TheWetWeaselTheLonelyDreamer&TheSultryMute
By RajaTheResidentAlien on November 17, 2022 3:01 am
the file here is actually 16.5MB while WB's upload limit is 16MB, but it tells me it's 'successfully uploaded' so hopefully it's all good... just in case it gets truncated, you can also check a higher-quality version here, too:
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i went all out starting early this week on a huge max patch to really try and practice all the ideas i've been learning from Graham Wakefield's book... got done early unexpectedly, things got really massive very quickly 
(there's a karplus-strong instrument that sounds like a whipping string, the bass instrument has euclidean-based waveshaping(a bit like 'bitcrush' but with a smoother sound), the clock signal was subdivided in crazy ways so i used that also as an amplitude-cutter(amp-based 'gating') which makes the entire mix sound like it's being passed through some synchronized gated reverb at times, and i tried to get better at transitioning through sections here when performing the patch too, not to mention some weird key modulating i did by entering notes into the piano-roll object and catering the changing melodies by ear... got it to sound like a different wandering/dreamy section in the middle there)
...and the patch is too big to fit here so i've pasted it here on the cycling74 forums where i share my weeklybeats patches there, too
this week's was so much fun: really enjoying creating percussion with impact in Max/MSP, and then also learning synthesis techniques, and most of all, realizing how much distortion/saturation, when guided with an envelope, can make a huge-yet-subtle difference 
hoping to go back and forth between max and norns for weeklybeats for the most part the rest of the year(hopefully more and more complete 'songs' with voice or at least a bit more a sense of lyricism in the structuring, but for now... i really love how weeklybeats pushes me to learn something very valuable for the longest run: how not to get burnt out ... for me personally, just takes jumping back and forth to different inquiries/expressive-styles/mediums... this might make me slower in developing a specific thing, but everything stays fun for me, instead of burnt-out i get distracted, hoping all the distractions can sum together in some kind of focus later eventually 
we'll see...)
Hope Ya Like, Much Love To All 
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I like how the rhythm almost takes on a drum corps feel with the rolls and flams. Really cool work!