I've been working on something really glitchy and digital-sounding, but I got sick of hearing it, so I made a cheesy jazz version. I used obiwannabe's jazz drum patch (modified slightly), a walking bassline generator I programmed, and the same walking bassline generator modified a bit for the vibraphone (which is really samples of a Mellotron because I was too lazy to find good vibraphone samples or finish my banded waveguide percussion patch).

That's goddamn beautiful, ichibod!

I couldn't have a peak at the code could? Only for thievery purposes, I promies!

Thanks! Sure, you can see the walking note generator, but I have to clean it up first to make it more intelligible/less embarrassing. Although who knows how intelligible it will be, because I could barely understand it myself by the time I was done building it.

Here's the bassline generator. It uses Pd-extended.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/walkingbassline.pd

Wow man, that's how band in a box should sound like! That really sounds like the real thing to my ears (but then might ears might not be qualified tenough to do such a dangereous comparison)...

I'm very curious to have a little look at that basslinegenerator as well...

D.

Thanks! Yeah, my (perverted) instinct is to use Pd like it's a Linux version of Songsmith to the quadrillionth power.

yes we are on the same page. I've had some laughable efforts on my own, the only seemingly coherent part of it was obi's jazzdrumsamplebox. Now there is a serious contender for walking bass.

We're going to blow songsmith out of the pond.

yeah perfect synergy with the obi drums for sure. amazing. wow.

Where does the bass sound come from? Is that synthesis or samples?

Everything is samples. The drums are probably from http://www.sampleswap.org/ and the bass is edited from http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.doublebass.html.

Wow thanks ichabod... That's a very nice collection of classical samples...

can't find the [sort], whatsit do? in goes a list, bang out comes a sorted list?

Yeah, it's part of Zexy. I also used [urn] somewhere to get different permutations of [expr] results each time.

I think the last one had some execution order problems, so here's a fixed version (hopefully).

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/walkingbassline.pd