Hey,<br><br>Here is my current version of the bit chime project I&#39;ve been working on this past year...<br><br>I&#39;m sure there&#39;s lots of tweaks and more elegent solutions to be had, so all advice gratefully received.<br>
<br>My current predicament is based around wanting to combine the various partial ratio&#39;s that have come out of my analysis of a wind chime, so that they can be easily re-combined creating new sonorities.<br><br>I had gone down the route of using midinotes to simplify the maths but I don&#39;t like the equal temperament ratios.  So the recent post has been about trying to demistify that process for me.<br>
<br>My last post to the list was way back in August/September 08 I think.  And tbh, many of the suggestions made at that time are still outside of my knowledge of Pd.  As much as I would like to be able to step up to what Andy Farnell described, at the time, as the difference between a good example and a &#39;really good&#39; example, perhaps that&#39;s just outside of my ken currently.  It has been a purposeful effort to fully understand everything that is going on with my patch (which is another reason why I have avoided the list, prefering to wrestle with it myself as much as possible), and also, it&#39;s not meant to be a &#39;scientific&#39; replica of a wind chime but a piece of digital art using the wind chime idea as a jumping point.<br>
<br>I&#39;m now starting to run out of time (got about 4 weeks left) any assistance gratefully received (have I said that already?).  So to help turn it into a composition here&#39;s what I would like to do:<br><br>The number 5 has become significant (constraints are good)<br>
We have 5 chimes, with 5 partials each.<br><br>We have the original ratios which are currently the frequency arguments of each &#39;osc~&#39;.<br><br>I would like to have all the ratios independently accessable so I can have, for example: 1 partial per chime (all other osc~&#39;s are silent), then say each chime with 3 partials, and just on and on in all possible combinations.<br>
<br>In my minds ear I would like to hear something &#39;Morton Feldman&#39; like, with slowly changing sonorities, if that&#39;s conceptually helpful at all.<br><br>I&#39;m thinking the easiest way to measure and introduce changes in the ratios will be to trigger a new combination after one of the chimes has collided 5 or 10 or 15 or 20 times or summat.<br>
<br>THere&#39;s a few parts of the patch where I&#39;m fiddling with ideas and trying stuff out, I&#39;m also aware that I need to get rid of the number boxes, they&#39;ve been useful when I&#39;m testing.  I think if I start to tidy the patch up now I could be here all day.<br>
<br>***Can I just stress - they audio stuff is currently setup for midinotes, this is not going to be used, I just haven&#39;t had time to wrestle with the ratio idea yet . If you dont trigger the midinotes through the partials folder, then the frequencies are from my original analysis.***<br>
<br>Blimey, lots of sentances that start with I:#<br><br>Perhaps this is all getting a little ahead of itself anyway.  It was mentioned in the previous post that it&#39;s easier to provide solutions when knowing the context, so here I humbly go...<br>
<br>Cheers y&#39;all,<br><br>Jbz<br><br>P.S. I&#39;m on Debian/Puredyne, running vanilla.   I&#39;m using pmpd, gem, zexy, iemlib (i think).  Maybe some others maybe less, I&#39;m not great at knowing which things come from what libs, tried to keep it simple &#39;tho.<br>
P.P.S. The main patch is btch_0.4.6.2.pd<br>