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My goal in this was to try and create a setup such that given some set of notes, and an interval, it would play the corresponding interval. Let me show you what it looks like and then I'll try and explain what I mean a bit better.
..................................................... .........Cc.......................................... .bVa.....5cTC.C.E.E.G.G.............................. .........cV.......................................... ..................................................... ............................Vb....................... ..1R3.......................aA1...................... .aV1.#octave.control#.......3bO.Vc................... ..............................aA..0#.Unison.......... .............................dVa..1#.Minor.Second.... ..................................2#.Major.Second.... ..................................3#.Minor.Third..... ..................................4#.Major.Third..... ....Va............................5#.Perfect.Fourth.. .g0X1..........1D1..Vc............6#.Perfect.Fifth... ....J...........*:11.f............7#.Augmented.Fifth. .g0X1...........J...Vd............8#.Minor.Sixth..... ................*:11af............9#.Major.Sixth..... ..................................a#.Minor.Seventh... ...............2D4..Vc............b#.Major.Seventh... .................:42..............c#.Octave.......... .....................................................
First off, let me say this didn't work out right for several reasons. The first is because I got my intervals wrong - according to Wikipedia, an Augmented Fifth is really the same as a Minor Sixth, and the interval I really wanted was the Tritone (Diminished Fifth) which sits between a Perfect Fourth and Perfect Fifth.
The other thing is... it's still wrong, but I didn't take the time to figure out why. The main reason I even know is because the "Octave" interval should sound inoffensive to put it mildly, and in reality it sounds quite dissonant.
This was my first sketch in Orca so I'm not going to sweat it.
Anyway, about the thing itself - Up towards the top is a (T)rack containing the notes of the C major triad - these notes are selected one at a time and then later played by a thingy towards the bottom of the sketch.
The blob of letters and whatnot towards the top of the list of intervals is where I try and compute the offset from the selected note.
The controls are mostly towards the left, there is an octave control which is currently set to select from a range at random, and the interval control is at basically the top-left most bit - bVa - where "a" is the interval number from the list on the right.
I hooked this into SunVox using someone's preset I found on here yesterday, and had a grand ol' time.