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Function: vector-to-pitch


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Hi,

vector-to-pitch is a very useful function. I want something quite similar with but with a small change.

 

What it does now (from the doc):

(vector-to-pitch '(g3 g4) (gen-white-noise 10 :seed 89))(vector-to-pitch '(g3 g4) (gen-white-noise 10 :seed 89))

=> (ab3 g4 eb4 a3 b3 eb4 g4 g3 gb4 e4)

 

Instead of giving (low high) as the first argument, I would like to give, for example, a specific scale. Let us say that I want vector-to-pitch  to convert the generated white noise to pitches in Major Scale, with tonic of C4. Is this possible? 

 

- Rangarajan

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(tonality-map '(major) (vector-to-pitch '(g3 g4) (gen-white-noise 10 :seed 89)))
=> (a3 g4 d4 a3 b3 d4 g4 g3 g4 e4)

or

(harmonic-path '(major) (vector-to-pitch '(g3 g4) (gen-white-noise 10 :seed 89)))
=> (c3 d4 e4 f3 g3 a4 b4 c3 d4 e4)


 

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Thanks to suggestion by Janusz, I have been able to solve my requirement thus:

;; Returns a list of pitches from the given list, satisfying the supplied noise
;; pitch-list => arbitrary list of pitches
;; noise => Any noise

(defun noise-to-pitch-map (pitch-list noise)
  (mapcar #'(lambda (n) 
              (nth n pitch-list))
          (vector-round 0 (1- (length pitch-list)) noise)))

Examples:
(noise-to-pitch-map '(c4 d4 e4 f4) (gen-white-noise 10 :seed 89))
=> (c4 f4 e4 c4 d4 e4 f4 c4 f4 e4)

(noise-to-pitch-map '(c4 d4 e4 c5 d5) (gen-gaussian-noise 10 :seed 89))
=> (d5 d4 c4 e4 d4 e4 c4 d4 e4 d5)

(noise-to-pitch-map (expand-tonality '(c4 major)) (gen-pink-noise 10 :seed 89))
=> (c4 d4 d4 e4 e4 f4 g4 a4 b4 b4)

 

- Rangarajan

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