robertg

Hello, I am creating a system where I can control Native Instruments Battery VST using simple algorithms to manipulate the drum hits. I want to be able to control or play the bass drum, snare, and hi hat of a Battery Drum Kit using variations that I change and scroll through in a patch in MAX. I want to be able to adjust the number of hits or the snare and the quantization of the hits over the time of the song. One really cool example of this is the way Mark Fell does this on his Multistability album. Mark references the sounds of techno. I want to take this same process and use it with samples and field recordings. But my example above with the Native Instruments Battery VST is just a simpler way to discuss this process. I will ultimately replace the drum sounds in battery with my own small samples from field recordings. Basically I want to create a sequencer in Max that allows me to on the fly adjust the midi parameters such as velocity, adjust the quantization, adjust the time signature, adjust the actual number of hits in a 16 bar pattern .. all done with variables controlled algorithmically. Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks so much for any insight. I have Ableton live and can use that if a DAW is necessary as well.

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Max is almost made for this type of music. An algorithmic approach with deep manipulation of data.

I'm currently working on a similar project, using a timing engine I'm developing called "Dawn", named after the group Dawn of MIDI.

I do have one concern, and that is that a lot of Fells note triggering more or less reaches audio rates at times. I don't quite know if midi could handle this.

Does anyone have some input on this? And would you be able to trigger faster, if you loaded the drum sampler as a vsti inside max?

Max is almost made for this type of music. An algorithmic approach with deep manipulation of data. 

I'm currently working on a similar project, using a timing engine I'm developing called "Dawn", named after the group Dawn of MIDI. 

Does anyone have some input on this? And would you be able to trigger faster, if you loaded the drum sampler as a vsti inside max?


If you're only going to be using a handful of sounds, I'd consider using Max for playback, too, as well as the "midi" section.

Algorithmic Composition