I’d like to suggest a feature that could be useful in both live and production setting.
Event and note probability would allow for setting a chance of specific note or event being played back at random chance.
For example: you want a certain event or drum part to have only about 30% chance of being played back, so it doesn’t exactly play back every time around.
This option would further help in achieving less stiff and robotic, and more natural, unpredictable, sound, like it is in real life.
Wouldn’t it be better to record the output of a probability script into your editor, rather than have it in the editor itself? I suppose you could output this channel to another channel.
It might just be better as a MIDI plugin or audio VST plugin, there’s more options there for other variables and controls, easier to bypass, etc, etc.
This feature would definitely excel in live performance setting. And I can see how you might find it less than useful in EDM or modern productions, but I think probability would shine in emulating acoustic drum, for example, especially in vintage type of production, where unexpected things happen and are caught on recording. Although it could also add some randomness and “spice” to modern productions, where some elements could subtly appear at chance.
Ditto, and the video by Venus Theory on stretching MIDI and adding probability shows why it should be not just for live performance and why it should be in the editor directly. Probability gets used also in drum tracks, ala Reason’s Drum Sequencer (and others). Too bad 12 didn’t get this.
It looks like we’ve all been looking for random midi note probablity after seeing the Venus Theory video. After some googling, I found out a midi insert named ‘density’… which, as far as I can tell, is the exact same thing. It has a single percentage control.
