I'm working on a patch in Pure Data which uses an 8 number scale to decide which chords can be played. E.g. if a chord uses a note that is not in the scale, re-roll. Obviously this isn't the most musical soultion as we usually expect accidentals and such, but here we are looking at a primitive method for procedural music. Here is the problem patch:
As soon as I attempt to use a new scale, pure data freezes and requires an immediate restart.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Liam
It would be massively more efficient and easier to use an object like [coll] or [textfile] to store your chord patterns. Instead of having each pattern in a message object, which you then need to feed individually through all of the processing, you would just have one object, and feed your random number generator into it, which will then spit out the corresponding code. something like this
there you have it. A spaghetti mess of wires and boxes reduced to 11 objects and 11 cables. There are several other ways to accomplish similar things, but this was the first to come to mind. If this one works for your purpose, cool, or else lemme know and I'll show you other ways.
