C-5 // Reaktor building - autoplayer modification

This evening I spent a bit of time modifying a Reaktor ensemble I built earlier this year. It's kind of like electronic wind chimes - you hit play and it happily generates an endless stream of notes. I have designed it so that you pick the key and the kind of scale it chooses notes from (major, minor, pentatonic etc.) Tonight's modification was adding the ability to choose randomly between different note durations.

Future modifications will be adding the ability to set the probability that any particular note in the scale will sound, so that I can weight the scales towards certain notes. I'll also do the same with note durations. I'd also like to be able to interact with it via a Kaoss Pad or similar so I can 'play' it more intuitively. I might use Moldover's smart knob idea, but mapped to the x and y parameters of the Kaoss Pad so I can manipulate more than 2 parameters at once.

Also - it only uses a pretty boring sounding triangle oscillator at the moment, so some tonal interest is also on the cards for the near future. For now, I've just put a bit of delay and reverb on. Here's what it sounds like.

autoplayer output 1-9-09

Here's the duration circuit I built tonight.