Comments on: Processing HarmonicTable 01

By: Grant Muller

Grant Muller — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:19:08 +0000

Thanks! I am thinking of doing an iPad version, just to have a touchpad version handy. Hopefully that’s not too Mac for you

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:46:44 +0000

I am a pc user (no offense, but i hate mac) anyway, i have recently been studying music theory, and alternative music composition. i have come across things like the the axis 49 or the axis 69. i think they are an amazing tool, but extremely expensive. so i am very grateful that you have created this application. thank you

By: Grant Muller

Grant Muller — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:36:50 +0000

That’s really strange, I haven’t heard this from other MAC users. They have been telling me that if they have “IAC – Bus 1″ defined, and that everything is checked off and ready to go, that you should be able to use it from within the software. I’ll have to see if I can get my hands on a MAC to test this, or setup a Virtual Machine to test it in.

By: queglay

queglay — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:04:28 +0000

for some reason my iac ports, and other midi ports on osx dont get listed in the setup page. any ideas as to what i should check to get this working?

By: gmuller

gmuller — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:03:16 +0000

I think I might need to put an exception wrapper around opening midi ports (probably a conflict with the other program). I will look into that.

Those are REALLY great suggestions for stuff to add! I am going to release a version 03 next week with a chord mode feature and some performance fixes. The chord mode feature will let you play chord when you hit a key (probably allow the user to select from 9-18 chord shapes, minor, major, diminished, etc).

I will look at the pattern memory feature for version 04, along with the automata feature. Thanks for the suggestions!

By: la peste, hangars liquides

la peste, hangars liquides — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:47:16 +0000

Hello Grant, tested V02 on mac os 10.4.11, routing the notes to a midi track in live, via the IAC driver. It works perfectly, had some fun drawing patterns with a graphic table. I add a really small issue when I opened midi game of life at the same time, that I was using with its IAC driver. Probably a conflict, since I add to quit both apps to make one work properly. You have designed a really beautiful piece of software… making c-thru’s device kind of even more desirable. I was thinking : could you design a V03 with the ability to draw shape moves on the table, re-play the patterns, including some cellular automation ? (I’m a dreamer). Thanx so much to share you work.

By: Geometría armónica | the dimeBag

Geometría armónica | the dimeBag — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:01:40 +0000

[...] Todo esto viene porque hace un par de semanas veía en el blog de MAKE un simulador del aparatejo MIDI citado desarrollado por Grant Muller “utilizando las librerías Processing, junto con la librería ControlP5 y la librería Ruin & Wesen’s rwmidi para la funcionalidad midi”. El resultado es un ejecutable JAR que podéis encontrar en su página web. [...]

By: gmuller

gmuller — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:24:12 +0000

Ok Mac people, I released a new version that should fix all the stuff you mentioned. You can find it here:

http://www.grantmuller.com/processing-harmonictable-02/

As usual let me know if there is something wrong

By: gmuller

gmuller — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:24:32 +0000

To all Mac users, I'll try to get this tested properly in your environment and see what I can do!

@Keith and vcon: This is probably a problem with your java version on the Mac...see the Posts from Michael and Patrick and see if they help - just make sure that Jave SE 6 (64bit) is your preferred java in the java preference pane.

@Patrick, you've pointed out a bug it looks like! I think its an intentional one, but I need to create two modes...one so that it will not arpeggiate notes and one so that it will, I'll just make it an option on the setup screen. I did this so that chords would sound if I played them in little rings with the mouse, and would not duplicate notes when dragging.

@Michael Riecken - You might look at Patrick's post to see if thats an easier way to start it. I use a lot of the Java 6 features, so its not compatible with java 5. I'll see what I can do about the Real Time sequencer. All this does is play notes...so you ARE using it correctly.

By: Michael Riecken

Michael Riecken — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:08:17 +0000

Grant,

With 1.6 installed on my MacBook Pro, it would not run from the regular jar launcher (that is it wouldn’t launch by double clicking it through the finder) as the Mac installs 1.6 but still defaults to 1.5 (which is lame). This doesn’t work under 1.5

If I open up the console (terminal) and navigate to my download directory, I can type in the following command to run the app:

/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Commands/java -jar ./harmonictable.jar

This method works fine.

It seems to work fine with the following caveats:

(1) The real-time sequencer does not work (I can’t get any sound). I do get sound with the Java Sound Synthesizer though.

(2) I have no idea what this is supposed to do other than play notes, so I don’t know if I’m using it correctly.

Thanks!