Meander sends both melody and arp notes and gates out on the same monophonic ports. When arp is disabled, only the melody notes should be coming out with gates. As far as I can tell, under Windows, Meander is not outputting arp notes when arp is disabled. I usually put an Impromptu FourView on the output to see what is coming out. Internally, Meander generates almost all parts even if that part is disabled but it does not send out the disabled parts’ notes. This allows things like melody and bass being dependent on harmony chords, even when the harmony part is disabled. Likewise, the the arp is dependendent on the computed melody, even if melody part is disabled.
I think you will see if you connect a FourView at slow tempo that the melody/arp outport only shows the melody note if the arp is disabled. Disable the melody and arp if you do not want melody or arp coming out.
Sorry, was indeed me being an idiot. I had not looked above the line above the Arp Enable button and noticed the Melody Enable section at the top and of course that was where those extra notes/gates were coming from!
Meander is complex enough that even I sometimes get lost
I noticed that some of your toggles of buttons do not work correctly, or perhaps you have then intentionally working in the negative CV range such that they never trigger. Here is the method I use to toggle Meander button states.
In the chord example shown all gates would trigger at the same time so you could just create a poly gate by passing the same mono gate into a MERGE module multiple times.
I typically use Bogaudio ASSIGN to make Melody output audio and gate polyphonic. And I use the other modules mentioned here for the harmony chords, usually POLYMULT .
Purr Software’s Meander V2.0.28 is now in the library. There are only changes related to the harmony and melody octal radix musical degree sequencing features. These changes makes it easier to repeat a step note without changing the v/octalRadix octave. The following applies to both harmony and melody octal radix sequencing. As a reminder, the harmony octal radix values represent the circle of 5ths diatonic degrees I-VII and their octaves. The melody octal radix values represent the scale intervals 1-7 (1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, etc) and their octaves.
Edit: The proper term for this format is volt/degree or volt/interval in which case relative degree and interval both refer to the current diatonic scale (key, mode and root).
These changes were made as a result of my work with the Stochastic Telegraph BASICally scripting module. I will post a harmony circle of 5ths computer keyboard performance patch example soon.
Here is a demo of the Meander improved melodic relative diatonic scale intervals (or degrees) being sequenced in a 1st-3rd-5th sequence in D Phrygian. In Meander V2.0.28, I improved the ability to repeat notes in a sequence. The net effect is that this creates a 1st-3rd-5th ostinato or repeating melodic motif. If you download the patch, be sure to click on the Master Reset button to get everything in sync for playing.
Edit: BTW, this piece is another one of my “Stay on I” harmonic progression pieces where all chords played are variants of the D chord.
Here is something totally different… This is a demo of using Stochastic Telegraph’s BASICally scripting module to create a live performance instrument with Meander. In this, you can press keys on the computer keyboard to control the Meander harmony part by diatonic circle of 5ths degrees steps.
The most useful keys are:
N up by a 5th
M up by 2 5ths
< up by 3 5ths
V up by a 4th
C up by 2 4ths
X up by 3 4ths
B repeat last note
SPACE return to “I” circle position
Here is a 15 minute piece composed and performed by my Meander module in a generative manner. It is in Am with a I-IV-V7 Markov chain harmonic progression and a 1st-3rd-5th-7th randomized sequenced melody by “degrees”. I feel the “improvisation” holds together fairly coherently throughout the whole piece, while doing a lot of variations via sequenced parameter automation.
Yes, but it was intentionally induced as distortion for an over-driven guitar sound. Sometimes I do it accidentally though when it may not be noticable in Rack but is very noticeable on SoundCloud.
Here is my last planned demo showing off the improved octal radix sequencing of melody by relative degrees or intervals. This differs from the previous by using the Meander Markov chain harmonic progression #47 which allows transitions between all of the the harmonic degrees (I-VII) but with transition probabilities corresponding to those most often used in traditional western diatonic music. The melody is “sequenced” in octal radix voltage correspond to the scale intervals of 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th.
I added some drums to this, using the Free OhmerPrems QuadPercs module LinnDrums voices, triggered only by the Meander 1ms clocked trigger outs.
