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WeeklyBeats.com / Music / Skueue's music / Five Generative Seeds
Hello!
This is less of a track and more of a tech demo, I've been building a microtonal generative music making instrument for a while, usually I spend about a lot of time per track tweaking the seed values of the randomly generated patterns, until I find something I like, and then play several live performances of the patch until I think one of them is good enough to finish in to a proper track
so the usual time breakdown is:
40 minutes tweaking the patterns
20-30 minutes performing the tracks live (multiple takes)
2-5 hours trimming and editing down to the best bits
1 hour mastering
these 5 tracks took ten minutes start to end (7 minutes recording, 3 minutes trimming and mastering (literally eq and compression applied blindly without listening) just so see what rubbish I could come up with
what I've been working on is creating a randomisation structure that closely mimics the decision I would make in the songwriting process
This way, I can generate a new track at the press of a button, and hopefully it gets close to being a track I would write for myself if given enough time
This is a recording of me playing every single seed that came my way, no quality control, no second takes, only the pauses between tracks edited out
The tracks aren't great and wouldn't pass my usual quality filter, but since I had no track for this week, I thought a tech demo might be interesting
Ironically, writing this little blurb of text about it took longer than making the tracks did
This submission is licensed by author under CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
wow, in what did you write this in? max? sounds great, even better as a tech demo!
I wrote it in puredata, which is functionally very similar to max but much more basic and open source
I've been working on this patch (in several iterations) for about 5-6 years and have made about 1000 PD patches leading up to the current system as it is now
I have a lot of time on my hands which is one of the benefits of being long term unemployed
I wrote it in puredata, which is functionally very similar to max but much more basic and open sourceI've been working on this patch (in several iterations) for about 5-6 years and have made about 1000 PD patches leading up to the current system as it is now
I have a lot of time on my hands which is one of the benefits of being long term unemployed
Yeah, i know PD, Miller Puckette is behind both PD and Max (but only from the IRCAM days)
some serious dedication man, thats a sh1t load of patches!
wow, in what did you write this in? max? sounds great, even better as a tech demo!