In our last installment, I tried to present some really simple and (I hope) explanatory samples of some of the easiest ways to generate and organize variety on the fly using radiaL. One of the things that those examples did that I didn’t talk very explicitly about involved loading a single loop on multiple channels and then using radiaL’s ability to playback sections of that loop in a nonlinear fashion to create evolving structures. In the interests of “ear training,” I suggested that you mute some of the loop channels as you went along in order for some parameter to be easier to hear, but it’s my hope you just turned all the channels on and listened to them run when you were done following my instructions. Just in case you didn’t, I’ve included another loop constructed so that you can generate varying patterns by loading it on multiple channels and then playing varying sections of the loop with different pitch/time grid and transposition settings. It’s called “moogphrase.aif” Perhaps a little play with this is a good warm-up to what we’re going to look at next. Download the materials here.