How to Turn Theremin into MIDI, Free with Pd
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Author: Neil Wiernik
Site: http://www.phoniq.net
About: Neil Wiernik (b. 1967 Montreal, QC) is an audio contortionist, curator and digital media specialist presently living and working in Toronto. Neil has shown his work and curated exhibitions in non-traditional spaces and venues since the late 1980's. His projects and mediums of expression have varied and include works in radio, print and internet diffusion as well as other non-gallery spaces such as derelict buildings, billboards, pirate airwaves and public space. He has presented projects at the Finland Contemporary Museum, ISEA, Subtle Technologies Conference, The Medusa Complex, Mutek Festival and Gallery Optica. Neil is concerned with various types of story-telling using abstract environments and spaces to do so. Often the development of these narratives involves the creation of custom tools or subversion of existing ones. When Neil is not occupied with the co-curation of vagueterrain.net, an online digital arts quarterly, he is working on his ongoing musical project under the monikor of naw. Neil's online HQ is phoniq.net
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Neil Wiernik on August 31st, 2008
Last month we saw Sarah Angliss using the Theremin as an audiovisual controller. If you’ve got a Theremin and want to try this yourself — or try some other similar continuous input — here’s a really simple example of a patch that converts audio to MIDI. It uses Pd, Max/MSP’s open-source cousin for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
If you haven’t used Pd before, you should download pd-extended. It’s a stable, friendly installer for Pd with all the documentation and extras you’d need. Pd can be tricky to install, but this is friendly to just about anyone.
Pure Data Downloads (choose “most recent release” for the latest stable build of pd-extended)
In this case, Charles Martin, a percussionist from Australia, whipped up this simple patch and the fiddle~ object (which analyzes incoming pitch) to control effects in Ableton. Very cool stuff. He describes the patch and includes copy-and-paste code here, though I actually recommend going through the image above one step at a time and recreating it to better understand what it involves.
Theremin to MIDI Control program in Pd [Charles Martin Percussionist Blog]
Originally from Create Digital Music by Peter Kirn
reBlogged by InterAccess to Geekery – Audio
Tags: midi, PD, theremin
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