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> On Jan 21, 2005, at 18:20, Art Simon wrote: > >> Cycling '74 pluggo? >> http://www.cycling74.com/products/pluggo.html > > > I have Pluggo here but can't find and audio arpeggiator among these, > otherwise fantastic, plug-ins. > > To arpeggiate audio you first need a polyphonic pitch analyzer. I > don't know about any such thing, or if it's even possible to construct > one? The idea with arpeggiating is to play a chord to tell the > arpeggiator which notes to line up according to the settings (octaves, > rhythmic phrasing). When there is audio, and no midi, how can a device > "hear" which chord is being played? > > I too would love to find and audio arpeggiator! The closest I have > come is to use a midi arpeggiator, or sequencer, to send commands to > a delay/looping device for pitch transposing. I did it with a Repeater > and various midi sequencers and now with software on a laptop. But I > wouldn't say it comes close to what you get with midi. Personally I > like audio better, though, Here's a short clip if someone is > interested: > http://www.looproom.com/audio/ > Three_Loopers_In_Mountains_Pine_Forrest+.mp3. > > The idea of using a midi guitar has appeared. But to generate a midi > chord for the arpeggiator you will at the same time generate an audio > chord and I would prefer to feed the arpeggiator with single notes, > not chords. In the sax clip above the chords driving the arpeggiator > were "played" from foot pedals, not generated by the playing (which in > this case was monophonic). > > For a long time I have been wishing someone should create a software > instrument that sliced up incoming audio, mapped the slices to note > numbers and played them back according to either (1) midi input or (2) > a built in step sequencer. Now THAT would be cool!!! :-) (maybe you > can do that in MAX?) > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > --- > http://www.looproom.com (international) > http://www.boysen.se (Swedish site) > http://www.cdbaby.com/perboysen