Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

2012/9/18 D F Tweedie <bienpegaito@...>
> Bruno wrote: "Also there's no point in making your own (or even copy the riffs), when you are
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> creating your own Flash ROM."

Note to self: when rewriting the sentence, rewrite it as a whole.

"Also there's no possibility..."

> But that's not what I want them for! I'm delving into Cognitone's Harmony Navigator 2. It permits you to import and store midi phrases in a library and assign them to a GM instrument. Then the program makes an algorithm from the phrase examining the content, i.e., monophonic, polyphonic, melodic, rhythmic, etc. You then can take the phrase from the library and use it to voice an 'instrument' playing a progression. It will keep perfect harmonic changes with the progression ... and you can further manipulate it in different ways in the program.
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> Better than sliced bread.

It's very interesting use case, and this software sounds promising. I
was planning to write something like this for myself, using Perl, but
I would rather feed it in realtime with some phrases, or build a
"brain" (phrase storage?).

What you could do is to write a program, that takes a patch (any would
do), and then sets the audition riff to all the possible values (using
SysEx), playing the riff after every change (SysEx as well). Then it
would have to recognize when the riff looped (not all riffs are of the
same length), cut it and save to the SMF file. Seems doable, and if
you feed the P2K with constant clock signal, the riff should sync to
it. Then again, Harmony Navigator will probably smart enough to detect
that the phrase is being repeated, so you can safely record, say, 16
bars each time.

I can examine the possibility of doing it with my tools, if more
people are interested.

Bruno