On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:12:56PM +0000, andy baxter wrote: > On 10/12/10 10:02, andy baxter wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was talking to a friend this morning about a project I thought we >> could do together. He plays free improv piano/keyboard music - dense >> patterns and textures improvised in live time. I was saying that in >> principle it would be possible to record a piece of his music on a >> keyboard as a midi stream, then feed it through a softsynth in a >> studio and tweak the synth parameters as it's playing to produce the >> final piece. >> >> He liked the idea, but I'm not sure if there's a linux softsynth that >> would work like this. What it needs to do is: >> >> - produce sounds from a midi stream in real time, with the sound >> altered by tweaking various parameters (knobs and buttons). >> - the tweaks should be recordable so that you can play them back and >> re-tweak them until you get the result you want. >> - the feature I really want is to be able to set presets for the >> parameters and then fade between presets in real time. E.g. if there >> are two presets which both use a resonant low pass filter, I want to >> be able to move a single slider that moves the filter value from one >> to the other continuously to create a filter sweep. This is different >> from a fade at the audio stream level. > > Thanks for all the replies so far. > > Has anyone seen a program which does anything like what I've described > in the last item above? If not, I might have a go at writing my own in > supercollider or python. The idea would be that you could play with all > the parameters of a synth to get a sound you liked, tell the program to > record those settings as midi CC values, do the same again to get a > different sound, record those settings, and then be able to morph > between the two with a crossfade slider. Then for live performance you > would have a DJ like interface where you could load different patch > settings into either end of the crossfade, start with one and morph to > the other whilst playing, with the controllers all varying smoothly at > the same time to take you from one sound to the other. > I used to use Seq24 for this. I'd record a part, just the notes, then I'd on a separate track, overdub in my messing around with all the knobs and buttons, recorded via MIDI CC's. Was kind of useful for improv, since I'd have a few tracks of performance (notes) and a few tracks of various parameter tweakages, and I could mix and match them pseudo-randomly by muting/unmuting. I also have had good luck with PHASEX for doing crazy synthy experimental sounding stuff. I think with Seq224 and an array of linux softsynths with good MIDI control capabilities (PHASEX, Amsynth, AMS, whatever), and a good MIDI controller with lots of buttons and knobs, you could really get out there with experimental improv stuff. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
