Amazing project, I am impressed! I never listened to this style of music before. I honestly do not really like it. BUT: Listening to this music makes me focuse very hard on my work. I love it!
You just need some glow sticks.
The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music
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I can confirm acid techno is alive and well in Berlin. Lots of good music coming out and DJs playing it.
https://www.youtube.com/c/H%C3%96RBERLIN They have a lot of DJs from this type of genre.
That tiled room gets me through the workday. In that ilk: Fear n Loathing. Art of Minimal. Trippy Cat Music. Beamer. A bit further from that sound but still great for coding: Cercle, Radio Intense, Cafe de Anatolia.
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#143No pills needed for this acid burn. Well done :)
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#144This is a great project, well done. Algorithmic music is fascinating to me, I feel like there's a lot of untapped potential in the concept particularly with more 'complex' genres where higher levels of composition and structural continuity are required. This tends to work much better with loop-based genres but I'd personally love to do a side project on something that could write melodies from some sort of generative…
Wholeheartedly agree using computers as a compositional aide is a fantastic thing, it's really quite satisfying to define some rules by which the program can modify the inputs (melodies, chords, drum patterns) and have it output interesting results. I coded up some jungle music not long ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPan4gRSwZs&t=79s I'm working on a procedure to modify the drum breaks in a conventional way, m…
Well you just inspired me to switch on my monitors :)
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#145This is actually enjoyable, I could imagine working with this in the background. Great work! edit: You can't actually hide the window in Safari, as it goes to like 10 BPM. Is it a power saving feature or what?
I already started using it as background for my work :)
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#146It's all about high hat and having enough plamp to stay awake forever.
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#147Very cool, but the UI could do with a pause button.
You clearly do not understand the nature of acid techno. Kidding aside: i agree. Also live manipulation of the patterns by clicking to add/subtract notes/drums would be cool.
> pause button
All it does is play a sample of a metal door squeaking open, apply a lowpass, and add ambient chatter of the back alley smokers.
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Doh I stand corrected :) Though still nowhere near as much potential for refining the end result as you get with a DAW. That's not to say live performance doesn't have value of course!
Yep I've done it. Suuuper tedious. Which is why I suspect even though you can do 2 or more bar phrases, single bar loops (vamps?) are pretty typical, instead varying the filter envelope and distortion over time.
Off topic but I found my preferred method of 'live' performance (for dnb) was to write a tune in the DAW with the intention that a few of the lead parts be played live, then switch off those parts and render what's effectively a backing track. Meant I could sort the mixing/mastering beforehand and keep in the flow of rocking out on synths when it came to the gig. I did use ableton but only to auto load synth patches/effect chains when each backing track was triggered.
I tried many other approaches involving 5 people driving a live looping rig but the above was worked best for me, which I guess made my act a 2010 equivalent of the guy wearing the burgandy velvet suit in the hotel bar ;-)
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#149Anyone have any recommendations for reading material for an experienced programmer that wants to learn how to start to write procedural music? My kid is both learning to program and learning to sequence music I would love to be able to teach him how to combine the two. The last time I did any procedural audio generation was back in 1995 and I’m sure things have changed since then.
https://sonic-pi.net/ might be interesting
Sonic Pi is great. Another option with probably a harder learning curve is Tidal Cycles.
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I will also vouch for and throw my 2¢ in for DI.fm. I've been subscribed since 2014 and while I have my qualms (namely a few stations that haven't seen a playlist change since I signed up, or their somewhat recent attempt to switch to a playlist-based setup instead of internet radio), it's a top-notch service that continues to please.
I rarely visit their website as they allow you to save your favourite stations as a play list for your preferred media player. Will have to check it out, thanks for the heads up. Are you aware of their other sites, https://www.jazzradio.com/ and https://www.rockradio.com/ Your di.fm subscription gives you member access to those two as well, last time I checked.
WOW! I had absolutely no idea about these, my DI.FM credentials (Google sign-in) worked flawlessly and registers my premium subscription.
> I rarely visit their website as they allow you to save your favourite stations as a play list for your preferred media player.
Agreed 100%, plus the ability to choose the stream quality for your playlist-stations is an added bonus, not even mentioning the hardware player support. It feels rare anymore to have a quality, reasonably-priced, bloat-free service with user-friendly features, but they seriously deliver