Moleculary tunings in cent steps

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OT
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Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by OT » Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:13 am

Hallo,
I would need some support.
Is anybody from you able to built up a Max for Live device similar like the Pitch midi effect within ableton live but with the difference of the ability of fine tuning in cent steps? Pitch is only able to make semitone steps also Operater is only able to do semitone steps by tuning. I do own Max for Live but I don´t have the time right now to get familiar with it into the deeps as a fulltime worker and familyfather of 3 children. For my work such a fine tuning is necessary because I want to work with different tunings which are not exactly based at 440HZ. Maybe somebody of you knows the Work of Hans Cousto, Joachim Ernst Behrend or akasha project. Their musik is based on tunings which have their origin into natural movements of the Molecules and the planets. These ultra slow or ultra fast vibrations or movements are transposed in Oktaves as long until you get a vibration the human ear is able to hear. Because of resonanz effect the listener is getting into different states of mind, relaxation and other body conditions. Akasha Project has made music for example that is based on the Hydrogenium molecule, the MDMA, THC or LSD molecules, also music that is based on planetary tunings. This musik is also good for music therapy and meditation or dancing also getting similar effects but without consuming any chemicals . Anyone interested in this kind of music you will find a lot at youtube. Also google "The Cosmic Octave".
Me I am using this music mainly in the field of musictherapy. Therefor I build up a sound bench or couch a person can lie on and has the vibration directly go to the body not only listennig but feeling.
So it would be very nice if anyone could support me and build up a Pitch with the ability of fine tuning in cent steps like the most modern synthesizers are able to do.
Thanks for your interests.
Regards, OT

Gregory Taylor
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by Gregory Taylor » Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:22 am

If you're using MSP oscillators to build your instrument, then creating microtonal stuff is stupid simple - you just put a coll object that matches MIDI key numbers with tuning values as floating point numbers and put the coll object where you'd normally have the mtof (MIDI to frequency) Max object.

OT
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by OT » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:31 am

Hi,
thank you for your quick answer. OK that really looks simple. I know this is probably kind of hard for you what I am telling you now, but I have no clue where to find and how to create these "simple" objects. I was watching some of the tutorials but that won´t help very much. Look I am just at the beginning with this kind of stuff and understanding is very hard for me even because my English is not so good as you might have noticed. Nevertheless I´m very pleased about your response. So the only way to get it done would be, if you could guide me through step by step in really small peaces. Another way would be that you would built it up for me and post it at the http://www.maxforlive.com homepage where I could download it and also other people could have to use it, too.
Anyway, here is a small description about what I want to use the device for, to make shure we are talking about the same thing. Operater is a very nice synthesicer with a lot of real good sounds. It´s only disadvantage is you can´t tune it in cent steps like for example Simpler, Sampler or Absynth(NI). So I would like to put the new Micro-Pitch device in front of Operater (or any other VST-Synthesizer) to be able to tune it up or down in cent steps not only in semitones (halve tone). One semitone is 100 Cents. The amount of 100 Cent up (+) and 100 down (-) would be enough.

Emagine what you also cold do with such a tool in an Instrument Rack with 2 or 3 Synths with slightly different tunings... :wink:
Thanks for your recognition.
Regards, OT :D
Last edited by OT on Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.

broc
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by broc » Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:46 pm

It can be done with pitchbend and some math including pitchbend range of the synth. Standard is +/-2 st but operator's range seems +/-5 st.

Here is a patch for pasting into an empty MIDI effect device.

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-----------end_max5_patcher-----------
</code></pre>

OT
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by OT » Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:36 pm

OK, thank you. I got it in. But there is no sound comming out. Here is the line up: 1. The pitch device and then Operater. But no Sound!?
I think I have to bring in midi informations from my keyboard into the device, don´t I? So I was putting in a midiin object but if I connect it to the cent Dial and play, the numbers of cents are changeing in the way I´m playing at my keyboard.
I think we are very close to the solution. This patch looks better than anything else I was trying to fix. :D
Best regards, OT

rawore
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by rawore » Sun Oct 02, 2011 5:37 pm

another thing to check would be http://www.xen-arts.com/2011/01/new-rel ... -vsti.html which is a vst synth that can be organized for alternative tunings. it is free. look at the manual for tuning config details.

broc
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by broc » Sun Oct 02, 2011 5:57 pm

OT wrote:OK, thank you. I got it in. But there is no sound comming out. Here is the line up: 1. The pitch device and then Operater. But no Sound!?
I think I have to bring in midi informations from my keyboard into the device, don´t I? So I was putting in a midiin object but if I connect it to the cent Dial and play, the numbers of cents are changeing in the way I´m playing at my keyboard.
I think we are very close to the solution. This patch looks better than anything else I was trying to fix. :D
Best regards, OT
You need to keep the midiin object connected to midiout from the MIDI effect template.
Sorry for the confusion as I said "empty" device..

crumhorn
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by crumhorn » Sun Oct 02, 2011 6:36 pm

Here's a thing I did in PD which you might be able to adapt for MAX.

It sends each note on a different MIDI channel so each can have a different pitch bend amount.

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OT
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by OT » Sun Oct 02, 2011 6:59 pm

You need to keep the midiin object connected to midiout from the MIDI effect template.
Sorry for the confusion as I said "empty" device..[/quote]

OK, no problem, I´m glad to have your support.
So, I have been trying all kinds of different possibilities in connecting the midiin object. The result is that I have sound but when I change the value of the dials nothing happens. Where or how do I have to connect it exactly?
Regards, OT

OT
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by OT » Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:09 pm

crumhorn wrote:Here's a thing I did in PD which you might be able to adapt for MAX.

It sends each note on a different MIDI channel so each can have a different pitch bend amount.

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Thanks a lot. I guess that doesn´t work. I can´t build up some of the objects that are included. But the idea is very interesting. Maybe we could figure out how I can get to work the missing objects.
Regards, OT
Last edited by OT on Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.

broc
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by broc » Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:33 pm

@OT

This patch shows the complete content of the device (with rewritten formula).

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-----------end_max5_patcher-----------
</code></pre>

OT
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by OT » Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:00 pm

Puh, thank you very very much, it finally works!!!
I should let you know that you probably saved 1 year of hard work at a doubble CD album of ambient and relax music. So now I am able to finish it, yeah! :mrgreen:
Best whishes an regards, OT :D

OT
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by OT » Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:01 pm

rawore wrote:another thing to check would be http://www.xen-arts.com/2011/01/new-rel ... -vsti.html which is a vst synth that can be organized for alternative tunings. it is free. look at the manual for tuning config details.
Thanks for the link. I will test it out.
Regards, OT

OT
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by OT » Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:42 pm

broc wrote:@OT

This patch shows the complete content of the device (with rewritten formula).

<pre><code>
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</code></pre>
Sorry, again there is a problem. It works well on single sinus tones but not at complex tonal structures. For example the tuning does not match at 2 or more different tracks. What could we do?
OT :cry:

broc
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Re: Moleculary tunings in cent steps

Post by broc » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:56 pm

Well, first you need to insert the tuning device on each of the tracks. And to control the tuning of all devices dynamically in sync, you'd need a separate control device that contains just a Cent dial and sends its data to all other Cent dials. This can be done with Max send/receive objects.

http://www.cycling74.com/docs/max5/refp ... /send.html

PS. The control device may reside on any track, for example also on the master track (as audio effect).

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