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	XORNOT set recording by iain duncan :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message If anyone wants to hear what our live set sounds like, we taped a rehearsal the other day and it's up at www.xornot.com. Recording is kind of rough 'cause it's just live out to disk ( with a glitch half way! ). Everything except the individual drum sounds is csound5, and we also used python, gvim, and Gentoo GNU/Linux. All the synthesis is done with basically the same subtractive synthesizer with different patches loaded into tables. vco2 , tbvcf, and moogvcf are featured rather prominently. ; ) http://www.xornot.com ( download is 45 megs. ) Iain _______________________________________________ csoundtekno mailing list csoundtekno@... Subscribe, unsubscribe, change mailing list options: http://plot.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/csoundtekno
	RE: XORNOT set recording by Richard Burford :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message That's very good. How long did it take to you put it together? Richard -----Original Message----- From: csoundtekno-bounces@... [mailto:csoundtekno-bounces@...] On Behalf Of iainduncan@... Sent: 17 July 2005 03:19 To: csound@... Cc: csoundtekno@... Subject: [CsndTek] XORNOT set recording If anyone wants to hear what our live set sounds like, we taped a rehearsal the other day and it's up at www.xornot.com. Recording is kind of rough 'cause it's just live out to disk ( with a glitch half way! ). Everything except the individual drum sounds is csound5, and we also used python, gvim, and Gentoo GNU/Linux. All the synthesis is done with basically the same subtractive synthesizer with different patches loaded into tables. vco2 , tbvcf, and moogvcf are featured rather prominently. ; ) http://www.xornot.com ( download is 45 megs. ) Iain _______________________________________________ csoundtekno mailing list csoundtekno@... Subscribe, unsubscribe, change mailing list options: http://plot.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/csoundtekno _______________________________________________ csoundtekno mailing list csoundtekno@... Subscribe, unsubscribe, change mailing list options: http://plot.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/csoundtekno
	RE: XORNOT set recording by Richard Burford :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Iain, I started learning Perl a few days ago and got a bit stumped to be honest. I have since realised that python is much easier and started to learn that. I seem to be getting on pretty well for a total beginner/non-programmer. I am interested, as you might gather from my attendance here, in making dance music using csound. I have done some extremely basic stuff with csound in the past as one of our tutors from college set us an assignment. I have listened to your set and I like what I hear. Maybe you could give me some advice about how you are working with the tools you mentioned to realise this in a live situation. Regards, Richard -----Original Message----- From: csoundtekno-bounces@... [mailto:csoundtekno-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Richard Burford Sent: 18 July 2005 11:34 To: 'Making electronic dance music with csound.' Subject: RE: [CsndTek] XORNOT set recording Importance: High That's very good. How long did it take to you put it together? Richard -----Original Message----- From: csoundtekno-bounces@... [mailto:csoundtekno-bounces@...] On Behalf Of iainduncan@... Sent: 17 July 2005 03:19 To: csound@... Cc: csoundtekno@... Subject: [CsndTek] XORNOT set recording If anyone wants to hear what our live set sounds like, we taped a rehearsal the other day and it's up at www.xornot.com. Recording is kind of rough 'cause it's just live out to disk ( with a glitch half way! ). Everything except the individual drum sounds is csound5, and we also used python, gvim, and Gentoo GNU/Linux. All the synthesis is done with basically the same subtractive synthesizer with different patches loaded into tables. vco2 , tbvcf, and moogvcf are featured rather prominently. ; ) http://www.xornot.com ( download is 45 megs. ) Iain _______________________________________________ csoundtekno mailing list csoundtekno@... Subscribe, unsubscribe, change mailing list options: http://plot.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/csoundtekno _______________________________________________ csoundtekno mailing list csoundtekno@... Subscribe, unsubscribe, change mailing list options: http://plot.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/csoundtekno _______________________________________________ csoundtekno mailing list csoundtekno@... Subscribe, unsubscribe, change mailing list options: http://plot.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/csoundtekno
	Re: XORNOT set recording by iain duncan :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message > I have listened to your set and I like what I hear. Maybe you could give me > some advice about how you are working with the tools you mentioned to > realise this in a live situation. > Thanks very much for the compliments! We have a whole wack of code we've been working on for a few years now, only about half of which is actually being used right now for the set. There has been a lot of experimentation to try and find the best balance of what we should be doing as we play for fun and creativity vs how much we should pre-prepare to make it sound good. Right now, the musical lines are all preprogrammed, and we are basically remixing on the fly. We make them in gvim using the python extensions I wrote to make gvim look/feel like a python tracker. Then we use my python-applet "makescore.py" to turn text arrangement files of the tracker files into big assed score files. The score files include all the actual notes along with patch snap-shots at the beginning of each tune section. The big synths and the mixer channels and fx are using tables to control any dynamically modifiable paramaters, so the patch/mixer snapshot instruments just slam a bunch of values into those tables. Preparing the tunes took only about 3 weeks in total, but that was largely by necessity! We also wrote a bunch of midi input parsing instruments in csound, and that allows us to mute and unmute tracks and alter the synth and mixer paramaters using hardware controllers. So at the moment, that's all we're doing live. We have written a sequencer engine and sequencer input modules for doing real time improvised step sequencing as well, but at the moment, that is on hold till we think our abilities and amount of input hardware are up to adding it back into the set. Much as I love improvising, I'd rather improvise less to a full house than improvise the whole thing to an empty dance floor! Csound5 has so many huge advances that the next step for me is to redo the input module in C++ interfacing with csound via the api, which will allow a lot better code control, and also to then reincorporate the sequencer engine for more improvisatory possibilities. The hard part is balancing code work with writing tunes and getting shows done! But we're learning... Thanks Iain _______________________________________________ csoundtekno mailing list csoundtekno@... Subscribe, unsubscribe, change mailing list options: http://plot.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/csoundtekno