Gordophone and Gotharman

Read through all the posts on the Gordophone blog earlier in the week. Excellent introduction to DIY Wind Controllers and certainly helped me thinking through some of the MIDI paramters that need tweaking to make a project work.

I also really liked the idea of the Marmonizer project and am going to knock one of these up myself to have a play around with.

Googling around it seems like there are quite a few little MIDI-bending boxes around so there are some good possibilities for some fun little projects. I particularly like the Note Randomizer box made by Gotharman.

The description of the MKII from Gotharman is as follows:

Gotharman’s note randomizer MKII are a MIDI effect, that treats incoming MIDI note on and off's. When it receives note data, it takes a look at the adjustable probability parameter, and the velocity value, if Velo to Prob is other than zero, and randomly decides if it will play that note or not. If it decides to play the note, it will have a look at the adjustable random velocity parameter, and if this is higher than zero, it will randomize the note velocity value with the adjusted amount. 

If the Time parameter is turned up, it will also create a random time delay, before it puts the note-on or off thru to the output.

This effect is very useful for creating acoustic-like "strumms" out of chords, for making "sterile" computer timing more alive, or just for creating variations in otherwise repeating patterns.