Bouncy Midi

Thanks to all the wizards who programed the modules and made something like this even possible!

I’m practicing with an orchestra tonight (for a show next week)

For the show the audience walks around and can experience the music within the orchestra itself, so finding a visual way for people to understand what’s going on with the modular I thought of Kira’s patch with JW’s bouncing balls. I also suspect I’ll need to quantize a bit to vibe with the other parts of the orchestra which has just about any instrument you can think of.

…SO I tried to alter the patch and find a way to lock the scales that so beautifully climbed and descended with the VCA trick they implemented. alas I couldn’t figure out a way to do that. but i DID just use a pretty standard method of locking a quantizer to a solid tone and have each ball trigger it’s VCA. so a bit basic. but i think it’ll work! I just have my midi keyboard on the rotate function of the vcv polyphonic splitter to 4 quantizers so as I mash chords the balls will play in tune… I wish I could figure out a way to control each ball’s note one at a time but that may require two screens or 4 midi keyboards? so for now they’ll just rotate through each 4th keystroke… if anyone has thought’s I’m always appreciative to learn more

I also added some patch in and out points to make the other parts of the modular work with the balls. the knobs are also focused on performance. as I see how the patch practices tonight I’ll probably make some more adjustments.

but for anyone near Detroit, please come see, would be lovely to say hi! there’s two shows one in Detroit, and the other in Ann Arbor.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1991684094742

Museum of Contemporary Art DetroitDetroit, MI

Sunday, June 28 • 5 PM - 7 PM

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1991683783812

Uplift Ann ArborAnn Arbor, MI

Sunday, June 21 • 5 PM - 7 PM

Regenerate Orchestra

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Bouncy Midi.vcv (6.1 KB)

Bouncy Midi.yml (29.9 KB)

(patch edited 9:40am Jun 14)

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This looks so cool! Wish I were nearby so I could go.

Is your modular output set up at a single point in the space, or in stereo, or quadrophonically at the four corners, or … ?

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it’s a lot of acoustic instruments as well, so everybody sort of sets up their own point amplification and the audience will get a different experience as they wander through the different clusters of instrumentation, it’s a pretty fun way to find your favorite tones and go enjoy those areas during different movements

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