Re: Very long morphs (was: keeping loops interesting)

[mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>]

Per: Da Man.

Thanks again,

Mark

--- Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 sep 2006, at 20.26, mark sottilaro wrote:
> 
> > What I'm looking for (in software hopefully) is
> > something that slowly changes a perameter over
> very
> > long lengths automatically.  Like modulating a
> filter
> > (delay or any other effect) with a sine wave, but
> have
> > the sine wave have a period of 10-20 minutes.
> 
> --> Funny answer:
> Musicians do that. Activate a functionality named
> "improvisation".
> 
> --> Serious answer:
> 1) Numerology (host appl for OSX). 
> http://www.five12.com/
> My favorite controller GUI in Numerology is the
> TripleXY window.  
> Three X/Y vectors that together control six
> parameters. You dot  
> somewhere in the X/Y field to set values for the two
> parameters  
> controlled by one vector. Then there is this genius
> function called  
> "glide" that is simply slowing down the move from
> one set of XY  
> parameters (first dot) to the next (second dot). You
> can set glide  
> for very long periods so the parameters will change
> values slooo- 
> slooo-slooo... oh-sooo.... slooowley....
> 
> In Numerology there are also some LFO modules that
> can be slowed down  
> and set to target any parameter in an instrument or
> effect.
> 
> (Numerology is OSX only and works through the AU
> protocol and the  
> audio/MIDI support that is built in the Mac system).
> 
> 2) Ableton Live.
> Set up a bunch of clip envelopes with long duration
> (no upper limit  
> really) and let them change the target parameter.
> 
> 3) Mobius.
> Scripting. Do it like this:  Set first value for the
> targeted  
> parameter, set a subcycle's wait, set the second
> parameter value,  
> another subcycle's wait, third value etc etc.  My
> first try with this  
> was to create a tremolo, but it didn't work very
> well. Then I created  
> a one minute sinus curve of Rate Shift (pitch and
> speed, like a  
> turntable being touched) and that one is great fun.
> It spans two  
> octaves in pitch, so I wouldn't precisely call it a
> sublime effect. ;-))
> 
> Greetings from Sweden
> 
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
> http://www.myspace.com/looproom
> 
> 
> 
> 


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