little-scale: 09/2014

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Chordinator Tutorial

The Chordinator is a Max for Live device that takes a chord from an input track, and uses the note on / note off events from another MIDI bus to generate the actual note events - thus separating rhythm from harmony.

This tutorial requires the PathMIDI device as well as the Chordinator device.

1. Create two MIDI tracks. One will be for harmony the other will be for rhythm. Add a virtual instrument to the harmony track.

2. Add the PathMIDI device to the rhythm track. Enable path 1 as shown. This will send MIDI from that track to path 1.

3. Add the Chordinator device to the harmony track. Select PathMIDI 1. This will use note on / note off data from the PathMIDI 1 bus as a trigger for the chords that have been played on the harmony track.

4. Create a new clip on the harmony track containing chord data.

5. Create a new clip on the rhythm track containing rhythmic data. Trigger both clips. The chords playing back on the harmony track will be played back with the rhythm of the rhythm track.

This process is shown below.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Chordinator - Max for Live

Rhythm input comes from an additional MIDI bus. Chords / notes / pitch elements come from the main bus. Sort of like a vocoder for MIDI or an arpeggiator for chords. Tutorial coming soon.

Download here: http://milkcrate.com.au/_other/downloads/M4L/little-scale.MIDI_chordinator.zip

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Small Dimensions of Videos and Subsequent Codec Glitches

A colour sequence was generated.

This colour sequence was rendered as video files of the following dimensions:
- 1 x 1 pixel
- 1 x 2 pixels
- 1 x 3 pixels
- 2 x 1 pixels
- 2 x 2 pixels
- 2 x 3 pixels
- 3 x 1 pixels
- 3 x 2 pixels
- 3 x 3 pixels

Each of these files was then upscaled to 1080p using four codecs.

Here are some highlights:

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Upscaling a 1x1Pixel Video to 1080p Using 15 Codecs / Bitrates

I made a video that was had the smallest dimensions possible (1 pixel across, 1 pixel high).

Playback of this single-pixel video was extremely varied across media players.

This video was then upscaled to 1080p at various bitrates using different codecs.

Some stills from the outcome: