resources for mpe sound design
These are some things to help you out if you’re following my MPE Sound Design tutorials on youtube. This zip contains patches, wavetables, and impulse responses. It will be updated with new items so it is always up to date with the videos. As of episode 4, the file is too big for a squarespace upload, so the “With Samples” download is a dropbox link. You don’t need to sign in, just click away the prompts. I’m sorry for the inconvenience.
thoughtFormMicrotuner 0.2
by thoughtForm and William Bajzek
The thoughtFormMicrotuner is a Max For Live patch created to facilitate microtunings on the LinnStrument or other MPE controller. Specifically it addresses the problem of achieving accurate pitch bends for unequal scale divisions as found in just intonation tunings. Because it uses pitch bend to retune the intervals (and because it’s made to be used with MPE-unfriendly Ableton Live), it works monophonically. Polyphony can be achieved by using multiple instances, each with its own MIDI channel, and the controller set to Channel-Per-Note or Channel-Per-Row.
The patch can also be used generally to microtune any monosynth that doesn’t natively support alternate tunings.
Enter a decimal note value for each key (1.00 = 100 cents) and make sure the pitch bend range matches that of your controller and sound source.
In action:
Serum “Ghost Ocarina” Preset for MPE Controllers
I had some questions about this sound in a recent video. The topic of MPE sound design in Serum is one that appears to be underserved (at least on Youtube) so I’m planning to address that with some videos in the future. In the meantime I thought I’d put this sound here for people to take a look at.
In action:
.TUN FILE FOR CIRCLE OF SEVENTHS TUNING (25-NOTE VERSION)
MAX FOR LIVE RANDOM ARPEGGIATOR
Linnstrument demo for Ableton Drift
project zip (requires Ableton Live 11.3 +)