Tangent takes the best of QFC and adds many new features. Tangent methods are algorithmic and heuristic, deterministic and stochastic, generative and transformational. It builds a composition by creating periods of bass and polyphony. It does this automatically but still allows user control. It can even take a simple melody and create an entire composition.
Tangent creates polyphonic pieces with melodic, tonal, and rhythmic coherence.
Tangent likes to use lots of instruments and can create polyphony that is large and lush, deep and dense, intricate and interesting. Tangent pieces can be traditionally orchestral, ethnically rhythmic, light and cheery, dark and foreboding, and forever surprising. This project would have been a shambles without the patient help of alpha tester, John Close, and beta testers, Bob Van Belle, Phil Jackson, Tom Rodwell, and Herinx.