Handclap designer from jkant on Vimeo.

Clap on, clap off!

Guiliano Cantini sends this patch he’s put together with Kore Player and Pd. He uses transient detection in Pd to trigger randomized parameter changes in Kore Player. That rig is entirely free (as in beer), but the same ideas could apply to Kore, too – and if you’re not into the clap metaphor, you could find other audio-reactive or controller-reactive approaches. (You can also just slap the mic on your laptop.)

From the description:

Instantly tweak NI Kore Player’s sound controls with a clap. Pure Data detects your clap and uses it to randomize all 8 controls. Download pd patch @ jkant.altervista.org

If you want to try this yourself, you’ll need:

Last time we looked at Massive on Noisepages I covered how you can use Kore 2′s hardware controllers to get your hands on Massive’s parameters and morph song arrangements from sequenced patches.

In this video I load up Massive in Kore again for hands-on control and take a look at some creative signal routing and modulation possibilities in Massive. Feedback is something people primarily associate with rock, heaviness and sludge, but there’s something here for the meditator as well as the rockist. How about some harp feedback? Eat your heart out, Joanna Newsom.

Feedback, Routing and Modulation in Massive from Create Digital Media on Vimeo.

Download the patches used in this screencast

Previously:
Mutating Sequences Live with Massive in Kore
Video: Wobbly Bass Tutorial in Massive

Feedback, as viewed on an oscilloscope. Photo (CC) Audin, via Flickr.

Ed.: Feedback loops usually fall into the “things to avoid” category, but cleverly used, they can be a powerful creative technique. Part of what Kore is about is being able to create unusual routings easily, so where better to start than a loop? Eoin walks us through sound design with feedback here, using an external input (like a mic) or plug-in as a source, or even self-oscillating (crank up the gain, and the setup itself will produce its own sound). -PK

If you’ve read the Kore 2 manual, you might have seen mention of the possibility of feedback loops, but there are no instructions for how to safely set this up. Today we’re going to do this step by step, and hopefully by the end you’ll have an idea of how easy this is and the kind of wild sounds you can get.

If you don’t have access to Kore, you can still hear the end results; the audio examples below demonstrate some of the sounds that can be obtained with just a few simple routings.

You can use the Kore demo to complete tutorials; sessions shut down every 30 minutes, and saving is disabled, but there are no other limitations. The examples included work with Kore 2′s internal engines and effects.