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Re: Very long morphs (was: keeping loops interesting)
Per: Da Man.
Thanks again,
Mark
--- Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 sep 2006, at 20.26, mark sottilaro wrote:
>
> > What I'm looking for (in software hopefully) is
> > something that slowly changes a perameter over
> very
> > long lengths automatically. Like modulating a
> filter
> > (delay or any other effect) with a sine wave, but
> have
> > the sine wave have a period of 10-20 minutes.
>
> --> Funny answer:
> Musicians do that. Activate a functionality named
> "improvisation".
>
> --> Serious answer:
> 1) Numerology (host appl for OSX).
> http://www.five12.com/
> My favorite controller GUI in Numerology is the
> TripleXY window.
> Three X/Y vectors that together control six
> parameters. You dot
> somewhere in the X/Y field to set values for the two
> parameters
> controlled by one vector. Then there is this genius
> function called
> "glide" that is simply slowing down the move from
> one set of XY
> parameters (first dot) to the next (second dot). You
> can set glide
> for very long periods so the parameters will change
> values slooo-
> slooo-slooo... oh-sooo.... slooowley....
>
> In Numerology there are also some LFO modules that
> can be slowed down
> and set to target any parameter in an instrument or
> effect.
>
> (Numerology is OSX only and works through the AU
> protocol and the
> audio/MIDI support that is built in the Mac system).
>
> 2) Ableton Live.
> Set up a bunch of clip envelopes with long duration
> (no upper limit
> really) and let them change the target parameter.
>
> 3) Mobius.
> Scripting. Do it like this: Set first value for the
> targeted
> parameter, set a subcycle's wait, set the second
> parameter value,
> another subcycle's wait, third value etc etc. My
> first try with this
> was to create a tremolo, but it didn't work very
> well. Then I created
> a one minute sinus curve of Rate Shift (pitch and
> speed, like a
> turntable being touched) and that one is great fun.
> It spans two
> octaves in pitch, so I wouldn't precisely call it a
> sublime effect. ;-))
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
> http://www.myspace.com/looproom
>
>
>
>
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