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Author: eyesnine on September 28 2008
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My composition patch is making noise.

This is a clip of some of the first music written with it.
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do you have albums?

No...

I think when I'm done school, or maybe over the summer, I'd like to make one, but right now I'm too busy with other stuff to make something substantial.

this is gorgeous

please describe the patch

you know, i'd like to tell you the patch is a really simple idea...

but it's a collection of a lot of smaller elements:

-a time signature definition tool.
-a tempo manager.
-a pitch map / chord / key definition tool.
-a mixer / recorder.
-a gated sequencer that works basically by layering sequential operations on top of seed values.

which is why it's taken so long to get this thing working.

what are the live controls?

8 faders + 4 octaves of keys right now.
the keys are for the pitch map and the faders are for the sequencer.
potentially, I'd like to add some buttons for the sequencer, and some way of controlling the tempo better.

ah, so the sequencer is a kind of sieve?
you know, it kind of is...
i thought about it that way for a while, and my pitch mapper used to be exactly that - a sieve.
now i'm thinking about it more in terms of a language... or an automaton... must be the comp sci education altering my perspective.

yeah this is really awesome. this is the same patch you had at the emmeet right? some things sound a bit differnt with it... the higher pitched notes sound like pure waveforms opposed from the guitar samps. but yeah, this rawks.

yep. its the same patch...

i'm playing with the granulation parameters a little more than the stuff you heard.

my patch can sequence pretty much any parameter that can be represented as a number. which is pretty much all of them. it's not just the pitch that's being sequenced. it's pitch, velocity, pitch shift, speed, grain length, sample offset, panning.... all in full polyphony! i think that's all of them for the grain resynth module, though potentially i could modify the sequencer for any set of parameters.

this is lovely.

make one now instead

I wish!

The only thing that I think could make this better, is to introduce a key change...otherwise, nice guitar mangling........mang.

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