I truly love Opusmodus. In this new series of videos, I'm trying to show why.

This (basic) example show how Opusmodus could be used to generate and experiment with orchestral sections.

 

 

it's really very interesting!

the sound is really not great, you should record your internal audio output rather than your speaker output...

It was my internal audio output but the reverb was too wide...

 

S.

On 5/13/2023 at 9:25 PM, Cliff said:

Dear @Stephane Boussuge, thx great workflow. Can I also programmatically store the last score as MIDI rather storing opmo files?. I guess this would be great for DAW based music generation workflow.

 

Hello Cliff,

yes naturally, you can export as midi file:

 

(compile-score *last-score* :output :midi  
               :file "TempScores/section.mid" )

 

SB.

Hi Stephane - thanks for another great tutorial!

 

Stephane, you change instrumentation by uncommenting the desired instrumentation in the variable *orchestrations*. I can't see where and how *orchestrations* gets used in the code. I guess this means there are other files involved (somehow) in the demo, and that we're waiting until the video pack is released to learn and use this utility, right? If so, I'm happy to wait. If I'm missing something, I would like to ask about that because the only way I can figure out to audition different instrumentation while lived coding involves cumbersome commenting/uncommenting.

Hi,

 

the orchestration come from other files indeed. I'm working on the scripting of the videos actually.

 

Best

 

Stéphane

 

So clear and well done, Stephane!  Bravo for this!!

By the way, is there a code example associated with this discussion?

Hi Robert,

the code showed here is the code given with full explanation in this CPW course:

 

Designing generative orchestral templates with Opusmodus (level 2) - Composer Workshop

WWW.COMPOSERWORKSHOP.COM

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Welcome to the course on "Designing Generative Orchestral Templates with Opusmodus"! In this course, we will explore the fascinating world of computer-assisted composition, specifically focusing on the powerful music composition environment known as Opusmodus. Opusmodus is a cutting-edge software tool that empowers composers, music theorists, and researchers to create...

 

Thank you, Stephane, this is great.  I will subscribe to this as well.