K-Teck News

its been quiet around here... and with good reason

i been composing for my annual outing as Resident Artist at the wonderful Freerotation Festival

i started rather late this year, because of doing the Max for Live stuff

but i thought my set was the best i have done

maybe you'll agree:

This kick's a little different...

I've been composing for a show www.freerotation.com - I'm lucky enough to be a resident artist

I've become beguiled by a Reaktor Blocks patch which uses a West Coast type oscillator and a Low Pass Gate (LPG):

It sounds great: big and fat with loads of character

But I feel a traitor for not using my own Kevin or Keith.... 🙁

So I am investigating the possibilities with M4L, using the slide~ object

This video shows my jump off point.... i have tried it with Keith's waveshaping engine and it sounds beautiful but inconsistent - it also isn't LoPassing too well but I only started on it yesterday

Anyways, i just thought it was an interesting topology and something a but different...

K-Teck's 'The Lads' Virtual Analog Sequenced Percussion devices all make use of Surreal Machines' lovely VA Filters. These filters can be found, along with many other fascinating packages, in the Max Package Manager. So here is a quick 'how to' on how to access them:

Martha is an Extreme Timestretch Device built in max for Live. Names and appearances can be deceptive: Martha is a serious piece of kit. Martha can:

• Stretch your audio files by up to 127 times
• Create lush textures and drones in seconds
• Generate up to 12 pitchshifter layers

All through Martha's clean, intuitive interface

Here's a short video of Martha

I'll maybe do an inside look at Martha

Although there is a delicious tutorial here:

She weeds apart through a token lock, what a great thing to be free.....

So...

i keep wanting to improve the step sequencing experience

how to do that?

reduce the number of controls

give good visual feedback

create useful MIDI output

this prototype improves, i think, upon previous sequencers in a few ways

next is to build a modulation mapping matrix for controlling more than just pitch...

W.H.Auden

Gare du Midi is one of my favourite poems

Here's a piece of music composed around a recording of one of his poems

Drums are 'The Lads' - a couple Kevin's and a Henry

there's also a granular, stretchy thing I thinking about putting together for a release

i dropped a random sample in and out came the rest of the track