Moscow-based software engineer Ilya Schepikhin has just released an updated version of Palette, his music-composition software. It's all about composing melodies, using rules of music theory, not messing with sounds or recording or anything. If Dr Dre is taking classes in music theory, then we can all probably learn from this. The midi files on the site all sound kind of similar - very slow pseudo-classical ballads - but Johan Van Barel from Belgium says it's "Great Stuff", so it's got to be worth a 850k download.
Posted by Tom Whitwell. 
