Comments on: Nodal: Generative Music Software for Mac (Free for Non-Commercial Use)

By: Nodal - generative music software | thekevinpipe.com

Nodal - generative music software | thekevinpipe.com — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:49:03 +0000

[...] Nodal is a free OS X application which allows one to design their own note generating system - outputting data to any MIDI synthesizer software such as Garageband. - Nodal is a generative software application for composing music. It uses a novel method for the notation and playing of MIDI based music. This method is based around the concept of a user-defined graph. The graph consists of nodes (musical events) and edges (connections between events). You interactively define the graph, which is then traversed by any number of players who play the musical events as they encounter them on the graph. The time taken to travel from one node to another is based on the length of the edges that connect the nodes. - Nodal generative music software [via Create Digital Music] [...]

By: Create Digital Music » Hands-on with Bloom, New Generative iPhone App by Eno and Chilvers

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:58:16 +0000

[...] coming later this week.) See also full-featured generative software on PC/Mac, including the free Nodal, the excellent and deep Intermorphic offerings (from a team that has collaborated with Eno in the [...]

By: Theo den Brinker

Theo den Brinker — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:45:19 +0000

In Nodal each instrument is allocated to a separate MIDI channel.

From a brief play with Nodal and Garageband I believe that in Garageband all midi channels are summed to one track.So all the notes from all the active instruments from a Nodal sheet are recorded into one track.

In Logic a track can be assigned to each Nodal channel to record midi. The”R” record button must be active to hear the track. (Note. In the Settings panel, Recording tab - MIDI section you need to activate “Auto demix by channel…” to actually record the separate Instrument MIDI)

In Reason a midi channel can be assigned to an instrument or combinator in the Advanced MIDI device. Rewire can be used to record the audio. Reason does not record the MIDI

In Live each track can be assigned to Nodal MIDI output and the channel however only 1 track at a time can be recorded as midi. The output from the tracks can be recorded but again only 1 at a time.
But audio output can be combined.

Don’t hesitate to make any corrections.

By: migelius

migelius — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:39:08 +0000

I can’t get Nodal to play multiple tracks with software instruments in GarageBand (the way SimpleSynth can do) If I play in Nodal I can hear through GB but only on the selected instrument. I’d like to record across multiple instruments. Any advice?

By: joe

joe — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:55:19 +0000

Noatikl is the only modern generative music engine I can find for the PC. I agree the UI could use some work, but I’m hopeful intermorphic will keep updating it as they have in the past.

By: YJ

YJ — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:27:55 +0000

Noatikl sucks…
i have been working with SSEYO Koan for years, and Noatikl offers nothing new,
Noatikl is nothing but a bad port of Koan, with a poorly designed user interface, it doesn’t even have a graphical pattern editor.. the only reason why Noatikl was made is because Koan is not sold anymore..

By: Create Digital Motion » Toolbox: Mac App is Like a Modular, Generative Photoshop

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:35:51 +0000

[...] but from Spore’s game design, soundtrack and creature editors to new music software like Nodal and Noatikl, in 2008 we’re seeing those techniques more accessible than ever. Good news for [...]

By: wesen

wesen — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:01:57 +0000

you can output midi clock data from nodal by putting 0xF8 into advanced midi in a node. That will output 96th clock ticks, so put them fairly close together in a loop, and there you go. Add a MIDI START on the first node (0xFA), et voila!

By: logickal

logickal — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:25:02 +0000

In case you’re wondering, that pingback above is to a post on my blog where I have a Nodal-assisted track for download… I captured big chunks of MIDI that Nodal was generating and then added an additional level of complexity by using follow actions and multiple MIDI channels piped into the instrument track… I definitely need to play around with the software further, but it’s a great little program. I would like to play with Noatikl more as well…

By: Weekenders and a little bit of music. at Offnominal

Weekenders and a little bit of music. at Offnominal — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:22:06 +0000

[...] the meantime, here’s a bit of music for you… CDM wrote up a bit on a newish Mac-based generative music application called Nodal. My friend Vlad at [...]