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Personally, I've found classical not to lend itself to much hardware chipmusic simply because the classical style (baroque, romantic whatever) often lacks a percussive line. A large part of making 3 channels of basic functions sound full is filling space with bursts of noise / sweeps at a variety of different frequencies. For example, kicks, snares, hi-hats all occupy different frequencies in the mix and help to 'fill' the soundscape.

Look at Mozart's String Quartet No.19 in C Major. You've got four channels creating simple harmonies and moving in a very restricted way. If you were to play this straight on a bunch of square waves it would sound fairly empty, slow and obnoxious. To make it sound fuller / more interesting you'd employ the standard tricks: varying up the timbre via volume / modulation / waveform all of which lend themselves to enveloping over time, expanding harmony with arpeggios or changing rhythm to state more constituents of a complex chord, and filling any empty space with hi-hats, counter melodies or miscellaneous percussion. After this Mozart's original ideas have been watered down enough that it doesn't sound much like the original genre.

There's nothing stopping you from playing straight classical, FearOfDark has an EXCELLENT fugue section in An Age of Planetary Pride. However, much straight classical just sounds technically unimpressive.

Classical fusion is a great idea though. Do that.

This is bizarrely niche. If you've not had solfège training (which the majority of even formally trained musicians haven't) it's indecipherable. Especially as its implementation differs between countries and chromaticism hasn't been satisfactorily standardised.

If you wanted to make it pitch agnostic, use roman numerals, or just this:

The Arduino is capable of way more than just beeping; if you're into atmel synth programming, check out Mozzi.

I do have a spare, but I expertly ran 5V up the wrong pin of the MIDI-in DIN and it no longer responds to MIDI.

If you (or anyone) can fix it, they can have it.

Cheers guys!

And @Tyler, yeah, short, low burst of noise coupled with a DPCM kick. Gives it the same attack transient as a proper kick.

coooool

wait, how is pd 'composing'?

I think it might actually be easier to write a generative music patch than it is to compose like a DAW.