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I have just started as a Max5 user and have been plodding my way through various tutorials and help files. I am trying to make a generative music box as part of a college project, and thought i'd share what i have so far with people on here, and hopefully get any tips or help. So far, i have just GM drums playing random rhythm values from a text file in a Coll object, linked to the global transport. Its very basic, but then i'm a musician not a programmer! And Max is tough! I am going to set it up so that hopefully everytime it is switched on, it will play at a different tempo, and when i get the synth sounds in play those in a different key.

At the moment, the patterns of the drums are very similar sounding, and also havent yet implemented any velocity changes, so it still needs work. I will be looking into something better than using Random object, i have started reading about Markov chains and understand this is implemented in Max, so that might be a possibility. I'm also using Curtis Roads Computer Music Tutorial which talks about other algorithmic methods such as stochastic and deterministic - anyone used these type of methods in Max??

anyhoo, here's the patch. Thanks for looking! 

I have just started as a Max5 user and have been plodding my way through various tutorials and help files. I am trying to make a generative music box as part of a college project, and thought i'd share what i have so far with people on here, and hopefully get any tips or help.  So far, i have just GM drums playing random rhythm values from a text file in a Coll object, linked to the global transport. Its very basic, but then i'm a musician not a programmer! And Max is tough! I am going to set it up so that hopefully everytime it is switched on, it will play at a different tempo, and when i get the synth sounds in play those in a different key. 

At the moment, the patterns of the drums are very similar sounding, and also havent yet implemented any velocity changes, so it still needs work. I will be looking into something better than using Random object, i have started reading about Markov chains and understand this is implemented in Max, so that might be a possibility. I'm also using Curtis Roads Computer Music Tutorial which talks about other algorithmic methods such as stochastic and deterministic - anyone used these type of methods in Max?? 

anyhoo, here's the patch. Thanks for looking! 


generative-drum-machine

98 views and has no-one tried my patch??


You could start by randomly leaving out events. Or less randomly, organize that aspect.

Yes, that's something i've been working on today. How to produce rests...i guess i could use the randomly chosen intervals as rest lengths, but havent quite worked out how to use that to generate a stop in the sound, short of having it turn the drum sound off briefly. However, that sounds long-winded, so back to the tutorials for me i think! 

why do all your replies reference unwarranted links?

Ya I noticed that. I am hoping it is a clever bot and not a person.

Indeed... Bots are immune to bad karma, but people are aren't.

Generative Drum Machine