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Re: "MIDI looping" - Discrete Sequencing?



Very nice... and this is why i love modular synths actually Per...
With modules, one does this kind of composing often by accident.
In my modular I have 3 analog sequencers. Now you would think that you would use one sequncer to control the notes (Pitch CV) the lengths (gates) and the velocity (VCA CV), but its often fun fun fun, to mix them up... a 16 note sequence, triggered by a 9 note,  but with a 4 note velocity (or filter) sequence can make long twisting and turning sequences.

Didnt quite get your LFO use, but try this its what i call a "square wave lfo sequencer"

First... Is it possible to synch LFOs in numerology? OK, get 4 LFOs, and synch them, then set then all to square wave and running a different speeds in relation to the BPM... send then thru a quantiser (if you can do that, think so from what you said) and to your synth... now alter the LEVELS of the square waves (not the speed, they should be set at divisions of the beat) for amazing "staircase" sequences...

(ps Per.. i made one in Fireworx too... heh heh... )

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On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

I remember people having posted questions concerning "MIDI looping"
and I never really understood what that should be. But now I think I
have found out: it must be what also is knows as Discrete Sequencing!
I.e. when you create musical patterns by running different sequencers
for each aspect of the music. I just tried this with Numerology and
got hooked! :-))  Check out this live set I just recorded:

http://www.perboysen.com/Numerology2_20090506.mp3

I used three different "loops" to create
1) Pitch
2) Gate/Duration
3) Velocity

All three sequencers looping at different lengths, which gave a nice
organically evolving feel the the music. Gate/Duration created at a 4
16th note steps loop and Velocity at a 6 16th note steps loop. As for
Pitch I used 16 steps but then I had a second sequencer modulating
this sequencer at five two bar steps as well as an LFO randomizing the
16 pitch steps every two or three bar, something. This is all
happening in what Numerology calls "the CV domain", i.e. pure control
data. The final module is a "Note Generator Module" that creates MIDI
out of the CV streams so a soft synth can be driven. At the Note
Generator stage I'm also "quantizing pitch" into the key B major -
every note event taking on the pitch of the closest B major note.

If someone is interested in this, there is a good introduction (with
accurate references to Eric Tamm in "Robert Fripp : from King Crimson
to Guitar Craft" and gamelan) to read at
http://www.five12.com/t3.html

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com




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