little cellular automata sequencer

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Michele Verità

Hi all, i made this little cellular sequencer (inspired by reaktor new-school)..requires jitter since it uses jit.conway..let me know if it inspire you in any way
ciao

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Anthony Palomba

Sweet! Nice work Michele.

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BobTheDog

Hi,

I would love to have a look at this. I am new to Max so please forgive me my ignorance but how do I load this in?

Cheers

Andy

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Anthony Palomba

If you are on XP, you need to add the extension .pat

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BobTheDog

Hi,

Thanks for the reply but I am on OSX.

Cheers

Andy

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roger.carruthers

Ctrl-click on the file and select 'open with'> 'other' - make sure that 'all
Applications' is enabled at the top of the dialogue box, and select Max 5,
Cheers
Roger

On 23/05/2008 20:13, "Andrew Capon" wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the reply but I am on OSX.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy

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Olivier Sebillotte

hi Michele,

looks nice

but I need some help to understand the concept and applications I could do of it.

Could you please give us some clues ?

I have a Lemur, so this could be a great interface for this.

Thanks a lot

:-)

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BobTheDog

HI Roger,

Thanks for that got it in now.

When I save it saves with a MaxPat extension, how where these files saved like this?

Cheers

Andy

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Anthony Palomba

Max5 saves it with the .maxpat extension, Max4 saves it with
the .pat extension.

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BobTheDog

Hi Anthony,

But the files have no extensions at all!

Cheers

Andy

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Dan

Finder > Preferences > Advances > Show all file extensions.

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BobTheDog

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the reply but this is already enabled.

After downloading and automatic unzipping in Leopard I have:

MacPro:~ andrewcapon$ cd cellular_matrix_sequencer/
MacPro:cellular_matrix_sequencer andrewcapon$ ls -ltr
total 24
-rw-r--r--@ 1 andrewcapon andrewcapon 1065 23 May 17:47 m.cellulardecode
-rw-r--r--@ 1 andrewcapon andrewcapon 5159 23 May 18:41 cellular_matrix

Cheers

Andy

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Vlad Spears

On May 23, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Andrew Capon wrote:
> After downloading and automatic unzipping in Leopard I have:
>
> MacPro:~ andrewcapon$ cd cellular_matrix_sequencer/
> MacPro:cellular_matrix_sequencer andrewcapon$ ls -ltr
> total 24
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 andrewcapon andrewcapon 1065 23 May 17:47
> m.cellulardecode
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 andrewcapon andrewcapon 5159 23 May 18:41
> cellular_matrix

I had the same problem. Adding .mxb to the end of each file
identifies them as Max 4 binary format.

Vlad

Vlad Spears
Tanj! I'm already out of Known Space!

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Vlad Spears

On May 23, 2008, at 9:46 AM, mic wrote:

> Hi all, i made this little cellular sequencer (inspired by reaktor
> new-school)..requires jitter since it uses jit.conway..let me know
> if it inspire you in any way
> ciao
>
><
> cellular_matrix_sequencer

This is a very nice patch, Mic. I like how you kept the starting
pattern static on the left for reference.

Hooking it up as a trigger for percussive samples is fun!

Vlad

Vlad Spears
Tanj! I'm already out of Known Space!

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Michele Verità

hey guys thanks a lot! :-)
yes it is intended to trigger percussive patterns and can be really fun!
ciao

ps. i made this with in 4.5.7 i did not try in 5

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Michele Verità

Hi Olivier,
well the concept behind it is to use a cellular automata algorithm to create an evolving pattern that can produce some interesting and unpredictable rythmic patterns (if you see the bang that flashes, you can use them to play percussive sounds, you can use them to bang a table filled with midi values etc..)
the trick behind it is in map-decoding the cellular animated pattern

Quote: olivier.seb@free.fr wrote on Fri, 23 May 2008 21:28
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> hi Michele,
>
> looks nice
>
> but I need some help to understand the concept and applications I could do of it.
>
> Could you please give us some clues ?
>
> I have a Lemur, so this could be a great interface for this.
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> :-)
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BobTheDog

A very nice patch Michele, could be very useful.

For people who don't know too much about "The Game Of Life" the following link is pretty good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life and for Cellular Automation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton

Don't you love wikipedia?

I will have a go at getting it to work with the Lemur.

Cheers

Andy

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Thinksamuel

Thanks, I am investigating CA for composition now, so it's a nice thing to see

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Olivier Sebillotte

Thanks Michele and Andy,

I spent a part of the night on wikipedia and Max with your patch.

Looks like a new playground for me and my Lemur for the next months ;-)

Thanks a lot to bringing this to us.

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Vlad Spears

On May 24, 2008, at 5:03 AM, mic wrote:

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> ps. i made this with in 4.5.7 i did not try in 5

It works great in 5. I generally only go into 4.x for projects I'm
working on that have to stay there for now, so 5 was the first
environment I tried.

Vlad

Vlad Spears
Tanj! I'm already out of Known Space!

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steve_j

Sorry to dig this thread up again but does any one know where i can find this patch, would like to have a look.

Thanks

Steve

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steve_j

Im working on something similar at the moment (thanks for your help earlier raja) hopefully we can get a reply from someone on this one, but i will post up the one im working on when its done.

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Christopher Overstreet

bump again

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ritmoloco

THANKS !!!!!!!!!!

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Noob4Life