At 19:35 02/07/2003, Michael Carlyle wrote:
A lot of the tips in this article ring very true. I hope someone finds it helpful. http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/mar98/articles/rythm.html
That's got some good ideas that I wouldn't have thought of, or had an idea of how to implement, on my own. I've been wondering whether there would be utility to put some sort of "auto-humanization" feature in Doggie that would sprinkle just a _little_ bit of irregularity in terms of timing and velocity through a selected section or song. I'm not quite sure how that would work, or whether it would, but it would be interesting to see. The article's discussion of making up a "master pattern" from which to create variations brings to mind a way to organize a "pattern/fill pallette library" in Doggiebox. I am imagining a little pallette window showing a list of master patterns like "Rock Pattern A", "Slow Jazz Rhythm", "That Little Snare Fill I Like", "That Riff I Lifted from That Song My Kids Listen To". Then perhaps contextually clicking the name of a given master pattern would reveal variations on that pattern: "Rock Pattern A1", "Rock Pattern A2", "Rock Pattern A with ride instead of hi-hat", etc. That might make a convenient way of categorizing related patterns and fills. Of course, one could always ignore this feature if one only was interested in a few master patterns, or perhaps the sort of "open this drawer" approach could be used to categorize a collection of patterns and fills in different ways .... Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@carlaz.com http://www.carlaz.com/