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lurzo

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lurzo··on Show HN: Mindscapes – Stochastic background music generator
Constructive criticism is always appreciated! A nice happy solution that we want to implement in the coming days is to have even longer exports start at a random file time (having it looping off course). Also i didn't know about r4nd.org! Is there a link where to listen some snippets of it?
lurzo··on Show HN: Mindscapes – Stochastic background music generator
Thanks alans!:) You can find an answer to that in my response to the nice Erik up in the comments.
lurzo··on Show HN: Mindscapes – Stochastic background music generator
Thanks fit2rule! We are glad you like it! Stand by for some more soundscapes :)
lurzo··on Show HN: Mindscapes – Stochastic background music generator
I understand that Stochastic music has a certain academic connotation and standards for a composer. For them the title is surely misleading. Still, even if noobish, i can assure these soundscapes take advantage of stochastic note generators.
lurzo··on Show HN: Mindscapes – Stochastic background music generator
Thanks for the love jph! All the things you said can be surely done! I will experiment more in the coming soundscapes.
lurzo··on Show HN: Mindscapes – Stochastic background music generator
Hi bengali3, thanks for the tips and the appreciation :)!

For the time being we count on generating 1 or 2 soundscapes per month (1-2 per month is becoming a mantra lol.) We would like to do next soundscapes based on actual feedbacks. Also what we think a user should do is to simply select a place where they would like to be and enjoy this no voice, no musical refrains soundscapes as a background to their activities, whether it be working or trying to get some sleep.

lurzo··on Show HN: Mindscapes – Stochastic background music generator
Hi erik! i'm the music/audio guy of the site. First thank you for the precious feedback and encouragement :). Your description at the end of the reply is accurate. There are 10 to 15 instances of synths/sample based stuff, which take midi imputs based on the following criteria:

A list of frequencies. A list of note durations. A list of amplitudes.

All this process is triggered by a set time (in seconds) which, going in tandem with a selected chance rate of generating the note, makes a music event.

Having this running on a server would be hard for us, so the decision to make a long export of these "sessions".

I agree on the fact that Stochastic music has a certain academic connotation and standards for a composer, standards that are far from being achieved from the tracks on the site. I will try my best to make new soundscapes even more dynamic in the future :).