something new

There’s an extra tool I want to build for GTZ Hydra. Con­tin­u­ing the gui­tar anal­o­gy, it would rep­re­sent the abil­i­ty to, giv­en a chord, pluck indi­vid­ual strings. There would be a per­cent­age slid­er, and the util­i­ty would look at the notes cur­rent­ly play­ing, divide them up equal­ly in an array, and find you the note clos­est to that posi­tion. This would allow you to record pat­terns that are slight­ly more melod­ic (which still trans­form to accom­mo­date the whims of the performer).

Think­ing about the lim­its of this approach, I start­ed con­tem­plat­ing a pure­ly melod­ic instru­ment that ties into this sys­tem. Some­thing a lit­tle more flu­id; less restric­tive than what I’ve got going. This notion con­sumed my brain, and a week lat­er, I’ve got some­thing fair­ly close to a proof-of-con­cept (of a pre­lim­i­nary first step). It’s not per­fect, but I’m declar­ing this mile­stone achieved.

With­out giv­ing any­thing away, it looks a lit­tle some­thin’ like this:

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