Purpose

Feel transfers groove from one performance to another. It listens to a reference note lane, learns the timing offset and velocity of each grid slot, and then applies that feel to a second note lane live: notes are delayed toward the learned offsets and accented toward the learned velocities. It works causally with at most one grid unit of latency, and handles notes only in this version.

Use

Wire the performance whose feel you want into reference, the part to be treated into notes, and a timeline clock into timeline so the grid follows the tempo. Leave Learn on while the reference plays, then balance Timingamount and Velocityamount for how much of the feel is applied. Route the notes output to the instrument.

Inputs and outputs

• Input 0: reference is the note performance to learn feel from. Required.
• Input 1: notes is the note lane the feel is applied to. Required.
• Input 2: timeline is an optional timeline clock that sets the grid.
• Output 0: notes emits the treated note lane.
• Output 1: groove emits the learned groove data.

Controls

• Grid: slot resolution, 1/4 to 1/64.
• Patternbars: how many bars the learned pattern spans, 1 to 8.
• Freeslots: number of slots used when running without a timeline.
• Learn: keep updating the learned feel from the reference. Off freezes the current feel.
• Timingamount and Velocityamount: how much of the learned timing and velocity is applied.
• Smoothing: how quickly the learned values track the reference; higher is steadier.
• Freegridseconds: slot length in seconds when no timeline is wired.
• Reset: pulse to clear the learned feel.

Notes

• The transfer is causal: applied notes can only be delayed toward the groove, never pulled earlier, which is why the latency is bounded by one grid unit.
• Turn Learn off once the feel is right to lock it while the reference part changes.
• Feed a drummer part as reference and a rigid sequenced part as notes to make the machine part sit inside the human pocket.

Ports

Inputs

• reference row required
  note_voices_f32_v1
• notes row required
  note_voices_f32_v1
• timeline row
  timeline_state_f32_v1

Outputs

• notes row
  note_voices_f32_v1
• groove row
  control_f32_v1

Parameters

Grid (Grid) Menu op('feel').par.Grid

Default:

1/16

Options:

1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64

Patternbars (Patternbars) Int op('feel').par.Patternbars

Default:

1

Range:

1 to 8

Freeslots (Freeslots) Int op('feel').par.Freeslots

Default:

16

Range:

1 to 128

Learn (Learn) Toggle op('feel').par.Learn

Default:

On

Options:

Off, On

Timingamount (Timingamount) Float op('feel').par.Timingamount

Default:

1

Range:

0 to 1

Velocityamount (Velocityamount) Float op('feel').par.Velocityamount

Default:

1

Range:

0 to 1

Smoothing (Smoothing) Float op('feel').par.Smoothing

Default:

0.5

Range:

0 to 0.99

Freegridseconds (Freegridseconds) Float op('feel').par.Freegridseconds

Default:

0.125

Range:

0.005 to 4

Reset (Reset) Pulse op('feel').par.Reset

Default:

None