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Creating Effects
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<P>
It's really quite amazing how easy and effective it is to create
different patterns, sequences and special effects. As
<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> was
developed lots of silly things were tried...this chapter is an
attempt to display and preserve some of them.
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The examples don't show any music to apply the patterns or sequences
to. The manual assumes that if you've read this far you'll know
that you should have something like:
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<B>1 C
<BR>
2 G
<BR>
3 G
<BR>
4 C </B>
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as a simple test piece to apply tests to.
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Overlapping Notes</A>
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As a general rule, you should not create patterns in which notes
overlap. However, here's an interesting effect which relies on
ignoring that rule:
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<B>Begin Scale
<BR> define S1 1 1+1+1+1 90
<BR> define S32 S1 * 32
<BR> Sequence S32
<BR> ScaleType
<BR> Direction Both
<BR> Voice Accordion
<BR> Octave 5
<BR>
End </B>
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``S1'' is defined with a note length of 4 whole notes (1+1+1+1) so that
when it is multiplied for S32 a pattern of 32 8th notes is created.
Of course, the notes overlap. Running this up and down a chromatic
scale is ``interesting.'' You might want to play with this a bit and
try changing ``S1'' to:
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<B>define S1 1 1 90 </B>
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to see what the effect is of the notes overlapping.
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Jungle Birds</A>
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Here's another use for S<SMALL>CALE</SMALL>s. Someone (certainly not the
author) decided that some jungle sounds would be perfect as an
introduction to ``Yellow Bird''.
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<B>groove Rhumba
<BR>
Begin Scale
<BR> define S1 1 1 90
<BR> define S32 S1 * 32
<BR> Sequence S32
<BR> ScaleType Chromatic
<BR> Direction Random
<BR> Voice BirdTweet
<BR> Octave 5 6 4 5
<BR> RVolume 30
<BR> Rtime 2 3 4 5
<BR> Volume pp pp ppp ppp
<BR>
End
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DefGroove BirdRhumba </B>
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The above is an extract from the
<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> score. The entire song is
included in the ``songs'' directory of this distribution.
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A neat trick is to create the bird sound track and then add it to the
existing Rhumba groove. Then define a new groove. Now one can select
either the library ``rhumba'' or the enhanced ``BirdRhumba'' with a
simple G<SMALL>ROOVE</SMALL> directive.
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