Been having some thoughts about alternate arrangements for how I currently perform my music to allow for more freedom. Henceforth I'll dub these speculative ideas SLMs (speculative live mechanisms) and treat them as an object to be linked to other ideas in a grander system of thought. The extra unhinged ones can be called USLMs!

I am toying with the idea of incorporating a pure data patch on a raspberry pi that will serve to replace the MIDI merge box, as well as provide potential SLMs via the USB MIDI IN port on MCL, and some kind of redirect to the MnM via MCL PORT 2. Control would come into the pi via USB MIDI from a MIDI controller, similar to my current system with the MiniLab.

Here are some random unorganised SLM ideas:

1. Pd song mode for MnM & MCL - PGM IN for both, handled separately so that pattern slots do not need to be aligned beforehand; which means no automatic PGM OUT from MCL to MnM unlike how I currently do things, which is very laborious. Instead, PGM is read from Pd in sequence from a list (txt), with varying control prescribed to the performer of when to stay or move on. Syntax of song mode data (SMD) may look like:

   a. MCL #1-128 / MnM #1-128 / Length: Steps (1-64) or Duration (00:00:00.000). e.g. 12,15,64 or 73,10,00:03:13.500 - perhaps with tempo markings.

2. Forced interrupts (FI) of MCL/MnM/MD can be used by queuing a pattern change via PGM message followed immediately by a Play message (still needs testing on MCL).

3. "Bent out of shape" / BOOs - Parameters gradually and/or randomly malformed to create continuous variation. Certain parameters and parameter macros will be relied on for the interest they create, and randomly selected or prescribed in a list (txt).

4. Kaiser inspired generative sequencing of MnM POLY mode, or individual MnM tracks.

5. Pd sampler - to expand the functionality of the UW capability of the MD by creating my own sampler in Pd with (good) sound output from the Pi.

Currently these are speculative ideas as stated before. They will probably not see use in the next sets that I do, but I hope to explore their use in the future.

Welcome! This is my first post.

I still have lots of work to do... Fill the site with content, other various bug fixes. The style isn't quite how I want it yet but this should do. It's been a lot of fun building this from the ground up.

I want to use an emote here but I haven't added functionality for that yet.

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UPDATE: Now with emotes