Hi !
Concept :
In motion design, it is
well known than Randomization is one of the key of very complex compositing, involving small amount of small materials. It allows to add diversity, and if it is well down, the trick is invisible for the viewer.
Let's bring this to audio :P
Context :
In my works, I create a lot of custom ambiances from recorded sounds. And some ambiances are just a big mix of a lot of other sounds. To make it sound more natural, and more rich, I have to do a lot of random stuff on all the takes. Pan, Volume, Pitch, Stretch... Things Like that.
Here is a practical example =>
Screenshot.
As you can see, there is more than
200 hundreds small sounds just for this ambiances (which is just few minutes in my project).
And I have to pan it randomly... manually.
Feature Request :
It would be OH SO MAGIC if we could have
Pan Selected Takes Randomly and even better :
Pan Selected Takes Randomly with Envelope - cause it will let us see the results of the random pan action.
Actual Solutions :- Do it manually =>time consumming but efficient
- Bring all the samples in a sampler that allow random parameters and modulation => very time consuming (you have to set all your sample in it) and not as flexible as a native solution.
Inspiration :
In the
SWS extensions, there is a brillant Action by
Xenakios :
Pan Selected Track Randomly.
More Ideas :
We could imagine some other random takes action : Random Volume For Selected Items, Random Pitch Shifting, Random Time Stretching... all of the small things we do manually do create complex ambiances !
Advanced :
Random is cool but controlled is better. What about a contextual window to let us choose Minimum and Maximum, Distribution Type (default or gaussian) and Center Shift ?
What do you think of that ?
Could I open a feature request ? :P
Thanks for listening !