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Sample Scrambler by Andrew Pask

Originally part of the Gen Patch-a-day Series:

This patch does a kind of gritty Buffershuffler-esque reordering of the last bar of audio. I've hard coded it with crusty old drumLoop.aif to reduce clutter in the patch, but you'll be able to pretty easily open it out to other files or live input. You'll need both Overdrive and SIAI on so that the phasor~ @lock is steady. HAPPY PATCHING!!!!!!!
-- Andrew

Next steps to take in its evolution could be:

  • adding variation to the amount of history being collected

  • auto changing the number of steps

  • adding an envelope to each step

  • changing the direction of playback of a step

  • copying out parts of audio history into other buffers so that you build up a more diverse history of audio

3300-GenPAD03.maxpat.zip
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by Cycling '74 on November 25, 2021

Wetterberg's icon

Hey, this is pretty sick! I should hope this makes its way to the Examples section at some point, it's quite clean and readable code! :) Dig it.

yaniki's icon

Outstanding.

OCH's icon

I missed it the first time around so, thx for sharing it!
I was thinking this was a funny coincidence, or that maybe you'd be inspired by a_sample_shuffler example from The QAC Toolkit package ;)

Best,
OCH