Brik

I've been trying to make a patch which quantizes in real-time an incoming audio stream. The way i've been trying to do it to start recording to a buffer when the mic level goes above a threshold, but then that recorded sound isn't played back until the start of the next beat/half-beat/etc. The resulting gap can then be filled by stretching or reversing the original input stream. Is this a possiblity and do you know of any other attempts at this? I know it would never sound perfect, but it would be totally awesome to walk around town with it enhancing the natural rhythms of the city.

quantization-of-real-time-audio

> I've been trying to make a patch which quantizes in real-time an 

> it would be totally awesome to walk around town with it enhancing 

check out Roman Haefeli's WorldQuantizer, it does exactly what you 

describes and runs on an iphone. It records rhythmic events via onset 

and "randomly" sequences them (rather than using a loop-based approach 

w. time streching). There are some videos on youtube and you can 

download the pure data source code from the rjdj wiki.

> I've been trying to make a patch which quantizes in real-time an  
> incoming audio stream.
[..]
> it would be totally awesome to walk around town with it enhancing  
> the natural rhythms of the city.

check out Roman Haefeli's WorldQuantizer, it does exactly what you  
describes and runs on an iphone. It records rhythmic events via onset  
detection
and "randomly" sequences them (rather than using a loop-based approach  
w. time streching). There are some videos on youtube and you can  
download the pure data source code from the rjdj wiki.

Quantization of Real-time audio