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xzzy posted:VCV rack is probably the most appropriate tool though. I agree and almost said something like this but also I am a newbie and think that modular has loving broken my brain. I didn't even think about Bespoke and if OP happens to know Python that might be a very solid approach. VCV rack with n oscillators is the funny, and also "conceptually easy" approach, given an understanding of the basic vco -> vca <- ADSR path. Which was not a thing I could have explained to you at all a year and a half ago even though I'd owned a 0coast for 4 years at that point  I spent an hour of a car ride yesterday making horrible turing noises with MiRack on iPad and then trying to add enough modulation to it to make it listenable for me. With moderate succes, and also now I want like 3 modules which don't even physically exist (and I gave the MiRack shithead $15, yea *sigh*) e: if i get some time later i am gonna try to just build a VCV rack that does what OP wants it sounds fun and like an okay basis for a number of generative ambient patches which is, you know, a thing I enjoy not only making but even listening to other people's meandering 8 hour patches! Cabbages and VHS fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Apr 26, 2023 |
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Newf posted:The desired effect is *kind of* emerging, but it's ruined by some ugly beat-like artifacts that come on when several of these oscillators play simultaneously (especially the higher ones). sanity check here - I'd 100% expect stacking oscillators of the same note/different octaves as you talk about (even just sins) to have some kind of beat effect as periods line up. thats what oscillators do, they create periodic change. you're not gonna get that w/ a physical piano cause the way the notes are produced is so different, and honestly its unlikely that the piano is still playing octaves as perfect as a web synth unless you had it tuned like yesterday
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JamesKPolk posted:sanity check here - I'd 100% expect stacking oscillators of the same note/different octaves as you talk about (even just sins) to have some kind of beat effect as periods line up. thats what oscillators do, they create periodic change. you're not gonna get that w/ a physical piano cause the way the notes are produced is so different, and honestly its unlikely that the piano is still playing octaves as perfect as a web synth unless you had it tuned like yesterday Happy for second opinions, but stacking octaves is the particular case where beats aren't expected. Take two equivalent oscillators. Stack them perfectly aligned, and you'll get the same oscillator with double amplitude. Stack them perfectly out of sync and you'll get silence. Anything in between gives some other wave interference pattern that repeats exactly with the same frequency as the original oscillators. Oscillators that are power-of-two multiples of one another have the same thing going on - the interference pattern between them is periodic on the period of the lowest frequency. Beats are an artifact from when oscillators don't line up well with each other.
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Cabbages and Kings posted:I agree and almost said something like this but also I am a newbie and think that modular has loving broken my brain. I didn't even think about Bespoke and if OP happens to know Python that might be a very solid approach. Wish I'd seen that earlier. I'm much happier to be using a text editor in any language than a gui with knobs. Haven't you heard? GPT fills out the particulars now in whatever language - you just need to give it sensible suggestions. Here's my first pass with the online editor for faust. Fun so far 
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Newf posted:Wish I'd seen that earlier. I'm much happier to be using a text editor in any language than a gui with knobs. Haven't you heard? GPT fills out the particulars now in whatever language - you just need to give it sensible suggestions. Give me a dial and slider over a keyboard any day. Sincere good for you, though!  I think what you may be re imagining from first principles is a drawbar organ? B33rChiller fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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Dials are definitely fun from an experimentation perspective but I am completely incapable of "performing" a song and I need sequences and rigid code to do it for me. I'm happiest setting up automations.
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xzzy posted:Dials are definitely fun from an experimentation perspective but I am completely incapable of "performing" a song and I need sequences and rigid code to do it for me. I'm happiest setting up automations. i just like being slightly to very much under the influence of cannabis and floating inside a sonic soup I am controlling if the result of this is something I enjoy listening to ex post facto, that's just gravy. I'm not a musician, though, any more than I am a lumberjack: just a guy who bought a bunch of oscillators and chainsaws.
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Newf posted:Wish I'd seen that earlier. I'm much happier to be using a text editor in any language than a gui with knobs. the o.g. solution is csound
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2 weeks off work and the first 2 verses and outro all just went together perfectly. back at work for 2 weeks and I've been struggling with the third verse the whole time. besides robbing me of my surplus labor work is also robbing me of the energy and creativity to make, well, anything. still needs a few more samples and some mix magic. I want to throw down some vocals. reaper has a text file import for lyrics so you can keep everything together in one file. I originally wanted to do this on the rs7000 but didn't really have the patience for it. but I did record the 1 bar drum beat off the rs7000 with the outputs extra noisy. samples are from barton fink, a youtube upload of 1991 radio surfing and wanda dee's to the bone https://soundcloud.com/rid_labs/jus...=social_sharing e: this tuning https://en.xen.wiki/w/Nestoria17 The Voice of Labor fucked around with this message at 04:48 on May 4, 2023 |
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my reaper project file corrupted. I think I have everything except the third verse and some of the transition stuff from an old save, but I'm gonna have to rip the 3rd verse from a render. I had just gotten the lyrics written too
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Here's something better than the neighbor mowing to listen to https://soundcloud.com/beer-chiller/kickin-jam
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good work man. I spent all day fixin' my 'puter. someone's gotta keep the beats flowing
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man, loosing a bunch of work on a project and tearing apart and putting back together a computer is nostalgic as all hell. so is restarting a project because a sampler isn't really up to snuff. lol, nostalgia sucks
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The Voice of Labor posted:man, loosing a bunch of work on a project and tearing apart and putting back together a computer is nostalgic as all hell. I know that feeling. oh no, oh poo poo, no, that was the wrong button, gently caress!!!!
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if I turn my computer off I have to wait an hour for it to cool down or discharge or whatever before I can turn it back on again. I did not miss poo poo like that but I also never really anticipated it being viable to use the same computer for so long that parts wear out
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Cabbages and Kings posted:I agree and almost said something like this but also I am a newbie and think that modular has loving broken my brain. I didn't even think about Bespoke and if OP happens to know Python that might be a very solid approach. Mention of knowing python has me intrigued.. what could someone do with that vst if they knew python?
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Depends on whether they actually have any ideas.
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Of course! But having looked it up more, the ideas would fit better into some of the midi file creation libraries in python, which I could then send to my hardware synth to mess with. The potential of getting into editing the synthesise bit with code is tantalising but just doubles up what I've got on the minilogue XD really. I could do with something that generates chord progressions and melodies for when I'm too tired to think in the evenings but still want to play something.
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Yah could use a turing machine https://youtu.be/-Q6dXbtNh0Qand a harmonàig for that https://youtu.be/SjMxhkyJtGI
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B33rChiller posted:Yah could use a turing machine https://youtu.be/-Q6dXbtNh0Qand a harmonàig for that https://youtu.be/SjMxhkyJtGI I didn't know stuff like that existed! I'm gonna stick with coding it using Mingus & midiutil python packages for now but it's quite tempting to buy a cool looking hardware box to connect upto my synth.. ..but not today
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There are free software implementations of these. I'm sure a clever individual could adapt either the code, or the idea behind it. That's not me though.
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I know it's not exactly a hard time limit with this project, but man do I have to get back to my track at some point. Started it a little bit a couple weeks ago, but life has been stressing me the hell out. Need to burn the stress out with hot FM jams.
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p' sure the main reason for synth bands is just to have someone help you finish stuff
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