How about symbolic sound Kyma? I think that's an amazing platform - hopefully I'll get it soon <dance>
http://www.symbolicsound.com Julian On 24/01/2012, at 6:20 AM, GrrrWaaa wrote: > Max/MSP (which I know a couple of people on this list are very familiar with) > is one amongst a huge history of other visual, textual and visual+textual > programming languages to think about taking apart and putting together > structures in time (such as music). In particular, people on this list might > be interested in these, which arguably have more fonc than Live/Logic etc: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMusic > http://www2.siba.fi/pwgl/pwglsynth.html > https://github.com/digego/extempore > > On Jan 22, 2012, at 9:29 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
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