Patch randomizer for harware midi gear

I've got an MS2000 and an EA-1 electribe and I'm always getting bored w/ the sounds they / I make with them, so I built this little PD patch that sends random cc values to each cc location. It's pretty nice for exploring new sounds from old gear, and adds a randomize feature to anything that can receive midi CC data.

Let me know if you think there might be some handy things for version 2.0. :o I was thinking about making a % to randomize feature, but the issue there is that you have to first run it once so it has values to go from. This is really my first PD patch of note, and the first one w/ an original idea.

http://files.getdropbox.com/u/731647/patch%20randomizer.pd

Features:

Run

Stop

Step (lets you send one value for each click if you want more control)

Generate new patch

Replay previous patch

Block list for CC's you don't want it to touch

Channel selection

fancy shmancy graph display thingy

fucking uneditable titles

I think I will try next to make it work for NRPN's so it will work with the electribe too. That shit is confusing though. Anyone know anything about them? I messed a bit with them once in PD, but it was a ballache.

how do you get this to work with hardware? it sounds cool and I want it.

basically it's a counter + a random number generator that outputs a CC# and a CC value on a specified channel. YOu'll need PD, but it's free and real easy to get going.

Here's a link. > http://puredata.info/

and here's what the patch looks like.

The parts highlighted in yellow are the only parts you should worry about. The line graph shows what it wrote and updates live. X-axis=CC# Y-axis=CC value.

Just connect a hardware synth that can receive CC messages to your MIDI interface, and set that interface as the default in PD's preference menu.

Then use the channel toggle buttons to set the channel, add any CC's you want omitted, and hit run. If your synth is set to receive midi control change messages it should randomize all the settings.

PD is a badass tool for making little handy things like this. A lot of people build really hardcore DSP shit in it too, but I've found it to be the most handy in making little tools that make it more fun to make music.

I also built a patch that converts midi notes into CC values (0-127) on a specified CC#. That way I can record really step-like automation in logic, since you can't automate in a stepping style really. If I have a chance I'll try to get that one working well enough to share. If anyone is interested that is.

Any more ideas of something that would be handy to have?!?

sounds interesting, maybe i will fire up PD for the first to check out the patch ;)

yeah cool, thanks will give it a go!

I'm in the middle of a house move at the moment, so synths are in storage, but I have an MS6 with a cc mod that this could work very well with. Cheers.

let me know if there are things that need fixing.