Polyphonic factotum patch

#1

Hi!

deirdre.axp (83.4 KB)

I've finished a polyphonic factotum patch. It started off life as a standalone version of the launchpad triggered patch I made before, but without the launchpad/midi stuff. But then I had the idea to make it polyphonic...

It works like this - you select how often it triggers, when it triggers and how long it triggers/loops for, all in 16ths. The actual recording the factotum uses for each trigger is determined by a dial. 0-31 on the dial will record small slices, unquantized. 32-64 will record quantized in 16ths where 32 = 1x16th, and 64 = 16x16ths.

It has an internal clock but should automatically sync to incoming midi clock/start/stop messages from an input you choose (I think I left it listening to clock from the usb device input, but it's easily changed).

The factotum has a bunch of controls scaled how I liked them. It goes into a lo pass filter. It's 6 voice polyphonic (you can choose how many voices it uses on the fly) and has controls to spread out the pitch/stretch of each factotum voice, and to spread out the filter cutoffs for each voice.

Hope you like it!

#2

So I was sitting down here thinking to myself, hmmm Matt is making a polyphonic factotum patch, I wonder how many factotums I could string together with staggered recording and stopping that would enable me to do 8-16 timed chops (say 16 factotums with 2secs buffers to record a 32sec piece of audio chopped into 16slices) each slice would then be freely pitchshifted, looped, granulised...hell factotumed.....so like I say I was about to sit down and patch me up some mess, and Lo from high Matt has dumped down some glory.....can't wait to see what you've cooked up Sir

#3

That sounds great. What is a factotum? Sounds like its a hardware synth but when I google all I get is the Expert Sleepers FH-2 Factotum module which appears to be a Midi-CV interface.

#4

Factotum is an axoloti object, made by @SirSickSik. It's a kind of sampler/Looper with some cool pitch/stretch/rate stuff.

In the video there's an axoloti drum machine running, all other sounds are that same guitar loop (and maybe a little live playing here and there) being mangled by the factotum objects.

#5

Ah thanks, that was my first thought so I looked in the object library but didn't see it because I missed the capital 'F' on the search.

Love this. Did you record the guitar loop? I am planning to record some Baritone guitar loops to mess with at some point.

I'd been wondering how to get loops of a decent length, Factotum seems to do the trick right up to 43s. Long enough for some 'Discreet Music'.

#6

Thanks, yeah I recorded it.

I like factotum for weird micro loops and pitch/reverse stuff, but I use rbrts Looper objects for general longer guitar loop type use. Rbrts got some good help patches

#7

Thanks. There so much buried in there.