[sdiy] Random trigger delay?

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On Fri, 24 May 2002 13:05:17 -0700 (PDT) Tim Ressel <madhun2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>I just had an apostrophe: How about a trigger ??>delay
>thay randomizes? This would go post-midi and >make the
>midi sound a bit less mechanical.
>
>What do you think?

I used to have some Cakewalk CAL scripts to add degrees of randomness to the notes in sequences...kick the timing up & down, play with the note velocity, etc.  A realtime box that did it could be cool as well.

If you did it as a MIDI processor, you might implement it similarly to the thru-zero flanging we were discussing yesterday.  One MIDI channel would get a random amount of delay, while the others would get a fixed amount of delay.  This would allow the "humanized" channel to both lead and lag the others.  I found that having the randomness so it makes things only get later can make things feel sloppy.  If you can have the random performance both lead and lag the other tracks, it sounds much better.

Byron Jacquot