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• ecamburn

  August 4

  Congrats @murphlab. I've been on the beta team and have been using this app extensively. It does polyrhythmic stuff in a unique and musical (to my ears) way. I like that it focuses your attention on the rhythm independently of the time signature which tends to yield interesting things.
• Pxlhg

  August 4 edited August 4

  Nice but no exposed parameters was a bit of a setback, I want to at least be able to change scenes with automation @murphlab

  edit: ..and also some kind of sync for scene changes.
• oldsynthguy

  August 4

  I like this, but need to see a walkthrough video - for example does each wheel only contain a single note, or can it contain multiple notes, and maybe scale constraining? A single note per wheel would get a bit cluttered.

  @Pxlhg said:
  Nice but no exposed parameters was a bit of a setback, I want to at least be able to change scenes with automation @murphlab

  Yeah, or a built-in song function to chain a sequence of scenes together.
• Jumpercollins

  August 4

  Can you have more than one driver per scene ?
• CracklePot

  August 4

  @oldsynthguy said:
  I like this, but need to see a walkthrough video - for example does each wheel only contain a single note, or can it contain multiple notes, and maybe scale constraining? A single note per wheel would get a bit cluttered.

  @Pxlhg said:
  Nice but no exposed parameters was a bit of a setback, I want to at least be able to change scenes with automation @murphlab

  Yeah, or a built-in song function to chain a sequence of scenes together.

  i have those same questions. also, what determines when the gear sends the note? can you rotate the gear to offset that lil inner dot that looks like the note trigger in the video? if you arrange the gears in a line, do they all play the same note?
• oldsynthguy

  August 4

  @CracklePot said:

  @oldsynthguy said:
  I like this, but need to see a walkthrough video - for example does each wheel only contain a single note, or can it contain multiple notes, and maybe scale constraining? A single note per wheel would get a bit cluttered.

  @Pxlhg said:
  Nice but no exposed parameters was a bit of a setback, I want to at least be able to change scenes with automation @murphlab

  Yeah, or a built-in song function to chain a sequence of scenes together.

  i have those same questions. also, what determines when the gear sends the note? can you rotate the gear to offset that lil inner dot that looks like the note trigger in the video? if you arrange the gears in a line, do they all play the same note?

  Yeah, waiting for a walkthrough for this one, as it's not obvious from the current demos.
• daddyfalldown

  August 4 edited August 4

  @oldsynthguy @Jumpercollins @CracklePot

  Doug just posted one on the Sound Test Room:

  
• oldsynthguy

  August 4

  @daddyfalldown said:
  @oldsynthguy @Jumpercollins @CracklePot

  Doug just posted one on the Sound Test Room:

  

  Ah lovely, thank you.
• murphlab

  August 4

  @Pxlhg said:
  Nice but no exposed parameters was a bit of a setback, I want to at least be able to change scenes with automation @murphlab

  edit: ..and also some kind of sync for scene changes.

  It's not currently an "official" feature, as it may change in the future, but you can change scenes by sending notes C2 through G2 into the app/plugin.
• murphlab

  August 4

  @oldsynthguy said:
  I like this, but need to see a walkthrough video - for example does each wheel only contain a single note, or can it contain multiple notes, and maybe scale constraining? A single note per wheel would get a bit cluttered.

  @Pxlhg said:
  Nice but no exposed parameters was a bit of a setback, I want to at least be able to change scenes with automation @murphlab

  Yeah, or a built-in song function to chain a sequence of scenes together.

  As I mentioned in another reply, you can change between scenes by sending in notes C2 through G2 (changes 1-8 respectively). That enables automation from an external sequencer, piano roll, etc.

  I plan to expose automation parameters in the future.
• murphlab

  August 4

  @CracklePot said:
  i have those same questions. also, what determines when the gear sends the note? can you rotate the gear to offset that lil inner dot that looks like the note trigger in the video? if you arrange the gears in a line, do they all play the same note?

  Yes there is a per-gear offset setting that does exactly that.

  Regarding the note: there is a fixed pattern of intervals around the circumference of the gear that is relative to that gear's note, so each note is in relation to its parent. If you move (and thus change the pitch of) a parent gear, all of its children are transposed.
• McD

  7:44AM edited 7:45AM

  Wow! I’m having fun with this generator in AUM.

  Fire off three instances and use the AUM Clock multiplier feature and set them at 1, 2x and fractional Clock Factors (0.750, 0.666, 0.200, etc).

  

  Coordinate instances with Various scale or modal relations (C Mai, A min, D Dorian).
  .
  Then “roll the dice” in various PhaseChimes and it gets really out there fast.
• Kaptkraych

  9:16AM

  @oldsynthguy said:
  I like this, but need to see a walkthrough video - for example does each wheel only contain a single note, or can it contain multiple notes, and maybe scale constraining? A single note per wheel would get a bit cluttered.

  @Pxlhg said:
  Nice but no exposed parameters was a bit of a setback, I want to at least be able to change scenes with automation @murphlab

  Yeah, or a built-in song function to chain a sequence of scenes together.

  Theres a good walkthrough on gavinskis pareon …
• oldsynthguy

  1:49PM edited 1:50PM

  @murphlab said:

  @oldsynthguy said:
  I like this, but need to see a walkthrough video - for example does each wheel only contain a single note, or can it contain multiple notes, and maybe scale constraining? A single note per wheel would get a bit cluttered.

  @Pxlhg said:
  Nice but no exposed parameters was a bit of a setback, I want to at least be able to change scenes with automation @murphlab

  Yeah, or a built-in song function to chain a sequence of scenes together.

  As I mentioned in another reply, you can change between scenes by sending in notes C2 through G2 (changes 1-8 respectively). That enables automation from an external sequencer, piano roll, etc.

  I plan to expose automation parameters in the future.

  Thanks. Does the top/main random button randomise everything? Watching a third-party vid, it seemed to load a random existing preset instead.

  Is this the case, and if so, is there an option to randomise everything with a single click (I've noted the option to randomise a single 'gear')?

  This would be of most interest to me - the option to generate a completely new, unique scene with notes and gears with a single click.
• CracklePot

  5:22PM

  @murphlab said:

  @CracklePot said:
  i have those same questions. also, what determines when the gear sends the note? can you rotate the gear to offset that lil inner dot that looks like the note trigger in the video? if you arrange the gears in a line, do they all play the same note?

  Yes there is a per-gear offset setting that does exactly that.

  Regarding the note: there is a fixed pattern of intervals around the circumference of the gear that is relative to that gear's note, so each note is in relation to its parent. If you move (and thus change the pitch of) a parent gear, all of its children are transposed.

  I like those answers, for sure. 😁
  This app looks really good. I am liking the sequences in the demo videos, but couldn’t quite figure out what was happening. The notes being determined relative the parent node will definitely produce some unexpected results and happy accidents.