Controlling Breakbeats with a Theremin

i have this idea and i'm wondering if you smart motherfuckers could comment on it.

 

i have been throwing a few ideas around m'brain about a good live tool for breakcore-esque music. one idea ive had is taking a theremin and running it into max msp, using a pitch-recognition patcher like fiddle, and then assigning a sample (amen snare etc) to each note, chromatically.

 

that way you could wave yr hand around and control an amen. with practice you could use theremin fingering techniques (like theremin 'virtuosos' use) and have ultimate amen control.

i´ve been thinkin other thing about theremin

 

IZ IT POSSIBLE TO CHANGE ITZ "INITTIAL PATCH", I MEAN, PUT MOER OSCILLATORS ON IT, SAY 3, AND MAEK IT SOUND LIEK A REAL SYNTH, BUT THEN PLAY IT THEREMIN LIEK, IZ DAT POSSIBLE?!?!

yes DAT is possible

 

 

 

 

 

to the OP: the problem would be in quantizing the pitch so that it's accurate and reliable

 

also the problem of hitting 2 samples at once would be a problem as I don't think you can do chords on a theremin

hahahah, this is an awesome idea.

make a polyphonic theramin, with like five recievers, or even better, get like one of the motion capture ball things they use for video games, and then you're not limited by light, and then you can assign one to each body part you can move. it'd be crazzzzzzzzzzzy.

this is a bad idea imho

  getting photons said:

this is a bad idea imho

 

it doesnt have to be good to be an idea

 

personally i like it, different pitch/volume receiver combinations could do all kinds of modulations

yeah besides, as long as you're using max/msp just route a CC or note on message to whatever wav you're trying to fuck with instead

just wave a synth around, put some leds on it or something.

:grin:

:laughing:

 

*waves laptop around

 

 

*waves compact disc around

im not much of a max guy, ima have to take this to a little elctronic group tihng at my college

 

i really like ths idea, because breakcore is such a frantic and complex genre but when you see it live its relaly just twidling knobs or (ugh) pressing 'play' on a session. i feel like sometihng like tihs could actualy give the performer a chance to manipulate breaks as they should be manipulated, plus the image of a breakcore nerd frantically jabbin his hands everywhich way is delightful

i did something similar to that by making my pitch wheel on my midi controller control the pitch of a break sounds and the modulation wheel control the direction(speed) of the drums

 

 

results were fun while drunk, especially since the pitch wheel snaps back, so i added a reverb and echo and lol

 

  we_kill_soapscum said:

im not much of a max guy, ima have to take this to a little elctronic group tihng at my college

 

i really like ths idea, because breakcore is such a frantic and complex genre but when you see it live its relaly just twidling knobs or (ugh) pressing 'play' on a session. i feel like sometihng like tihs could actualy give the performer a chance to manipulate breaks as they should be manipulated, plus the image of a breakcore nerd frantically jabbin his hands everywhich way is delightful

the problem with breakcore is that people think it can be played on a fucking theremin (I understand the mechanism you are proposing)

 

have you ever HEARD a theremin?

Edited February 28, 2006 by getting photons

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hectic this sounds, wud love to try , but if your hand can move fast enough wouldnt it work , or is the theremin unable to react that fast????, its def sounds a whole lot funner than jamming loops on a sampler or midi controler