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he can jog - live snippit #9638956252
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Playing around with adding microphone feedback into my live patch for this tour. More snippits of the patch below!

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I've come up with a little system with fiddle~ that gives me the fundamental frequency of the incoming mic signal (as well as it can) and that is sent to a 2d.wave~ setup which plays a layered 4 second buffer the way a keyboard synth plays a sample at different pitches, and that all gets fed into my terry riley machine to be layered a dozen times over. live input sounds so much more chaotic than I expected! but because of the fiddle~ control, I can tune everything to a harmonic system I choose, and so hopefully I can make it work within the context of the set.
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Genius. The textures have a similar sound to a Richard Devine patch
nice idea. and very interesting textures-certain parts remind me of bowed cymbals.- I could never get my head around 2d.wave~ well enough to use it for anything cool.
Thanks! The TV was on in the background and a lot of the movement from noisy stuff to pitched stuff is when it would go from someone speaking to a dramatic music cue - there is a part in the middle where my roommate opens and closes some cupboards too. Next step is to try it in an environment more like the one I'll actually be performing in ;)
ooh, there's potential for neat sound seepage especially if it's a bar/club.
sweet choons. So the sample that 2d.wave~ is playing is live input?

btw, terry riley machine?

My overall impression is that this wants more different textures. Some rattle or percussion or hiss or something diff't. Working with a partner/s would be a simple way to achieve this.
thanks! flies - i've been working on this semi-generative resampling arpeggio thing for a while. it layers about 16 instances of a resampled buffer full of changing arpeggios and plays them back at different speeds and pitches etc. i've got a recording from a set i did with an early version of the patch on my virb page here: link under the name "pulses"

i'm def planning on at least a couple of my up coming shows to be duos at least, but yeah I agree with you about the texture needing some freshining - played around using a microcassette as a sound source this afternoon and that was promising. gave me much more control over the texture, and of course the old gross tape i have inside made it a lot warmer

and yep! it's playing the arpeggios into the buffers for the pulses machine, and the source sound is a buffer a few seconds long that's constantly being recorded into from my mic, or my microcassette. it's working out okay so far, def adds another flexible dimension and lets me cut down on other parts of the patch to save cpu. i used to have bit crushers for example, but i can overdrive my mixing board instead now.
Okay, so this is rough as fook, but here is a recording of one of the first times i've tried the microcassette with the microkontrol and all the patch nonsense I've worked up so far. No noisy section in this, just some noisy flubs when the cassette reaches the end of the tone I recorded and cuts to some guitar stuff. Whoops, lol.

I haven't started practicing with the material I've transcribed from my record yet, but I think that will add a harmonic layer that might make all this noodling more compelling. I'm trying to give it structure as I go, but I really need to work on that. Here is the mp3:
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beautiful!!! I love this.

oh wait, it's playing more middlemarch now

the "I love this" happened when the track switched. but my "beautiful!!!" comment still stands with live snippit.



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