Architect: Does anyone have a * macro/script

[mannymang]

Hi Alberto, thanks for sharing!

I tried to use this for min/max rotary dials to keep both dials from going inverse but I couldn't make it work. Is this what it could be used for? For example dial "min" would force dial "max" to raise if > "max" to keep dial "min" from going higher than the "max" dial's current value, as well as the inverse.

[AZZIN]

Hi mammymang, not sure to understand your use-case. a-linmap is used to "remap" the output of any object in a certain range to a different range of values. What do you mean with "dials to go inverse"? Alberto

[mannymang]

Thanks Alberto, for example if you look at Generative Midi Machine and "Note Range" while playing, if you raise the "min" dial above the "max" dial, the error "Note Range: minimum value must be equal to or below the maximum value" prints. The same error happens if the "max" dial goes below the "min" dial. This is when the dials are inverse or opposite.

I haven't tried yet to fix this because it's on a higher level of knowledge for me , but I looked at your a-linmap and it looked like this might work in my case.

Thanks for your help! I'll keep learning by looking at your macro.

[mannymang]

I think I over-thought the minimum/maximum dial inversion problem. I've attached a fragment of a simple true/false solution. It seems to work as it should.

[cturner]

As it seems that there are a few folks here interested in chaotic and random sequences, I thought I would post this. In another topic here, I got started on a search for what remained of Peter Castine's lovely objects for Max/MSP, now sadly unusable there due to lack of maintenance. Turns out Peter has posted the source on GitHub:

https://github.com/v7b1/LitterPower?files=1

A first step might best be looking at the documentation, which I've posted here:

http://vze26m98.net/loomer/Litter%20Docs.zip

A real treasure trove. Enjoy!

[ThomasHelzle]

As it seems that there are a few folks here interested in chaotic and random sequences, I thought I would post this. In another topic here, I got started on a search for what remained of Peter Castine's lovely objects for Max/MSP, now sadly unusable there due to lack of maintenance. Turns out Peter has posted the source on GitHub:

https://github.com/v7b1/LitterPower?files=1

A first step might best be looking at the documentation, which I've posted here:

http://vze26m98.net/loomer/Litter%20Docs.zip

A real treasure trove. Enjoy!

Thanks cturner!
This indeed is a treasure trove.
I just implemented lp.ccc in Lua as a test and it's quite fun and simple.

But I wonder about the license and always struggle with this kind of thing:
Since the author himself seems to have collected those algorithms from others and I do not use his implementation but only extract how it works and the algorithm itself, can I or can I not make this available to others as Architect fragments?
His license docs say I can only use it for my own work, but I would assume that relates mostly to the Max implementation?
Would I have to hunt down each original author and find out if I can use the algorithms?
I seem to remember that you can only claim authorship for an implementation, not for the algorithm itself, but always found it hard to really grok this stuff.

If anybody here has a better grasp than me, I'd be really interested in your views!

Thanks and cheers,

Tom

[cturner]

I’m sure as long as you’re not charging money for it, you’ll be fine.

[AZZIN]

As it seems that there are a few folks here interested in chaotic and random sequences, I thought I would post this. In another topic here, I got started on a search for what remained of Peter Castine's lovely objects for Max/MSP, now sadly unusable there due to lack of maintenance. Turns out Peter has posted the source on GitHub:

https://github.com/v7b1/LitterPower?files=1

A first step might best be looking at the documentation, which I've posted here:

http://vze26m98.net/loomer/Litter%20Docs.zip

A real treasure trove. Enjoy!

Nice find Charles! Thanks for the link.
Unfortunately I'm not a Max guy, but the ideas contained in the docs could be useful anyway.
Alberto

[ThomasHelzle]

Well, I'll see if I'll convert more of them - for now, here is a setup with two streams, one on Channel 1, one on Channel 2 - I have String Studio 3 with a picked guitar on 1 and Lounge Lizard on 2 in an instrument layer device in Bitwig Studio behind Architect.

BurstFunction.png

Stream one is built from the lp.ccc from the Litter library in Lua which is basically

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x' = (x * x + x) modulo 1.0

This creates a stream of numbers that are very small for long times and then rise fast to 1 and reset. As you can see in the graph, you feed it with a relatively fast Trigger impulse and give it a Seed between 0 and 1 to create different streams.
I then took a rise over 0.1 to create a note on and a fall below that for the note off. Set this to a higher value like 0.75 to create shorter notes.

It is normal that there sometimes are long phases where nothing happens - enable debug and watch the console to see how it slowly counts up from very small numbers then.

The second stream is a structure that uses my Lua Noises to create steady 1/8 notes (while stream one is basically random).

Below I put both through my Midi Mangler to create further variation and thin out the second stream to taste.

Very nice ambient stuff, especially in surround

Cheers,

Tom

[ThomasHelzle]

Unfortunately I'm not a Max guy, but the ideas contained in the docs could be useful anyway.
Alberto

You don't need Max knowledge (I don't have any) - just extract the algorithm from the .c source (see my post above).

Cheers,

Tom

[mannymang]

MIDI Discombobulator
:Discombobulates midi files in Architect.

UPDATE:
MIDI Discombobulator is now a hybrid of Generative Midi Machine:
viewtopic.php?p=7293372#p7293372

You can now add random notes to the midi files you discombobulate per track (Add Random Notes) on/off. You can also turn off the Discombobulator completely or per track (Play midi file) on/off, and add random notes to the original midi file playing. If you would like to use it to generate random notes altogether, turn off all tracks from playing midi files etc. and other combinations.

Fixed: Dials no longer invert to cause error. It works different now but you'll find it's better for live interaction as well.
Fixed: Other things I don't remember.

I'll update Generative Midi Machine with the latest as time permits.

Please refer to the original post for MIDI Discombobulator for more info:
viewtopic.php?p=7287725#p7287725

Enjoy!

[AZZIN]

Very nice ambient stuff, especially in surround

That's interesting.. Do you have a track on Soundcloud or similar to listen?

[AZZIN]

MIDI Discombobulator is now a hybrid of Generative Midi Machine:

Nice! I'll find some time to try it!!

[ThomasHelzle]

Very nice ambient stuff, especially in surround

That's interesting.. Do you have a track on Soundcloud or similar to listen?

No, sorry.

[AZZIN]

Hello all, during this month I enjoyed a lot tweaking with Architect and I had fun in creating a small library project implementing chaotic/fractal algorithms - I called it "a-chaos" ("a" stands for Architect). It is a set of .frag files in a folder, that you need to extract from the attached zip archive and put (the complete folder) on the Architect fragments folder on your system. I attached also a small manual. It contains the clifford, dejong, hopalong, henon, duffing, lorenz and logistic maps (thanks cturner!).
If you want to play with these toys: once you copied the a-chaos folder in the Fragment folder you have the macros available by clicking the right mouse button in the architect "graph". Attach a metronome on the "step" inlet (the rightmost one) and the macro will generate sequences of values from each algorithm triggered by the metro signal. These sequences, in general, need to be mapped to meaningful midi values like pitch, velocity, cutoff, duration and so on, to generate nice and "unexpected" results . To this aim, the "a-linmap" macro is also part of the collection.
Why not using the LUA scripting for implementing this? That would have been easier, but with less fun.. Comments, feedback, anything, welcome. Enjoy .
Alberto