almostLive A pedagogical program to introduce loop-based real-time composition and constrained randomness. Original Max/MSP patches available. Four players slave to a master tempo, time stretching and transposing their material in real-time. Filtering is only signal processing available, but constrained random variation of filter parameters (cut-off & Q) is possible.	Format : Patch Environment : max / msp freeware Max 4.6 http://www.sfu.ca/~eigenfel/software.html