Topic: Generative/Random patch help.

Generative/Random patch help.

Jun 12 2013 | 6:33 am

Heya. I’ve been trying lately to improve on a random music patch that I made a while ago, but it’s not really coming out the way I want it to. Overall it doesn’t seem to have any sort of coherance – I’m trying to go for something like http://www.jonasbjerre.com/pianofm.html, which seems to be much more generative and musical.

Does anyone have any good methods of making such generative systems?

roger.carruthers

Jun 12 2013 | 1:11 pm

Christopher Dobrian’s algocomp blog is a good place to start:
http://algocomp.blogspot.co.uk/
Cheers
Roger

Wetterberg

Jun 12 2013 | 1:41 pm

Also, the actual standard max tutorials work really well towards building quite a bit of the good generative stuff.

The example you link to seems to have a limited number of notes for both fm and piano sounds – so I am thinking you simply need to select pitches that the patch selects from, rather than (I’m assuming) trying to generate them randomly?

analord

Jun 12 2013 | 8:38 pm

algocomp looks to be exactly what I was looking for, thank you! I’m gonna grind my way through it.

And yeah, for the purposes of my patch, I just wanna select between 8 random pitches within a scale. I’m thinking of also using jit.cellblock to create/edit a table of random values that my patches select from (but I’ll worry about that later.) But I’m absolutely for learning about completely generative methods as well, of course.