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Twelve Little Fishies

By fc on April 15, 2012 1:02 pm

So this is done in Max/MSP and Logic. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, I could not for the life of me create a working poly~ object that accepted any generated MIDI data, it must (for whatever reason) only like things with a proper note-off... which I didn't figure out how to do and got annoyed at trying.

ANYWAY. So I thought I'd use a "tubular bells" sound, plus piano. Originally it was obnoxious zither and sitar samples... The aleatoric aspect of this comes from the random generation of a tonerow, and the random changes between retrograde, prime, retrograde-inversion and inversion forms of the row and the chance that the velocity might be 0 (omitting a couple of pitches from the row). The rhythms are serialised random durations, also.

I was very annoyed at the synthesis part. This is for you, Max/MSP: RARRRRRRRR

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Nice work VinnyG. I like music like this.
Nice messy Max patch too tongue. Is there anything you'd change/tweak with it?

Also, The Great Wave off Kanagawa is amazing. I might steal that choice of wallpaper.

Cool track, has a pretty creepy vibe!

@Thursdaybloom: thanks! The patch isn't too messy! I could have done more subpatching but really, it becomes that bit harder to keep track of dataflow. I actually did change some things and reuploaded the piece. I realised that the transpositions weren't working correctly due to clipping, so I changed the generator to drunk with a range of 36-48. Have attached screenshot. I would try to generate note-off data if I could figure out how to. big_smile

@Lien: thanks! I think it's the beating of the bells...

Isn't note off in Max just a note with 0 velocity? So once you've sent a note with a velocity, however long after you then need to send that same note with a zero. You can use a pipe if you want them all the same length!

Also, cool piece, reminds me of what you were doing in 2nd year

That's what I thought, but there was often (though not always) a 0 velocity message sent, to no notable avail...

Thanks sir!

Super creepy vibe going on here dude. Really like it.

that process is over my head lol nice though

Thanks Nathan, Drumursir. big_smile

I liek how the things are panned out.  It would even sound cool with the bell on both sides.

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