Introduction to the Mellite computer music environment. Part 19: Using MIDI Control.

This is based on Mellite v3.13.8. See https://www.sciss.de/mellite/ for details.

Note that the live camera view of the MIDI controller, being an IP cam streaming to the computer, has a high latency, so the image in the bottom left exhibits a delay of some hundred milliseconds.

Introduction to the Mellite computer music environment. Part 18: Automatic parametrisation of Negatum generated (genetically programmed) sounds.

This is a continuation on the introduction to 'Negatum' in episode 11 ( https://diode.zone/w/u73LVPpR3WEcYE7d2tf9fX )

The parameter experimentation widget program is part of the example workspace 'mellite-tut18-negatum-par.mllt.zip' found here: https://archive.org/download/Mellite/workspaces/

This is based on Mellite v3.13.4. See https://www.sciss.de/mellite/ for details.

Introduction to the Mellite computer music environment. Part 17: Changes introduced in 2021.

Part One (0-18 mins): Installation via launcher, implication of splitting objects in the timeline, shallow and deep copies; re-using editor windows, persisting view state; time/frequency information in the audio file editor, spectrum analyzer.

Part Two (18-35 mins): Linking Control/Widget programs with sound processes via expressions, triggers, and actions. Code editor improvements - highlighting symbol uses, rename-refactoring.

Part Three (35-57 mins): Expression programs are like Control/Widget programs but represent expressions, such as numbers, strings, predicates. Various examples of expression programs. Using them as a way to keep algorithmic control on parameters in the timeline editor.

This is based on Mellite v3.12.1. See https://www.sciss.de/mellite/ for details.

Addendum: the 'program-color' object at 54'10" is visually indistinguishable from a constant. In the next version, color programs will be indicated by an equals sign.

Corresponding video to https://github.com/Sciss/Mellite-piksel21/blob/main/text/setup.md - installing Mellite ahead of the workshop. For workshop details and registration, see https://21.piksel.no/

Erratum: 6'24" on macOS, you probably put your SuperCollider application into the /Applications directory (instead of /Application) and the bundle is SuperCollider.app instead of just SuperCollider.

Introduction to the Mellite computer music environment. Part 16: Making pieces for the web browser, by exporting workspaces for a JavaScript version of SoundProcesses and running sound synthesis through SuperCollider server on WebAssembly (wasm). Finally: Coupling FScape renderning to real-time audio.

This is based on Mellite v3.4.0. See https://www.sciss.de/mellite/ for details.

Introduction to the Mellite computer music environment. Part 15: Enhancements in the user interface in version 3.2, focusing on the timeline and audio cue editors (tools, keyboard shortcuts), plus some tips and tricks.

This is based on Mellite v3.2.2. See https://www.sciss.de/mellite/ for details.

Introduction to the Mellite computer music environment. Part 14: GPIO - accessing the digital input and output pins on a Raspberry Pi, the example being a button box and using a relay to route a sound signal to different speakers. Towards the end, showing how to start and parse system or shell processes, and passing key/value properties to Mellite and using it within a control program.

This is based on Mellite v2.49.1. See https://www.sciss.de/mellite/ for details.

Introduction to the Mellite computer music environment. Part 13: Stream - streams are "expanded" patterns that persist their internal state. And towards the end, showing the new Oscilloscope view.

This is based on Mellite v2.47.1. See https://www.sciss.de/mellite/ for details.

Try the following more interesting patterns: Brown(60, 108, 2).sliding(4).flatMap(a => a.distinct) or (ArithmSeq(0, 1) % 12 + 72).grouped(12).flatMap(a => a.shuffle).

The first takes the brownian walk and creates a sliding window of four elements (advancing always one element after each window), where the windows are then filtered to contain no duplicates ("distinct" values). For example, if the brownian would produce [100, 99, 100, 99, 98, 99, 97, 95, 96, 97], then the sliding(4) transforms it into [[100, 99, 100, 99], [99, 100, 99, 98], [100, 99, 98, 99], [99, 98, 99, 97], [98, 99, 97, 95], [99, 97, 95, 96], [97, 95, 96, 97]], and the flatMap which is short for map.flatten filters the groups of four elements to contain no duplicates, so [[100, 99], [99, 100, 98], [100, 99, 98], [99, 98, 97], [98, 99, 97, 95], [99, 97, 95, 96], [97, 95, 96]] or flattened [100, 99, 99, 100, 98, 100, 99, 98, 99, 98, 97, 98, 99, 97, 95, 99, 97, 95, 96, 97, 95, 96].

The second produces the wrapped counter 0, 1, 2, ... 11, 0, 1, 2, etc., adds 72 to go into the range of 72 until 84, then randomly shuffles the positions within each group of twelve elements, effectively giving you an "urn" of the twelve pitches of an octave, but always in random order.

Introduction to the Mellite computer music environment. Part 12: Measuring impulse responses. This uses a workspace available in the Mellite downloads, which provides a widget for the entire measurement process (behind the scenes FScape and Proc are combined, but this is not shown in detail). The video starts with a general introduction how IR measurement with sine sweeps works.

This is based on Mellite v2.46.0. See https://www.sciss.de/mellite/ for details.

Introduction to the Mellite computer music environment. Part 11: The Negatum object which implements a genetic programming algorithm for obtaining synthetic sound structures found by matching against a given sound file.

This is based on Mellite v2.38.1. See https://www.sciss.de/mellite/ for details.

Erratum: