rosea grammostola wrote:
Dunno if this is a stupid question or not, and
just for orientation...
Is it possible to make a sort of 'Ableton Live like setup' with audio
synthesis languages like supercollider or pd?
I'm not really familiar with AL, but I've build a quite elaborate
setup with chuck. It's a bit in-between-version at the moment, since
I'm rewriting some parts.
It let's you do some really hip things (IMHO), like control the
meta-musical parameters like length-of-notes, atonality, height, stuff
like that, provided you build your patterns accordingly.
The only, but quite big (read huge, as in show stopper) problem is
that chuck is not really performing that well. I'm almost at the edge
of what is possible with chuck on my dual core 2.4Ghz laptop. I seem
to be the only chuck user needing more speed, so I kinda gave up on
the whole thing. I'm developing it further as I need, and waiting for
other stuff (like my DAW of choise, renoise) to be ready to live
performances.
You're more than welcome to have a look, if you'd like...
NB: Here's a mobile phone (audio from the house PA) recording of my
setup at work:
http://virb.com/atte/videos/3109315
Everything except the melodica and the bass is chuck. The vocals are
processed through chuck too.
Atte,
Thanks for your generous offer. It looks it's cool stuff indeed. But
I think I'd rather search for an supercollider solution atm.
Or just using non-sequencer with Ardour and loop Ardour via OSC messages
or something, cause it seems to be impossible to loop Ardour with Jack
Transport. But then I have to find out how that works with OSC. I don't
know anything about it yet.
Regards,
\r