Re: [linux-audio-user] [ANN] ALSA MIDI Humanizer v0.0.1

From: Cesare Marilungo <cesare@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 07 2006 - 22:19:07 EEST

Paul Coccoli wrote:

> On 7/7/06, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>> Cesare Marilungo wrote:
>>
>> > Dave, have you seen this software I've just found?
>> >
>> > http://www.midi-plugins.de/mplug/mplug-hum.html
>> >
>> > This is quite close to what I want to achieve.
>>
>> I took a look at it after seeing your link to it. Very interesting, I'd
>> like to check it out.
>>
>> > After I've read your comments, and those by Frank and Stephen, I
>> > believe that the possibilty to choose different probability curves
>> > (linear, gaussian, exponential, reverse exponential) is the next
>> > feature to add.
>>
>> I agree. These things are at least worth trying, and they may inspire
>> some musical usage we haven't yet considered. I love surprises... :)
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> dp
>>
>
> Maybe a more musical way to "humanize" would be to increase velocity
> (by a small random amount) on the downbeat, and maybe decrease on
> 1/8th or 1/16th notes. Or an option to increase on the backbeats,
> decrease elsewhere. Sort of like a step sequencer where you program
> the delta (relative to the input) at each step instead of the absolute
> value.

I was thinking about implementing some filtering rules for this, along
with the support for multiple channels. That way you can send notes to
different channels with different settings.

>
> You'd need tempo information for any of that, I guess. Might be
> easier when Jack MIDI is more widely available.
>
> What about using pitch bend to slightly "detune" some notes? Might
> make rolls sounds a little less mechanical...
>
>
No. The pitch bend would detune the notes being played all together.

c.

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