PulsaretM4L user manual
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1. MAXFORLIVE PulsaretM4L Prototypes Granular Synthesis glisson grainlet trainlet pulsar Alessandro Petrolati www densitygs com User Manual v 1 0 Starting _overview _system requirement _ installation _pay for download a copy _ background _GUI layout Granular streams _ params explainations _general settings _envelope select _wave select Windowing general _ select shape _ draw _additive _ buffer menage _wave pad _wave pad display _resize buffer Snapshots _ store recall _micro pad _transitions _menage _exclude include a client from the transition _draw a transition curve Hyper Vectorial Pad _ general explanation _chose pad and exploration mode _X Y time _settings Matrix _general explanation _ parameter linkage _ pulsaret linkage _ parameters rescale _LFO modulation Filter _general explanation Snapshots sequencer improviser unit _beats cycle _time intervals _ step sequencer _ output General _save load device _acknowledgments Starting _overview PulsaretM4L is composed by two plugins PulsaretM4L Instrument and PulsaretM4L FX The first implements a soundfile granulator it need to load a soundfile wav aiff or mp3 generally this devices are considered Instruments it will be allocated on a MIDI track PulsaretM4L FX is a live buffer granulator it can be loaded on audio and MIDI tracks like a normal Ableton device fx _ system requirement Macintosh Windows PulsaretM2. ser pj ju P nuw e ih sjiinimih n S 2 0 L LIL LIL L gificif sititir FJ FJEJ FIF tinip nioln pin 0 0000 h dis dinid h d 1 12345 ODO NONI OK KOKK KOKK OK KK OKK KOKK OR KOKK KOKK OR decay e JOBBBBBBOBPDKN density OPP OOOO density sm SCO SCO OOS OOS tren 2000000000000 ng m NOOO es all length range is employ to move cps parameter If can maps entire length range on a little part of cos parameters You can also enter your values on the numbox 27 5 16 000 for changing global range and change exponential curve mapping numbox min value for the selection click and digit a new value then press enter max value for the selection click and digit a new value then press enter exponential base value default 1 linear 27 5 16000 5806 90 gt 9116 43 range 15972 50 pickup same dir 1 00 4 If pickup is enable when controlled parameter is out of range it will no moved until it will be bring inside of the range it wock in analogous way to MIDI OSC pickup see MIDI OSC for more details same dir inverse make an inverse maps of the controlled parameter the last parameter controlling general rescale output 1 it means no rescale _LFO modulation Low Frequency Oscillator LFO is usefull to automate one or more parameters they will be constantly moved around one middle value depending by shape frequency and deep of modulation of LFO in the above example LFO1 of the 5 avai
3. You can change the spectrum dinamically without clicks you can also take snapshots for the additive sliders in order to do transitions and HV pads explorations _ buffer menage load replace soundfile load replace folder soundfiles populate save buffer to file clear buffer clear all buffers trim selection undo last selection zoom out edit files infos open buffer window load replace soundfile open a file browser to load an audio file on the selected slot aiff wave mp3 supported Also you can drop a valid file on the wave pad if it s unsupported a message will be shown load replace folder soundfiles populate open a file browser to chose a folder to fill soundbuffers audiofiles aiff wave mp3 supported Also you can drop on the wave pad a soundfiles folder the unsupported files will be not loaded and a message will be shown save buffer to file export the contents of the buffer as Wav or Aif audio file clear buffer erases the contents of buffer clear all buffers erases the contents of all twelve buffers trim selection will trim the audio data to the current selection It resizes the buffer to the selection length copies the selected samples into it and displays the result at default settings The buffer is erased except for the selected range This is a destructive edit and cannot be undone undo last selection it causes the selection start and end points to revert to their immediately previous v
4. ROR ROKR OK OR KR decay OOOO OOOO OOOO IOI density JOPPPBPBPPBPBBPPBBPD density md Je ae ROK OK OK OR CO OR OO OR OR OK OK OK Kk length md OOOO OO ONO eps OOOO OOOO OO sm SOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOO IE sisson SOOO OOOO OOOO atisson m 606000090 OOOO morph OOOO morph ma o lt OO ON om et et 100 _ parameter linkage On the top of the Matrix horizontal we have sending parameters They will be linked with right ones vertical moving a send parameter you will move controlled linked parameter Every controlled parameter can be mapped on a own range and or reversed it means it will be moved on the contrary regarding the motion of the parameter that controls it _ pulsaret linkage A Pulsaret consists in a brief burst of energy The grain duration contains only one cycle varying the grano length you change duty cycle of pulsaret while density remain fix and indipendent You can link the two parameters in two ways length gt cps or cps gt length cps 1 length cycleN length 1 cps cycleN e g 100 Hz 1 100 0 01 ossia 10 ms Optionally you can specify the number numberbox of cycles for the pulsaret e g cycleN 2 cps 100 Hz length 1 100 0 01 2 0 02 Sec ossia 20 Ms for the cps length linkage cycleN 3 length 45 Ms 0 045 sec cps 1 0 045 3 66 66 Hz _ parameters rescale In the below example length and cps are linked
5. beats per bar both of which you can set with the bom message bipolar switch wiev mode unipolar bipolar In addition there are two items reset shape and reset all shapes that they are explained alone _resize buffer As for the first 16 prototypes you can resize the buffer length in samples 512 is the default N B when you resize it resets the default shape all changes as pencil draw or crop will be lost but only normalize will be preserved resetshape and resetallshapes refer to the prototypes first 16 restores the default shape clear e clearall clean the buffer by writing O they work on everyone including sndN Snapshots _ store recall A snapshot is a photo of all the parameters of the graphical interface GUI each stream can store up to 24 snapshots In PulsaretM4L there are nine modules snapshots one for the main and eight for the streams can be called simultaneously and independently of all snapshots You can also make transitions between two or more snapshots in the different streams and main simultaneously When you find a Interesting sound just shift click on a button to record the preset snapshot recording the preset button turns orange You can recall a snapshot simply clicking on the buttons all the widgets enabled to work with snapshots will be restored with its value Alternatively a snap can be stored from menu just select snap_N then clicking store _mi
6. following parameters for each partial partial number of the harmonic series partial amplitude partial offset normalized da 0 a 1 and partial phase normalized da 0 a 1 N B the waveform created by additive will not be saved in the project _ draw Very interesting is the envelope draw default when selected appear yellow button draw This allows you to superimpose a pad where you can track the envelope segments You can add new breack points clicking on the pad or shift click on a specific break point to remove it Two defaults shapes are available ADSR Attack Decay Sustain Release and a trapezoid shape used like default grain envelope You can change unipolar bipolar view mode although you need change too in the buffer from the menu for a coherent view draw unipolar w nothing v samples v dene CA Y _additive ondt y These subroutines generate composite waveforms made up of weighted sums of simple sinusoids Each slider is the specific amplitude contribute partial You can change harmonics number for the spectrum top right numbox 18 clear all amplitude contributes of spectrum Through the auto botton you can enable amplitude autorescale thus the resulting shape it will be always normalized to one The two belows numberbox setups phase and offset for sinusoidal gen Futhermore the gen button put a fine amplitude 0 5 on the specified partial num 1 belows
7. 4L requires Live 8 1 4 and Max For Live Details about Max For Live can be found at Ableton com This bundle will only work in Ableton not in the MaxMSP application Max for Live puts the power and potential of Max MSP inside Live Create all the instruments effects and extensions you ve ever wanted Go beyond the common and predictable and transcend the limits that conventional tools impose Build completely unique synths and effects create algorithmic composition tools or fuse Live and controller hardware into radical new music machines Join a society of makers and share ingenuity Max for Live was co developed by Ableton and Cycling 74 PulsaretM4L requires a Mac PPC or Intel machine running OS X 10 4 or later and 1 GB RAM PulsaretM4L requires a Windows XP Vista 7 machine and 1 GB RAM PulsaretM4L uses QuickTime to convert a media file including MP3 files into the sample memory of a wavePad and requires that QuickTime be installed on your system If you are using PulsaretM4L on Windows we recommend that you install QuickTime and choose a complete install of all optional components _ installation Macintosh Windows e Buy and download PulsaretM4L zip Fx Instrument or Bundle e Double click to unzip e Drop to copy folder in Ableton Live Library Live Devices Instrument and or Fx _ copyright This program is copyright shareware it is not freeware You cannot download the unregistered version of the program and give it t
8. Ableton manual for futher details _acknowledgments A special thanks to Renato Alberti and Felix Petrescu Carmine Cella Eric Lyon Bibliography Curtis Roads Microsound The MIT Press Cambridge Massachussets The Author Alessandro Petrolati ape kagi com www densitygs com www alessandro petrolati it
9. a step sequencer _beats cycle a metronome is synced to global transport and outputs a trigger on each beat The beats are counted in what we re defining as a a cycle of lt n gt beats Cycle subpatcher Each time the cycle restarts we re choosing whether or not we want to change the current time interval This is set by using a probability factor ChangeProb subpatcher If the program decides to change the time interval a trig is sent _time intervals up to eight time intervals can be selected The choice is performed with a random function according to a weight probability for each possible interval an interval with a weight of 2 will have twice as many chances to be selected by the random procedure that an interval that has a weight of 1 _ step sequencer when a given time interval is chosen it is used as a step rate for driving the step sequencer The step sequencer is synced to global transport so the steps are played in accordance with transport tempo The snap sequencer has many editing modes that allow for modifying the snapshots content snap amp etc _ output the snap sequencer outputs a list of data each time a step is triggered Each data type snap amp amp rand is interpreted in order to recall a snapshot with additional possibilities such as random amplitude of envelope and snap recall probability to spice things up a little 2 qe 1 GG 75 _ change e nochange e you can set the beats number change interva
10. alues This is helpful when you are making fine editing adjustments with the mouse and accidentally click in the wrong place or otherwise cause the selection to change unintentionally Repeated undo commands will toggle between the last two selection states zoom out resets the entire time display of file edit files infos show a text edit with information on loaded files open buffer window opens the wavepad buffer window or brings it to the front if it is already open The windows is resizable but not editable scrolling the mouse over time it switches to scrub mode normalize 1 00 scale the sample values in the buffer so that the highest peak matches the value given by the argument This can cause either amplification or attenuation of the audio but in either case every value is scaled When a sound file is loaded default value is 0 it means original wave amplitude value greater then 0 are saved loaded in the project Normalized value 0 it can have two meanings original file amplitude if the params never it is modified or normalized to 0 actually 0 001 amplitude 60 db _wave pad The WavePad is the windowing buffer used to generate waveshape synthesis Pulsaret windowing can upload up to 12 audio files You can load an audio file from the pop up menu load replace or simply drag amp drop a sound file on the pad There are supports WAV Next Sun AIFF MP31 file informations will be displayed below loading sound files
11. anged sets are displayed in italics Eventually both of these windows will be configurable and editable so that they can provide display and editing control for clients and storage sets _ draw a transition curve As the granular streams have their own snapshots transitions even on the main there are also work equally We can define four functions these can be used to interpolate a specific client widget for the transition as follows A draw a shape on the pad for the transition between snapshots interpolating open clients objects window and select table from interp pop up men digit the tab name tab1 tab2 tab3 or tab4 lient Objects strearr 1aps Name Priority Interp Data Y backward 0 threshold 0 50 0 Y density 0 table gt tab1 1 Y distance 0 exponential c 2 00 0 590551 Y jitter 0 exponential c 0 50 648 818909 Y length 0 inverted thres gt 0 00 63 960632 o pan 0 linear 192 O pitch 0 linear 9 543307 Y rnd dens 0 table tab1 33 Y rnd len 0 table gt tab1 15 748032 O rnd_pitch 0 linear lt 0 O scann 0 linear s 1 Y scrub 0 table gt tab2 141 732285 37 3 the example we used to map tab1 density rnd_density rnd_length tab2 for scrubb we unsubscribe kt J ll from transitions pan pitch rnd_pitch and scann other mappings are possible none no interpolation linear interpolation Presets re
12. called will be interpolated using a standard linear algorithm Threshhold takes argument float which sets the threshold Snapshots recalled will recall data from the first preset specified when the fade amount is below the threshold and will recall data from the second preset specified when the fade amount is greater than or equal to the threshhold Inverted threshhold takes argument float which sets the threshold Presets recalled will recall data from the first preset specified when the fade amount is greater than or equal to the threshold and will recall data from the second preset specified when the fade amount is less than the threshhold exponential curve sets the exponent to which the fade amount will be raised Presets recalled will recall data between the two specified presets along the curve described Power curves can be used to create faster or slower attacks and decays for the fade envelope table table specified curve Takes an argument tab1 tab2 tab3 or tab4 which specifies the name of a table to use for curve lookup Presets recalled will recall data between the two specified presets along the curve described in the table Hyper Vectorial Pad http www csounds com maldonado thanks Gabriel Maldonado _ general explanation HV_Pad i e Hyper Vector Pad extends the functions of micro pad interpolating up to 9 snapshots HV_pad allows to modify many parameters with a single mouse motion Norma
13. cro pad You can use the micro pad to obtain intermediate values interpolation On the pad edges you can set four snaps To do this you must first unlock the snaps select through the second square button from right on the stream general settings see Granular streams _ general the top enable disable autorecall snapshots There are two ways to manage presets snapshots through the pad buttons which allows a quick way to store and recall snapshots or through the menus where you can before select a snapshot then apply an action store recall clear etc through the menu below The big difference is that pad buttons do not allow timed transitions between snapshots In the 1 0 6 ver a Snapshot can be easly recalled directly chosing from menu a snap number You don t really need before select then recall you but you can to inhibit automatic recall switching off the setting button down lock unlok the micro pad corner for the snapshots select see snapshots further recall F _transitions To recall a snapshot in a given time you must use the men recall Is important to understand that the transition occurs from the current parameters positions toward selected snapshot actual gui widgets positions gt gt gt toward selected snapshot in a given time You can change the transition time pop up men below snapshot select transitions can occur simultaneously on different streams and or on the main If autorecall fir
14. d lines as set by the grid message Since the spacing of the grid lines is affected by the current time measurement unit snap to grid will be affected by these parameters as well zerocrossing instead of snapping the selection to a uniform grid this mode searches for zero crossings of the buffer data These are defined as the points where a positive sample follows a negative sample or vice versa This can be useful to find loop and edit points samples phase bpm The numbox 10 00 specifies that the selection start and end view points should snap to the vertical grid lines as set by the grid message since the spacing of the grid lines is affected by the current time measurement unit and by the offset value if an offset has been specified snap to grid will be affected by these parameters as well i e Sets the unit of time measurement used by the display N B for instance if time unit phase is selected the grid value it must be between 0 and 1 milliseconds sets the display unit to milliseconds samples causes time values to be shown as sample positions in the target buffer The first sample is numbered 0 unless the display has been shifted by the offset message phase causes time to be displayed according to phase within the buffer normalized so that the O refers to the first sample and 1 refers to the last bpm specifies beats per minute as the time reference unit relative to a master tempo and number of
15. en using Max Msp 5 runs under Macintosh and Windows more stable more flexible and more efficient improved audio quality restyling look etc _GUI layout All the main GUI Graphins User Interface functions are contained within a single window Almost all commands are accessible via the pop up menu at the top left we have envelope menage in the part below the main mixer and to the right we have the granular streams eight Some menu items open windows as HV_pad Carrying the mouse over the widgets will receive a hint in Ableton Live info view box PulsaretM4L becomes so easy to learn and is intended for live performance play the main functions will soon be assimilated and memorized O PulsaretM4L_instr loadir 100 512 lt i 128 256 134 e A cof BE 1128 126 1384 Tr Granular Streams _ params explainations In this section we examine the granulation parameters please refer to web for further details about granular synthesis You can interact with Pulsaret controls in the following ways 1 Click and drag in the slider or dial to change the value 2 Hold down the Command key Macintosh or the Control key Windows for more precise mouse control 3 Click on the control name then up down arrow to scroll the slider 4 Click and drag on the control value the box number below the parameter 5 Click on the control value then enter a value followed by the enter key 6 With a MIDI CC con
16. inear 0 Y volume 0 linear 6 the client window accessible from the client window menu shows the current subscriptions priority interpolation enable state and data belonging to subscribed widgets a few types of interpolation are available off no interpolation thresh ithresh threshhold interpolation requires additional argument to set fade thresh thresh fade lt thresh value a fade gt thresh value b ithresh fade lt thresh value b fade gt thresh value a pow power curve interpolation additional argument determines the exponent of the power curve table lookup table additional see below argument specifies the name of a table to perform a lookup from Tables are assumed to have values from 0 100 representing fade 100 The table values are interpolated if fade doesn t fall on a distinct table value AG Storage Slots stream1snaps Name 1 2 12 99 Y backward 0 0 0 0 Y density 425 771 1 1 100 distance 0 590551 0 590551 0 590551 0 5 Y jitter 648 818 648 818 648 818 2 length 630 606 63 9606 63 9006 85 Y pan 192 192 192 90 Y pitch 1 228346 9 543307 9 543307 O Y rnd dens 33 33 33 33 Y rnd len 33 15 7480 15 7480 33 Y rnd pitch 0 0 0 0 Y scann 1 1 1 1 Y scrub 1370 07 141 732 141 732 0 volume 27 26 27 26 27 26 6 The storagewindow displays any stored presets Active sets are displayed in bold Active but ch
17. ing for more explanation _waves select Pulsaret provide a powerfull way to mix two waveshapes every grain it will be initialized with own mix of twi shapes You can reach edge shapes by selecting differents wave shapes from menus sinew lt morph gt sin xx_w A Windowing _ general The windowing module provide classics envelops and prototypes used for smoothing the grain amplitude Changing or drawing a shape you can get interesting effects pseudo convolution in Pulsaret you can draw an envelope in real time or load an audio file from disk up to 12 audio files _select shape There are 16 pre generated prototypes some of them have additional control parameters When you select one of these windows curves gauss or additive will be shown their controls curve bipolar_v samples v nothing v rosar y 100 d_se Y 100 og 4 For example curve show two box number most top rigtht 0 01 and 2 00 to control the middle border deformation Gauss show a Gaussian standard deviation Both have an important parameter resolution update time in milliseconds Since they work in real time moving the deformations params we ll do heavy operation in the buffer it s important limit the speed of operations additive will show four box numbers additive create harmonics waves It works similarly to Csound Gen19 Each partial is automatically added to the previous you can control the
18. l with own probability weight on the right it s shows if the random parts it s to change or not SE A 10 0 ms o 10 0 mo 6 fe 100 me When enabled the sequencer work also like amplitude envelope for the stream or main master ch you can define a normal ADSR step sequence for draw an envelope duration and shape If disabled the stream or main master signal pass through normally an snap amp __ snap_prob rand_amp Edit mode selection is done using this set of tabs view all displays all of the available data and allows you to edit the snapshots Snap mode displays and allows editing of the snap only Amp mode allows you to edit the volume of snapshot envelope Duration mode is used to change the step size of each value while Probability mode allows you to manipulate the likelihood of a snapshot ennn mpow Sequencer play mode read steps in the explained way You can chose the number of the step columns and snapshots range row then fold unfold lets you chose to display all possible snapshots or only a specific set of snapshots transform Some kinds of trasformations are available use these four bottom arrow keys to shift the sequence up and down snap number or left and right in time Hold down the shift key to move in four step increments General _save load device Just like Ableton devices PulsaretM4L device can be saved by clicking on the save button then digit a name See
19. lables modulate volume parameter After you have assign matrix linkage you need enable LFO clicking on the on button The LFO params are from top to bottom on off LFO Low Frequency Modulation toggle between beat synced and hz in sync mode the beat division switches specify the delay time in 16th notes in time mode the pan rotation is expressed in hz panning rotate frequency in Hz 16 note each numbered switch represents the time in 16th notes note that these switches are only active if the time is set to sync you can change global time by the transport unit Ifo shape you can select one of the windowing shapes availables modulation deep in uni bipolar range unipolar 0 to 1 modulation range with 100 deep bipolar 1 1 change the speedlimiting time parameter update Filter _ general explanation A art XA Every streams and Master main output have own Cascaded series of five biquad filters cascade filters the signal by a series of two pole two zero i e biquad filters often referred to as second order sections they can be bypassed by the on off button Snapshots sequencer improviser unit ie le um i fe Y AAA rr gt e gt a e In PulsaretM4L 1 1 5 is available a interesting snapshots rhythm generator and step sequencer The aim of this device is to control the snapshot recall by improvising with different rhythmic pulses that trigger the snapshots contained in
20. lly the user interacts with these areas with the mouse or through self scanning exploration however a remote MIDI control is possible not yet by assigning the X Y axes to one or more incoming MIDI CC Control Change messages HV pad combines four pads each pad has two adjacent sides sharing the same snapshots to their corners _chose pad and exploration mode Generally pads are explored with the mouse but you can also automate the movement of the pointer automatic pad explorer as described below explore sub padi w v explore_sub pad1 explore_sub pad2 explore_sub pad3 explore_sub pad4 explore_all pads First you choose which pad to use for scanning also you can use the entire HV_pad four pads together then chose a scanning metod reflects causes a reflection when the cursor reaches the edge dunk moves randomly creating unpredictable paths spiral can be centripedal centrifugal or palindrome _X Y time The movement of the pointer depends on the phase and frequency of X Y axes These are controlled by the two number boxes expressed in seconds i e time 1 frequency They assume a different meaning for each method used in reflects X Y time to reach edge the time it takes to move from side to side drunk max time deviation random range in spiral X left time for each spiral Y right total spiral time to reach the pad area The spiral will enable two related parameters centripedal cent
21. o field width autopanning autopanning select mode pan manually jittering random Ifo low frequency modulation panning rotate frequency work only in Ifo set the rotation pan frequency in Hz you can chose a shape among those avaible see windowing section for more details _ general settings You can menage some settings for the eight stream two_points_inter Y on off granular stream works just like the play stop buttons on the mixer you can either use the space bar See pop up menu spacebar stream trigger auto manual enable disable auto grain scheduling If disabled you can trigger manually a new grain default value is auto then grains trainlet depending by density rnd_density parameters envelope wave interpolation mode N B low interp is faster than high but has more interpolation artifacts and cannot play buffer of arbitrary length Fast icons provide a shortcut to reach Matrix grainlet linkage see Matrix for more explanations cascade filter it work on stream signal snapshots improviser unit and Hyper Vectorial Pad see Hyper Vectorial v Pad for futher details _envelope select From the windowing envelope pop up menu you can choose a shape for granulation or loading until 12 sound files Each stream can have a different envelope the default shape is draw when you load an audiofile or mp3 in windowing you will see file name in the streams envelope select popup menus see Window
22. o your friends or to any other person This program cannot be distributed in shareware compilations CDs without prior written approval from the author No responsibility is taken for any damage or losses caused by this package All program trademarks belongs to its respective author pay for download a copy e Buy a license on the www densitygs com or somewhere else e you will receive an email with your download link e unzip file e Launch Ableton Live browse Live Devices and drag and drop folder in order to add plugin s in Live library e PulsaretM4L behave like a normal Ableton Device _ background The first Pulsaret release dates back to 2001 was developed for Csound language to follow the GSC release was based on GSC4 of Eugenio Giordani GSC4 Granular Synthesis for Csound was the first patch for granular synthesis on Csound to implement the model proposed by Barry Truax The current Pulsaret implementation follow a dynamic generation of the grains rather than a fixed number of voices static The maximum density achievable depends only on the actual CPU power grano interrupt ims ais segnale 4 Transfer aud ETICA globe 4 The old DensityGSC for Windows is available free www alessandro petrolati it densitygsc html it work on Windows XP but not Vista it seems magically resurrected with Windows It s a discontinued product The current new version of PulsaretM4L is completely re writt
23. rifugal yv palindrome centripedal moves from outside to inside when it reaches the limit again repeat centrifugal does the opposite palindrome is a combination of both The phase number box implies 0 no spiral formation 0 25 circular gt 0 25 crushed gt 0 5 clockwise rotation _ settings The last part is about turn on the auto exploration system and others general settings N B auto exploration is possible only when the DSP is on see above DSP settings the left button start stop auto exploration the little up button sets float no float window below you can lock unlock the pads corner for snapshot selection see micro pad above for more details The two numberbox from left are X Y step resolution sets the horizontal vertical tracking ratio for pointer movements Values greater than one cause the pointer to move more quickly when dragged values less than one cause it to move more slowly the last most right is the interpolation update time in msecs be careful with short times Matrix _ general explanation Pulsaret 1 0 implements a matrix parameter linkage used to create a dependency between parameters Moreover you can rescale reverse controlled parameter range and or move it by LFO Low Frequency Oscillator This technique is named Grainlet Synthesis aa e 200 E EE Ead Bmg SIO OO OOOO OKO OOOO volume SOK OOO OO OR ORO ROKK panning OO OOOO kK distance OO OO Kk attack OK ROR OK OO
24. rol change see MIDI OSC chapter in this manual 7 With a OSCmessage see MIDI OSC chapter in this manual Sliders handle deterministic values while the dials knobs random values The combination deterministic random produces a value that is passed to the granulator For example the length value is scaled with rnd_lengt has follows length_result length birnd rnd_length length genarally the randomic range is expressed in length slider grain duration in milliseconds rnd length dial random range deviation in density slider grains per second rnd_density dial random range deviation in as rnd_length cps slider grain frequency in Hz keyboard button small button in the middle of pitch control show a cromatic keyboard for the chromatic pitch transposition Middle C 60 MIDI note is unchanged pitch rnd_cps dial random range deviation in 12 semitone glisson slider glissando semitones inside of the grain freeze button small button in the middle of glisson control switch between the value O freezes and the last control value rnd_glisson dial randomly moves semitones glisson 12 semitones morph morphing between two waveshapes left wave 1 right wave 2 middle mix 50 rnd_morph morphing randomply between two waveshapes in volume slider grains amplitude in decibel pan dial random stereo grains distribution expressed in degrees distance slider ster
25. st square button from right is enabled simply select from the menu a snap to start the transition _ menage x recall pause resume stop store clear clearall renumber defaults_params defaults_all savetodisk loadfromdisk client windows storage window v recall a snapshot in a given time pause resume transition toward selected snap stop transition cancel current transition store new snapshot clear selected snapshot clear all snapshot default_params values only for the transitions subscribed widgets default all gui widgets values save snap bank to disk load snap bank from disk open menage client window open data storage window N B all the presets are saved in the project see save load project further however you can manage individually save load snap bank for example useful for exchanging presets between the streams 2 you can enable disable autorecall see Granular streams general for more details _exclude include a client from the transition The two windows Client storage are both non interactive AOO Client Objects streamlsnaps Name Priority Interp Data Y backward 0 linear 0 Y density 0 linear 100 Y distance 0 linear 0 5 Y jitter 0 linear 2 length 0 linear 85 pan 0 linear 90 Y pitch 0 linear 0 Y rnd dens 0 linear 33 Y rnd len 0 linear 33 Y rnd pitch 0 linear 0 Y scann 0 linear 1 Y scrub 0 l
26. the names will be showed in the popup menu replacing the null string EOS On the right side of the pad you can choose the type of action select loop move and draw The tools select and loop allows you to scroll the buffer manually scubbing loop has a dual function compared to select you can control the length grains dragged up and down move allows you to scroll the waveform inside the pad also moving the mouse up down for time zoom scanning looped the selection wraparound draw allows you to draw waveform directly on the pad 1 Density uses QuickTime to convert a media file including MP3 files into the sample memory of a wavePad and requires that QuickTime be installed on your system If you are using Density on Windows we recommend that you install QuickTime and choose a complete install of all optional components Moving the handle up down you can zooming in out the signal amplitude Note that this is not a destructive rescaling but only a visual effect the time zoom out button resets the entire time display of file _wave pad display Snap mode sets wavepad selection range Snap causes the start and end points of the selection to automatically move to specific points in the buffer defined by the snap mode possible arguments are none grid and zero crossing nothing disables snap to allow free selection grid Specifies that the selection start and end points should snap to the vertical gri
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