Examples with Midicode 1.20 synth

Hello Micro-Tuners...

A while back I probably pointed people to http://www.midicode.com. It's a
standalone soft synth with a really flexible tuning interface. Anyway, I
recently made a couple of short experimental things with Midicode 1.20 and
thought I'd share them...

http://rm-and-jo.laughingsquid.org/Music/midicode-example1.mp3
http://rm-and-jo.laughingsquid.org/Music/midicode-example2.mp3

Each file is under 1MB.

These two short contrapuntal "preludes" use a quartet of wind type sounds
and a little bit of reverb to give an organ-like effect. Created completely
with Midicode 1.20, and no external or post processing. Recorded by
sending Finale's "play" output via MidiYoke to Midicode, then recorded via
CoolEdit2000. The tuning in both pieces is the Carlos Harmonic scale
provided with the Midicode distribution.

Cheers,

Rick

>A while back I probably pointed people to
>http://www.midicode.com.

I keep promising Peter I'm going to test
it out, but I can't figure out how to use
the bloody thing...

> http://rm-and-jo.laughingsquid.org/Music/midicode-example1.mp3
> http://rm-and-jo.laughingsquid.org/Music/midicode-example2.mp3
>
> Each file is under 1MB.

Man, these are awesome!!!!! Definitely keeping these.
Howabout more sticky names?

-Carl

Carl Lumma wrote, re Midicode...

> I keep promising Peter I'm going to test it out, but I can't
> figure out how to use the bloody thing...

Hmmm... I thought Midicode was pretty easy to learn, especially for an FM
instrument. Maybe Peter needs a tutorial on his web site. There are only
four operators, and you can chain them together in any configuration,
either as FM or AM modulators. Each operator is effectively an additive
synthesizer with an overall envelope and 32 sine wave partials (plus a few
presets like triangle, saw, etc). You can use the presets, or set up your
own partials.

I've found that Midicode is pretty good at timbres that are reminiscent of
organ pipes and such. As an FM instrument, it's not quite expressive
enough for some things that I would want to do, but it does pretty well at
others, such as organ emulation. The envelope model is one big limitation;
another is lack of non-harmonic C:M ratios.

I think Midicode may be the only standalone microtonal synth that's really
complete in itself -- 16 polyphonic voices, builtin mixer and effects.
It's not a VST instrument, but it doesn't need to be VST because it carries
everything that's needed for ensemble work. With the on-screen keyboard,
you can also take it with you on your laptop and use for composing or
testing on-the-go.

Re, the music itself, Carl asked:

> Howabout more sticky names?

Well, these are throw-aways, really. I may put them together sometime into
a larger set of short pieces, and if/when I do that, they would get more
sticky names...

Rick