Re: dancing loops - D2? Ambiloop? KYMA?

[RandomLFO@aol.com]

     Hi Dennis. Thanks again for all of the great info! Will I be able to do Data Sonification, etc., with the Capybara66?
     Take care, Marc

In a message dated 9/25/2002 11:52:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dennis@mail.worldserver.com writes:


> Hi Marc!
>
> > Does Data Sonification utilize Granular Synthesis to achieve this?
>
> You can certainly use Granular Synthesis to do sonification.  A lot of other
> number->sound transformations would work too.  The Algorithm Arts Software
> folks ( http://algoart.com/ ) have some DNA->MIDI tools, for instance.
>
> > Can you set this data sonification technique to respond to tempo in
> anyway?
>
> Yes!  Decoding a tap tempo is really easy in Kyma.  Automatic beat detection
> is harder, especially depending on how sophisticated you need to be.
>
> > If you can navigate thru the field, what parameters can you set in
> relation to that?
>
> Just about anything.  Kyma provides a large number of real-time controls in
> its modules.  And you can easily combine the parameters.  For instance, I
> experimented with mapping the X-Y mouse position into 5 parameters.  As you
> roll the mouse around, you're actually varying five real-time controls.
>
> Dennis Leas
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> dennis@mail.worldserver.com