On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Folderol wrote:
> Hmmm, > Getting identical note and velocity is going to be quite common on > sequencer generated stuff, so I would have thought this was rather > undesirable. While there have been odd occasions when I've wished I > could reliably re-create a pseudo random sequence, in general I would > not want repeated identically created notes to sound exactly the same. Agreed... but apparently cal /does/ want that. :-) Related example: THX's "Deep Note" was composed using a PRNG. Every performance was different. The "favorite" performance is the one you hear in theaters (with the descending overtones at the end). At one point, the recording was lost -- and there was no way to recreate it.[1] If they had saved the seeds to the PRNG's, they could have recreated the performance (even with rand()). -gabriel [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Note Sorry, can't find a reference ATM for the story about losing the master recording. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
