EWOLVERINE by Henry Dalcke.pd

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

Some depictions of what Ewolverine does to your synthesizers:

EWOLVERINE v.7.1 beta by Henry Dalcke 6.pd

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

EWOLVERINE 7.2 by Henry Dalcke.pd

...again some adjustments

@elden Again me, asking for either a sound demo or even better recording a session (screengrab via OBS for example). Your user doesn't exist anymore on soundcloud. Would love to see this patch in action!

Hi, you're right. I'll record something for you, soon.

Here's a video. Not the best quality, but you'll get the essence.
Ewolverine works like a Biomorphs-program with sounds. It generates random presets and interpolates between selected individual ones in a dominant-recessive or intermidiate way.

@elden Thank you sir! Now I understand, so you can drive the synth by using a note loop (in your video quite short C3) and Ewolverine is then mapped to CC for this synth.

I'll try it soon.
Cheers

Exactly, but you don't have to create a loop, if you rout a keyboard into your synth. You just have to make sure, that the synth only gets note events from your keyboard - not the CCs, as those are coming from Ewolverine.
You can also control Ewolverine with your keyboard. Just scroll to the right to read the MIDI implementation chart.

I noticed that breeding MIDI CC# parameter values under 10 is very difficult as minimal values tend to blend back into the population, but minimal values are important for envelope parameters like attack and decay. I'll have to patch an option to weigh the randomization of parameter values for each CC# so they tend to generate smaller numbers.
And a much bigger population of at least 12 sounds would be helpful. Will take a while...