Song with eight different voices

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I have made a video that shows a cool graph: https://archive.org/details/gray-4-universal.

To accompany the video, I made a song, according to the folllowing rule:
the notes played at a given time correspond to the active vertices in the graph of the video (0 -> B, 1 -> C,..., 6->a, 7-b) at that time. When a vertex is active (bold) in the video, it should play its note.
I also played with the Pan-settings, so that the notes from vertices in column 1,2,3,4 in the video are played with pan set to -100,-30,30,100.

Currently the sound you hear is a single VTS instrument. What I want is to have each vertex use a different instrument, and the notes B,C,D,..,b should seem to be rising. Furthermore, the different combinations that occur in the video should not sound too bad.
But I could not get this to work with LMMS. When using different instruments, the notes did not not always seem to be rising.
Or sometimes the combination of them did not sound nice.

Anyone have any suggestions what instruments to use?
Or if someone wants to try and make an eight-instrument version of this song, I'm curious at the result.
Try using a large attack, perhaps? And try different instruments, presets, and VSTs. Some things sound better on some instruments than others.
Thing is, I don't quite understand what you're doing and what it represents, so I can't help much. But I'd like to understand.
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fs123 wrote:
Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:38 pm
I have made a video that shows a cool graph: https://archive.org/details/gray-4-universal.

To accompany the video, I made a song, according to the folllowing rule:
the notes played at a given time correspond to the active vertices in the graph of the video (0 -> B, 1 -> C,..., 6->a, 7-b) at that time. When a vertex is active (bold) in the video, it should play its note.
I also played with the Pan-settings, so that the notes from vertices in column 1,2,3,4 in the video are played with pan set to -100,-30,30,100.

Currently the sound you hear is a single VTS instrument. What I want is to have each vertex use a different instrument, and the notes B,C,D,..,b should seem to be rising. Furthermore, the different combinations that occur in the video should not sound too bad.
But I could not get this to work with LMMS. When using different instruments, the notes did not not always seem to be rising.
Or sometimes the combination of them did not sound nice.

Anyone have any suggestions what instruments to use?
Or if someone wants to try and make an eight-instrument version of this song, I'm curious at the result.
You want to make reverse visualization !
Thats a tall order!
'Normally' the music is done first, and then the visualization is done, but you have it the other way around.

You need to tackle a couple of basics so it will not be too difficult to make the soundtrack.
1) Establish what BPM would be best fitting to the video. You can tab to the video with a gadget like this one: https://www.beatsperminuteonline.com/
And find the BPM that fits the imagery best.
2) Find an instrument that express the mood you want to have in the complete art-installation.
You will get very different expressions from something like a pad and a supersaw, but in fact, that is something you can change and experiment with after you have made the sound-track.
Instruments in LMMS is interchangeable with just a few clicks!
But then you write:
notes did not not always seem to be rising
.
For that you need to automate the volume, or perhaps much better a filter-change!
You can take a look at a tutorial i made many y ago, where i explain how to make Risers:

Or sometimes the combination of them did not sound nice.
That is a question of using notes in scale!
Use LMMS' scale-tool and stay in scale!
https://docs.lmms.io/user-manual/3-navi ... piano-keys
Thanks for the help.
BPM that works for me at the moment is 23 to be in sync with the video.

For the 'notes should be rising', I think I was not clear enough what my problem is. I want that when one instrument plays a C5, and another instrument plays a D5, then the second one should sound higher. But when using different instruments, this does not always seem to work. It seems to me that on the Piano roll I see only C5 being pressed, but on the VST-plugin piano I also see C6 being pressed sometimes. So the actual result sounds more like C6 in this case. If the next instument plays only D5, this is lower than C6 and thus not rising. So the problem happens I think because some (many!) instruments play other notes than only the ones indicated on the Piano Roll.
Have you heard of "Changing basenote"?
Take a look at this: https://docs.lmms.io/user-manual/3-navi ... -base-note
There is a tiny white box in the black line above your keyboard in an instrument edit box. Move it an octave up so your C6-like sound becomes a C5. This way, it'll send the right note.