Function Examples

Hi, Is there an OpusModus function (I'll bet there is) that can create lists (chords, etc) created from items selected from lists of varying lengths? Something like this: Source lists (3 lists): ( '(c4 d4 e4) '(f4 g4 a4 b4) '(cs4 ds4 fs4 gs4 as4) ) Output, successive items from each list: (list '(c4 f4 cs4) '(d4 g4 ds4) '(e4 a4 fs4) '(c4 b4 gs4) '(d4 f4 as4) '(e4 g4 cs4) ...) I'm having a great time learning LISP and OM (I come from Python/Java background mostly). I looked through the gen- functions, but nothing seemed to match. I was going to try to write a LISP function, but I figure there was already something in OM, as it seems geared towards these…

Dear all, Is it possible to split a given list of lengths (or omn) into sublists (bars) according to a given sequence of time signatures? That would be very useful for all sorts of operations. e.g., imposing a meter on unmetered music generated by whatever algorithm; metric shift where some note or rest is added at the beginning of a rhythm, but the metric structure is kept the same and all notes/rests move "to the right" as necessary etc. Here is an example of what such a function could do. ;; the hypothetic function gen-bar expects a list of time signature forms (or bar durations as ratios) and a (flat) list of lengths or OMN. It re…

Dear all, The rough outline of a melody can be described by a melodic contour, which sets the rough curve formed by the pitches of a melody without fixing the detail of all melodic intervals and pitches. Opusmodus allows controlling the melodic contour, e.g., with the function axis-plot in its Schillinger Inference function set. However, the documentation is a bit confusing as it seems to suggest that such functionality is offered only by its sibling axis-sub-plot. The function axis-sub-plot is documented to add more complexity to the result by dynamically displacing the underlying axis. However, that seems to be the case only for the second elemen…

Hello! I'm very interested in the Euclidean Generator but not sure how to use it. I see a video mentioned by Stephane here: http://composersforum.ning.com/forum/topics/new-video-tutorial-epic-euclidean-percussion-generator-with But I could not find it in the link: http://algorithmicmusiccomposer.blogspot.fr/ Is this video still available? I would love to see it. Thanks! Tom

Dear Opusmodus developers and users, Apologies, this post is rather long, but it actually consists of two posts, a general user questions, and then a feature request or question how we could implement some feature together. Opusmodus provides nce tools for expressing and processing harmonic information. I would like to use that to "quantise" some given OMN expressing into a harmonic progression. More specifically, I have a harmonic progression (for now created by hand) and as a starting point a random melody. The melody should use pitches of the harmonic progression. Below is a first attempt at this. (setf simple-cadence '((c4 maj) (f4 m) (f4 m) (g4 maj) (c4 maj))) (…

Hi, here's a simple example of my use of BINARY-RHYTHM function inspired by the Janusz's doc examples for generating a full movement of a chamber symphonie. The BINARY-RHYTHM function use FIBONACCI stuff and variant optional keyword: (init-seed 839201883) (setf fib1 (fibonacci 4 64)) (setf fib2 (fibonacci 21 81)) (setf fib3 (fibonacci 14 74)) (setf fib4 (fibonacci 32 92)) (setf fib5 (fibonacci 1 61)) (setf rhstruct (rnd-sample 8 '(4 8 16 32 64))) (setf bval '(h h q q e e s s s e s e q e h q h h)) (setf len1 (binary-rhythm rhstruct fib1 bval :type 2 :variant '?)) …

Hi Stephane Based on your example i tried to apply a transposition list based on your functions but with an exotic scale Ex ;; degree selection (setf degr '(1 4 2 5 1 6 4 2 5)) ;; remove 1 from each degree for use as transposition ;; inside tonality for diatonic transposition (setf trsp (mapcar (lambda(x) (- x 1)) degr)) ;;; some material (setf arps1 (gen-repeat (length degr) '((s c4 e4 g4 c5 e5 g5 c6 g5 e5 c5 g4 e4)))) ;; apply diatonic transposition (inside tonality) (setf arps.map (tonality-map '(hyojo :root c4) (pitch-transpose …

Hi, I am looking for some functions that support chord progressions. For example, I would like to get the chords in the popular "I-IV-V" sequence in C Major scale. Is there built-in support for such standard progressions in the keys of common scales? Regards, Rangarajan

Hello! Is there a way to do a simple conversion from integer (representing scale degree) to pitch (via a Tonality)? map-to-tonality assumes that the integer input is a chromatic pitch class. Thank you! Elliot

Here is a function that converts hertz to midi: (defun hertz-to-midi (frequency) "Gets the corresponding MIDI value from a Hertz frequency" (round ;; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Tuning_Standard#Frequency_values ;; d = 69 + 12*log2(f/440Hz) (+ 69 (* 12 (log (/ frequency 440) 2))))) This allows two more useful functions to be made: (defun hertz-to-integer (frequency) "Gets the corresponding pitch integer value from a Hertz frequency" (let ((*standard-output* (make-broadcast-stream))) ; Override function prints (midi-to-integer (hertz-to-midi frequency)))) (defun hertz-to-pitch (frequency) …

Hi, I want an effect like when bells ringing or two mechanical metronomes are started together- the are together (rhythmical unison) than getting out of phase than coming together again.. There are many pieces who make use of such a technique: Ligetis Piece for 100 Metronomes, Phase Music by Steve Reich, many Conlon Nancarrow Pieces.. How can these little ongoing displacements be programmed in OM? thanks, ole

PITCH-ROTATE (flatten-sublist (gen-loop 12 (pitch-rotate (rnd-sample 12 (gen-integer -6 6)) '((d4fs4a4 a4e5c5a4))) :seed 245)) => ((d3fs3a3 e4c4a3a4) (d5fs5a5 a4a5e6c6) (e4c4a3a4 fs3a3d4) (a3d4fs4 a3a4e5c5) (e4c4a3a4 fs3a3d4) (e4c4a3a4 fs3a3d4) (d5fs5a5 a4a5e6c6) (c5a4a5e6 d5fs5a5) (d3fs3a3 e4c4a3a4) (a4e5c5a4 fs4a4d5) (a3a4e5c5 d4fs4a4) (e4c4a3a4 fs3a3d4)) GEN-CHORD2 (gen-chord2 12 '(4 3) '(c4 cs4 e4 eb4 b4 fs4 gs4 a4 bb4 d4 f4 g4) :offset '(2 3 -2) …