Home > systemic faq > Synthesis   July 25th, 2006  The Dragon at
the Kurama Shrine  Potentially the most interesting feature on
the downloadable systemic console is the “sonify button”, which
integrates the model planetary system specified by the state of
the console sliders and produces a .wav format CD-quality audio
file of the resulting radial velocity waveform. Not interested
in planets? The console is a stand-alone non-linear digital
synthesizer. It’s capable of producing strange, remarkable,
musically useful sounds. They merely need to be located within
the uncountable infinity of solutions to the gravitational
N-body problem.  First, use the console to build an interesting
multi-planet system (for this purpose, there’s no need to try to
fit whatever data is in the window.) Then click the sonify
button. This brings up a dialogue window which enables the user
to make several specifications for the sound file that is
produced.  console sonify dialogue box  The most important user-
specified parameter is th