Re: [PD] Getting frequencies from chords

2020-11-15 Thread Julian Brooks
Hi Adam, One of the great joys of Pd, messing with code, sound and creativity in general, for me anyway, is starting off with a clear idea. You seem to have that, though to give us a clearer idea of intention, perhaps you could say what source(s) the chords will be generated from? My own approach

Re: [PD] Getting frequencies from chords

2020-11-10 Thread Dafydd Hughes
If you're working from a strictly musical perspective, would it be worth using [mtof] and [ftom] so you can deal with the notes as musical pitches rather than frequencies? I know I find MIDI math a whole lot less daunting. If you're then looking for pitches that "work" with the a chord, you can

Re: [PD] Getting frequencies from chords

2020-11-10 Thread Miller Puckette via Pd-list
That is a wonderful question. Here's a deep and thoughtful paper about it... https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/_Persoenliche_Webseite/parncutt_richard/Pdfs/Pa11_tonality.pdf The rough answer: using theory of consonance and dissonance that goes bacy to Helmholz, Krumhansl and Kessler

Re: [PD] Getting frequencies from chords

2020-11-10 Thread Christof Ressi
Hi, I think it's not really clear what you're after. Your chords are already lists of frequencies... Or are you talking about partials/overtones? The overtone structure of each tone is different for each instrument/synth and can also change over time. In theory, each tone has an *infinite*

[PD] Getting frequencies from chords

2020-11-10 Thread topo bot
Hi, i need to automatically get all the frequencies from a chord. For example imagine i have chords as frequencies in messages: Chord1 = [195, 174, 146, 116, 58( Chord2 = [ 155, 130, 103, 87, 43( I want to do something like this: ?Chord1.giveMeAllFrequencies And then get a list with the