![]() ![]() I find the game of life and similar "emergent behaviour" -systems endlessly fascinating. Here's an interesting article on Newscool:Ĭool news (sorry for the pun, couldn't help myself)! The ensemble (instrument/effect unit) within Reaktor that I'm thinking you should check out is called "Newscool" and is based on Conway's game of life, which you've almost certainly familiar with. And the beauty of the paid version of Reaktor is that everything is modifiable on the deepest level, so you can actually merge aspects of different instruments together and create a new interface for it if you want to. ![]() It's great for this and there is a whole community dedicated to sharing free ensembles created using the platform, where you can find all sorts of fun and interesting stuff. The first time through the 16-step sequencer they're all set to C4, then they go up or down by 1, 2, or 3 notes or single octaves.Īs someone else has mentioned, the thing that comes to mind for me is NI Reaktor. This is one of my early efforts using them - (The wiggly cords and sudden darkening are simply fun visual effects.) The "Modulus Salomonis Regis" and "Modulissimus Salomonis Regis" modules are of interest to me because you can make internal patches that reprogram either the current step or others to different quantized notes every time it steps through the sequence. Daisy-chain several of them for even more fun.) ML Modules: Counter (can be programmed by a random CV to produce random-length intervals between output pulses.Audible Instruments: Bernoulli Gate (suitable for those randomly dropped clock pulses).Count Modula: Clocked Random Gates, Euclidean Sequencer.Sha#Bang: Stochastic Sequencer, Stoch Seq4, Cosmosis, Neutrinode.Aria Salvatrice: Darius, Modulus Salomonis Regis (4-step and 8-step versions), Modulissimus Salomonis Regis (16 steps).The sequencer modules I've been trying out are: See īeware - the more you have, the harder it is to recall how any one module works. You also have to figure out which plug-ins to subscribe to in order to find a module (out of 2,664) that will do what you want. Some are great, some think that merely naming it after a real-world module is sufficient.įortunately, some modules are simple enough to go by trial and error and observing the results. Each plug-in has different authors and they all have different notions of what constitutes a user manual. The only beef I have with it is that the documentation is rather patchy (so to speak). I would heartily recommend VCV Rack, for macOS, Linux, or Windows. If anyone has experience with some combination of those (and Reaktor), what would you say are the pros and cons of each? I got a lot of recommendations for VCV Rack, which is a free "eurorack simulator" and Pure Data, which is a sort of visual programming language for sound design. I also asked this on reddit, where many people recommended modular synthesis, which I suppose Reaktor also has, but does it have other generative capabilities as well? As far as I remember all the instruments I used in my YouTube piece were free I think you can download user-created instruments free and use them in Reaktor Player. There is a free version of Reaktor available here: This was done using Native Instruments Reaktor, which is a synth-design program. I published a long piece on YouTube here: Really what I'm looking for are those random variations - within parameters that I set. This is interesting stuff! Not really sure if it's applicable to what I'm trying to do right now, but something to keep in mind for the future, for sure. There are various AI apps which can learn, (rather than just random variations), I guess any synth with a random number generator would get me started, but ideally I'd like to find something with a bit more control and flexibility. computer program), where the "musicians" role is to control the parameters that specify the rules by which the system creates music, instead of laying out specific elements of the composition.ĭoes anyone have recommendations/experience on (preferably free) music making software with generative capabilities? I was specifically thinking of first trying to find a plugin that can modify a loop composed by the user by dropping a certain percentage of notes randomly, something like Brian Eno is using in this interview: staring around the 13 minute mark (the whole interview is worth watching if you're interested in this sort of stuff, Eno is such a brilliant and charismatic guy!). For anyone unfamiliar with the term, it is basically music generated by a system (e.g. I'm looking to tip my toes into making some generative music. ![]()
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