Yippee! I Finished The Book …

… well, I´ve finished writing. I have to find the typing mistakes now, do some lay-out work (at least a bit of) and think of some kind of marketing.

But let me show you the content at least:

 

Chapter 0: About This Course And Some Words About

What Generative Music Is 6

 

Chapter 1: Real Randomness vs. Complex Cycles (and the combination of both) 10

   Chapter 1.1: LFOs 10

   Chapter 1.2: Other Devices Generating Regular Cycles 59

      Chapter 1.2.1: Looping Envelopes 59

      Chapter 1.2.2: Sequencers 64

      Chapter 1.2.3: Shift Registers With Feedback 65

      Chapter 1.2.4: Sequential Switches 70

      Chapter 1.2.5: The Turing Machine – Part 1 74

      Chapter 1.2.6: Samples and Recordings 77

   Chapter 1.3: Randomness, Probability and Stochastic 79

      Chapter 1.3.1: Some Basic Definitions 79

      Chapter 1.3.2: Sample & Hold 84

      Chapter 1.3.3: A Short Glimpse at the Turing Machine And at Shift Registers Again 92

      Chapter 1.3.4: Perfect Pseudo Randomness: Gray Code Modules 93

      Chapter 1.3.5: Imperfect Pseudo Randomness: Euclidean Sequencers 99

      Chapter 1.3.6: Random Trigger (Percussion) Sequencers with Different Amounts of Randomness 102

      Chapter 1.3.7: Stochastic Sequencers 105

      Chapter 1.3.8: Probability Gates (Random Clocked Gates) 108

      Chapter 1.3.9: Bernoulli Gates 110

 

Chapter 2: What to Modulate And to Trigger 115

   Chapter 2.1: Pitch 116

   Chapter 2.2: Timbre 125

      Chapter 2.2.1: Filter 125

      Chapter 2.2.2: Shapers 127

      Chapter 2.2.3: Partials (additive) 130

      Chapter 2.2.4: FM/PM 131

   Chapter 2.3: Voices 134

   Chapter 2.4: Rhythm 137

   Chapter 2.5: Effects 147

   Chapter 2.6: Envelopes 149

   Chapter 2.7: Quantizers 153

   Chapter 2.8: Grains 155

   Chapter 2.9: Sample (Player) 159

   Chapter 2.10: Slew Limiter 160

   Chapter 2.11: Comparators 161

   Chapter 2:12: Pitch Shifter 163

 

Chapter 3: Compositional Aspects of Generative Music 165

   Chapter 3.1: General Thoughts, Strategies And Basic Compositional Decisions 166

   Chapter 3.2: Basic Compositional Techniques 177

      Chapter 3.2.1: Contrasting 178

      Chapter 3.2.2: Repeating, Modifying and Inverting Relations 180

      Chapter 3.2.3: Basic but Exclusively Generative Techniques 183

   Chapter 3.3: Specific Compositional Techniques 190

      Chapter 3.3.1: Pitch Dependency 190

      Chapter 3.3.2: Rhythm 192

      Chapter 3.3.3: Tension and Layers 195

   Chapter 3.4: Certain Patch Techniques And Examples 197

      Chapter 3.4.1: Switching Voices and Larger Parts of the Patch 197

      Chapter 3.4.2: Sculpture Randomness and Setting Borders 200

      Chapter 3.4.3: Jumping between certain BPM and Inverting Pitch Lines 200

      Chapter 3.4.4: Mixing Stable and Random Elements 205

 

Chapter 4: Some Building Blocks of Generative Patching 207

   Chapter 4.1: The Instrumentation of Envelopes 207

   Chapter 4.2: 5 Faces of Randomness 217

   Chapter 4.3: Random Harmonies 227

 

Chapter 5: Certain Modules with Generative Potential 233

   Chapter 5.1: The Turing Machine 235

   Chapter 5.2: Befaco´s “Rampage” 241

   Chapter 5.3: Instruo “Céis” 247

   Chapter 5.4: Mutable Instruments “Stages” 250

   Chapter 5.5: Mutable Instruments “Grids” 255

   Chapter 5.6: Intruo “tágh” 259

   Chapter 5.7: Mutable Instruments “Marbles” 262

   Chapter 5.8: Instruo “harmonàig” 276

   Chapter 5.9: 4ms “Spectral Multiband Resonator” 285

   Chapter 5.10: Mutable Instruments “Clouds” 290

 

Epilogue 294

Appendix A: Feedback Graphs (only 1 LFO) 299

Appendix B: Note Frequencies 316

Appendix C: “Rampage” Block Diagram 319

Appendix D: Your Personal Advantage 320

Appendix E: Copyright 322

Appendix F: Contact and Social Media 323

 

Publishing day is going to be 10 August, but you can order it already. Just click the „Donate“ button on top of this page, donate $ 24.50 and write EBOOK GENERATIVE or something like that. I ĺl send you the book including all 108 videos (total length more than 14 hours), 118 patch examples and 202 graphics some days before the official publishing day. And you´ll get all the extras and add-ons, which I´m going to give away to everybody, who buys the book on publishing day (10 August) as well.

Enjoy your day!

Rolf