[sdiy] A new sequencer idea - the 'human feel' ......

[Rykhaard D.A.M.I.A.N.]

On 1/28/06, Richard Wentk <richard at skydancer.com> wrote:
> Yep. Random usually just sounds sloppy and wrong.

That's what I'd learned in my earliest days of playing with 'feel',
back in the mid 80's.  When you went WAY too far off of the normal
beat, it sound like complete crap / a horrid keyboard player.  It took
me a while, to realize just how subtle, it had to be.  So much so,
that when you're playing it back - you can't really tell.  But when
you A/B it with something that is 100% quantized, the difference is
quite noticeable. :O
I only go as far as 'random sounding' myself, when I'm working on a
Noise / Experimental piece, and there quite often isn't any worry
about a 'solid feel' - more interest in say a 'chaotic freedom'. :)

> Groove control is pretty easy to do. Master clock is an ascending saw. Use
> a multiplexed row of pots to drive a comparator. Trigger each step off the
> rising edge. There's a little bit of extra complexity in making sure the
> pitch multiplexer switches at the right point, but nothing too frightening.
>
> You get full ahead/behind the beat variability with a reasonable hardware
> count, and no worries about monostables or other messiness.
>
> Richard

The trouble here, when I'd thought about running the sequencers from a
VCO / LFO as a clock, came back to having the pot (choosing the point
off of the Saw), 'centered' for no variance in the clock itself.  Say
- if the 1st step was set so that it would trigger earlier than normal
- I'd then have to be careful in returning the pot to the exact
'center' for no variance in timing when that step triggers.

Your mention though, has started my mind in figuring out a way TO do a
pre-trigger where the 'delay' pot itself, has the deadzone.  (At the
beginning of it's turn, as in my idea from last night.)  :)

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Warmth and Peace,
Ryk

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