Comments on: How To Use Randomness In Electronic Music, Without Sounding Completely Random

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 07:49:06 +0000

Randomness is very important aspect of music but it is not easy to add in music.
Sometimes we can not enjoy music because of random bits.
Thank you so much for sharing unique and useful information.

By: stenny

stenny — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 11:53:11 +0000

Thanks for the wonderful on randomness in electronic music. You can get all latest electronic music for free on Setbeat app (http://setbeatapp.com) available for Android and iOS.

By: ouzoman

ouzoman — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 16:06:46 +0000

Hey Chris – excellent presentation.
You mentioned UpBeat. I’ve kept an older Mac running OS9 just for this amazing program. Did it ever get ported to OSX? Kudos to the C74 guys for moving M to OSX.

By: jacquesandier

jacquesandier — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 08:20:29 +0000

Thanks very usefull! What is the name of the last plugins upbeat and ? (sorry my English is terrible :-s )

By: srv

srv — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 23:43:21 +0000

In reply to srv. with Ableton Live anyway...

By: srv

srv — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 23:42:31 +0000

You can get a lot of cool effects from adjusting both loop & groove/swing parameters of a clip manually and recording that into a new clip. The results are very mild randomness, both is groove and glitching. Works great on percussive sounds.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:42:13 +0000

Xynthesizr on IOS has pattern morphing based on Conway’s Game of Life. I use this a lot. I use Xynthesizr as a sequencer even though it has a built in sound engine.

Also, Arturia Beatstep Pro has a randomize function that I really like.

By: Burford

Burford — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:58:54 +0000

I like setting up variations of MIDI drum clips in Ableton and letting Ableton randomly select between them. I wish there were more randomizing possibilities built into hardware drum machines, though.

By: Dman

Dman — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 13:27:54 +0000

Not me. Some of the best things that happen in music are either ‘random’ or inspired jamming. Sometimes the ideas that just happen almost spontaneously either elevate the music itself or create entirely new ideas to form a new composition.

By: eumel

eumel — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 05:09:21 +0000

i would rather programme each and every note.

By: alacazam

alacazam — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 21:05:52 +0000

Cool to see Phosphor on your screen. Love that VST. When I was a music major back in college long long ago lol, we had an alphaSyntauri system in our EM studio. So many hours of fun (and skipping my other classes). Nice video as well. Cheers. 🙂

By: Tentacles

Tentacles — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 20:50:26 +0000

Good video!
Randomness is something that adds a lot of life and variation to the music. A must for electronic music, I think.