Fork Code: mutronome (brownian motion of beats)

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//A metronome that mutates beat locations using something like Brownian Motion

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SynthDef.new(\block, {
	arg freq=1000;
	var sig, env;
	sig = Impulse.ar(0)*10;
	sig = SVF.ar(sig, freq, 0.9);
	env = EnvGen.ar(Env.perc(0.01, 1), 1, doneAction: 2);
	sig = sig*env;
	sig = sig!2;
	Out.ar(0, sig);
}).add;
)

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SynthDef.new(\clip, {
	arg freq=1000, res = 0.1;
	var sig, env;
	sig = ClipNoise.ar()*0.1;
	sig = SVF.ar(sig, freq, res);
	env = EnvGen.ar(Env.perc(0.01, 0.05), 1, doneAction: 2);
	sig = sig*env;
	sig = sig!2;
	Out.ar(0, sig);
}).add;
)


x = Synth.new(\block, [\freq, 1000]);
x = Synth.new(\block, [\freq, 800]);


//mutating 4/4 metronome
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~mutro = {
	var  i = 0, deltas, randos, out, maxStep;
	deltas = List[0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7]; //starting deltas for each beat
	randos = List[0, 0, 0, 0]; //random values for each beat, first bar plays straight as randos are all 0
	maxStep = deltas[0]/10;
	loop{
		out = ((deltas[i] - randos[(i-1)%(deltas.size)] + randos[i]).abs); //if the first beat is pushed back by 0.2s, the second beat is moved forward 0.2s to keep it in roughly the same position before rando is added
		out.yield;
		i = (i+1)%(deltas.size);
		if(i%(deltas.size) == 0, //adds random value to each term of random array on beat one of each bar after bar 1
			{randos = randos.collect({arg item, i; item+(rrand(-1* maxStep, maxStep))})}
			//{"test".postln}
		);
	};
};



Pbind(
	\instrument, \block,
	\freq, Pseq([1000, 800, 800, 800], inf),
	\dur, Prout(~mutro);
).play;

)


//mutating triplets
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~mutroblock = {
	var  i = 0, deltas, randos, out, maxStep;
	deltas = List[0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8]; //starting deltas for each beat
	randos = List[0, 0, 0, 0]; //random values for each beat, first bar plays straight as randos are all 0
	maxStep = deltas[0]/40;
	loop{
		out = ((deltas[i] - randos[(i-1)%(deltas.size)] + randos[i]).abs); //if the first beat is pushed back by 0.2s, the second beat is moved forward 0.2s to keep it in roughly the same position before rando is added
		out.yield;
		i = (i+1)%(deltas.size);
		if(i%(deltas.size) == 0, //adds random value to each term of random array on beat one of each bar after bar 1
			{randos = randos.collect({arg item, i; item+(rrand(-1* maxStep, maxStep))})}
			//{"test".postln}
		);
	};
};

~mutroclip = {
	var  i = 0, deltas, randos, out, maxStep;
	deltas = List[0.8*(1/3), 0.8*(1/3), 0.8*(1/3)];
	randos = List[0, 0, 0];
	maxStep = deltas[0]/40;
	loop{
		out = ((deltas[i] - randos[(i-1)%(deltas.size)] + randos[i]).abs);
		out.yield;
		i = (i+1)%(deltas.size);
		if(i%(deltas.size) == 0,
			{randos = randos.collect({arg item, i; item+(rrand(-1* maxStep, maxStep))})}
		);
	};
};



Pbind(
	\instrument, \block,
	\freq, Pseq([1000, 800, 800, 800], inf),
	\dur, Prout(~mutroblock);
).play;

Pbind(
	\instrument, \clip,
	\freq, Pseq([10000, 9000, 8000], inf),
	\res, Pseq([0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.1], inf),
	\dur, Prout(~mutroclip);
).play;


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