#1

Here is a video of a “granular” scene I made on the Aleph.
It is not at all granular in the sense of granular synthesis: here the visual dots control the pitch of my two oscillators, and the 128 gives me the coordinates of the cloud. I then use the knobs to control the speed of the grains plus the waveshape, distortion and filtering of the sound.

This is still a test, and it’s a very simple patch somehow. I am planning to go further, but will be interested in your comments. Oh, and I corrected the SCREEN operator, so now no issue whatsoever!

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#2

nice work! don’t even have an aleph anymore and have watched this with interest. very interested to see where you’ll take this approach.

#3

awesome!
can you share the scene?

#4

Can’t for the moment, I made it with a modified version of Bees so that it would appear as corrupt in any other version.
Now Ezra should release a new one very soon, incorporating some of these changes although not all of them. I can explain how I did it in the meantime, and I’ll try and make a new version on the next Bees release.

Basically it’s all about having 2 RANDOM operators driving SCREEN’s X and Y plus the two oscillators’ pitch at the same time. The 128 grid has exactly the same proportions as the Aleph’s screen, so it is easy, using a GRID op, to use two sets of coordinates and translate them into RANDOM min/max values, thus creating a cloud of random pitch (could be anything else than pitch, here it’s for demo purposes). To keep the two sets of coordinates, I use two HISTORY ops and make sure pairs of pushes on the grid only make it to the HISTORY op if they are close enough timewise, using a TIMER op. Not much more there, it is actually a very simple scene still! Hope it makes sense, otherwise wait a bit and you’ll get the real thing.

I have been making many different things with SCREEN lately, from rain drops to chaos, from clouds to defined shapes. It’s actually pretty cool, I am getting close to the point where I’ll be able to put everything together and use it with LINES, and then to control a modular. I find WAVES perfect for trying out stuff like this!

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