Electronic Music 411 - demo song for a drawing software

here's the sonfware.
link

how to:
1. turn it "on" on the left top.
2. draw whatever on the pad.
3. click on "play back"
4. "playback" bar should move left to right.
5. you can choose "randomly" instead of "left to right",
6. or even grab the "playback" bar and perform manually.
7. basically lower side of the pad is lower notes and vise versa.
8. 8 notes poly.
9. the color determinds the sound and panning.

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08/24/06 + Squeal

Cool thingy.

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08/24/06 + Squeal

I would say put in a chromatic scale for good measure. It also might be cool to have a quick way to switch between scales during playback.

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08/25/06 + monkvolcano

wow.. some cool harmonies came out of this.

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08/25/06 + bla

sounds nice

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08/25/06 + astroid

great organization of sound. beautiful!

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08/25/06 + zfigz

this was fab-tastic...thanks a lot man...much appreciated.

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08/26/06 + pierlu001

nice software, it's cool you released it, thanks.

first suggestions that come to my mind:
* i think there should be some way to delete just some parts of what you draw, not everything altogether only.
* it would be cool to have the option to route the sound to other outputs other than the standard one (i.e. to have the chance to use soundflower and redirect the sound to another host for further mangling). maybe what i'm asking is already there, i'm not familiar with maxmsp, but i can't see the option anywhere on the menu (mac osx max runtime 4.5)

while i'm writing this i'm listening to some melodies your software is making out of what i draw. really really really nice

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08/26/06 + pierlu001

also, if you draw white lines they still make sounds even tho they cannot be seen. is this intentional?

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09/05/06 + kcr

thank you for comments and kind words...
i'm working on updates now.

>>Squeal
chromatic is coming. also i'm thinking about adding more modes such as messiaen modes.
also shortcut for changing scales will be added too.
thank you for suggestions.

>>pierlu001
technically speaking, deleting some parts will be very difficult because of the design of the storing system.
(and of course i'm an idiot for designing in such way)
right now i employ 8 indivisual buffers for storing each voice and they are rather randomly accessed,
so i can't go and point any specific parts to delete. if i want to add deleting function, i'd have to redesign everything from scratch...
and as far as soundflower goes, i'm not familiar with it because i'm a win user.
but in a long run i'm thinking about making this a pluggo/vsti so that any vst host can open it and do farther dsp.
and yes, white lines are intentional. white lines produce the most "colorless" sound... (few overtones)
you can use white lines over some colors to make contrast.
thank you for the comments and suggestions. greatly appreciated.

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10/23/06 + Bluermutt

this piece is beautiful and the soft is beautiful.
thanks.
i'll surely explore the guts of your creation. inspiring. thanks a lot for sharing.

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10/24/07 + wakax

any updates on this !?

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