#Captain chords vs odesi full
#Captain chords vs odesi software
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#Captain chords vs odesi full

I have the demo, which I’ll get around to trying out someday as one of the few apps that will let me use a full suite of user scales (and perhaps microtunings). He apologizes, insisting he simply couldn’t understand it or make it work, but that’s just too hard to believe. Its text manipulations are also simple and fun.īenn seems to miss the boat on Synfire, though it seems to be a boat a whole lot of people are happy to miss at that price. It does, though, produce endless streams of pleasant and engaging ambient that aren’t all identical to each other, and would make great background music for a workplace or the store where you buy your crystals and candles. It is kind of a cool way for very inexperienced people to be able to say “I made that,” but who has ever listened to any significant portion of the seven-hour album Wotja will generate for you-per tweak.

Interestingly, Benn gets smitten by Wotja, which I don’t see as appealing at all to people who make and play music in a serious way. In any case, he hardly gets into what all Sonic Pi can do, correctly intuiting from its surface features, which I can attest hold throughout the app. As a touch-typist, operating the keyboard gives me the same tactile satisfaction as Polyend’s Tracker. The mouse’s non-muscle memory is the biggest impediment to feeling in a musical state of mind when operating a computer, but that’s another discussion.

#Captain chords vs odesi plus

It’s extremely well polished, with its conveniently accessed onboard help and reference, plus the ease of development: just copy and paste or live-code and reload to hear immediate effects, all with keystrokes so that you’re working muscle memory rather than using the mouse. RapidComposer’s got a serious learning curve (and price tag), but Sonic Pi is both easy and deep-and guilt-inducingly cheap. Even so, his evaluations do make a very good guide, and I very much agree with him that RapidComposer and Sonic Pi are about the best things going. He covers a lot of territory and does make the disclaimer that he’s only skimming the surface of the music-making apps he considers.

#Captain chords vs odesi software

This all can also be used with a software modular system, like VCVRack or others, which might provide some economic benefits, and allow you to store and retrieve specific generative patches more easily.ĪDDED: A really great example of generative modular music, was just put up on youtube by CO5MA, known around these parts as watched Benn Jordan’s videos. I may come back and add the detail of what specific modules he is using here, but to some extent that’s not the point, there are lots of different options for each, all good, each a different path up the same mountain. Somewhere in the middle of this he talks about the relative merits of a single clock source, and multiple floating clock sources.

The elements presented here are: VCAs 2:40, LFOs 8:37, Random Voltage Generators 11:00, Pitch Quantizers 12:20, Clock Dividers 14:17, Sequential Switches 19:50, Logic Modules 23:30. Then he goes through various modular elements that can be combined to let you form modular generative music. Lot of nice videos there under the media tab.įirst off he addresses the general question of whether this is cheating, or taking the easy way out. Midi Madness 3 Algorithmic melody generator, with randomness controls. No personal experience with it, but definitely worth a look, especially at that price.

It seems to me more directed towards Pop and EDM, though it also seems adaptable. My previous experience playing with Odesi was pretty awful, so with the level of marketing behind Captain stuff, I just assumed it’d be more of the same.Īlso remember the software that probably established (and nearly destroyed?) this category years ago.Īnd a better choice than Liquid Notes is Liquid Music from WaveDNA.

#Captain chords vs odesi windows

They essentially quit updating Odesi and split it into multiple products for each feature (some of which aren’t even ported to Windows yet).

In comments to his video: I’m familiar with it. While putting this list together Google was watching (they are always watching – creepy), and they shared with me one of their advertisers that well could be on this list.Ĭaptain Chords Plugin $79 – they also make OdesiĪnd what Benn said about Captain Chords and Odesi. The two systems Benn reviewed/demonstrated in Part III of his videos are: A list of the ten “melody assistants” Benn reviews on Part II, arranged with links, least expensive to most.