help subpatch included!

With Ewolverine you can genetically breed sounds, beats, melodies etc. out of your vst's or hardware midi gear.
Imagine a synthesizer that span's a multidimensional space that contains parameter combinations resulting in sounds.
Ewolverine helps you, via listening back and interpolating between random sounds of your synth, to automatically adjust the synthesizer's paramters to result in a sound that fits your needs.
To do so, it uses a genetic algorithm to interbreed parameters according to the Mendelian Laws Of Inheritance.
You cannot change a given synthesizer - you can only evolve it's parameters. That's called Micro-Evolution. Darwin's thoughts regarding Macro-Evolution would equal a change of the whole synthezier, that you can't change genetically, because you cannot dock Ewolverine's genetic algorithm to the program code of the synth itself (which had to be programmed, by the way). Ewolverine doesn't prove Evolution, like some people already euphoricly wanted to conclude on the fair I firstly presented it. It the more proves that an intelligence is needed to program a genetic algorithm and a synthesizer to use it on.
This program can really startle your philosophically trained mind, I tell you!
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much fun, anyway!

For more information, download the whole package including some more information and additional softwares to get ready to use it here:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-9187496/EWOLVERINE-all-inclusive.zip.html

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Thanks for responding! I have to confess that I haven't gotten a single peep out of this so far, despite having tried several times. (I haven't tried a midi interface yet though). I would really like to get it working though, as the concept seems so cool. Is there any chance you could do a video guide or something to help us work it out?

Hint:
If you have assigned any volume parameter of a synth to Ewolverine, it will be influenced by the genetic algotithm and could be set to zero decibels. That is not a bad thing - the algorithm will blend the volume in again.
What you need to do in this case is to find an individual sound using the Modwheel and the keys c,d,e,f that has a louder volume, regardless of its timbre, and select it as sound A using the coupler. Then you randomise the sound set B using the populator and morph the formerly selected sound A into it using the modwheel and the keys c,d,e,f. You'll get new morphed sounds from wich you can evolve further.

Let me know if you get any results!

-added MIDI CC#123-note-off-message-blocker
-holding the Sound-Keys while turning the modwheel allows for real time morphing without switching a toggle first
(with still shivering parameter values for now, but I'm working on this)
-revised MIDI implementation once again for faster usage

EWOLVERINE v.5.2 by Henry Dalcke.pd

planned features:
-pattern storage for SPLICER user presets
-bigger population of random sounds to combine
-automatic target driven selection mechanism that records and analyses your synth's output after adjusting MIDI parameters and compares the resulting sounds based on a target sample you load into Ewolverine
-VST-wrapper-Version that can load a synth, connect to all parameters without being limited to 128 by MIDI and start evolving from factory presets instead of purely random sounds

Cheers

Sorry for my bad pronounciation - I've never been to any english speaking country...no practice!

• added "Fast Seed" Bang that makes it extremely easy to use Ewolverine with default settings (now you can use Ewolverine with the pitch wheel and the keys C,D,E,F,G only)EWOLVERINE v.5.3 by Henry Dalcke.pd

• added advanced functionality to the Splicer that allows you to randomize custom sections of parameters, if you want to evolve only some parts of your synthesizer (eg envelopes)
• added MIDI implementation for custom parameter-section randomizer
• tidied up the optical appearance
• updated the Help-subpatch
  EWOLVERINE v.5.5 by Henry Dalcke.pd

Plans:

• automatic target driven selection mechanism that listens to the audio output of your instruments and decides which sounds are the closest to a target sample sound you feed Ewolverine with
• storage for user SPLICER pattern
• 4 more random sounds per set (A/B) to select from
• discontinuous MIDI messaging interrupted by assignment switching CC events
• possibility to interpolate between new random population sounds to smoothly re-direct the modwheel-morphing path while morphing

• added TARGET DRIVE (you need [timbreID] !)
• changed designations of control assemblies to fit better with their functionality
• improved GUI functions for mouse control
• added display that shows the distance of evolved sounds to the target sample

Now you can use Ewolverine to re-synthesize a sample with any synth you own. Of course not every synth is able to convincingly synthesize any sound, but you can now get as close as possible with it. Just loop back the audio of your DAW into PureData using a virtual audio cable and send MIDI from PureData to your DAW using a virtual MIDI cable and let Ewolverine do the rest!
The re-synthesizing of samples using Ewolverine can take VERY long and I don't guarantee you that it works good, but as it is a free patch, see it as a Bonus!
EWOLVERINE v.6.2 by Henry Dalcke.pd

BEST POSSIBLE BREEDING FUNCTIONALITY NOW ENSURED!

Plans:

• storage for user SPLICER pattern
• 4 more random sounds per set (A/B) to select from (to save time)
• discontinuous MIDI messaging interrupted by assignment switching CC events to enable breeding especially for FMheaven VST
• possibility to interpolate between new random population sounds to smoothly re-direct the modwheel-morphing path while morphing

• added fundamental frequency analysis to the target drive
• increased analysis resolution extremely
  EWOLVERINE v.6.3 by Henry Dalcke.pd

• added automatic loosening of minimum fitness limit for the case that a population of sounds gets stuck in a local maximum in the fitness landscape (really nerdy jabbering, but trust me, it's useful ^^)
• added automatic "jumping" out of local maximums after a certain number of fruitless climbing-trials

EWOLVERINE v.7 by Henry Dalcke.pd

plans:
• bugfix: prevent a newly audible sound from being selected after manually stopping the target drive
• simulated annealing in target drive mode: span "temperature" value onto fitnesslandscape and decrease step length (modwheel) and probability value in the splice-pattern-generator the closer the fitness gets to optimal fitness value
• interactive mode: automatic narrowing of the range of generated parameter values around a mean value that's derived from the repeated selection of similar values of individual parameters throughout the generations (increases the number of similar sounds per generation that are located around a certain coordinate in parameter space; increases the likelihood of the generation of the desired sound in a smaller amount of time)
• stop-condition for automatic stopping of target drive
• make default settings for modwheel-position, splice-pattern-generator's probability, anti-stuck and allowed minimum fitness value in target drive adjustable from GUI
• adjustable MIDI output message blocker (useful for instruments with a fixed MIDI implementation, for instance: If you want to breed a bass drum in a drum synth with multiple instruments, you may not want to ruin the parameter adjustments of the snare drum meanwhile you're selecting for good bass drums)
• storage for self-created splicer patterns (maybe in connection to the MIDI output message blocker)
• low-value-weighted probability for the generation of MIDI-CC-values in new populations; switchable per MIDI-CC either manually or randomly (increases the probability for the generation of short attack and decay values in synth's envelopes)
• bigger populations for each sound-set: 4 more random sounds per set (A/B) to select from
• discontinuous MIDI messaging interrupted by assignment switching CC events (special build for FM-Heaven) - low priority
• possibility to interpolate between new random population's sounds to smoothly re-direct the modwheel-morphing path while morphing
• selection-history recorder that one can use to re-load the selected sounds of each past generation
• a visualizer that generates a "tree of life" from directions (keys C,D,E,F) and steplengths (modwheel) of formerly selected individuals and their respective distances to their parent sounds

...changed some default settings of the Target Drive and corrected the Help-subpatch a little...

...again some adjustments

I'll try it soon.
Cheers