Fwd: arpeggiator

[Per Boysen <per@boysen.se>]

> 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
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