[LAU] [sc-users] shepard scale generator in supercollider

[andy baxter]

On 30/10/10 21:46, andy baxter wrote:
> hi,
>
> I've just been working on some supercollider code to automatically 
> generate notes in a shepard scale from any incoming midi events. I 
> thought I would post the code and a sample of how it sounds in case 
> anyone else finds it useful.
>
> The way it works is you send supercollider a stream of midi events 
> through its midi port, and the program converts these into outgoing 
> midi events which represent notes in a shepard scale. If you play a 
> rising scale on a keyboard, the notes will come out as rising shepard 
> scale notes; similarly for a falling scale. It works best if you feed 
> it into a pure sine wave generator, but you get some interesting 
> effects with other synths.
>
> The code and the sample mp3 are here:
>
> http://www.ganglion.me/media/
>
> Any comments on the code are welcome. (I'm still fairly new to 
> supercollider :) ).
>
> hope someone finds this useful,

P.S. if you try out the code, bear in mind that you need to set the 
polyphony quite high on the synth you are using to play the notes, as 
each incoming note generates 11 outgoing notes at different velocities.