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[David]

For anyone who downloaded the MFreeFXBundle from Melda in order to get the MCCGenerator, which is a totally cool MIDI Modulation device, that really doesn't do much UNTIL you upgrade to the PAID version of the MFreeFXBundle (total bait and switch:(, you can grab that this weekend for 60% off, or about $23.

Which IMO is an absolute no brainer deal, since it unleashes the full power of the MCCG so it actually works, as well as all the other 36 FX, making them resizable, free of branding, and allowing them to generally work as you'd expect as well.
I'm esp. fond of the convolution device, which comes with a ton of weird and not-weird IRs, and is also kinda crippled in the free version, but magnificent in the paid-up one.

[Kalamata Kid]

^^^
Hmmm! MCCGenerator!
Very useful info.
I have been ignoring using CC but now may be the time to reconsider it.

[David]

The key thing about the MCCG and the paid upgrade is that the really-free version doesn't include the Melda super-Modulation controls for moving the 8 CC-sending knobs, The "unlocked" version does include them.
If you don't yet know what this Melda super-Modulation is all about, these videos give a pretty good demo; these go WAY beyond any other "lfo" I've ever encountered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09R-XsVP1UM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWJaBvav_04&t=319s

Obviously, these mods can be sent to anything, including any sort of MIDI Mangler that has CC-modulatable controls. Melda madness has become truly free!

[twoodts]

For anyone who downloaded the MFreeFXBundle from Melda in order to get the MCCGenerator, which is a totally cool MIDI Modulation device, that really doesn't do much UNTIL you upgrade to the PAID version of the MFreeFXBundle (total bait and switch:(, you can grab that this weekend for 60% off, or about $23.

If you use a referral code you'll get -20% and make account and sign up for the newsletter you'll get 10 credits. If you use both the price is 6€.

Just keep in mind that you can use the referral code only once ever, so if you plan on buying something more expensive later then save it for that but if this free bundle upgrade is only thing you'll ever want from Melda then go for the code also.

For those of us complaining about the Melda UI, someone made a slightly more tolerable skin for the plugins.
viewtopic.php?t=534812

[El°HYM]

If you need a refferal - code from a fellow #kvr member, feel free to use mine:

MELDA3989356 (I will receive 10% in credits as a Bonus via Melda).

Also keep the Tips above in Mind & I can highly recommend both, the free & essential Bundle as very useful, unique Tools.

[killmaster]

I'm so curious what can be achieved creatively with AI to generate music. Not interested at all in the area of reproduction, like trying to generate something that sounds just like Rachmaninoff composed it or poppy commercial large volume musics. But possible blending styles to create wholly new music. of using kernels of theory to create something new. Would love to find apps that can offer some means of experimenting with these new AI technologies. More for music "art", less for canned pop styles. I'm curious but not convinced that these new technologies could create anything compelling. Maybe if it were based on the Schrodinger equation and Feynman's diagrams!? To hear what the universe sounds like at the tiniest scales (and maybe even larger scales) if we could hear it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_d ... 0in%201948.

https://medium.com/the-research-nest/ai ... bwFhW0nsEg

[David]

I'm so curious what can be achieved creatively with AI to generate music. Not interested at all in the area of reproduction, like trying to generate something that sounds just like Rachmaninoff composed it or poppy commercial large volume musics. But possible blending styles to create wholly new music. of using kernels of theory to create something new. Would love to find apps that can offer some means of experimenting with these new AI technologies. More for music "art", less for canned pop styles. I'm curious but not convinced that these new technologies could create anything compelling. Maybe if it were based on the Schrodinger equation and Feynman's diagrams!? To hear what the universe sounds like at the tiniest scales (and maybe even larger scales) if we could hear it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_d ... 0in%201948.

https://medium.com/the-research-nest/ai ... bwFhW0nsEg

I believe that one of the uses for OpusModus is the conversion of data into notes. Worth a look! There's no AI that I know of in it, but one of the two people I know who uses it is loopyc from the Reaktor forums and UL, and AFAIR, his main interest is in data conversion.

[fairlyclose]

it is easy to convert data into Midi (or frequencies for that matter) - I used to do a lot of that, taught it as part of the Data Visualisation course I developed for the Uni I used to work at (I snuck sonification in there which the students liked a lot).
Back then I used Matlab (or Octave for a free equivalent) and a midi read/write library someone had written.

Note that just turning data into sound is not that interesting - and called audification - applying various transformations to the data to reveal structural qualities or statistical properties through sound is much more interesting - sonification. So say ages ago I wrote sonifications to reveal specific coding segments of DNA, another showed changes in cortical responses to music. That took more than just hearing the data as if each data point made a sound or using the data as a direct representation of a waveform. None of that used AI though - the AI approach has a lot of limits in terms of increasing understanding of the underlying processes - it just replaces one black box with another

[Raddler1]

Any news on Melodology Pro ArpSeq ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxDNpq_ ... yvN4AaABAg

Expected in April; dev told me it's much changed since that video:

It's come a long way since the video was made, with a full blown browser, a 32 step toggle mode (16/32), a trigger bank editor is in development (you mentioned this in your YT comment) and the top global knobs will be automatable.

A few tweaks here and there to make it more flexible and user friendly and one exciting feature will be importing midi into the Sequencer to create a preset, quantised to the global step value.

Cool, thanks

[WatchTheGuitar]

it is easy to convert data into Midi (or frequencies for that matter) - I used to do a lot of that, taught it as part of the Data Visualisation course I developed for the Uni I used to work at (I snuck sonification in there which the students liked a lot).
Back then I used Matlab (or Octave for a free equivalent) and a midi read/write library someone had written.

Sounds similar to a course I did, Electronic Imaging. Incidentally doing a box room clear out the other day and found this great book...

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It's chock-full of reference stuff. One of the many things is pretty much the entire MIDI standard defined and even stuff like country codes and MTC framerates. This is really funny now, but there are even pages like this that contain (really old) Cubase screenshots of set ups for drum patterns.

book_drums_rotated_small.png

The book was from '95 and it's odd how everything like that is online and easily accessible now rather than hidden in some obscure book that took months to order and arrive even if you managed to find out about its existence in the first place.
Even just over the 3 years I was doing the course the web went from something only postgrad SIG users with Mosaic accessed via IP numbers on post it notes to something we all used even if only to rip guitar tab from OLGA.

TLDR - Kids these days, don't know they're born, tsk etc

[fairlyclose]

it is easy to convert data into Midi (or frequencies for that matter) - I used to do a lot of that, taught it as part of the Data Visualisation course I developed for the Uni I used to work at (I snuck sonification in there which the students liked a lot).
Back then I used Matlab (or Octave for a free equivalent) and a midi read/write library someone had written.

Sounds similar to a course I did, Electronic Imaging. Incidentally doing a box room clear out the other day and found this great book...
book_cover_small.png
book_content_small.png
It's chock-full of reference stuff. One of the many things is pretty much the entire MIDI standard defined and even stuff like country codes and MTC framerates. This is really funny now, but there are even pages like this that contain (really old) Cubase screenshots of set ups for drum patterns.
book_drums_rotated_small.png
The book was from '95 and it's odd how everything like that is online and easily accessible now rather than hidden in some obscure book that took months to order and arrive even if you managed to find out about its existence in the first place.
Even just over the 3 years I was doing the course the web went from something only postgrad SIG users with Mosaic accessed via IP numbers on post it notes to something we all used even if only to rip guitar tab from OLGA.

TLDR - Kids these days, don't know they're born, tsk etc

what a treasure of a find!! Sounds like about my time studying as well.

[Kalamata Kid]

Sequences - Polyphonic Patterns - by Robotic Bean is on sale for $29.
https://www.reasonstudios.com/shop/rack ... sequences/
Do not know how long the sale will last.
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... ic+Bean+AB
Hmmm. I am considering this offer as it is not part of any bundle.
I may get the Player Device Bundle when the $300 issue is resolved.

I was looking at HY-SeqCollection2 at $55 for comparison.
https://hy-plugins.com/product/hy-seqcollectionwinmac/

[BluesMuse]

A bit off-topic, but might appeal to this group. I know my GAS is bubbling. Probably going to get this because I love UVI stuff.

UVI Quadra just released for $99 Intro. Does work with their free UVI Workstation player. Below is a snip from the manual.


SUPERCHARGED SEQUENCES WITH ADVANCED MIDI EFFECTS At the heart of each of Quadra’s instrument layers is a powerful, multimode 64-step sequencer with MIDI effects, allowing you to quickly add rhythmic grooves, create arpeggiator sequences, add harmonies, and even quantize the incoming notes to specific scales. Choose a global rate, gate length, and max velocity, then customize your sequence with per-step velocity, link, harmonization, pitch offset, octave offset, gate, step repeat and panning. Save your patterns to disk as presets to share, or use the handy “copy-to” button to quickly duplicate your finished sequence from one layer to another.Quadra includes a number of MIDI effect modules that allow you to embellish and augment your sequences in creative ways, including Euclidean Emphasis which adds rhythmic accents, MIDI Delay, Random, and Pitch Drift which enrich your sequence, and a scale quantizer that allows you to snap all notes to a scale of your choosing. You can even drag-and-drop the modified sequences as MIDI into a track of your DAW.

(MIDI features start at 8:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnMymjVGw8

[simmo75]

A bit off-topic, but might appeal to this group. I know my GAS is bubbling. Probably going to get this because I love UVI stuff.

UVI Quadra just released for $99 Intro. Does work with their free UVI Workstation player. Below is a snip from the manual.


SUPERCHARGED SEQUENCES WITH ADVANCED MIDI EFFECTS At the heart of each of Quadra’s instrument layers is a powerful, multimode 64-step sequencer with MIDI effects, allowing you to quickly add rhythmic grooves, create arpeggiator sequences, add harmonies, and even quantize the incoming notes to specific scales. Choose a global rate, gate length, and max velocity, then customize your sequence with per-step velocity, link, harmonization, pitch offset, octave offset, gate, step repeat and panning. Save your patterns to disk as presets to share, or use the handy “copy-to” button to quickly duplicate your finished sequence from one layer to another.Quadra includes a number of MIDI effect modules that allow you to embellish and augment your sequences in creative ways, including Euclidean Emphasis which adds rhythmic accents, MIDI Delay, Random, and Pitch Drift which enrich your sequence, and a scale quantizer that allows you to snap all notes to a scale of your choosing. You can even drag-and-drop the modified sequences as MIDI into a track of your DAW.

(MIDI features start at 8:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnMymjVGw8

Interested:)

Does it send midi out?

[ThomasHelzle]

Falcon doesn't, so I guess no