New YouTube Video: Fakey Clock Division
Dec 23, 2009 YouTube
Posted by
irfon
Last night as I was going to bed, I got an idea for a patch on the modular that I wanted to try, so I returned to the den and gave it a go. It worked like a charm, and the patch was simple enough that I figured I could document it in a video. Unfortunately, I was ridiculously tired, so not only is my handheld shooting pretty shaky, but I randomly say “oscillator” instead of “envelope generator” and use a bunch of other terms involving timing more or less at random. Still, the basic idea gets demonstrated, which is that you can send a bunch of velocity pulses at a series of velocities over MIDI from Logic and then dice the various velocity sets out to trigger different things using a signal processor or signal processors.
A few things to note:
- There’s no real limit to how many discrete velocities you could use this way;
- I use this to divide a rhythm into even fractions, but the pattern you set could be totally arbitrary;
- I use the pulses to trigger envelope generators, but there’s no reason you couldn’t use them to trigger anything that uses a threshold-based trigger;
- I chose even durations for all of my velocity pulses, but you can set the “pulse width” by choosing different durations of notes;
- I used arbitrary pitches and then just ignored the pitch / gate / trigger information completely, whereas there’s no reason you couldn’t still use that information usefully (although you’d have to remember that the ‘off’ notes are sending all that data also).
Anyway, here’s the video:
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