

Then there's always THIS to keep an eye on:
#Rapidcomposer melody generator mod#
I'm totally fascinated by musical-machines like these, but so far have found MIDI FX in Logic (no doubt Live/Bitwig/Reason are similarly powerful) to be the most flexible AND approachable, since you can run all sorts of astounding sequencers (such as from Kontakt scripts and Reaktor AND Numerology) into all sorts of modifiers, which can mod each other, etc., and point the results at anything… Which doesn't feel "algorithmic", but definitely modular. Its strength so far, for me, is that most everything is modulatable, so it's certainly easy to set up endlessly morphing MIDI-streams, mod'ing parameters inside the sequencers. I've got Num, and I'm sure I'm under-using it, and perhaps described it above inaccurately it's certainly a feature-monster, most of which I haven't explored yet. But not really a performance device, like Numerology, for instance, right? In that you don't get to adjust it as it's running…more stop, set up, start, repeat…? Yeah, RC seems an invaluable, unique tool. Melody generation (full edition only), melody auto-harmonization using 2 methods…"
#Rapidcomposer melody generator generator#
Included variations: Add Chord Notes, Add Interval, Adjust Note Lengths, Apply Rhythm, Audio Gain, Delay Notes, Double Note, Double Phrase, Expression, Extract Rhythm, Humanize, Join Notes, Limit Note Range, MIDI Echo, Make Monophonic, Mirror Horizontally, Mirror Vertically, Permute Chord Notes, Quantize, Remove Note, Remove Short Notes, Rests, Rotate Notes, Simplify Phrase, Spread Out Chord Notes, Staccato-Legato, Strumming, Swap Chord Notes, Swing, Transpose, Triple Phrase, Velocity, Velocity Generator Included phrase generators: Arpeggiator, Bass Generator, Chord Generator, Dyads Run, Generator, Fingerpicking Generator, Generic Generator, Phrase Container, Piano Run Generator, Strings Staccato Generator, only in the full edition: Melody Generator, Random Melody Generator, Phrase Morpher "Included rhythm generators: Schillinger's Interference, Polyrhythm, Subdivision, Generic Rhythm, Probabilistic Rhythm, Euclidean Rhythm, Smooth Rhythm, Bass Rhythm, Simple Intervals, Toggle Intervals I don't know if you can work with your own dragged-in MIDI (seems likely), but the best list of mangling algorithms I've seen is inside RapidComposer:

No special mangling algorithms I know about. You can load MIDI files into Numerology, but I don't know how much more it can do with them besides randomizing values to a set degree and timing.
