thanks to this unexpected spring tracks extension this is finally done. i was working on random pd bits last week trying to create a grid sequencer (it was kinda borked) and pd is not the greatest platform for creating sequencers (it's extremely laborious). and i gave up after last week because i started to hate the patch. but we're here and i've picked up the pieces again to finish this.
i repurposed some of that hacky code to make '16gridstep' which i used to store some generative sequences for the bass line and some clicky percussions.
this is a kind of 'infinite musicbox' style patch. didn't experiment much with synthesis this time around, things are mostly filtered square waves or my reused percussion abstractions. i implemented randomised chord strumming and some sidechain to things which is somewhat new?
i used an abstraction called 'mscale' written by ingox on the pdpatchrepo forums which quantizes a midi note to the nearest scale note given a root and a set of scale notes. the patch changes the root and the chord progression once every 512 ticks (thereby also changing the bass line and melody as they are based on those things). the root and scale are global so it's easy to change them in the patch.
a little bit of spicy atonality on root change. i don't know why it happens but i'm fine with it being there.
oh and hey after writing all of this i found out that yet again (who would have thought) the patch didn't work inside of vanilla pure data!!!! because of my garbage stereo delay abstraction that doesn't work because i need to use delread4~ and i changed it and then it didn't work still!!! why?!?!?!?! in any case i changed the delays to be outside of the abstractions. it's like this patch must make me suffer more. please. i don't want to work on this anymore why do more problems have to show up!!! this program is garbage!!!!! watch me crawl back to it in the future anyway. i've only got myself to blame. what a pain. thanks for the headaches.
