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Cl4kz

By RajaTheResidentAlien on October 30, 2022 8:26 am

i'm still working on my app for norns, but this week's track is a sidetrack away from that: Graham Wakefield and Gregory Taylor just released their book "Generating Sound And Organizing Time" which has a bunch of techniques for use in Max/MSP's gen~... a huge collection of sample-by-sample digital-signal-processing tricks and explanations of math... my copy arrived a few days ago, so this track is me experimenting just with the ideas from chapter 2 so far(using phasors as clock signals, performing modular arithmetic to get clock divisions, but also using the same arithmetic over a longer-term to subdivide phrasing...)
...but i also took the single voice stuff in the book, and made them into 16-channel 'MC' versions(16 different clocks all synced and harmonically related to each other in frequency but also slightly different so the rhythms are related but get a bit stuttered)... was so entranced by the rhythmic effect lol at least it's a fun listen like a good ear massage(i also added a short recording of me whistling into the patch just to add a longer drawn out melodic element, everything felt like a dry demonstration of math, i really felt like adding something more flowy over everything so i just recorded into a buffer~ real quick through my laptop mic, then set groove~ with 'timestretch' on at 0.25 speed(it's nice how 'timestretch' adds its own artifacts and makes a crappy laptop recording sound like it has reverb, and the wind noise over the mic suddenly sounds more like flangy/phasy distortion), gives the whole track a bit of a creepy interlude, haha...)... i feel very strange about the track, but at the same time, something feels very complete about it too big_smile
hope it does somethin' for ya heart


› heres the max patch...not much to control just the frequency at the top

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October 31, 2022 3:13 am

Ipaghost

Parts of it reminds me of the sound of rain on a car roof which I always like.

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October 31, 2022 4:52 pm

Q-Rosh

whatever the computer throws out, this track sounds unbelievable good. you did a very good EQ-booster on this firework.

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October 31, 2022 9:45 pm

ineff

next year―when WB is over and I'm using Max again―I really need to come back to all your maxmsp-tagged songs and dig into these patches.  It's really cool that your share them right in the description!

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November 1, 2022 11:01 am

rdomain

Thanks for the heads up about the book.  I missed that release.  Such an amazing bit of software hey and this song has lots of interesting things going on.  I quite like the whistling elements.  Adds some warmth to the cold MSP tones.  I love the intense part at 4.20.  Sounds like my car getting hammered with hail!  Haha.

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November 1, 2022 7:59 pm

Cosmic Cairns

I agree there's a rain-like feeling to this but the sound texture has a very pleasing quality to it.  It reminds me a little of the feel of popping bubble wrap or something.

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November 4, 2022 1:58 pm

Kedbreak136

Wow that's a very interesting experiment. Some of these sounds are really huge and it all pops out of the speakers!

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November 5, 2022 8:56 pm

emily

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November 7, 2022 12:56 am

Tone Matrix

woah some cool ear candy bits floating about.  def agree with ipaghost it has that quality of heavy rain hitting a roof.  The subs are massive!

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November 7, 2022 9:02 pm

RajaTheResidentAlien

Ipaghost wrote:

Parts of it reminds me of the sound of rain on a car roof which I always like.


Ya, i like that image, definitely sounds like that big_smile

Q-Rosh wrote:

whatever the computer throws out, this track sounds unbelievable good. you did a very good EQ-booster on this firework.


so glad you appreciate the sound, ya i recall taming the highs quite a bit here with light lopass on many things, glad it turned out with good flavor big_smile

ineff wrote:

next year―when WB is over and I'm using Max again―I really need to come back to all your maxmsp-tagged songs and dig into these patches.  It's really cool that your share them right in the description!


my pleasure! they should be fun(there’s often a ‘limi~’ at the end of every patch to protect your output, but you can replace that with a vst~ chain for your own mastering style), i’m honored if you use them in any way big_smile

rdomain wrote:

Thanks for the heads up about the book.  I missed that release.  Such an amazing bit of software hey and this song has lots of interesting things going on.  I quite like the whistling elements.  Adds some warmth to the cold MSP tones.  I love the intense part at 4.20.  Sounds like my car getting hammered with hail!  Haha.


Thanks so much! I had fun with the part at 4:20 too: sped up the tempo(it’s too easy to mess with tempo in max, haha) definitely gets that rain-on-metal sound(i think especially because it’s too fast to trigger the bass drum for some reason i can’t remember, lets all the mid and highs through the limiter even more). Much appreciated smile

CosmicCairns wrote:

I agree there's a rain-like feeling to this but the sound texture has a very pleasing quality to it.  It reminds me a little of the feel of popping bubble wrap or something.


Thank you! I did try to tame the highs a bit with light lopass, glad it held an immersive feel to it smile

Kedbreak136 wrote:

Wow that's a very interesting experiment. Some of these sounds are really huge and it all pops out of the speakers!


Much appreciated! (‘huge’ is a good word for what i’m trying to find by synthesizing stuff in max, glad this experiment came across successful in that way)

emily wrote:


Yes! it does sound much like marbles, perhaps the sound of me gathering my marbles back after losing them, baaahhahahahaha XD lol
Thank You!

Tone Matrix wrote:

woah some cool ear candy bits floating about.  def agree with ipaghost it has that quality of heavy rain hitting a roof.  The subs are massive!


Immensely grateful! Ya, i was trying to hit the subs hard too, glad it came off well big_smile

Thanks EVERYONE! it was just an experiment, but to still get this positive feedback feels so supportive, i’m filled with gratitude heart

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November 29, 2022 9:39 am

ilzxc

Hyper-focused exploration of a modest set of materials -- this is sick. Development skills & "sound of paper being torn" type ending -- respect, this is badass.

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