On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Folderol wrote:
> Hmmm,
> Getting identical note and velocity is going to be quite common on
> sequencer generated stuff, so I would have thought this was rather
> undesirable. While there have been odd occasions when I've wished I
> could reliably re-create a pseudo random sequence, in general I would
> not want repeated identically created notes to sound exactly the same.
Agreed... but apparently cal /does/ want that. :-)
Related example: THX's "Deep Note" was composed using a
PRNG. Every performance was different. The "favorite"
performance is the one you hear in theaters (with the
descending overtones at the end). At one point, the
recording was lost -- and there was no way to recreate
it.[1] If they had saved the seeds to the PRNG's, they could
have recreated the performance (even with rand()).
-gabriel
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Note
Sorry, can't find a reference ATM for the story about
losing the master recording.
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