SO! Building off the last assignment, lets get this thing moving! Well in some way shape or form. Knowing that this assignment was coming, I secretly designed the last assignment in order to work well with this one! MUAHAHAHA!

How did I do this you ask? Why with my color step sequencer of course! ( and the randomizer ) The step sequencer allows me to program a pulse into my abstraction very easily with a metro object, and this pulse is already automatically sent to all of the objects so I don’t need to do it again! All I need to do is add a little pinch of this:

The metronome feeds into the Bang button and there we have it. Batta Bang Batta Boom! My animation is a randomized sequencer that constantly changes the colors of each my sequence. However that isn’t enough. I wanted to see if i could add a beat to it. Or at least some kind of sound interaction.

The way I thought I could do it is by still using the randomizer but making it less “random”. I know that my numbers go directly from 0-100. That is super important. I can use that to create something much less random. If I divide it by 20 then I can get it to output a specific set of numbers, therefor controlling the randomness. Basically by doing this i would section out my project to be able to portion out colors. Values that are closer to black would output a 1, more red would output 5, and obviously that means the entire spectrum would be split into 5ths. Now this I can work with. I chose a series of sounds to develop a very simple drum  synth kit and put it into a playlist, then assigned one to each object. Each sound in the 5 sample playlist would would then correspond to a 5th of the the red saturation spectrum. The little drum synth kit/playlist looks like this:

This means that I have an animated instrument with a beat playing at a BPM designated by the metronome, where each object is it’s own instrument. And each animated instrument plays a clap for the first 5th of color, a bass sound for the second 5th, a cymbal for the third 5th, a kick for the fourth 5th, and a snare for the final 5th. Now i kind of want to put a swing into this beat but i still need to figure that out. BUT here is what the full patch looks like:

and here is the end result:

What I found the most interesting is that it kind of ended up that the color that appeared the most, ended up producing the loudest sound, this probably happened due to the fact that I wasn’t able to put a variation into the beat. But perhaps, I could do that next by putting multiple metronomes for each line, going at syncopated or evenly spaced BPMs.