Re: My Conversation to MAX/MSP - Now Includes Looper

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 26 maj 2007, at 06.17, Krispen Hartung wrote:

> He will work on rate shift, eventually. However, based on what I  
> know about what you do in Mobius, I think this could be done with  
> pitch change (the gizmo~ object).

I should maybe clarify that I don't use pitch change at all in  
Mobius. And not elsewhere either. I'm not really interested in using  
that function for looping. But I'm very much into Rate Shift because  
it doesn't simply change the pitch, it also changes the loop length  
and this makes it more usable as a tool for instant composition. I  
mean, if you bring down the loop two octaves and overdubs melodies  
you play as fast as you ever can then your overdub will sound like  
super busy Mickey Mouse Insects at the correct rate. Doing stuff like  
that is a lot more fun IMHO, compared to emulating how a musician  
would play something  ;-))

My votes are for priorities on Rate Shift and an easy and fast  
interface for mapping it to MIDI notes or CC#. But Augustus Loop  
already does that, so far only by MDI notes though, perfectly. And  
it's dirt easy to throw in alternate MIDI sequences, as MIDI Clips in  
Live,  to play havoc with Pitch Rate while your working the loop by  
overdubbing, reversing or changing its length. The only two important  
functions missing in Augustus, that would make Max an interesting  
alternative if supported, are Rate Shift by MIDI CC# and some sort of  
SUSSubstitute/Replace.

The drawback with using Live as a plug-in host is if you want to let  
the looper set the tempo, because then Life doesn't play sync slave  
in a stable way. This is why had to quit using Live two years ago.

Greetings from Sweden

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