27 Jan
2010
27 Jan
'10
10:50 a.m.
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Folderol wrote:
Hmmm,
Getting identical note and velocity is going to be quite common on
sequencer generated stuff, so I would have thought this was rather
undesirable. While there have been odd occasions when I've wished I
could reliably re-create a pseudo random sequence, in general I would
not want repeated identically created notes to sound exactly the same.
Agreed... but apparently cal /does/ want that. :-)
Related example: THX's "Deep Note" was composed using a
PRNG. Every performance was different. The "favorite"
performance is the one you hear in theaters (with the
descending overtones at the end). At one point, the
recording was lost -- and there was no way to recreate
it.[1] If they had saved the seeds to the PRNG's, they could
have recreated the performance (even with rand()).
-gabriel
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Note
Sorry, can't find a reference ATM for the story about
losing the master recording.