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Ableton Live and Generative Music
StoreTags: Ableton, Live, Generative Musi
Author: dylan on March 12 2008
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--> I am sure many of you have already caught this on the Ableton forum, but for those who haven't there is neat little post on the forum regarding generative music. Angstrom demonstrates how using the Velocity, Random and Scale effects can automatically generate music with tonal variations. The title of the thread is "Tutorial: Generative music in Live" under the "Tips & Tricks" section.

SO, I tried it out and came up with this unsettling (and a tad bit laborious) piece:

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I racked three operators together and triggered the instrument with one MIDI pitch, as Angstrom demonstrated earlier. As the operators start generating more pitches, I triggered arpeggiators and other Ableton effects, messing with filter envelopes, etc. The beats are short MIDI clip sequences, triggering a combination of Operator sounds and re-sampled MKS-70 sounds that I had previously recorded.


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03/12/08 +  Squeal
Last night I was using widi audio-to-midi vst to feed the operator synth back on itself. It was nice, except that the widi demo version would intermittently stop working for a few seconds.

Live has really nice and easy midi tools.
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03/12/08 +  astroid


someone else drank the koolaid
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03/12/08 +  Squeal
I enjoyed this koolaid
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i'm drinking your koolaid
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culo aid?
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03/13/08 +  bla
try generative without the random
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03/15/08 +  antfactor
woah.... really nice. something tells me they will soon have easier ways of propagating such madness, as Ableton is working with c74...
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03/15/08 +  antfactor
this goes in my iTunes library.
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03/16/08 +  dylan
thanks antfactor!!
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03/17/08 +  quip
cool just done a bidule patch to do similar work. will upload my findings soon. this is cool.
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