i'd love to see, in the farflung future, a means to shift a machine hit via LFO (i'll use the term loosely). even as an end-user, i'm not sure how i'd like this to be implemented, but these are the ideas rolling and colliding in my head: LFO depth sets the maximum number of steps a hit can be shifted. alternatively, it could set the probability that the machine will be shifted at all. i dunno which would be better, or if we could have both. LFO shape establishes pattern direction - shifted forward one, then two, then three, and if it's sinusoidal in shape, the pattern retrogrades and repeats itself, this time moving the hit backwards. saw would be a series of deviations and returns to zero, random does what you'd expect, and blending the two LFO waveshapes would prolly sound pretty cool. LFO speed would work as advertised, as well. crazy as you like. maybe this is realistically a matter for hardware sequencers like the p3 or logic/DP/max/common lisp hackers, but when i get ideas like this, i like to share them. i hope you don't mind... -- yours, niall. .. . . . . . . . . . aleph null. a simple insinuation around silence. http://syncretism.net .. .. gpg public key - http://www.aleph-null.net/niall.gpg .. ..
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while we're sharing neat ideas
2004-10-06 by niall munnelly