best digital modular enviroment?

  On 8/10/2010 at 10:35 PM, soundwave said:

a healthy guess but no

Well it was a pleasent enough misunderstanding then, I've learnt a new trick (getting an envelope follower to control a filter on either

  On 8/10/2010 at 10:35 PM, soundwave said:

G2 patch mutator

Thanks! :reads:

i only use MAtlab these days myself, csound is like tinker toys

  On 8/10/2010 at 10:35 PM, soundwave said:

  On 8/10/2010 at 10:04 PM, ZoeB said:

  On 8/10/2010 at 9:41 PM, soundwave said:

thor aint got a mutator

 

Ooh, the Mutronics MIDI Mutator? I hadn't heard of that one. It sounds like it runs an input through an envelope follower... Scream 4 has a CV output which does the same thing. So I could use that to take any sound and, say, run it through Thor's low pass ladder filter with its cutoff point dictated by the lazily-followed envelope generated by Scream 4. Is that the sort of thing the Mutator does? I'm curious now...

 

a healthy guess but no

 

 

G2 patch mutator

seems like a cool built in feature but any program with the ability to aggregate parameters can do this no? i suppose you would have to set it up manually like an Abelton live macro or something to that effect.

  On 8/10/2010 at 10:35 PM, soundwave said:

G2 patch mutator

Wow, it's just like Richard Dawkins's Biomorphs program for patch settings! :D It looks like it even uses a rough simulation of sexual reproduction, which seems kind of overboard... I'm curious, how useful do you find it?

  On 8/11/2010 at 12:19 AM, ZoeB said:

  On 8/10/2010 at 10:35 PM, soundwave said:

G2 patch mutator

 

Wow, it's just like Richard Dawkins's Biomorphs program for patch settings! :D It looks like it even uses a rough simulation of sexual reproduction, which seems kind of overboard... I'm curious, how useful do you find it?

sexual reproduction? I often find it very useful and practice it at least three times a day (boom-tish)

the way you can select what (and what doesn't)goes thru the process very useful especially for isolating say just sequencer settings and clocks to get many motif variations or endless glitchy sounds or fx at extreme sound settings only

ok i think i misunderstood it, is this the equivalent would you say snap/random isolating knobs from the Reaktor snapshot randomizer/morpher?

The patch mutater is in constant use when I use my nords. I just wish it was a built in feature on the synth itself, and not just in the editor. It's probably one of the most useful sound design tools out there... You can come up with so many patch variations so fast... Unfortunately you can only have 8 variations per patch.... I wish that number was larger. So for functional purposes, you can store 8 variations. But when you are working on mutating, you have a temporary cache for up to 24 (i think) variations. You can of course save multiple patches based on the mutations... They just won't be loaded in the same patch.

matlab, can you give any examples of what you're doing with that

you can make oscillators filters any modules etc yeah?

is it like electronics workbench / multisim ?

I think he's trolling. I guess it's possible to generate some "music" with it, but it would be extremely counterintuitive and just dumb :p

I would like to mention Energy-XT, a great lightweight DAW with a 100% modular backbone that lets you use VST(i) in a modular fashion. It's cheap, great and Norwegian!

http://www.energy-xt.com/

  On 8/11/2010 at 8:20 AM, chunky said:

matlab, can you give any examples of what you're doing with that

you can make oscillators filters any modules etc yeah?

is it like electronics workbench / multisim ?

i'm not good at sarcasm, i was joking when i used to be more of a nerd i would fantasize about making music on SGI and sun microsystems computers, so there was some truth to what i said (except it was more of a projection)

edit: and yes Energy XT is fantastic, there aren't many modular sequencing environments besides Numerology, I like Energy XT's workflow better, it's setup more like a a hybrid between Cubase and Fruityloops.

It wouldn't surprise me if some people had used such complicated, non-music-specific software to make music. I've made a few sounds in Python and, most stupidly of all, PHP. At least Python has a wave file writer in its library. With PHP, I had to get it to output raw PCM, separating the higher and lower eight of the sixteen bits by hand...

And Csound is only slightly simpler, in my opinion.