Enjoying scripts and sounds

trevorn1

I'm really enjoying what I'm doing with scripts, I like the granular sounds I'm getting, opening up a lot of possibilities. This is a short recording I made after making a sound environment I especially liked. I'll probably post something soon that's a little more time based.

https://youtube.com/shorts/p-sjzY0WHXQ

alexs1

trevorn1

Sick sounds!

Noticed Track 3 pie spazzing out - assuming that’s your way of going granular in Mob?

Do you use any “slice and dice” scripts? I’ve been meaning to get into more of the editing functions. One idea I’d like to test is something that chops a loop into equal parts subcycles and then automatically shuffles them out of order.

trevorn1

alexs1 Thanks! I haven't done anything with "slice and dice" scripts, that could be really interesting along with stepping through multiply as well to extend the length. Have you explored that? I'm curious about control to, automate with subcycles or make it a next trigger?

Sidenote to use cycles or subcycles are you doing:
wait subcyle 2
or how would you write that?

and yes super short loop for the granular effect, will try short multiply to add more tones I think next.

alexs1

alexs1 One idea I’d like to test is something that chops a loop into equal parts subcycles and then automatically shuffles them out of order.

Wait, I just found out there is a dedicated “Shuffle” function for exactly this. Will return to report. Have you ever incorporated Shuffle @trevorn1?

trevorn1

alexs1 I haven't used shuffle but know of it, probably something about it in the old mobius docs?

alexs1

trevorn1

Yeah, upon further inspection, Shuffle is actually super cool. And I could definitely see it being used for granular or granular-like effects. With a split-second pie, like the one spazzing out in your video, you could use Shuffle in a while script with its inbuilt Random param. Does that make sense? So the "chunks" is your loop sample happening on a quick rotation, where an Shuffle-w/Random script would automatically split and reorganize those chunks after each repetition, very true to the sound of granular synthesis.

trevorn1

alexs1 yes totally, I'll check it out. I was messing with stutter and it had a similar effect in a way too. Probably less granular sounding though and more sampling. It really is astounding where things can go once you get into this area. The sounds and gestures can hit like nothing else.

alexs1

trevorn1

True that. Would be ecstatic for a version of Stutter/Shuffle (any editing functions, really) for MIDI Tracks. Not only Notes, but if you record automation loops (messing with a CC filter knob, switches) then Shuffle that, I bet you’d get some really interesting results.

manymanyhaha

I use Shuffle all the time. I have a script that does a lot of shuffle across a few tracks that I have been using for years now and it has yet to bore me. I use it every time I play.

I'm still on Build 28 because of it, just haven't gotten the time to try to convert this script to MSL. In the old scripting language, you could do a Shuffle /u and Shuffle /r. The /u, if I remember correctly, would randomly shuffle the exact slices. So if doing Shuffle 4, it would do 1324, or 1423, or 4231, etc. The /r would randomly select slices, but not necessarily keep the slices. So 1234 might become 1142, then the next one might become 4122 and on and on until all four slices were the same slice, like 2222. Fun fun fun fun fun stuff.

Really enjoyed this Trevor (https://youtube.com/shorts/p-sjzY0WHXQ). At one point, it reminded me a lot of the breakdown in Glenn Branca's L'eve Future.

alexs1

manymanyhaha

Wicked stuff. Inspired to dig deeper into this function now. Is it always 4 slices, or can you set it to more?

trevorn1

manymanyhaha thank you! Really appreciate the compliment and I will check that out for sure. Curious to learn more about how all of this can be sequenced.

Also inspired to dig into this and get a good handle on shuffle and stutter and see where that goes. Maybe Alex and I can work on translating Mos to MSL once we all have a good grasp of things. Very cool!

manymanyhaha

It shuffles whatever you have the 8thspercycle set at. I've only used 4 and 8 but I can imagine you can probably use any number. So in MOS, it would be:

Set 8thspercyle 8

Shuffle

Or if want to try /u or /r after 'Shuffle', you can.

You can also be specific with how you want them shuffled.

You can say

set 8thspercyle 8

Shuffle subcycles 8,7,4,3,2,1,5,6

I figured all this out from other people's scripts. Was fortunate to start using Mobius when they were still available but here, let upload them to my google drive and you can download them.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SKreT-J1xWzsYOzmZzUTTdFScVBaLvpr/view?usp=drive_link

trevorn1

manymanyhaha oh amazing, will try playing with this when I get home. Nice one!

manymanyhaha

Sorry, I had the script wrong for /u and /r. It is:

set 8thspercycle 4

Shuffle subcycles u

Or substitute r for u.........