[sdiy] Random trigger delay?

[John Speth]

> >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.

> 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.

Me too!  I tried using Cakewalk CAL scripts to add randomness to perfectly
timed MIDI sequences in an effort to take the stiffness out of the sequences
and, hopefully, to gain a more human feel.  My efforts didn't sound very
good to me.  I figure that there's a little bit of regularity in sloppy
undisciplined human playing that random randomness can't quite fix.  

So I think first order randomizing really isn't very useful.  You need to go
to that second level and maybe beyond.

If you make your randomizing trigger delay voltage controlled, you can
couple your random trigger with a CV output driven with your sequencer and
you might get the results you're looking for.

John Speth
Molectron Detector, Inc.
http://www.molectron.com
mailto:johns at molectron.com 
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