Description

This Max for Live patch generates random notes in different scales and tempi and combines composition techniques of Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage.

Like in Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique every tone row refers to a non-repetitive ordering of the notes, so no note will be played twice in a row. The Tone Row Generator also transfers the 12-tone-technique to other scales like the western church scales or pentatonic scales.

On the other hand John Cage's idea of aleatoric music is incorporated in this plug-in. The randomness of the note output makes the generated music based on chance operations.

The Max urn objects realizes both composition techniques - generating numbers randomly and never twice in a row.

However you use this midi-device - analytic or intuitive, synchronized or free - you can generate some pretty interesting sequences and even use it as an arpeggiator. Enjoy!

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Version 1.1

Added:

- Tone Pitch (-48 to +48 in octaves)

- Randomize the tone pitch

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Version 1.2

Added:

- Note Duration

- Randomize the note duration