Device Details

Overview

Name \| Version:	Morphiner 1.3
Author:	opticon93
Device Type:	Instrument
Description:	Hi, This device spectrally convolves two samples. The samples are loaded into modified "More Simpler" devices, each with 5 note polyphony. Most of the controls are self-explanatory and should be familiar from the "More Simpler" device. Midi Note controls the pitch of both samplers. When Stretching is off, the Pitch is changed by speeding up/down the sample, like a record player. When Stretch is on, Pitch and Speed are decoupled, so you can slow it down or Speed it up, without changing the Pitch. Each sampler has a 12-24db Multimode Filter with a dedicated Filter Envelope and a dedicated Amp Envelope. You can transpose either sample up or down 2400 Cents. Dragging up and down on the waveform window allows you to zoom in and out. Many of the knobs have a higher resolution than what is displayed. In particular, the Start, Length, Cutoff and Speed parameters go through more values "under the hood" than what are displayed. Consequently, when you are using the arrow keys on your keyboard, it might seem like nothing is happening, but it is. Use Shift + Arrow Up/Dn to go faster. Because I use Start and Length, you can scrub through the file just by changing the Start knob, instead of needing to adjust Start and End values separately. The Rev button works in the same strange way that it does for More Simpler. Not quite sure what it is doing. The Normalize, Up and Down buttons modify the volume of the loaded sample in a permanent way. The Morphine object has two controls. The Morph control is similar to a regular crossfade mixer, but it really is different and hard to explain. It's kind of like this. When the Morph is at Zero, any frequency bins of the first sampler that are above 0% (all of the nonzero ones) will be used in the resynthesis. Meanwhile, only the frequency bins of the second sampler that are above 100% (none of them) will be used in the resynthesis mix. The end result is that you will only hear the top sampler. If the Morph is set to .25, then the frequency bins of the first sample that are above 25% (many of them) will be used, while only those bins of the lower sampler that are above 75% (some of them) will be used in the resynthesis. So, you will hear a resynthesis biased towards the top sampler. Like I say, difficult to explain. All I can say about the Scale control is from the helpfile: "The progression depends upon the exponential transition Scaling value. Larger values widen the transition space between the two sounds." I have no idea what this means, but it definitely has an effect. Share and Enjoy!!! Simple Update: I added a Track Title at the top. Just hit the Open button again when you rename the Ableton Track. Just to make sure people know, I already made the envelopes 60 seconds long

Details

Live Version Used:	11.3.4
Max Version Used:	8.5.3
Date Added:	Jul 08 2023 02:31:45
Date Last Updated:	Jul 21 2023 23:45:32
Downloads:	583
ⓘ License:	AttributionNonCommercialShareAlike
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Files

Device File:	Morphiner 1.3.amxd

Comments

First observation, the device disappears everytime you click to go through your sample browser. That's not a good thing. Modify it to stay open while finding samples.

Posted on July 09 2023 by irishmos | Report Issue

Ok. So you can't drag a sample to it as it closes when you choose the sample. So.....it's not functional.

Posted on July 09 2023 by irishmos | Report Issue

I was able to drag a sound in by moving live to half screen and morphiner to the other half. When samples are loaded, no midi input triggers sound.

Posted on July 09 2023 by irishmos | Report Issue

Thats pretty much how floating windows work with max for live devices. Its not closing them, it is simply bringing the Live window to the top. The device needs space of its own to remain visible.

If you can't hear anything, you need to make sure you are running the most recent version of Live. Several max objects got updated and only run in the newest version.

Posted on July 09 2023 by opticon93 | Report Issue

Max 3 installed 4/18/23

Odd with the visibility as none of my other max devices disappear behind the DAW when dragging samples into them. It looks like a cool device. Just trying to provide constructive feedback to help.

Posted on July 09 2023 by irishmos | Report Issue

I was able to minimiize live to get the samples dropped into the device but no audio. My live and max are up to date

Posted on July 09 2023 by FreddyFingaz | Report Issue

I can't wait to try it but I'm in the same situation as the others: no audio :( I hope it's an easy thing to fix. Live 11.3.4 Max 8.5.4

Posted on July 09 2023 by enchse | Report Issue

Thats pretty bizarre. I've tried it on two other computers with no problems. It would be helpful if somebody could report any max messages from the max window.

Posted on July 09 2023 by opticon93 | Report Issue

this message maybe? "fftz.morphine~: fftz.morphine~: No such object"
sorry i'am a complete dumb on the matter. and btw thank you for sharing your devices!!

Posted on July 10 2023 by enchse | Report Issue

But??? What??? The whole point of freezing a device is so that it includes all the externals.

I put the morphine object up on Google Drive here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/121XaO4-ytHgv9LqjA_jCCJLs5WQmBuGQ/view?usp=sharing

After you download it, put it in you Max folder, probably at Documents/Max 8.

If that doesn't work, I guess I'll need to rework it with regular old spectral convolution like with my FM Convolver and Grain Convolver devices.

Let me know please.

Posted on July 10 2023 by opticon93 | Report Issue

just found out that same file was already inside Documents/Max 8/Max for Live Devices/Morphiner Projects/externals
Should I put it somewhere else?

Posted on July 10 2023 by enchse | Report Issue

You just need to make sure that it is actually in the Max path. The top level directory should work. You can check your path by opening the device for editing and then going to Options, File preferences

If not, I'm just going to scrap the whole thing.

Posted on July 10 2023 by opticon93 | Report Issue

The path seems correct, don't know if someone has been luckier than me, but I couldn't make it work unfortunately.

Posted on July 10 2023 by enchse | Report Issue

Don't scrap it. It's a good start. I just can't trigger the samples.

Posted on July 10 2023 by irishmos | Report Issue

Well, I went and created a Project for the device and Consolidated the project and then Froze the device. It said it added the fftz objects, just like before. Its very confusing, because Max For Live devices are already supposed to be projects and Freezing them is supposed to add the required files.

Hopefully this new version works.

Posted on July 11 2023 by opticon93 | Report Issue

Please Let me know

Posted on July 11 2023 by opticon93 | Report Issue

Just quickly tried it and came back here to say: it's working!! Thanks so much!

Posted on July 11 2023 by enchse | Report Issue

Wow! Awesome, Thank you!

Posted on July 11 2023 by opticon93 | Report Issue

It works now! Just try to get the device to not disappear behind Ableton and you have a winner.
I'm also confused why transpose moves in 38 step increments instead of 1 like usual. Very odd.

It's a cool device and worth developing.
Thanks