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]