[ddots-l] Re: ChordStrum.cal
- From: "Greg Brayton" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 09:33:27 -0500
Ok Phil,
my email address is,
greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.gbrayton.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Halton" <philhalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:28 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: ChordStrum.cal
> Hi Greg,
>
> Its super easy from a technical point of view. I've documented its
> installation & use. Why don't I send you the documentation file(its a
> notepad text file) offline, and let you look it over. If you think you
can
> hack it--we'll go from there.
>
>
>
>
> -----
> From: "Greg Brayton" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 8:47 AM
> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: ChordStrum.cal
>
>
> > Phil I'm a guitar player, and I'd love to try this, but as a computer
wise
> > fellow, you'd have to say I'm not as with it. However, if you could talk
> > me
> > through some things instilation wise, and any other technical deal that
> > might come along, I'd love to give this deal a try. Thanks for trying
this
> > stuff Phil. I think it's great!
> > http://www.gbrayton.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Phil Halton" <philhalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "ddots-l" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 12:51 PM
> > Subject: [ddots-l] ChordStrum.cal
> >
> >
> >> Hello listers,
> >>
> >> A while back I mentioned a CAL program I was working up to enable chord
> >> strumming. Well, I've been working like a dog on this software and
have
> >> probably over 150 hours of development into it now. The good news for
me
> > is
> >> that its essentially finished and I'm doing final testing and working
up
> > the
> >> documentation for it(the easy part).
> >>
> >> It features the ability to:
> >> Set the span of chord tones (the seperation of chord tones in ticks)
> >>
> >> Scale and reverse scale the span by percentages (increases, or
decreases
> > if
> >> reverse scaling, span of latter chord tones an additional x%)
> >>
> >> set velocity of chords with different settings available for upstrokes
> >> and
> >> downstrokes. Also allows for scaling and reverse scaling of chord tone
> >> velocities.
> >>
> >> Set duration of chords, with ability to randomly adjust durations of
> >> individual chord tones for a "looser" feel.
> >>
> >> All settings are made at runtime, but you can also adjust program
> >> settings
> >> "on the fly" from within the sequence itself through the use of "chord
> >> events" which are manually embedded notes from the zero octave that the
> >> program responds to by adjusting settings accordingly, and then
> > discarding
> >> from the sequence. These "chord event" markers can be combined in
> > different
> >> ways for different effects like upstroke, reverse velocity scaling,
> >> linear
> >> span etc.
> >>
> >> Its fairly powerful and flexible compared with most CAL programs I've
> > seen.
> >> Now that I've encoded all the features I thought useful, all that
remains
> > is
> >> to put it through its paces and see how these features combine, and
just
> >> what they're capable of producing.
> >>
> >> My goal in all this has been to produce a program that will answer the
> > need
> >> for a flexible and easy to use way to simulate realistic guitar rhythm
> >> patterns from a MIDI controller. As much as possible, I have kept the
> >> emphasis on intuitiveness and simplicity of use. The biggest problem
> >> with
> >> CAL scripts is that basically, you have no real idea what they will do
as
> >> there is virtually no documentation that accompanies them. So, I am
> > writing
> >> up a full length documentation as well as a few sammple Sonar projects
> >> showing its use.
> >>
> >>
> >> If anyone(preferably a guitar player with plenty of Sonar experience)
> > would
> >> be interested in doing a little beta testing, please contact me
off-list
> > at:
> >>
> >> philhalt@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >> ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:-
> >> ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe]
> >> ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to:
> >> ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> ** and in the Subject line type
> >> ** unsubscribe
> >> ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the
> >> ** immediately-following link:-
> >> ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq]
> >> ** or send a message, to
> >> ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > ---
> > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]
> >
> > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:-
> > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe]
> > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to:
> > ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ** and in the Subject line type
> > ** unsubscribe
> > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the
> > ** immediately-following link:-
> > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq]
> > ** or send a message, to
> > ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
> >
> >
>
> ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:-
> ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe]
> ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to:
> ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ** and in the Subject line type
> ** unsubscribe
> ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the
> ** immediately-following link:-
> ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq]
> ** or send a message, to
> ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
>
>
>
---
[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]
** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:-
** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe]
** If this link doesn't work then send a message to:
** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
** and in the Subject line type
** unsubscribe
** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the
** immediately-following link:-
** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq]
** or send a message, to
** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
Other related posts:
