MIDI Arpeggiator as Software on the Web!

[Chris Crosskey]

Hi, Heiko and BJ (variously) wrote....


>Heiko Bajus wrote:
>> 
>> Hi too all!
>> The discussion about arpeggiators brought me to the idea to search the web
>> for some arpeggiator-software.
>> 
>> The first is simple and freeware, the second is a fully working shareware
>> with 4 arpeggiators and many functions. Check them out at:
>
>Thanks Heiko for the tip :-)

For those of us using Gods own music computers (ie Atari ST and Falcons etc) 
there  is a wonderful program called MIDI Arpeggiator by Electronic Cow 
Software. They also do a granular synthesis package which can store sounds as 
samples and export them to samplers, and has just added using samples as grains 
in the sythesis construct.  I use MIDI arpeggiator a fair bit, the last version 
is useable as an accessory and can therefore be opened from within Cubase to 
generate arpeggiated parts which can then ber merged in. The new upgrade which 
I'll be picking up in a couple of weeks time at the Atari Shows in the UK take 
the maximum number of notes from 16 to 64 in a pattern, increase the number of 
patterns from two to three and allow you to chain the patterns together. Since 
it's original incarnation (two patterns, eight notes each) it has had a 
serendipitous generator known as Duophonic mode where it would take the notes 
from pattern one and pattern two and come up with a third note that went with 
them both, as these could all be on separate channels ( and the whole lot saved 
as a .MID) you could get some really interesting counterpoints. I suppose it is 
getting a bit away from it's original little bass-line generator and turning 
into a fairly decent pattern sequencer, but I love it to bits. I'll be buying 
the granular synth package at the show (and immediately start badgering Danny to 
add support for the Casio FZ-1 to the list of supported samplers) as I've had 
the demo for a while and it does seem able to make really wierd noises easily, 
not to mention lots of off-the-wall percussion sounds. It might be a bit 
off-topic, but I for one will be using samples made by Granular Synth in Paul 
Maddox's EPROM-playback module, as and when it appears....


chrisc