OMChroma new tutorials and documentation.
This presentation will focus on my new set of tutorial patches, videos and documentation of the OpenMusic library OM-Chroma. After a five-years teaching experience at the HMDK Stuttgart, I collected the requests and demands of our dedicated students regarding the OMChroma library. The existing documentation and tutorial patches, created by Luca Richelli, are very detailed and exhaustive, demanding some pre-existing knowledge in the OpenMusic environment and a certain degree of proficiency in CAC. This proved to be difficult for composition students without such a background. The most efficient learning strategy resulted in being starting from the existing tutorials, extrapolating some material and focusing on its developments. By combining the technical approach with a compositional one, the new users can blend learning how to use the library, how to formalise the compositional thinking in the OpenMusic environment, and how to develop an esthetic approach to designing virtual instruments and composing sound. In the case of algorithmic procedures that proved being challenging for beginners, I created videos to guide the user step-by-step into the composition of the patch. Furthermore, a whole new chapter has been dedicated to the works composed wit OMChroma by the HMDK Stuttgart students, to allow new users to see (and listen) what enormous potential this library has after just a few months of dedicated practice.