m@ze°2 is a computer-based electronic instrument which serves as a realtime environment for composition and improvisation as well.

The software is written entirely in Max/MSP and takes advantage of my own “Real Time Composition Library” (RTC-lib). It is based on an ever-growing database of samples which are processed by so-called “structure generators” which can be triggered and controlled by the computer keyboard, the mouse and several MIDI controllers. An elaborated section of DSP routines (including reverb, filters, transposers, pitch shifter, equalizer, delay lines, LFO, ring modulator, panning) enables the player to process the generated sound structures in the end.

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