 2.2 Putting together sound-objects
    • 2.3 Other ways of creating sound-object prototypes
      • 2.3.1 Importing a MIDI file
      • 2.3.2 Capturing from text
      • 2.3.3 Capturing from a tick cycle
    • 2.4 Sound-objects, simple notes, homomorphisms
    • 2.5 Cyclic sound-objects
    • 2.6 Pre-roll and post-roll
      • 2.6.1 Pre-roll
      • 2.6.3 Post-roll
      • 2.6.4 An important formula
  • Opening and compiling a grammar
    • 3.1 What's in the examples folder?
    • 3.2 Headers and related files
    • 3.3 Organising projects
    • 3.4 Network operation
    • 3.5 A very simple grammar
    • 3.6 A more elaborated project
    • 3.7 Tokenised alphabet and grammar
    • 3.8 Checking grammar consistency
    • 3.9 The start string
  • Producing items
    • 4.1 Listen to this one!
    • 4.2 What's in a polymetric expression?
    • 4.3 The "Time base" dialog
    • 4.4 Blowing memory on fractals...
    • 4.5 Victor Hugo against Darius Milhaud
    • 4.6 Graphic scale and time accuracy
    • 4.7 Buffer size
    • 4.8 The "Tuning" dialog
  • Non-stop improvisation
    • 5.1 "Random" isn't anything...
    • 5.2 A kind of cellular automaton playing a kind of Turkish music
    • 5.3 The "INIT" instruction
    • 5.4 Mozart's musical dice game
  • Interactive control
    • 6.1 When does it react?
    • 6.2 The MIDI filter
    • 6.3 The "Interaction" window
    • 6.4 Distributed improvisation
    • 6.5 More interaction!
    • 6.6 Synchronisation tags
    • 6.7 Apple Events -- BP2 in a client-server environment
  • Glossaries
  • Scripts
    • 8.1 Checking a script
    • 8.2 Scripts, volumes and folders
  • Make it swing with smooth time...
    • 9.1 Programming time-patterns
    • 9.2 Loading time-patterns
    • 9.3 Non-measured smooth time
  • For BP1 old-timers...
    • 10.1 Tempo marking
    • 10.2 Parsing items
    • 10.3 Learning weights
    • 10.4 Keyboard encoding
    • 10.5 Documentation of Indian music
  • Programmed grammars
    • 11.1 Using flags
    • 11.2 New flag syntax
    • 11.3 Classical problems solved with flags
  • Step computation
  • Manual time setting
  • Saving and loading MIDI code
    • 14.1 MIDI files
    • 14.2 Storing and sending MIDI data
  • More about windows...
    • 15.1 The "Scrap" window
    • 15.2 Adjusting window sizes and locations
    • 15.3 BP2 editor;
    • 15.4 Remarks about remarks
  • What's in a "-se." file?
  • Csound on BP2 -- a primer
    • 17.1 What is Csound, how does it relate to BP2?
    • 17.2 Producing Csound scores with BP2
    • 17.3 Try Csound with simple notes
    • 17.4 Describing a Csound instrument
    • 17.5 Checking the Csound output
    • 17.6 Csound function tables describing waveforms
    • 17.7 Sound-objects containing Csound scores
    • 17.8 Creating a Csound score in a sound-object prototype
    • 17.9 Performing musical items in the Csound environment
    • 17.10 Performance controls and Csound scores
    • 17.11 Combining argument values
    • 17.12 Tabulated functions
    • 17.13 Function tables in sound-object scores
    • 17.14 A diagram of the cooperation between BP2 and Csound
• BP2 Reference Manual
  • Task environment
  • Technical features
    • 2.1 File description
    • 2.2 File folders
  • Sound-object prototypes
    • 3.1 Metrical properties of sound-objects
    • 3.2 Topological properties of sound-objects
  • A short glance at the theoretical model
    • 4.1 Variables and terminal symbols
    • 4.2 Starting symbol
    • 4.3 Patterns in BP grammars
    • 4.4 BP2 grammars
    • 4.5 Destroying structure s
    • 4.6 Weights
    • 4.7 Metavariables
    • 4.8 Tempo and gaps
    • 4.9 Object concatenation
    • 4.10 Polymetric expression s
    • 4.11 Period notation
    • 4.12 Remote context
    • 4.13 Metagrammars
    • 4.14 Substitutions
  • The time setting of sound-objects
    • 5.1 The time setting problem
    • 5.2 How to proceed
  • Time quantization
  • "True" Bol Processor grammars and parsing
  • Procedures
    • 8.1 Production procedures
    • 8.2 Trace procedures
    • 8.3 Renumbering and remapping conditional jumps
  • Csound argument mapping
• Bibliography
• Appendix
  • Solving problems
    • 1.1 Using the printer serial output
    • 1.2 Inter-application communication
    • 1.3 Memory
  • Poem "Les Djinns"
  • Disclaimer
  • Acknowledgements
• Index