SYSTEMS
These plugins are helpful for various methods used in modern composition: series, PC sets, random music and shapes:
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SERIES
You can get the direct, inversion, retrograde and inversion’s retrograde with ‘12series_selpitch’ for 12-tone series. Let's take, for example, the series: C, Db, Eb, A, D, B, E, Bb, G, G#, F, F#:
Use the plugin 'Inverse’ to invert a given pattern.
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For whole rows (with all the transpositions), use ‘Trans12’. We'll take the following series:
C, D, Db, Eb, E, F#, G, A, G#, Bb, F, B and we'll have the rows in seconds.
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PC SETS
One can get PC sets choosing from ‘Prime’ – ‘Sequences’ the number of pitches and then, choosing the sets, for example 6-12 and 8-21.
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You also can generate chords from ‘Prime’ – ‘Chords’ on selected notes:
Or you can transpose an existing sequence with ‘Prime’ – ‘Transposers’.
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RANDOM
You can put a pattern in random order:
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Change randomly the pitch of the selected notes inside a chosen range or offering a list of notes:
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You can change the velocity:
You may also wish to change duration or to insert legato or staccato and pauses:
Add harmony with random notes or at random with chosen notes.
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Or change the octaves of the selected notes randomly.
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You can also simply insert random notes.
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Or you can insert random notes controlling the limits of the pitch, duration and harmony. You'll have here full control of the parameters but it's a tedious process to choose each and every limit.
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You can generate random non-repetitive dodecaphonic series with ‘Generate Random 12’ and then operate on them with the plugins presented in 'Series'.
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SHAPES
They say a good composition is one that looks good on paper. Linking music to visual, we have a few plugins that create shapes with music notes.
The simplest of all are ‘Line Oblique Horizontal Proxy’, ‘Line Oblique’ and ‘Line Oblique Horizontal Displacement’.
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‘Line Exponential’ gradually increases the spaces between notes.
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‘Line Broken’ alternates ascending and descending lines, being useful when you want to create long lines with equal intervals. You'll be asked to choose the length of each line.
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One can draw any shape using lines only but take a look to ready-made hairpins, vortexes, valleys and peaks.
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FLOW
There is a plugin that allows you to combine scales, intervallic patterns, series, shapes with random parameters in a flow. Here is an example that generates a short string of notes:
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Then, we'll have to work on the sketch - to add harmony, to change duration, to delete or to add notes as one can see on the other pages of this site.
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You cam also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33gqwHYoBHo&list=PL9kZCaVeUxOfRUeTIDEEI8fYPy7OdPZzI&index=5