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To answer xox's post, don't overlook that Ae are fluent with Max. Why would they use something else if they can get what they want of an environnement they obviously know like the back of their hand ? re : text based language: as far as I'm concerned, I love Tidal so much because of its keyboard-driven workflow, and I can't help thinking that the computer keyboard is the most adequate and logical device to interface with softwares (reduces wrist pain drastically compaed to using a mouse too). YMMV obviously.

IMO it actually is, but it's all about the refinement of core features. But it really depends on how you use Live, if it makes a difference to your workflow or not.

Hehe thanks pal. Don’t underestimate my inability to code elegantly though, don’t blame it on Tidal ;D @sTeh B L you can totally use Tidal and FL together, that’s Kindohm set-up (he’s a live-coding wizard and fantastic computer mudician). He shares a lot on info via YT. Feel free to PM me if you need any info.

@sTeh B L thank you ! What’s your current DAW ?

Many / most (?) audio functions can alter MIDI sequences as well. Here, for instance : d1 . jux (iter 4) $ s "bd(3,8<0 2>)" can be modified into (using the drum mapping you've set for ETR_002 jam.) : d1 . jux (iter 4) $ n "c5(3,8,<0 2>)" # s "midi" # midichan 4 And it can be quite fun : d1 . degradeBy "0 0.5!15" . jux (iter 16) $ n "[c5(3,8<0 2>) , b4(<1 2>,4,<2 1>) , e5*16?]" # s "midi" # midichan 4

Thank you, it means a lot. I'm an IRL teacher / trainer, so it was quite intimidating to sit in front of a camera (rather than directly interacting with someone and cracking (poor) jokes while hopefully teaching something haha). It requires so much work, time and energy to shoot such a video. I don't know when, and I have no clue what it'll be about, but I'll make more, eventually. The tune, Vwls, was first sketched after Ellipses sessions, totally reworked with Live 11 beta. I considered going full algomindfuck, then opted for poppier material hehe. Super glad you like the video, thanks again !

Spectral Resonator is super fun. If you understand le français, we French Ableton Certified Trainers shot a bunch of L11 vids, one per new features. Mine's (# 6/14) about Note probability and Velocity range. Here's the whole playlist

Had some fun today with functions jux and iter. Mix of wavetable synthesis and comb filtering madness.

It's more about the induced ear fatigue of "lo-quality streaming + in-ear headphones + noisy surrounding" than anything else. If at home I just listen to the lossless files (99% of times on monitors).

I just wish the streaming quality for purchased releases was better. Otherwise, +1!

Your code is perfectly fine ? If you haven't yet, I recommend investing mini-notation, it makes sequencing even faster https://club.tidalcycles.org/c/course/week1/16. Excellent track by the way !

I’ve been offered that gorgeous, glorious piece of recording history : a Nagra 4.2. It belonged to my father in law (very cool dude, former filmaker who’s always been fascinated by sound), he gave it to me yesterday. It’s a thing of beauty really. I can’t afford servicing it yet but it’s supposed to be working as is. It’s a mono device, so I’ve yet to figure out if I can reliably print full stereo mixes on it (like recording left/mid first then right/side to eventually rebuild the stereo mix ?), but I bet running synths through its signal path without hitting the tape can sound lush already. The recorder features optional auto leveler, limiter, low shelf / hpf. What an amazing present !

I didn’t know you were a fellow cyclist ! :D

Reminds me of old Leafcutter John’s records. Granular + comb filtering might definitely get you there. Plus, the right recording to boot with :)

@IOS I can record something yeah, though it'll be more of a proof of concept thingie than a proper piece of music. It's sheer curiosity really, I would see no point in doing a SND impersonation ? @xox genuinely asking : if you have a more precise example I'm all ears.

You're definitely making sense ? I came to similar conclusion a few days ago. For instance, I had some success with bandpassed PWM chords with such intervals and fast staccato, getting strong SND vibes. There's still something in the sound itself, these super fast moving harmonics for instance, I've yet to reproduce. Pretty sure it's about the craft rather than the tech ?

For some mysterious reasons I can't find his paper / thesis documenting some of his compositional process (in which MF shares some patches too). While looking for it, I came across that https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-synthesis (preordering soonish). My previous post(s) weren't that much about the gear as much as the technique itself. I'm not even sure that the synth is that relevant here. I'd genuinely love to get in the ballpark of these sounds, not as an end-result but as a starting point to further (possibly vastly different) experimentation. FM with different waveforms than sinewaves is trivial, so is filtering modulator... so I'm much more curious about ratios etc. I gegnuinely want to understand ? Pretty sure Razor / Lazerbassq could go in same sonic territories, but I can't help feeling like I'm a Gabor Lazar copycat whenever I use these.

Everything’s heading in the same direction as music. Quite convinced of that, and have been for a while. Press / photojournalism was first in line, a tad before music.

Thanks ! Aside from the formants, can't FM8 do most of what the FS1R can ?

On a SND Atavism binge. No matter how much I've learnt about FM, I've yet to patch anything barely similar to their shapeshifting high-pitched, super sharp bells / chords. All FM8, right ? Still obsessed by these sounds, would love to crack the code.

Serene, poetic and visually creative feel-good movie.

And bought. Sounds really, really, really good. Aside from the great songwriting, I admire the density / space ratio in these tunes. Bravo @auxien ! edit : reppa and carp.e are instant favorites.

On the top of my head, in no special order. I believe I bought my first µ record in 2001 ? Hrvatski - Swarm N Dither Leafcutter John - The Housebound Spirit Rian Treanor - Ataxia Kuedo - Severant Eero Johannes - S/T µ-Ziq - Bilious Paths Kid Spatula - Full Sunken Breaks Venetian Snares - Winter in the belly of a snake Jega - Geometry

@rhmilo Scheme, right ? ? If so, I'm well aware of it, looks super cool, thought it'd require me to adapt several new mindsets : Max, Lisp and yours ! I'm not sure I have the time nor the energy here, as eventually all I want is to have fun writing shitload of tunes, ah ! I'm seriously considering Max to keep everything into the Max4Live/Live environnement. Ditching Tidal (and Atom / SuperCollider / Haskell / Link) in favor of Max makes sense to me only if going for a "Live contained set-up". Now being an Ableton Certified Trainer, I'm not ditching Live anytime soon hehe, so transplanting what I do with Tidal (which isn't that complicated really, just flexible MIDI sequencing really) into Max/M4L would be IMO the most logical move here. If only Tidal was a Max library, it'd make everything much easier for me ? I love Live, and the more I use Push the more I love it too... but I just hate piano rolls. And once you've freed yourself from a rigid grid, you can't go back hehe. I'm being super candid here, being a total Max newbie, I just thought hacking from skimming Step by Step that I could eventually hack its sequencer (which seems to offer most of the option I seek) by replacing the live.step object by several list objects... but I guess it reveals how much of a total naive newbie I am here ? Ideally I'd use M4L to MIDI sequence / perform, and Live's built-in automation system, mapping, macros etc.. for everything else (handling plugins, sound-design, recording, mixing, automations, you name it). An update Gibberwocky M4L device could be exactly what I'm looking, with the most minimal learning curve. Once again I just want to write tunes, and have fun doing so ? @sweepstakes I've thought of OSC too, but have no clue (from the little I know) how I could implement it. I also believe that some parameter modulations are much faster to draw than to code. Thanks anyway, not a useless post at all. @iococoi wow, thanks, awesome video !