Pulsaret.m4l.v2 user manual
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1. gt An OSC message can be a list if you want read an element of the list you can select an OSC input item from the list default first element In the example Nintendo WII device send the accelerometer values like a three list items selecting 3 to read only third incoming I O sync pop up menu set output mode for current widget see sync for better understand The most right menu toggle set the controller kind e toggle switch from 1 and 0 every time MIDI OSC I O 0 e button send 1 every time MIDI OSC input 0 e incr and decr increment or decrement regardless of direction by one step every time MIDI OSC input 0 when values 127 or 0 are reached the next value is wrapped e incr decr it counts upward until it reaches 127 then counts down until it reaches 0 then up then down and so on 37 controller mode read raw data from MIDI OSC input raw data MIDI between 0 and 127 Cc_ scale extends Cc_ raw functions you can choose a certain range on which rescale the parameter for example control length which is associated covers a range 70 6 76 units In the example incoming OSC data is scaled on a part of the entire parameter range by the orange horizontal selection You can also also change min max values for the parameter box numbers 70 and 6 current range will be reported OSC assumes default values between 0 and 1 You can also change OSC input range For example we control gain1 th2. ESS 2 step 8 snap 11 amp 127 prob 100 mdAmp 12 loop 1 8 reset 2 4 1 sm yes no current 4n coc _ EYE CE Snapshots sequencer rhythm improviser unit i e the extended name the aim of this device is to control the snapshot sequence88 by improvising with different rhythmic pulses The sequencer shown on vertical the snapshots numbers while in horizontal steps sequence e beats cycle A metronome is synced to Ableton Live global transport time 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 sub patcher 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 sub patcher If the program decides to change the time interval a trig is sent e time intervals Since 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 Ableton Live global transport time so the steps are played in accordance with transport tem
3. glissando semitones inside of the grain rnd_glisson 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 attack decay Goo Goo a volume slider grains amplitude in decibel pan dial left right grains distributions on the stereo front only pan manually distance s ider stereo field width panningmode fab select between pan manually jittering random Ifo low frequency modulation beat Hz toggle only Ifo toggle between beat Hz sets the panning duration left right azimuth expressed in note ratios or frequency Hz Beat mode is synced with the Ableton Live global transport time you can change global time BPM from Ableton Live transport beat menu only Ifo each item switch represents the Relative Tempo expressed in note ratios you can change BPM Beat per minute from the Ableton Live transport N B you need activate the Ableton Live transport master clock panning rotate frequency s ider when selected Ifo set the panning azimuth in Hz you can chose among five shapes sine triangle saw random and pencil by selecting pencil you can draw inside pan shapes window your custom curve 1 Beats per minute BPM is a unit typically used as a measure of tempo in music The BPM tempo of a piece of music is conventionally shown in its score as a metronome m
4. does not fall exactly onto a table specified value linear interpolation is used to determine the new fade amount In Pulsaret m4l you have four draw functions to draw your curve see transition curve below 21 ANA Storage Slots streamSsnaps Name 2 3 4 99 de 100 GU pitch 21 732 24 24 0 24 volume 6 6 6 0002 6 6 0002 pan 0 0 0 0 0 rnd_pitch 0 0 0 0 0 jitter 0 025974 609 611 0 060998 2 0 scann 0 042838 0 042734 0 042838 1 0 042838 distance 1 1 1 0 5 1 pan freq 1 0002 1 1 0002 1 1 0002 rnd_dens 13 3860 13 3845 133860 33 13 3880 rnd_len 14 9608 149592 14 9608 33 14 9608 density 6 987041 31 111677 659645 100 173 042 length 868 072 269 918 190 387 85 206 983 scrub 184539 553654 191729 0 24547 6 7 The storage window displays any stored presets The active recalled preset is displayed in highlight green If any client value is changed 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 N B When you open storage window a message box will be displayed O snapshots all GUI widgets must be stopped transitions HV_pads etc Do you want continue this is to avoid an overhead of CPU when displaying storage window e transition curve All transition by defau
5. draw grid quantize zero crossing bpm phase and samples e envelope windowing menage up to 16 pre generated shape prototypes envelope windowing loading and menage six sound files aiff wav mp3 instrument save sound files loaded in device preset snapshots presets memory up to 24 fast buttons snapshots store recall e clients menage include exclude widgets from transitions 39 micro pad interpolating between four snapshots HV_pad i e hyper vectorial pad 9 snapshots pad 4 pad near and auto explorer spiral dunk reflects engine snapshots sequencer rhythms improviser unit snapshots list consecutive rename Ableton Tempo synchronize triggers shorts key fully managing save load hot swap as a normal Ableton Device panning rotation manual cycle random cascaded series of biquad filters matrix parameter linkage rescale and LFO modulation range in Grainlet Synthesis pulsaret length cps and vice versa dependency windowing envelope attack decay deforms parameters ver 1 0 2 save reload correctly the windowing shape reseall now does not clear all snapshots ver 2 0 6 april 2011 polyphonic granulation now you can play Pulsaret m4l from master keyboard polyphonically polyphonic keyboard triggers e keyboard octave transposition ADSR Attack Decay Sustain Release note envelope add limiter amplitude signal transport link bug fix when Hot Swap device e HV_pad save last X Y position in device
6. engine is updated every new generated grain the frequency of grains scattering depending from density parameter expressed in Hz grains for seconds The vertical sliders provides a deterministic values while the dials knobs provides random values Summing the two values deterministic random will be produced a value that is passed to the granulator In the follow example the pitch value deterministic is rescaled with rnd_pitch random pitch_result pitch birnd rnd_pitch pitch 2 Where birand is bipolar random generator The random range is expressed in therefore 0 it means only deterministic value 100 pitch_result can vary in the range pitch_result pitch pitch 2 rnd_pitch 5 In the example rnd_pitch green frame starting from 80 is reduced to 5 in the middle 9 With a great rnd_pitch each grain can have an high random pitch mask range Carrying rnd_pitch toward lowest values the random pitch mask is reduced until 0 which means no random pitch grain scattering length s ider grain duration in milliseconds rnd_length dial random range deviation in of length density slider grain for seconds in Hz rnd_density dial random range deviation in of density cps grain frequency in Hz freeze button small button in the middle of scanning control switch between the value O freezes and the last control value rnd_cps random range deviation in 12 semitone glisson
7. instr 2 0 2 Density md4l Fx 2 0 5 Density m4l Fx 2 0 4 OSC Density m4 Fx 2 0 2 ape Filter qha ve M00 0 010 0 010 0 5 e copyright This program is copyright shareware and it is not freeware You can download the unregistered version of the program and give it to your friends or to any other person as long as for no charge 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 e purchase a license e Purchase the license software from Kagji http store kagi com 6FHML_LIVE amp lang en e you will receive an email with your download link and login data e unzip file e Open Ableton Live browse Live Devices and copy folder or devices files in Live library Pulsaret m4l behave like a normal Ableton Live Device e update to v 2 Pulsaret m4l UPDATE is free For more details contact apeSoft ape kaqgi com e background The first official release of Density 2001 developed in Csound language and based on Eugenio Giordani s GSC4 Granular Synthesis for Csound GSC4 was the first patch for granular synthesis on Csound implementing Barry Truax model Pulsaret m4l can generate thousands of grains dynamically preferred this way rather than a fixed number of voices oscillators The overlapping fac
8. the streams and or on the main If auto recall see above is enabled selecting from the menu a snapshot slot to start the transition e snapshots manage store new store snap number clear clear all renumber recall pause resume stop reinit parameters save to disk load from disk client window storage window tabi tab2 Store new snapshot using the next empty preset slot store snap number enter a number or a list separated by space to store clear current selected snapshot clear all snapshot a message box will ask you to confirm renumber sort all snapshots stored into consecutive beginning with 1 recall start a transition toward current snap number pause resume current transition if occur Stop transition cancel current transition if occur reinit parameters resets subscribed parameters at default value only for the current streams or main save to disk current snapshots bank load from disk current snapshots bank client window open clients list to subscribe unsubscribe setting interpolation type and more storage window open storage window displays any stored presets open HV_PADS Hyper Vectorial Pads see HV_Pad open sequencer improviser unit see Snapshots Sequencer 1 you can enable or disable auto recall if enabled selecting a snap from the men it will start the transition if disabled it will be only selected 2 gsnaps will restore all Puls
9. v D mmd_len rnd_de rnd_cps a rnd_m i 33 0 330 Ost 7 st 9 0 00 22 3ms 61 6 Hz 988Hz 5st 4 7 Granular parameters md_len S rnd_cps SO rd_m 33 0 X 7 st morph a e a 22 3ms 61 6Hz 988Hz 5st gt PT TT tie ere we M LIT Snapshots presets Windowing module PRES eee r E additive bipolar w nothing v sampies v 18 4 JE v 1 00 512 4 10 _ lt e Quick access You can quickly open From left to right e Snapshots sequencer improviser unit Hyper Vectorial Pads e OSC I O mapping About SE cn 8 Granular Streams e parameters In this section we will examine the Granular Synthesis parameters Please refer to web for more explanations about granular synthesis You can interact with Pulsaret m4l parameters on the GUI Graphic User Interface in the follows ways 1 Click and drag scroll on vertical sliders or dials to change the value see mousing mode for more details 2 Holding down the Command key Macintosh or the Control key Windows while mouse scroll for precise value control 3 Select a widget clicking on the name and use keyboard up down arrows 4 Drag up down the display value the number box below each parameter 5 Click on the number box value enter a numeric value and press enter key 6 Send a MIDI CC or Ableton Live automation see Ableton user manual The granulation
10. y Normalize Hzoom Vzoom 50 Clicking Normalize to scale the sample values in the WavePad buffer 0 dB so that the highest peak matches the value of 1 Scroll number on the top to manually adjust value e g normalize 1 50 scale the sample values in the buffer so 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 and loaded in the project N B Normalized value of 0 can be interpreted like 1 original file amplitude if you have not change it before 2 normalizing at O value i e 0 001 amplitude gain 60 db e WavePad display Clicking Hzoom to reset horizontal zoom entire time display of file Clicking on Vzoom you resets vertical amplitude zoom default 50 Mouse scrolling on right number 50 to set an amplitude zoom amount N B unlike Normalize Vzoom is not a destructive amplitude rescaling but only a graphics rescale In the image below the last right menu bipolar switch to unipolar bipolar view mode unipolar mode shows values between 0 1 while in bipolar shows values between 1 1 e WavePad Snap 100 lt 512 lt d 100 SE You can set the WavePad snap mode selection range bipolar switch wiev mode unipolar bipolar Snap causes the start and end points of the selection to
11. LILIL uliinlalclilrigiricei risiriririFIFIFIFIF min ciciaitinitinipin oin ipin 0 00010 eidgieikiyly dihidis djn dj hid 4 2 3 4 5 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 4493 34 8899 00 range 4405 66 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 33 e 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 volume panning distance attack decay in the above example LFO1 of the 5 availables modulate volume parameter LFO2 panning etc After you have assign matrix linkage you need enable LFO clicking on the on button The LFO params are from top to bot
12. Live is a loop based software music sequencer and DAW for Mac OS and Windows by Ableton The latest major release of Live Version 8 was released in April 2009 In contrast to many other software sequencers Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing and arranging It is also used for mixing of tracks by DJs as it offers a suite of controls for beatmatching crossfading and other effects used by turntablists and was one of the first music applications to automatically beat match songs It does not support traditional musical notation Wikipedia 35 OSC I O e header Open OSC I O from quick access buttons you can configure the OSC Open Sound Control protocol through the header AOC MIDI OSC 1 0 Input 3009 Awii Abutton m Output 1974 localhost 127 0 0 1 prefixiD o OSC 1 Dispatch messages through an OpenSound Control address hierarchy with pattern matching Values are serialized and sent over the network as OSC compatible UDP Input port 3009 set input port to send messages to at host Output port 1974 set output port to send messages Green left buttons enable disable respective OSC I O Very important default values for I O ports 30 09 1974 are the author birthday date We need also configure host 127 0 0 1 output entering an IP address or hostname clicking on localhost to assign default ip value i e local host 127 0 0 1 OSC monitor show OSC I O dat
13. Pulsaret m4l Ableton Live Instrument granular synthesis device glisson grainlet trainlet pulsar user manual v 2 0 6 www densitygs com apeSoft 2011 MAXFORLIVE TE ableton 2 Starting e overview e system requirement e installation e copyright e purchase a license e update to v 2 e background e GUI layout e Quick access Granular streams e parameters e settings e envelope select e wave select Windowing general e shape select e draw e additive e audio slot e WavePad WavePad management e WavePad display e WavePad Snap Snapshots e store recall e micro pad e transitions e snapshots manage e subscribe un subscribe transition clients e transition curve Snapshots sequencer improviser unit e beats cycle e time intervals e step sequencer 3 e output e Note and Tick Value Hyper Vectorial Pad general explanation e pad mouse behavior e X Y time e miscellaneous Matrix general explanation parameter linkage grailet pulsaret mode e parameters rescale e LFO modulation e status bar OSC I O e header e SYNC e widget mapping Overview e save load device e info window float window e history e acknowledgments 4 Starting e overview The Granular Synthesis device for Ableton Live Instrument implements a prototypes granulator trainlet grainlet pulsar glisson etc e system requirement Macintosh Pulsaret m4l
14. Snap sequencer save last step count in device e new OSC I O support new ape Filter independent device e FILTER now is an indipendent device FILTER improved and refined FILTER enabled for transitions new micropad 2D nodes Snap sequencer save last step count in device e new OSC I O support transport link bug fix when Hot Swap device e HV_pad save last X Y position in device e new GUI look new dialog box windows does not stop audio e new tool bar quick functions access new HV_pad 2D nodes parameters interpolation e add HV_pad jitter exploration add HV_pad in reflects jitter and drunk now you can interact with the pad HV_pad on off monitor bar in main HV_Pad window new Parameters rescale multiply divide 4 2 x2 x3 x4 panning now update correctly value when you select manual panning removed auto update knob when automatic or random Snap seq add global transport enable disable trigger FILTER add filters types select FILTER add cutoff gain and Q S fine controller 40 FILTER dry wet knob FILTER dynamic filter allocation until 24 FILTER auto generate filter bands Harmonic Geometric Scalar and Fibonacci FILTER frequency zoom in out e New detailed user manual online SNAP SEQ step jump bug fixed SNAP SEQ add portamento transition SNAP SEQ some gui adjustments e add windowing multi files samples support until 6 add additive multisliders csound gen10 l
15. a you can select with mouse the text string address OSC path and paste it on widget controller see below You can enter a prefix ID can be numbers and or text for the the OSC output address When an incoming OSC message is synced on a widget parameter this read and write values employing the same path address Some time is useful append an id prefix to differentiate path in order for instance to send message to another device N B OSCulator can be employed like MIDI OSC monitor beyond supplying advanced features N B All settings will be saved on the project see overview for more explanations e sync Sync system allow you synchronize software parameters with hardware devices Thus Pulsaret m4l send out through OSC ports parameters data Default sync is disabled for all widgets then no OSC data are sent You can select enable sync out for each widget controller or superimpose a common feature at all widgets see below For example you can enable sync for all widgets controllers by selecting the item from header menu Sync have five outputs mode 1 OSC is a CNMAT Max objects can be found at http www cnmat berkeley edu MAX 2 OSCulator is a software that can be used with many different hardware devices and software For example with OSCulator your Nintendo Wiimote can talk to major MIDI sequencers or your favorite console emulator or even the Kyma sound design workstation And your iPad iPhone iPod Touch or Lemur can d
16. ain amplitude The currently selected window it will be employed for the grain envelope during granulation You can deforming some envelopes shapes like gauss curve or additive draw a new shape freehand or through draw prototype Also you can load an audio file from disk until 6 audio files Aiff Wav or Mp3 supported Almost all Windowing WavePad functions are identical to Granular Streams WavePad See WavePad WavePad display WavePad Snap WavePad mouse for more details Unlike Granular Streams WavePad the Windowing WavePad buffer management have two additional functions e reset shape When you select from menu the first of them current envelope or shape will be restored at the original shape When you select reset all shapes all prototypes and envelopes they will be restored at the original shape resetshape and resetallshapes they work on the sixteen envelopes prototypes restoring originals shape While clear work either on the sixteen envelopes prototypes either on the six sound files slots writing O in the all buffer samples Windowing have an important parameter that allow you to chose BEE a size in samples for prototypes or envelope shape You can also resize buffer dynamically entering a new value expressed in samples 512 default Ne se Hzoom N B when you resize a shape you will reset original default shape e shape select There are 16 pre generated shapes rectangle blackman curve gauss h
17. amming hanning draw sine cosine OO N 0 ST UN oa O triangle saw Square lt lt ok N gt Sigmoid Sin x x _ K 13 15 random 16 additive Some of them have additional controls parameters bold Selecting one of them their additional parameters will be shown curve show three box number on the top top right 150 ms we have deformation update rate in milliseconds Since these parameters work in real time you can set a speed limit time to avoid cpu overhead The other two parameters 1 00 and 0 72 sets middle border curve deformation Linke curve gauss show on the top the speed limit update rate and only a Gaussian standard deviation parameter e draw unipolar y nothing w samplesw done Normalize Hzoom Vzoom 50 a In Pulsaret m4l the grain envelope shape default is draw bold italic when selected appear yellow button draw done This allows you to superimpose at the WavePad a function break points where you can track the envelope segments You can add new break points by clicking on the function superimposed pad or shift click on a specific break point to remove it 14 unipolar w Two defaults shapes are available adsr Attack Decay Sustain Release and a trapezoid default grain envelope You can switch between unipolar bipolar automatically when you change view perspective in windowing WavePad see Granular Streams Wa
18. aret m4l subscribed parameters at default values granular parameters and setup parameters 20 tab1 tab2 tab3 and tab4 open transition curve window see transition curve below Speedlimit set update time limit for transitions and micropad nodes interpolations N B all the presets are saved in the Ableton Live project or device however you can manage individually save load snap bank for example useful for exchanging presets between the streams e subscribe un subscribe transition clients The two windows client and storage are both non interactive AOO Client Objects streamlsnaps Name Priority Interp Data density 0 linear 34 324196 distance 0 linear 0 858665 jitter 0 linear 1 303557 length 0 linear gt 583 201843 pan 0 linear 0 pan freq 0 linear 1 000049 pitch 0 linear 2 437552 rnd dens 0 linear 23 702206 rnd len 0 linear 21 508684 rnd pitch 0 linear 0 scann 0 linear 0 651778 volume 0 linear 6 Y 0 scrub linear 1 client window accessible from the client window menu item see above shows the current subscriptions widgets list ever header name priority interpolation and data belonging to subscribed widgets A few types of interpolation can be changed off no interpolation linear Linear interpolation Presets recalled will be interpolated using a standard linear algorithm threshold Threshold Takes optional argument float which sets th
19. ark as illustrated to the right This indicates that there should be 120 crotchet beats quarter notes per minute In simple time signatures it is conventional to show the tempo in terms of the note duration on the bottom So a 4 4 would show a crotchet or quarter note as above while a 2 2 would show a minim or half note In compound time signatures the beat consists of three note durations so there are 3 quavers eighth notes per beat in a 6 8 time signature so a dotted form of the next note duration up is used The most common compound signatures 6 8 9 8 and 12 8 therefore use a dotted crotchet dotted quarter note to indicate their BPM Wikipedia All the granular parameters have a prefixed values range Some of them have an additional feature you can divide or multiply the parameters output in order to extend range The rescaled value it will be passed to granulator engine but on display you will see old prefixed widget range length density ee fe 18 x4 85 0 ms 270 Hz aF we Sin ye settings Streams setup i md_m md len rnd_de rnd_cps rnd A 5 sun 33 0 330 0 st 7 st 51 84 4 sive e inp Release 6 130 5 11 Through the keyboard you can active de active granular streams polyphonically you can also set the ADSR attack decay sustain release event envelope You can either use the MIDI message note on off to trigger streams re
20. automatically move to specific points in the buffer defined by the snap mode nothing disables snap to allow free selection This is the default grid specifies that the selection start and end points grain length should snap to the vertical grid lines zerocrossing instead of snapping the selection to a uniform grid this mode searches for zero crossings of the buffer data The seconds menu from the top millisec sets the unit of time measurement used by the display emilliseconds 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 ephase 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 N B grid values for phase must be normalized 0 1 see later bpm specifies beats per minute as the time reference unit relative to a master tempo and number of beats per bar both of which you can set with the bpm message The numbox 1 00 specifies spacing of the grid lines for current unit of time measurement used by the display N B grid values for phase must be normalized 0 1 18 Snapshots e store recall A snapshot is a photo of graphical interface GUI parameters in the current state Each snapshots module can store up to 24 snapshots You can ma
21. e threshold Presets 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 threshold e g threshold fade lt thresh value a fade gt thresh value b inverted threshold Inverse threshold Takes optional 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 threshold e g inverted thresh fade lt thresh value b fade gt thresh value a exponential curve Power curve Takes an additional argument float which 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 optional additional argument see transition curve below which specifies the name of a table to use for curve lookup tab1 tab2 tab3 or tab4 Presets recalled will recall data between the two specified presets along the curve described in the table Tables are assumed to contain values between 0 and 100 representing the new fade amount 100 If the lookup fade amount
22. f scanning exploration however a remote MIDI control is possible by assigning the X Y pointers see Ableton Live user manual In the image below from number box red circle you can sets automatic v 9 lt f 50 0ms 4 the number of nodes you can set a specific configuration system nodes by clicking and dragging center of node to move it or Option Key alt to change node size x N B The nodes are numbered progressively therefore each node on the pad must be corresponds by a stored preset snapshot If you employ an empty snapshot the interpolation between them will not work properly Also you cannot disabling completely the nodes node area 0 to avoid fall in the same problem e pad mouse behavior 28 The pop up menu allow you to chose mouse behavior Automatic allows the mouse to change the nodes position size and slider pad scrub Nodes the mouse can only edit the nodes position and size alt mouse scroll to change node size click and drags on the node number to move it Slider the mouse can only changes the slider location pad scrub You can automatize HV_pads scrub slider choosing a scanning mode Scanning method reflects causes a reflection when the cursor reaches the edge jitter outputting random numbers within a moving specified range around current scrub mouse position drunk will perform a drunk walk creating unpredictable paths spiral centripetal centrifugal or pa
23. hot 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 Sequencer play mode men 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 Some kinds of transformations are available their names are auto explicative Through the four arrow keys at the bottom up and down snap number or left and right in time you can shift the entire sequence on curent p2 a 500s p 10 0ms s 100 r 500s port 432 ms transport link Snapshots Sequencer is an ADSR Attack Decay Sustain Release every step envelops the streams or main amplitude audio signal You can define a Attack Decay time and Sustain percentage at last Release time When Sequencer is turned off audio signals streams or main pass through normally 25 e Note and Tick Value Here is a listing of the note and tick values associated with common note durations Note value abbreviations that can be used in Pulsaret m4l to specify time are in bold 128n One hundred twenty eighth note 15 ticks 64n Sixty fourth note 30 ticks 64nd Dotted sixty fourth note 45 ticks 32nt thirty second note triplet 40 ticks 32n thirty second note 60 ticks 32nd Dotted thirty second note 90 ticks 16nt Si
24. ike additive mutisliders transitions save presets in the device snapshots clear when init device bug fixed e windowing draw defaults all now reset shape correctly e windowing draw refined gui save reload correctly the windowing shape reseall now does not clear all snapshots some bugs fixed 41 e acknowledgments would like to thanks Eugenio Giordani and Nicola Casetta a special thanks to Renato Alberti Felix Petrescu and Pasquale Ascione Pulsaret m4l Max externals and abstractions Eric Lyon el Granule modified by ape 2011 in ape Granule http www gmem org All rights reserved CNMAT OpenSoundControl OSC route http www cnmat berkeley edu MAX All rights reserved Density was created with MaxForLive http www cycling74 com Bibliography Curtis Roads Microsound The MIT Press Cambridge Massachussets The Author Alessandro Petrolati apesoft All rights reserved 2010 2011 ape kagi com www densitygs com www alessandro petrolati it
25. ke transitions between two or more snapshots you can subscribe or unsubscribe determinate Pulsaret m4l parameters When you find an Interesting sound you can store new snapshot just shift click on a button in the snap pad thus the preset button will light orange You can recall a snapshot by simply clicking on the snap pad buttons all the widgets subscribed see later will be restored at current snapshot value immediately Alternatively a snap can be stored from pop up menu a message box will ask you to digit a snap number in see below for more explanations e micro pad The micro pad s goal is to obtain intermediate values between four snapshots interpolation You can configure four nodes snapshots locked lowest in the image nodes the mouse can only edit the nodes position and size unlocked slider the mouse can only changes the slider location refresh highest in the image enable disable auto recall snapshots see below for more details e transitions Transitions are a linear interpolation between two snapshots with one time duration You can start a transition only from the menu recall item Is important to understand that the transition occurs from the current parameters positions toward the selected snapshot actual GUI widgets positions gt gt gt toward selected snapshot time duration 19 You can change the transition time 2 00 sec in above image The transitions can occur simultaneously on
26. lindrome with phase deformation parameter The jitter step size number box 8 it will be showed only when jitter is selected This parameter sets the random amount of jittering around of the mouse position during scrub pad Automatic exploration in reflects jitter and drunk you can interact with the pad The values of mouse and direction will be the new coordinates of scanning Instead in spiral you cannot interact with pad X Y time The X Y indexes scanning ratio depends by the frequency X Y axes These are controlled by the two sliders showing value in seconds i e time 1 frequency 350s l You can set scanning time for the two axis 2D XY For example 3 50 sec for the X axe it means that horizontal slider scrub it take 3 50 sec to pass from left edge to right edge of the pad Y 5 00 sec X Y parameters they assumes different means according to selected scanning mode in reflects is expressed in time is the time it takes to move from X left right and Y up down in drunk is expressed in time is the deviation amount rnd X and rnd Y in spiral X is the time for each sub spiral Y is the total duration until reach all pad area 29 The spiral mode will enable two related parameters centripetal moves from outside to inside when it reaches the limit again repeat centrifugal does the opposite palindrome is a combination of both The spiral phase deformation number box 0 25 0 no spiral 0 25 ci
27. lts are linearly interpolation You can superimpose your interpolation curve at one or more subscribed widgets Four draw functions are available from toolbar or menu bar Open one of them and draw your curve This feature is saved on Pulsaret m4l device Draw a shape on the function window 8an0 tabl 22 In order to maps one or more subscribed clients with one of four functions draw you need open clients window and select table from pop up menu over interp header Now you must digit the table name that can be tab1 tab2 tab3 or tab4 an Client Objects stream L snaps Name Priority interp Data backward 0 threshold 0 50 0 density 0 table tab1 L distance 0 exponential c 2 00 0 590551 jitter 0 exponential c 0 50 648 818909 length 0 inverted thres gt 0 00 63 960632 O pan 0 linear 192 O pitch 0 linear lt 9 543307 rnd_dens 0 table tab1 33 rnd_len 0 table gt tab1 15 748032 O rnd_pitch 0 linear 0 O scann 0 linear s L scrub 0 table tab2 141 732285 in the above example we employ e tab1 like transition curve for density rnd_density rnd_length e tab2 like transition curve for scrubb e pan pitch rnd_pitch and scann are unsubscribed from the snapshots transitions system See client window above for more explanations 23 Snapshots sequencer improviser unit PRICES A 140 _snap sequencer RS coro ps CR RE oc EN varspot IN m EE el mme Le
28. motely From left to right number box 6 in the image sets general Synth polyphony i toggle enable disable linear interpolation for sample and envelope oscillators C3 menu is the keyboard octave transposition C3 key is gray emphasized limiter enable disable the peak limiter which allows for the specified control of signal amplitude all note off turn off all playing notes by sending a message to each instance with a playing note The message consists of the MIDI pitch most recently received via the keyboard note or midinote message followed by a 0 meaning zero velocity or note off most right we have displayed the last note played from keyboard or MIDI event 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 attack decay Goo Goo see Windowing for more explanation e wave 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 r morph 7 i simon 12 Windowing e general The windowing module generate some classics envelopes and prototypes used for smoothing the gr
29. ng the motion of the parameter that controls it grainlet pulsaret mode In grainlet mode you you can interconnects all granular parameters freely you can also toggle in Pulsaret mode send oo 30 0 0 o Tv 03 E Ga E OL DOoOsv nm a roveru lt boe cp 500 A3 lt p 5300 23 7030 K I Eoi 7950 v o u m e ao Oo ass ass es 5 aonr nNonr wonr sonr aonr volume panning distance attack decay o lt OO ON density density_rnd length length_rnd cps_md glisson glisson_rnd morph morph_rnd 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 32 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 send d g e i n e i m d s n s o pli d i g cig s f viaisia e ti t piijo p Oin tit cini ieih Siiinitmh lin ait eis i_inl_l 1 _1S1_10 _ILILI
30. o just the same with great ease of use htto www osculator net 36 OSC out mode for all widgets 150 ms_ off 2 aa io off no OSC outs data eon send OSC data continuously N B this overwrite all settings of prefixiD the widgets Every time you move a Pulsaret m4l parameter on the GUI or when a transition sequencer HV_pad is at work sync values are sent To avoid an overhead of outputs data through the number box 150 ms you can change MIDI OSC output update rate in milliseconds For instance during the snapshots transitions you should limiting sync data in order to preserve a normal cpu overhead OSC out update rate expressed in milliseconds set the speed limit OSC output data e widget mapping We have two widgets mapping kinds 1 Cc_raw 2 Cc_scale Cc_raw is addressed to mapping Pulsaret m4l buttons toggle parameters Cc_raw read write OSC returning integer values between 0 and 127 Learn function waits to feel an OSC address when it happens the the control is set up on the OSC path address Now you can controlling Pulsaret m4l parameter via OSC Of course you can manually change OSC address Toggle to learn and send an OSC data in order to assign incoming OSC address In the example the OSC play stop address are assigned to play stop Pulsaret m4l parameter if sync is enabled Pulsaret m4l also is able to send OSC data It is possible change OSC path value entering a new one learn wii pry accel
31. otypes or loaded audio file draw pencil allows you to draw directly on the pad WavePad management cosine __ bipolar savetofile openbuffer opensndinfos trim resetshape resetallshapes clear lastsel zoomout load replace 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 its unsupported a message will be shown savetofile export the contents of the buffer as Wav or Aif audio file openbuffer opens the WavePad buffer window or brings it to the front if it is already open The windows is resizable but not editable you can scrolling the mouse over the buffer window crop 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 clear buffer erases the contents of buffer lastsel it causes the selection start and end points to revert to their immediately previous values 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 Hzoom horizontal zoom time display samples
32. po The snap sequencer has many editing modes that allow for modifying the snapshots content snap amp etc e 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 24 Up to eight time intervals can be selected The choice is performed with a random interval weight 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 You can set general changes probability 75 in the example 0 no interval change occur as all intervals probability weight to 0 Change and no change led yes no shows if the random parts it s to change or not Random number generator fall every change interval time 2 in the example beat sequence is displayed on the right The most left reset button resets sequencer to first step in permutation mode reinit sequence no action in random mode 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 snaps
33. rcular gt 0 25 crushed gt 0 5 clockwise rotation e miscellaneous Auto exploration is possible only when the Ableton Live transport is enabled see Ableton Live user manual on off toggle auto exploration according to selected mode The red circled number box sets the interpolation update time in milliseconds this is a speed limit to avoid an overhead of cpu with complex interpolations be careful with short times 30 Matrix general explanation Pulsare m4l matrix linkage is employed 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 ANAM 335726_grainlet_matrix send d g e l n e i m d S n S o pli d i g c g s r viaislia e ti t pil o p ojnNjtjit d N Yjeajh Ss ijnimih linjait eis in me see eee ee Sy ulilnlelclilrigirilelrisiriririF FIFIFIF min ciciaitinitinipinioin pin 0 00 00 eidgieikiylyidihidis dinidjhid 41 2 3 4 5 r e c distance e i V e density density_rnd length length_rnd S 8 cps_md glisson 31 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 regardi
34. requires a Mac PPC or Intel machine running OS X 10 4 or later and 1 GB RAM Windows Pulsaret m4l requires a Windows XP Vista 7 machine and 1 GB RAM Pulsaret m4l requires Live 8 2 2 and Max For Live Details about Max For Live can be found at Ableton com This bundle will only work in Ableton Live 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 Live and Cycling 74 Pulsaret m4l uses QuickTime in order to read correctly media files including MP3 therefore QuickTime must be installed on your system On Windows we recommend a complete installation of QuickTime choosing all optional components e installation Macintosh Windows e Buy and download Pulsaret m4l zip e Double click to unzip e Drop to copy folder in Ableton Live Library Live Devices Instrument and or Fx Live Devices v En Max Audio Effect gt Current Project Temp 506 Pulsaret mal instr 2 0 DensityM4L_instr 1 1 5 DensityM4L_Fx 1 1 5 Density m4l instr 2 0 5 Density m4 instr 2 0 4 OSC Density m4
35. rough wii 1 accel roll OSC data incoming from OSCulator and Nintendo WII we rescale the range for controlling only a middle part of parameter Inv invert the I O range for the widget Most right menu I O sync off set the output mode for current widget see sync for better understand and numbox 1 00 on top right set the exponential base value default 1 linear The number is converted according to the following expression y b e a log c ex log c 38 Overview e save load device Just like an Ableton devices Pulsaret m4l device can be saved by clicking on the save button and digit a name You can load Pulsaret m4l device Instrument drag and dropping over an Ableton Live channel See Ableton Live user manual e info window To avoid annoying hint messages when you are working on the GUI Pulsaret m4l sends all hints in the Ableton Live Info window In the clue window you can read some informations about Pulsaret m4l GUI widget when the mouse is over it See Ableton Live user manual Density m4i_instr_devel load replace w float window 7 Have you noticed all Pulsaret m4l windows contains in a corner generally top right a tiny orange e button toggle it to set float no float window When toggle float current window will be always in 7 front This feature is saved on project like general setup e history ver 1 0 0 e instrument Ableton Live devices integration e dynamic windowing pad crop normalize
36. tom 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 fo 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 e status bar 34 Attack Om m i cps glisson distance _ sine volume pan Oreo du 33 0 330 0 st 0 st 0 paaie lt Gp 42 msi 10 0Hz 440Hz Ost engh 4 42 lt 589 85 _ _ Ve Oe TARA eer LIT a 1 Iran 4 O D D RP AP a D RS SR GP GUN QE QU GE GES a In the Pulsaret m4l status bar report current matrix modulation state The receiving parameter wait until sending parameter reach the same value i e pickup feature Ableton Live inspired Pickup system wait until sending parameter reaches receive widget position On the status bar you will see a message shown the gap between send receive parameters On the most left status bar we have grain overlaps factor you need enable tiny orange button 1 Ableton
37. tor grains depends only on the actual CPU power Thus you have not limits in grains number for second density Below an easy granulation model grano interrupt ims aig segnale Tramster aud signal hrowah gions ee ee SPHSSSS SS ASSSSSSHSHHSHESSS SSA SSSHSHHSHEKEEE ESAS SSH HHEEEEE SSSR HHEEE SESS I 0000 Lt ERE RRR eee DensityGSC Csound version is still available for free at www alessandro petrolati it densitygsc html it works on Windows XP but not in Windows Vista it seems magically resurrected with Windows DensityGSC is a discontinued product New Pulsaret m4l is completely rewritten in Max Msp 5 available for both Macintosh and Windows standalone applications and M4L Max For Ableton Live devices More stable flexible improved audio quality restyling GUI look Graphic User Interface with native effects Hv_pads FiltersEQ Snapshots Sequencers improviser unit etc e GUI layout The most important Pulsaret m4l parameters are placed inside of only one window Pulsaret m4l GUI Graphic User Interface is divided in two parts WavePad Granular parameters Snapshots presets from left to right and WINDOWING MODULE most right Many controls are accessible via pop up menu WINDOWING generate and edit waves prototypes shapes employed for envelope granulation Pulsaret m4 Instrument Pulsaret m4i instr 2 0 6 GGA genoem length density cps glisson E E Ce E LUE LUE Sn ee Ce Ji cs
38. vePad display for more explanations e additive 128 mm additive 512 0 00 0 00 es K nes per ell additive generate a composite waveform through weighted sums of sinusoids It works similarly to Csound Gen19 Each slider in the additive pad controls a specific partial amplitude You can change the total harmonics number for the spectrum top right numbox 18 clear all amplitude contributes of spectrum bringing to 0 Toggle on auto you will enable amplitude auto rescale thus the resulting shape it will be always normalized to one N B phase and offset are normalized 0 1 The two below num box of gen button sets the fine amplitude of a specific partial You need selects a partial number 1 in the example enter the amplitude value 0 5 in the example at last click on gen to apply change e audio slot In the shape select menu after the sixteen envelopes prototypes you will see six empty slots named usershapel usershape2 etc You can employ them to load until six audio files form disk just like Granular streams WavePad See for further details If cannot load or drag a sound file in a shape slot you must employ one of the six available slots e WavePad 15 Vzoom 50 On the right side of the WavePad you can choose the type of action select loop move and draw The tools select from top to bottom and loop allows you to select a buffer length move hand allows you to select a part zoom of prot
39. xteenth note triplet 80 ticks 16n Sixteenth note 120 ticks 16nd Dotted sixteenth note 180 ticks 8nt Eighth note triplet 160 ticks 8n Eighth note 240 ticks 8nd Dotted eighth note 360 ticks Ant Quarter note triplet 320 ticks 4n Quarter note 480 ticks And Dotted quarter note 720 ticks 2nt Half note triplet 640 ticks 2n Half note 960 ticks 2nd Dotted half note 1440 ticks Ant Whole note triplet 1280 ticks 1n Whole note 1920 ticks In Pulsaret m4l you can find also this formula of value 26 Hyper Vectorial Pad general explanation eo Y mF 0 FIV eer ms 4 r aria HV_pad i e Hyper Vector Pad is 2D parameter interpolation user interface Displays nodes in a 2 dimensional space and calculates the distance from a pointThe distance factor determine the weight between snapshots interpolation Like for snapshots module we have ten HV_Pad grouped in a unique window You can open HV_Pad window from the tool bar button 1 See VMCI Virtual Midi Control Interface http www csounds com maldonado thanks Gabriel Maldonado 27 HV_Pad extends the functions of micro pad interpolating until 24 snapshots together thus you can modify hundreds of parameters with a single mouse motion according to a structure configured by the user This control method is called Hyper Vectorial Synthesis Control Normally the user interacts with these areas with the mouse or through sel
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