Something new? ... Midi Channel Phase Mixer... A Mozaic Script

horsetrainer

I'm guessing what this Script accomplishes is a first for iOS (please correct me if I'm wrong).

This Mozaic script was written by @wim , based on an idea I posted on the Mozaic Script Request Thread.

Link:
https://patchstorage.com/midi-channel-phase-mixer/

Requires the Mozaic App by Bram Bos.
http://ruismaker.com/mozaic/

Do you like to create sounds by mixing different synths in AUM? This script adds a whole new dimension to that concept….

The principle of Midi Channel Phase Mixing is pretty straight forward…. It allows you to play one keyboard, and provides the ability to have each note you play trigger multiple synths individually, at selectable delay intervals, along a timeline. It’s sort of like a sequencer that plays the same note on several synths at different times, all triggered by pressing and holding down one key.

It works by loading the Phase Mixing script and a bunch of AUv3 synths in AUM, then using the Midi channel filter in AUM to set a different Midi input channel for each of your loaded synths.

In the Phase mixer, you choose the Midi Channel that will control each individual synth. Then set a time delay for each synth to control the amount of “time” from when you strike and hold down a key, until the moment when the synth will receive its Note-On Midi message.

With this “App”, you can choose one synth that will play immediately when pressing a key. The next synth can sound a few milliseconds later. Then you could program the Phase Mixer to bring a third synth into the mix after one second, and a forth synth at one and a half seconds.

You can make your synths trigger at any time intervals you’d like. Like instruments in a orchestra or voices in a choir, building up a movement of sounds by orderly combining different parts over time.

Imagine taking a percussion sound that you like on one synth (or App), then choose a second percussion sound in another App with an entirely different “character”. Let the first sound act as a “strike sound”, then program the Phase Mixer to play the second sound a number of millisecond later. The result will be like a delay, but a delay like no other, because the second “delayed sound” is from an independent sound source.

Phase mixing is also really good for making “BIG” pad sounds that build up over time. Choose a few synths that have patches you’d like to Phase mix. Assign one or two synths to play immediately with no delay. Let the first synths on the timeline provide the “Attack” sound for your mix. Then go into the ADSR sections of the synths you want to bring in later, and soften the Attacks for those sounds. Now when you play a note or a chord, you will hear your sound build up over time as each subsequent synth cues into the mix, creating an rising wave of evolving soundscape.

If you like creating ambient types of music, Phase mixing may be just the thing for you.

Like to make very unique sounds for sampling, think of what Phase mixing may have to offer.

Add effects to some of the synths in your Phase mixes. The possibilities for sound creation are virtually endless.

The wonderful thing about Phase mixing. Is it lets you build mixes with the synths you have. It is in essence a type of modular synthesis, because it lets you use the synths you own as building blocks for creating new kinds of sounds.

Phase mixing is also similar to wavetable synthesis is some ways, but not entirely the same.

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This version of Phase Mixer is awesome as it is... But it’s also something of a “proof of concept” design.

Midi Channel Phase Mixing might benefit from a couple more parameters beings added.

Such as. An additional delay setting to control the length of time any individual synth will remain “on”. This would let sound designers bring different synths both into and out of the mix at different stages in the timeline (a bit like wavetable). Though, with creative patch editing of individual synth ADSR sustain and release levels, in and out of mix effects are currently achievable to a degree.

Another aspect that Wim and I have discussed… Is adding an ability to strike a key quickly, release it, and let a number of synths in the timeline auto-trigger according to a third adjustable timing setting. This would allow for fast playing of notes to trigger a number of sequential synths on each note, without the need to hold down the key. But it would also allow for long key holds to trigger additional synths, to provide for complex creative effects.

My initial intent was to include some videos to demonstrate Midi Channel Phase Mixing with this post. Though I’m still not set up for making videos.

Perhaps any who have video or sound sharing abilities, who try the Phase Mixer, and come up with some really cool sounds. Might share what they’ve made here to demonstrate the range of sounds that Midi Channel Phase Mixing is capable of.

cuezaireekaa

I'm in.

brambos

That sounds like an amazing concept!