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Open Music and catart-mubu

OpenMusic
#1

I use catart-mubu, Catoracle, CataRT Standalone and OMax, primarily for improvisation. Are there reasons I should learn Open Music?

Is there a way to harness bach to catart-mubu achieve some of the same purposes as Open Music? Has anyone tried this? Please share your experience and perhaps your patches.

#2

Dear Glenhall,

1- “I use catart-mubu, Catoracle, CataRT Standalone and OMax, primarily for improvisation. Are there reasons I should learn Open Music?”

Well the answer to your question is somehow relative to what you are up to. OM is basically a non-realtime environment.

2-“Is there a way to harness bach to catart-mubu achieve some of the same purposes as Open Music? Has anyone tried this? Please share your experience and perhaps your patches.”

bach externals are mostly a port of some OM musical editors. They have been used with other max implemented programs such as Orchids. So maybe you can find a way to implement them. You should address this issue to the max community.

Best
Keep safe
K

#3

Thanks for your advice. I understand that OM is usually used in non-realtime experimentation and composition. However, I saw a demonstration of it producing a realtime piano output. So, I was thinking perhaps an OM ‘module’ could improvise (within variable parameters) a “counter-voice” in a live performance situation. I thought it might be able to use samples from Orchids’ SOL library, so as to change voices as desired.

Would the type of application I described be best left to Max programmers or could the effect I’m looking for be achieved by someone familiar with OM?

#4

Dear Glen,

My guess is that your best choice is to take a look on somax:

http://repmus.ircam.fr/somax/home

Best
K

#5

Thanks for your suggestion. I use OMax extensively, but SoMax is best suited for improvisation with a recurring harmonic pattern, which is something I do only in a jazz setting. I have a band, so, in that circumstance, they do everything I need. With software, I am more involved with free improvisation, for which it is my understanding that SoMax is not designed. Nevertheless, I’m going to check it out.