Andrew -
my friend Jacopo studied Sonology and he makes Patches. You might like his Olanto one... I've put all the info I have on it below (I did a little mailout for him to all my music making friends).... Enjoy and get in touch with him if you have any questions, wishes and feedback.
Sorry for the long nature of the post but I hope you'll find it interesting.
GO HERE TO DOWNLOAD IT
www.lan-muzic.com <<MAX PATCHES>>
OLANTO MAX MSP PATCH
Hyper step Sequence machine for Live electronic music based on pattern building, with some nice little MIDI and Audio features.
In other words its a "made for live improv thingy dingy"!
As a compositional tool the Olanto Patch is made to play with patterns in a Live context in an interactive and interesting way.
It follows the indian raga concept of flying with a limited amount of rules around a certain rythmical structure and then coming back to coeherence. The Patch has been implemented with Max/MSP(www.cycling74.com) a powerful mathematical tool for Audio(and not only) software design.
You draw the rules and you can play with the rules.
There are 4 main sections (modules) patched with each other....
1) The MIDI step sequencer which offers realtime-step recording/drawing of events for 8 MIDI tracks (Pitch, Velocity, Duration, and 1 Continues Control).
2) The Audio section: 3 Choppers/Resequentiators which can record, playback, resequence the loops, create granular effects, all in realtime, all BPM syncable. You can actually use uneven divisions to create difficult but coherent tempo patterns (11/8 against 7/4 for example), with whatever sound.
3) An Audio DSP chain, with four Audio tracks: Track number 1 and 2 have in insert a distortion, a multipurpose two octave filter (Lpf, Bpf, Notch, Hpf, Resonant, allpass).
Track 3 implements a Bit/Sample crusher plus filter, and track 4 a Ring Modulation Device.
There are 2 sends for each track for two different kind of Delaying.
Both Delays are Virtual Simulation of a Tape delay, but BPM syncable with infinite Feedback and panning, One Delay implements a multiband Filter.
Here too you can create a Pattern for each Parameter, and Draw a quasi-score again multiplying your "hands", and everything as quick as passing your finger on the computer' s trackpad.
4) The Sequencer for sequences that is assigned to the various pattern generating machines (both MIDI and Audio).
Although patterned oriented the sequencer that sequences the sequences gives the opportunity of playing around with poly rythmycal structures and to easily recombine them so to give a sense, a meaning, to what you do by going back to a main musical point (the indian raga!!!).
This gives the possibility of reaching dramatic changes while using a simple step sequencer, something you cannot do in real time with other loop based, or step based commercial software.
In fact Olanto is a "made for Live impro" thingy dingy!!!
There is no compromise!!! You do it Live or not, in fact I implemented a way of saving the patterns, but you HAVE to save them individually, why?
So you can also navigate through patterns while playing and reroute them for something else, but you are also obliged to remember what you did, similarly as playing an instrument.
So have a nice try, and the more you fool around with it, the more you' ll have fun!
For more Details or for the entire Max/MSP Patch, or any curiosity please feel free to contact me at jacopo@lan-muzic.com specifying in the object it is for the Patch please!
- - - - JACOPO CARRERAS - - - -
During his teens, Jacopo swings between Hard-Rock, Acid Jazz and Techno, playing the bass in several bands, spinning the most experimental music he could find and absorbing all the possible influences in the periferic, but extremely active, music scene of Rome. He quickly develops his passion for samplers and drum-machines, trying to implement live improvisation with the bass and electronic-pop beats. Growing up means also being a little confused of what you want to do, but chance sometimes helps.
While continuing his humanistic studies, they gradually push him to the Royal Conservatory of the Hague (NL) for the Sonology course, one of The Temples of pure Electronic music.
From then on he starts computing music through Max/MSP. Partly via knowledge, mainly via trial and error he builds his own musical environments, for composing, playing, sound design. No compromise is made and chance gives a hand again.
Through his friend and musical collegue Donato, he meets Marco and Ingo the Exercise One duo, light at first sight. Finally he lands in Berlin, where he finds himself envolved in the LAN crew with his first pure techno release "Sagredo". Twisted techno, as someone defined it, a mess for others, for him fun playing it live.
He is now working on new patches, different productions, from pop to intimate/sweet hard techno, the co-owned Post26 café and looking at the crazy world.
Ehm, an oscillator please we need a sawtooth...
― idle_matilda, Saturday, 24 February 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)
five years pass...