VIRTUOSO DESKTOP PERFORMANCE STUDIO - introduction, concepts and
applications

Welcome to the VIRTUOSO area of the Atari 8 bit forum. 

Those of you who already have Desktop Performance Studio,
congratulations, please feel free to upload and download pieces
to and from this forum. 

For those of you who have not gotten Virtuoso yet, download the
VPLAY.OBJ file and the demo pieces. VPLAY.OBJ is a play only
shell program that allows you to see and hear any Desktop
Performance piece. You will not have any editing capability
without the full Desktop Performance Studio program, this is a
play only feature. 

To order Desktop Performance Studio, please use the Electronic
Mall (GO VC) or contact Virtusonics directly. Our phone number is
212 316 6945.

All of the graphic, music and text images from demos were created
on an Atari 130XE using Desktop Performance Studio Software. Our
graphic, music and text editors make animation easy, quick and
exciting. What you are seeing is not frame by frame animation. We
have developed a methodology for expressing graphic, music and
text data in a "dataflow" format that allows for the real time
animation of multiple objects. Graphic objects are animated by
path and scale patterns (8 animated geometric objects, 3 sprite
objects, 16 filled background objects). Music is animated by
shift, volume, and envelope patterns (4 animated music objects).
Text is animated by scrolling (4 animated text objects). Each
animator (path, scale, shift, volume, scroll) has its own loop
and speed variables. 

Speed is the concept. Virtuoso is a new perspective that controls
as many parallel, independent, variable speed parameters as are
required to execute ideas. Desktop Performance Studio is our
first application of this kind of thinking.

If you have any comments, ideas, questions or suggestions please
leave me a message, I will respond. 

I would like to share our thinking about the design of Virtuoso
Software in terms of its application to different hardware and
software concepts; its relationship to a conceptual manner of
thinking; its interaction with reality; and its present
application in Desktop Performance Studio. We are interested in
dialogue about the Virtuoso Software concepts and the Desktop
Performance Studio applications.

All Virtuoso Software users are encouraged to share their works
with others. Please upload and download freely through DL13. Once
you have downloaded and reviewed a piece from the DL, you can use
the NEW command to erase the time stream and use the libraries to
make your own pieces. This is one of the exciting elements of
Virtuoso. We can all share each others pieces and performances,
and then use each others libraries to make our own new pieces.

Joseph Lyons,
President of Virtusonics Corporation
[70007,1565]