Electronic Music 411 - ableton microtonal oscillator utility

EM411.com
Electronic Music Production, MP3's, Live Shows, Blogs and Community

Share your music and get feedback.

fakeBlooper's emID

, Florida, USA

Message me

View my emID

ableton microtonal oscillator utility

StoreTags: live, ableton, oscillator, microtonal

Author: fakeBlooper on September 28 2008

Viewed 985 times. 9 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.

People who enjoyed reading this: astroid, Roshi, skab, breakscience, KidQuaalude, adcBicycle, RRine, opticecho, ignatius

--> oy!

thought i'd share an ams file utility i made. it'll let you create endless harmonic oscillators in simpler and sampler. read more about the ams file on covert ops website link

it also lets you export microtonal and traditionally tuned zones with oscillator variations. it's a little easier in sampler because it gets the key mapping from the files themselves (just drag a bunch onto the zone editor) while simpler makes you work for it with racks, but it's pretty easy.

using baseNote with a multiplier of 1 will export a sequence of western tuned oscillators. using baseFreq and a static offset factor will export a sequence of equally tempered notes. you can experiemnt with basenote values very close to 1 in multiplier mode for creeping notes... or negative valuse for negative scales.

btw, it won't open the ams files that ship with ableton.

more modes will com but i'm not the math whiz so if you have ideas and equations let me know.

get it here: link

let me know if you find it useful and if you have ideas for it.

Digg it | Delicious

Read fakeBlooper's other blogs.fakeBlooper's Recent Blogs

ableton microtonal oscillator utility (Tags: live, ableton, oscillator, microtonal)

awesome (Tags: kids)

mobo alert sequencer (Tags: beep, sequencer, mobo)

if you see a spider, squash it

omnichord madness (Tags: suzuki, omnichord, lame)

Comments

09/28/08 + astroid

man, every computer i have with ableton on it is kaput, but i love you for this...

can't wait to try it out-someday

Recent blogs: blog friends?, california gay-friendly folk looky here, if tubgirl were immortal

09/29/08 + breakscience

I have made a ton of ams files manually in the past. This is AWESOME!! Thanks.

Recent blogs: My Bass Traps, Live 7 Got Me, Switched-On Bach

09/29/08 + bodo

any chance for a mac version, looks very interesting!

Recent blogs: Sound on Sound Synth Secrets archive

09/30/08 + opticecho

yes on the mac version!!

Recent blogs: Psst ... Aleatoric in the works!, The PRA, Too speedy of a purchase??

09/30/08 + fakeBlooper

vb.net so no mac version. yeah i know. there's a discussion on ableton forum now: link

but it's not hard at all... the ams is just a text file and incrementing is programming 101. the hard part was the gui display and summing sines is just basic trig. going the other way though requires some ass-backwards calc.

frankly i'm surprised that there already isn't one. if anyone wants to port it, they can look at my code if it'll help, but the only mac i have is from 10 years ago.

Recent blogs: ableton microtonal oscillator utility, awesome, mobo alert sequencer

09/30/08 + fakeBlooper

correction! there already is one. robert henke aka monolake has a similar tool. you'll need the max/msp runtime to run his. i haven't tried his version but it look slike he gives you access to all 96 harmonics, but no export sequence function or real-time display. get it her link

Recent blogs: ableton microtonal oscillator utility, awesome, mobo alert sequencer

10/18/08 + dumafuji

wow, fantastic. i used henke, but this is boss. thanks very much.

You must be a member to reply or post. signup or login