Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup makemicromusic a nice new Csound instrument....

Sorry for the cross-post (is anyone actually reading only MMM and not
tuning?)

For all you Csounders:

I have been working on a Csound GUI/MIDI instrument. The code is heavily
based on Ian McCurdy's realtime instrument codebase---I took a particular
one, cleaned up the GUI to meet my needs, and added features that I wanted.
The microtonal part is still in progress, but I think if you have Csound and
want to give this a go, you'll be having many hours of fun. It won't be long
before I add tuning features for the novice. Right now, if you know how to
use 'cpstmid' in Csound, you can hack away at the file anyway and add that
feature yourself in minutes....too many tunings, too little time!

http://www.akjmusic.com/software/phase_mod_20090930.csd

It's a phase modulation instrument (how what most synths that do FM really
do it under the hood). It's great for rich pad-like textures (can't wait to
try it with some JI), glassy yet punchy FM-style basses, metallic noises,
wood drums, gongs and bells, organs, clangy electric guitars, electric
piano/clavinet-like sounds, etc. etc.....A feature I've added that is
missing from many FM synths---a resonant lowpass filter. I'll try to post
some audio samples of some of the sounds I've made---for such a simple
instrument, it's really expressive and capable of lots of timbres. I'm
thinking I want to do some ambient music down the road a bit; and this
instrument will be heavily called upon.

The header works out of the box for Linux, assuming you have Jack and ALSA
midi all set up. Non-Linux Csounders will have to modify the system options
at the top of the file to reflect your setup; see the Csound manual for
details.

Let me know if you try this, and what you thought!

Best,

Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.untwelve.org

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🔗Dave Seidel <dave@...>

Can't wait to try it, Aaron! Be sure to post this to the Csound list too.

- Dave

Aaron Johnson wrote:
> Sorry for the cross-post (is anyone actually reading only MMM and not
> tuning?)
> > For all you Csounders:
> > I have been working on a Csound GUI/MIDI instrument. The code is heavily
> based on Ian McCurdy's realtime instrument codebase---I took a particular
> one, cleaned up the GUI to meet my needs, and added features that I wanted.
> The microtonal part is still in progress, but I think if you have Csound and
> want to give this a go, you'll be having many hours of fun. It won't be long
> before I add tuning features for the novice. Right now, if you know how to
> use 'cpstmid' in Csound, you can hack away at the file anyway and add that
> feature yourself in minutes....too many tunings, too little time!
> > http://www.akjmusic.com/software/phase_mod_20090930.csd
> > It's a phase modulation instrument (how what most synths that do FM really
> do it under the hood). It's great for rich pad-like textures (can't wait to
> try it with some JI), glassy yet punchy FM-style basses, metallic noises,
> wood drums, gongs and bells, organs, clangy electric guitars, electric
> piano/clavinet-like sounds, etc. etc.....A feature I've added that is
> missing from many FM synths---a resonant lowpass filter. I'll try to post
> some audio samples of some of the sounds I've made---for such a simple
> instrument, it's really expressive and capable of lots of timbres. I'm
> thinking I want to do some ambient music down the road a bit; and this
> instrument will be heavily called upon.
> > The header works out of the box for Linux, assuming you have Jack and ALSA
> midi all set up. Non-Linux Csounders will have to modify the system options
> at the top of the file to reflect your setup; see the Csound manual for
> details.
> > Let me know if you try this, and what you thought!
> > Best,
> > Aaron Krister Johnson
> http://www.akjmusic.com
> http://www.untwelve.org

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http://daveseidel.tumblr.com

🔗Aaron Johnson <aaron@...>

I already did post to them...thanks!

I'm excited to hear what you think. BTW, knowing what you do with Csound,
Dave, I think you'd really like some of Ian McCurdy's realtime
instruments...I've had fun in the past doing Seidel-esque things with the
'pvs' examples..in fact, I recorded a trash can and slowed it down to a
crawl for a sound effect for the last theatre show I did. It was a really
rich, creepy sound....

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Dave Seidel <dave@...> wrote:

> Can't wait to try it, Aaron! Be sure to post this to the Csound list too.
>
> - Dave
>
> Aaron Johnson wrote:
> > Sorry for the cross-post (is anyone actually reading only MMM and not
> > tuning?)
> >
> > For all you Csounders:
> >
> > I have been working on a Csound GUI/MIDI instrument. The code is heavily
> > based on Ian McCurdy's realtime instrument codebase---I took a particular
> > one, cleaned up the GUI to meet my needs, and added features that I
> wanted.
> > The microtonal part is still in progress, but I think if you have Csound
> and
> > want to give this a go, you'll be having many hours of fun. It won't be
> long
> > before I add tuning features for the novice. Right now, if you know how
> to
> > use 'cpstmid' in Csound, you can hack away at the file anyway and add
> that
> > feature yourself in minutes....too many tunings, too little time!
> >
> > http://www.akjmusic.com/software/phase_mod_20090930.csd
> >
> > It's a phase modulation instrument (how what most synths that do FM
> really
> > do it under the hood). It's great for rich pad-like textures (can't wait
> to
> > try it with some JI), glassy yet punchy FM-style basses, metallic noises,
> > wood drums, gongs and bells, organs, clangy electric guitars, electric
> > piano/clavinet-like sounds, etc. etc.....A feature I've added that is
> > missing from many FM synths---a resonant lowpass filter. I'll try to post
> > some audio samples of some of the sounds I've made---for such a simple
> > instrument, it's really expressive and capable of lots of timbres. I'm
> > thinking I want to do some ambient music down the road a bit; and this
> > instrument will be heavily called upon.
> >
> > The header works out of the box for Linux, assuming you have Jack and
> ALSA
> > midi all set up. Non-Linux Csounders will have to modify the system
> options
> > at the top of the file to reflect your setup; see the Csound manual for
> > details.
> >
> > Let me know if you try this, and what you thought!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Aaron Krister Johnson
> > http://www.akjmusic.com
> > http://www.untwelve.org
>
> --
> http://mysterybear.net
> http://twitter.com/DaveSeidel
> http://daveseidel.tumblr.com
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.untwelve.org

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🔗Dave Seidel <dave@...>

Sounds cool, I will definitely check out Ian's stuff. I just started playing with realtime Csound processing using the PVS opcodes, using my Korg DS-10 (running on a DS Lite handheld game device) as input, and looking forward to using the Auduino my brother is making for me.

- Dave

Aaron Johnson wrote:
> I already did post to them...thanks!
> > I'm excited to hear what you think. BTW, knowing what you do with Csound,
> Dave, I think you'd really like some of Ian McCurdy's realtime
> instruments...I've had fun in the past doing Seidel-esque things with the
> 'pvs' examples..in fact, I recorded a trash can and slowed it down to a
> crawl for a sound effect for the last theatre show I did. It was a really
> rich, creepy sound....

🔗jonszanto <jszanto@...>

🔗Dave Seidel <dave@...>

🔗Aaron Johnson <aaron@...>

Alright, well at least I know that cross-posting isn't pointless! :)

AKJ

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Dave Seidel <dave@...> wrote:

> Me too. Gave up on tuning months ago.
>
> - Dave
>
> jonszanto wrote:
> > --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Johnson <aaron@...> wrote:
> >> (is anyone actually reading only MMM and not tuning?)
> >
> > You bet!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jon
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.untwelve.org

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🔗Rick McGowan <rick@...>

🔗Dave Seidel <dave@...>

Hey Aaron, I finally got a chance to check it out with my little Korg nanoKey -- sounds great! I am looking forward to playing with the code as time permits and I get specific ideas for mods, but it sounds really good right out of the box.

FYI, here's the command-line I use under WinXP:

-d -M8 -o dac

where the integer after -M (i.e., the MIDI input device) will probably be different on machines other than mine.

- Dave

Aaron Johnson wrote:
> Alright, well at least I know that cross-posting isn't pointless! :)
> > AKJ
> > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Dave Seidel <dave@...> wrote:
> >> Me too. Gave up on tuning months ago.
>>
>> - Dave
>>
>> jonszanto wrote:
>>> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Johnson <aaron@...> wrote:
>>>> (is anyone actually reading only MMM and not tuning?)
>>> You bet!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jon
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------
>>
>> Yahoo! Groups Links
>>
>>
>>
>>
> > -- http://mysterybear.net
http://twitter.com/DaveSeidel
http://daveseidel.tumblr.com

🔗Aaron Johnson <aaron@...>

Great, glad you enjoyed it....let me know offlist what changes you
implement, if any!

AKJ

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Dave Seidel <dave@...> wrote:

> Hey Aaron, I finally got a chance to check it out with my little Korg
> nanoKey -- sounds great! I am looking forward to playing with the code
> as time permits and I get specific ideas for mods, but it sounds really
> good right out of the box.
>
> FYI, here's the command-line I use under WinXP:
>
> -d -M8 -o dac
>
> where the integer after -M (i.e., the MIDI input device) will probably
> be different on machines other than mine.
>
> - Dave
>
>
> Aaron Johnson wrote:
> > Alright, well at least I know that cross-posting isn't pointless! :)
> >
> > AKJ
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Dave Seidel <dave@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Me too. Gave up on tuning months ago.
> >>
> >> - Dave
> >>
> >> jonszanto wrote:
> >>> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Johnson <aaron@...>
> wrote:
> >>>> (is anyone actually reading only MMM and not tuning?)
> >>> You bet!
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Jon
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Yahoo! Groups Links
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
> --
> http://mysterybear.net
> http://twitter.com/DaveSeidel
> http://daveseidel.tumblr.com
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.untwelve.org

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