C.P.U. Bach (also known as Sid Meier's C.P.U. Bach) is an interactive music-generating program designed by Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs for the 3DO. It can create

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in the style of

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for various keyboard, wind, or string instruments and in a variety of forms (e.g., concerti, fugues, minuets, chorales). The compositions are then performed by the software with synchronous

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on screen showing the virtual instruments being played. The name of the program is a pun on the initials of one of Bach's actual sons, C.P.E. Bach, and " CPU".

References

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Google Patents: ''System for real-time music composition and synthesis''

External links

on C.P.U. Bach at

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Review
of C.P.U. Bach by University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis lecture
Michel Buffa
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