KVR Audio

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Mon May 11, 2015 10:42 am

Even simple binary on/off patterns can be quite cool for rhythmic stuff also:

...especially if you combine a simple pattern like this to establish the pulse, and then use another smoothly changing image over a longer period to create some shifting variations in it...

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Tue May 12, 2015 1:07 pm

That doesn’t surprise me so much that simple image/pattern gives usually more effective results than more esthetic ones, inspiring but not really significant on such purpose on rendering, me thinks...

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue May 12, 2015 1:48 pm

But then the definition of what "effective" could mean, is very, very, very relative.

rustman · Post by **rustman** » Tue May 12, 2015 1:57 pm

Sometimes, if you're after random, or moreso, chaos, then a more elaborate image might be better. Likewise, some could build a religion on the sequence of events generated by a special image. Best at 432hz reference pitch.

I'm still having fun creating chaotic images and giving them a whirl. Chop up that chaotic output and there you have it- "found" sounds.

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Tue May 12, 2015 2:44 pm

well, the other thing to realize is that with multiple images with independant timings, even relatively simple images produce complex results quite quickly...

Complex other-worldly textures of a completely unique and novel nature are made with ease with KS... This is easily shown with the factory presets and particularly the "Scalar" images in the "New Additions" folder.

Now, I am interested in creating more tradditionally musical structures... ...at least at the moment. Then I will combine them to create hybrid structures...

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Wed May 13, 2015 5:58 pm

A prize for whoever makes the coolest sound with this image:

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Wed May 13, 2015 7:01 pm

One KS into Breeze. Nothing else. Internal white noise generator is the source sound:

http://2caudio.com/sitecontent/products ... uilder.wav

images are something similar to the family of things I posted in the past few posts...

and a variation of the same general idea:

http://2caudio.com/sitecontent/products ... lder02.wav

rustman · Post by **rustman** » Wed May 13, 2015 7:10 pm

Something popped into my head...imagine a long "filmstrip" of images and the cursor just scrolling on down the line like a player piano. It would be involved without a pitch template overlay, but one could compose a piano roll for KS. Just tossing that out.

Nice work on the previous sounds, btw. I'm gonna log on and steal your images a little later.

rustman · Post by **rustman** » Wed May 13, 2015 7:15 pm

How about this thought- the ability to assign multiple scales to a series of keys on the keyboard and then you could play chord changes over a relatively static image? Or maybe mapping midi keys on a pitch grid to enable or disable the pitch on that horizontal line in realtime? We're gonna need a new generation of CPUs....

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Wed May 13, 2015 7:18 pm

stop reading my mind!

rustman · Post by **rustman** » Wed May 13, 2015 7:20 pm

Galbanum wrote:stop reading my mind!

That's what you get for flaunting that snazzy new 4K monitor.

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Wed May 13, 2015 7:27 pm

The ability to automate tonality changes in some smooth fashion is highly desirable, yes. I have now made about 500,000 scales (not a typo) for this reason and have formulated an entire system for such things... how quickly we will actually be able to do it in KS remains unknown, but it is absolutely a goal!

Denis is reorganizing a bunch of the code to facilitate all of our various goals. A couple things are already significantly more optimized in the working builds we have now. We hope maybe to able to deliver at least a 2X improvement to efficiency overall in the next update. We'll see.

dayjob · Post by **dayjob** » Wed May 13, 2015 7:39 pm

Galbanum wrote: We hope maybe to able to deliver at least a 2X improvement to efficiency overall in the next update. We'll see.

wow! that's impressive. i hope you're able to get there.

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Wed May 13, 2015 7:41 pm

Another:

http://2caudio.com/sitecontent/products ... lder03.wav

1 KS, 1 Breeze.

and:

http://2caudio.com/sitecontent/products ... lder04.wav

all using images like above, this last one reversed, and a new scale from the aforementioned 500,000.

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Wed May 13, 2015 7:55 pm

Another great image:

y uno mas:

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