Some of what's described below has been done by Robert Fripp, sometimes in collaboration with Brian Eno, for years. The tech has changed over time. It started off tape based but he's moved on to digital delays and various effects for the filtering (mostly structural using BGB's definition from below).
Zoe Keating is currently doing cool and interesting work with layered cello compositions and performances. She uses Ableton Live with a plugin called SooperLooper. http://www.dgmlive.com/rf/ http://zoekeating.com/ On Jan 22, 2012, at 11:29 PM, Julian Leviston wrote: > > On 23/01/2012, at 4:17 PM, BGB wrote: > >> as opposed to either manually placing samples on a timeline (like in >> Audacity or similar), or the stream of note-on/note-off pulses and delays >> used by MIDI, an alternate idea comes up: >> one has a number of delayed relative "events", which are in-turn piped >> through any number of filters. >> >> then one can procedurally issue commands of the form "in N seconds from now, >> do this", with commands being relative to a base-time (and the ability to >> adjust the base-time based either on a constant value or how long it would >> take a certain "expression" to finish playing). >> >> likewise, expressions/events can be piped through filters. >> filters could either apply a given effect (add echo or reverb, ...), or >> could be structural (such as to repeat or loop a sequence, potentially >> indefinitely), or possibly sounds could be entirely simulated (various >> waveform patterns, such as sine, box, and triangle, ...). > > Heya, > > Yeah, I've had that idea for a while - although a more comprehensive one (I > write music). Take a look at what Apple did to their own product Final Cut > Pro... to turn it into Final Cut Pro X, and notice that there are rumors > surrounding Logic Pro X, and I'm pretty sure you'll see that this idea is > where Apple will most likely go when they release Logic Pro X. > > In Final Cut Pro, they call it their "magic timeline". > > By the way, what you're describing CAN be done with Ableton Live without much > trouble... also Ableton Live has the ability to use Max for Live, which is > Cycling 74's excellent Max/MSP product inlined into a Live instrument (what > you're calling various waveform patterns). It's sine, square/pulse and > triangle by the way, not "box"... and we also can use all sorts of other > waveforms... generated or sampled... > > Julian > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
