Bynar

Recently I came across this blog post about using bitwise operators to create beats with 1 line of code.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/10/entire-musical-compositions-made-from-just-one-line-of-code-are-glitchy-but-musical/

Having really enjoyed the organic quality of some of these loops, I decided to make a go at it using the bitwise operators in MSP. I really do not know too much about bitwise operators and I would be interested to see what I can do to control the patch below. I think in the example from the article the code used right shifts which are designated with negative arguments for Bitshift~. I used positive arguments instead (I got no output with negative arguments) and I used the rand~ object instead of the for loop. I'm interested to see what I can do to control this a little better. I encourage people to mod the patch below. Thanks!

Recently I came across this blog post about using bitwise operators to create beats with 1 line of code. 

Having really enjoyed the organic quality of some of these loops, I decided to make a go at it using the bitwise operators in MSP. I really do not know too much about bitwise operators and I would be interested to see what I can do to control the patch below. I think in the example from the article the code used right shifts which are designated with negative arguments for Bitshift~. I used positive arguments instead (I got no output with negative arguments) and I used the rand~ object instead of the for loop. I'm interested to see what I can do to control this a little better. I encourage people to mod the patch below. Thanks!


fun-with-bitwise-operators

Something that comes to mind (but unrelated to maxmsp) is a Tristan Perich's

"1-Bit Symphony" (a friend of mine went to a presentation of his work in London)

Something that comes to mind (but unrelated to maxmsp) is a Tristan Perich's
"1-Bit Symphony" (a friend of mine went to a presentation of his work in London)


I love the sound of that kind of thing (both tristan's stuff and this patch).

Thanks. I will have to check out Tristan's work. I'm still interested to see if anyone can show me how to bring a little bit more control to these sounds. I realize the obvious choice would be to not use the rand~ object. Maybe drawing into a repeating buffer might be interesting? At any rate I still don't really get what these bitwise operators do to an audio signal. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Fun with bitwise operators