arpeggiator morphing

Hello WATMM,

I'm wondering if you can provide some incite/advice about sound design or sequencing. I use Reaktor so I can do a lot, although my knowledge of it is limited.

I'm imaging a sound or more likely a sequence where I coud turn a knob and affect the sound in a particular way. The idea is that rather than adding or subtracting something from the sound, the modulation acts like a percentage. Maybe sounds get replaced so that the total sound is equal after modulation, just different. Something like a moving a mod wheel but for patterns/arpegiator.

I know some synths can fade between patches, so if both patches were arpegiated, then that gets closer to my idea.

I don't know if this makes sense. Any ideas?

Just to make sure... do you want to be able to change the sound on an arp by the turn of a knob? Is this for live use or for tunes? Because if it's just for tunes, then I would keep it simple and avoid all the IDM programming (which is cool, but also way too complicated) and make two arps with the same seq programming and all but with different sounds and then fade between them. Actually, now that I think of it, you should be able to make this quite easily in Reaktor. Just make a knob that controls the fade between two arps and voila.

Let me know if I completely misunderstood what you wanted :)

Reaktor's snapshot navigator actually has some really cool randomization and patch morphing features. The random button will just throw everything around and give you a completely new sound, but the patch morphing is pretty cool: select one patch, select a second, use a crossfader to morph between the two. This will gradually move most parameters in one patch to their values in the second. This can either be done on an instrument preset/snapshot, or maybe if you were to get your hands on an arpeggiator ensemble you could morph between arpeggio presets in an interesting manner. This can be applied to anything with knobs, faders, or buttons in Reaktor basically, so you could morph instruments, effects, sequencing stuff, etc.

thanks guys. great replies.

i'm going to look into patch morphing...

Yeah, patch morphing is the shit. Gotta love the Reaktor dev team for that gem.

Yeah, been messing with that in max/msp. Lots of fun to be had.

Whoa.

  On 8/24/2012 at 10:10 AM, ryanmcallister said:

select one patch, select a second, use a crossfader to morph between the two. This will gradually move most parameters in one patch to their values in the second. This can either be done on an instrument preset/snapshot, or maybe if you were to get your hands on an arpeggiator ensemble you could morph between arpeggio presets in an interesting manner. This can be applied to anything with knobs, faders, or buttons in Reaktor basically, so you could morph instruments, effects, sequencing stuff, etc.

Niiiiiice.

for other Reaktor users Ryan/Squee/others: Is it possible to automate the morphing as I would automate other parameters with knob twisting? I can't seem to do it. All I can currently do is do the patch morphing with my mouse in one take as I record to audio. It would be cool to vary the lengths of the morphing and use it more strategically and precisely.

I also wish I could set the morph length in bars rather than seconds, so that it syncs with the bpm of the track.

Thanks again. Reaktor can be a bit difficult at times but it is just so cool and I am still in awe of all it can do.

What DAW are you using?

I'm not at home and I haven't tried that before actually but off the top of my head if you can not automate the morph slider directly I would imagine you could drop a Snapshot module into your ensemble or instrument and attach a knob or fader to the Mrph (morph) input. Then you could just automate the knob/fader instead.

edit: also I believe you could get sneaky building a little tempo synced auto-morph envelope to route into this if you knew what you were doing.