Koshdukai's Music(al) Reason(ing)

I've had the opportunity to work on a very interesting and exciting project for a couple of months, so my current ReFill project will suffer a bigger delay than I was expecting. Nonetheless, I'll try to release some free stuff 'till the final release of it :) Any comments and suggestions about the ReGRAINZeR demo file are welcome, even if I don't comment back, I read'em all! :)

I've decided to release a little demo .RPS file with the latest version of ReGRAINZeR and wait a while to see what happens :) About this little demo: It uses 2 demo units. One applied to a drum REX dual loop Combinator, and the other to a guitar REX also dual loop Combinator. Both units are using the C1 to B1 MIDI keyboard octave keys. Key mappings are shown on the help screen, on the right of the device. On that screen, P stands for Pitch Wheel, M for Mod.Wheel and R1 for Rotary 1. Gate effect (stutter) is activated by pressing D1# or through Aftertouch, if that option is turned on. Speed is controlled by the Mod.Wheel. External Control CV Output is not implemented on V.0.6.x After listening to the example performance made with both units, you can (should) mute or delete the performance clips and play a bit with each of the ReGRAINZeR demo units. You could also copy any devices+tracks of a song of yours and paste it within this demo song, and after some rack rewiring at the back, ...

...and more on the way :) I'm releasing some Remote Codec packs for the M-Audio MidAir MIDI Wireless Keyboard series and two other more obscure keyboards I own. So here are the links: Trust (mini) MIDI Keyboard Remote Codec (this one will support the infinite 'Program Change' Value-to-Delta algorithm, because this little keyboard does something quite useful: as soon as 'Program Change' reaches 128 it restarts at 1 again. It also does the reverse of course, when reaching 1, if 'PROG -' is pressed again, it jumps to 128. This allows me to make it truly endless to the "eyes" of Reason, no matter at what value the keyboard is, it will always return a +1 or -1 delta to Reason. This is why I made Patch selection the default control for this one) QuickShot MIDI Composer Remote Codec (just a simple generic codec, with correct name, thumbnail picture and 'Data Entry Fader' set to control every device 'Master Volume') M-...

...and more on the way :) I'm releasing some Remote Codec packs for the M-Audio MidAir MIDI Wireless Keyboard series and two other more obscure keyboards I own. So here are the links: Trust (mini) MIDI Keyboard Remote Codec (this one will support the infinite 'Program Change' Value-to-Delta algorithm, because this little keyboard does something quite useful: as soon as 'Program Change' reaches 128 it restarts at 1 again. It also does the reverse of course, when reaching 1, if 'PROG -' is pressed again, it jumps to 128. This allows me to make it truly endless to the "eyes" of Reason, no matter at what value the keyboard is, it will always return a +1 or -1 delta to Reason. This is why I made Patch selection the default control for this one) QuickShot MIDI Composer Remote Codec (just a simple generic codec, with correct name, thumbnail picture and 'Data Entry Fader' set to control every device 'Master Volume') M-...

Last night I had a go at trying to make a continuous Value-type control like Program Change be interpreted by Reason as a Delta-type control, so it could be used with Remote's Additional Overrides "Target Track (Delta)", "Select Patch for Target Device (Delta)" and "Select Keyboard Shortcut Variation (Delta)". And it works great :D !!! This is no "Absolute" substitute unfortunately but it gets the job done. As an example, if you have your controller's Program Change set at 35 and go to Reason's menu "Options", "Additional Remote Overrides" and set the "Target Track (Delta)" to "Program Change" (don't forget that this only works with my custom Remote codecs right now), then each increment or decrement on Program Change will translate as a +1 or -1 delta to Reason. So, if you have the 1st track selected and go from 35 to Program Change 34, it'll generate a -1 delta hence doing nothing i...

It's so cool to receive emails like these ^^ Anyway, the story behind this is really simple. I own a M-Audio Axiom 61 and a MidAir 25 and two more generic (and much simpler) MIDI keyboards. The default Remote settings of the Axiom has some awkward choices and even bugs (as an example, there's a collision between the reMIX and the Select Track buttons), so I had to make my own custom version of those settings. I also made a version to support my M-Audio MidAir 25 (and the MidAir 37 too, since it looked fairly simple to support, even without owning one to test). ...and just because it's there, I also added the "Program Change" as another possible value-type control to be used. One never has too many controls :D My intention was to make these available for free, to anyone in need of them , but then I thought it would be a good idea to check the Remote SDK first and see if I was missing any cool features unknown to me. So, I applied to be a " Remote™ Codec Deve...

While checking some LIMS'09 videos at SonicState I just bumped into another 3 examples of live loop use (like the LiveLoopBox combinator): and and another one