MidiGen General Description
 Q & A session between Tim Conrardy and Joker
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Tim Said:
>It sounds like M , tunesmith and Schoenberg composer all
>rolled into one.

Joker responds:
Thanks, IŽll tell Petra!

>1. What is it? a general description.

Planed to be a "simple" MIDI event generator for (mostly Note
on/off and
Controllers), to overcome the poorness of the user-interfaces of
those
early 90th synths, it grew bigger and bigger . . .
It was designed for use in my live-setup, that I do improvised
music with
and I used it intensely for about 4 years.

>2.What is the basic outline :

21 generators, ect.
Up to six sets (to be used alternately) of 21 independent
generators each.

Lets take a look at a generator:
It can send data on 4 MIDI channels, up to six controllers are
availiable.
MIDI and controllers have basically the same generation algoŽs:
random within range
intervallic within range (ascending-, descending-, asc/desc-,
permutational-order)
random+intervalic within range (see above)

For generation of MIDI notes there are additional features:
12-Ton - apliying the 12-tone rule: has to go through all notes
of scale,
before a note repeats
Ton Intervall - sets the interval to half, quarter, 8th or 16th
of a note
(using pitch-bend)
Dauer - lenght of generated note (the polyphony is 5 notes per
channel)
Mono - for monophonic synths, sends a note fo before playing the
next note
controller only - switches of note generation for that generator
(mostly
to preserve computational speed)
Timer T - adds a random timing-interval from a range (i.e.: Time
is set
to 5, Timer T is set to 10, range from 20 to 80 means: at every
tenth
generated note, a number between 20 and 80 is added to the
timing)
Timer P - the same for generating prg-changes
etc, etc.    . . .

>3. Can it send Midi clock?

No, the timing is based on "system ticks", a very unstable
timing-base
(you may have noticed, that it runs faster if you move the
mouse). Also,
with a growing amount of data to be computed with lots of
generators
runnig, it slows down. I never needed any timing stability or
sync-possibilities, as I use it for abstract sound-sculptures,
not as any
sequencer source (the interactive-phrase-synthesizer built into
Cubase is
a much better tool for this)
>
>BTW, looks like it was designed with TT-HI in mind: excellent
to use at this
>res.!
We never had a TT or high-res Monitor (just Overscan, which
worked fine),
thats just a benefit of trying to provide the highest possible
compatability.
all the best,

Joker

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