
I'm pleased to announce the release of my program

	mma - Musical MIDI Accompaniment
	version: Beta 0.10
	
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 Python 2.3 (or later)
for MMA to function.

MMA is supplied in 4 tar.gz archives. Included:

	mma-bin   -- the main script and library files.
	mma-html  -- documentation in HTML format.
	mma-ps    -- documentation in Postscript format.
	mma-songs -- a collection of about 120 songs in MMA format.
   
If you get the entire download package it is well under 1-MEG in size.

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
General 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://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp/mma/mma.html
	
If you have any questions or comments, please send them
to:

	bvdp@uniserve.com
	
Enjoy!

Beta 0.10: A lot of fixups have been made to the library files to make
them sound much better; a MALLET directive for reiteration has been
added; the VOICING commands have been unified; minimum Python version
bumped to 2.3; lots of bug fixes.

Comments appreciated!



