Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
An adorable little ambient music generator in Pd that you can build yourself.
Once I get started on something, it's hard to stop. Here's an example of possible "next steps" from the little ambient machine that I shared in my Pd Clamping VCA video (youtu.be/1JGyAzPG4-E) a few weeks back.
More Pure Data Tutorials: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6FB_mmJ77C6fdV8G6L4zDut
Pure Data No-Talking Patch-from-Scratch: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6ESr9SuBYJARJkETfp12Dp3
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An adorable little ambient music generator in Pd that you can build yourself.
Once I get started on something, it's hard to stop. Here's an example of possible "next steps" from the little ambient machine that I shared in my Pd Clamping VCA video (youtu.be/1JGyAzPG4-E) a few weeks back.
More Pure Data Tutorials: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6FB_mmJ77C6fdV8G6L4zDut
Pure Data No-Talking Patch-from-Scratch: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6ESr9SuBYJARJkETfp12Dp3
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![Pd Artificial Neural Network Patch from Scratch (ANN Pure Data Vanilla) | Simon Hutchinson
Coding (well, “patching”) an artificial neural network in Pure Data Vanilla to create some generative ambient filter pings.
From zero to neural network in about ten minutes!
In audio terms, an artificial neuron is just a nonlinear mixer, and, to create a network of these neurons, all we need to do is run them into each other. So, in this video, I do just that: we make our neuron, duplicate it out until we have 20 of them, and then send some LFOs through that neural network. In the end, we use the output to trigger filter “pings” of five different notes.
There’s not really any kind of true artificial intelligence (or “deep learning”) in this neural network, because the output of the network, while it is fed back, doesn’t go back an affect the weights of the inputs in the individual neurons. That said, if we wanted machine learning, we would have to have some kind of desired goal (e.g. playing a Beethoven symphony or a major scale). Here, we just let the neural network provide us with some outputs for some Pure Data generative ambient pings. Add some delay, and you’re all set.
Theres no talking on this one, just building the patch, and listening to it go.
Creating an artificial neuron in Pd: https://youtu.be/PdJG5SFmVaw
Pinging Filters in Pd: https://youtu.be/ND-RkepwWQk
Pure Data introductory tutorials here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6FB_mmJ77C6fdV8G6L4zDut
More no-talking Pure Data jams and patch-from-scratch videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6ESr9SuBYJARJkETfp12Dp3
0:00 Demo
0:12 Building an artificial neuron
2:00 Networking our neurons
3:47 Feeding LFOs into the network
4:20 Checking the output of the network
5:00 Pinging filters with [threshold~]
8:55 Adding some feedback
10:18 Commenting our code
12:47 Playing with the network
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![Pure Data Live Audio Processing of Sleigh Bells (Interactive Noise Music System) | Simon Hutchinson
Doing some live processing of sleigh bells in Pure Data to create an Interactive Holiday Noise Music System.
Since its mid-December, lets make some holiday music. If youre sick of the standard cloying Muzak fare, though, you can make your own feedback delay sample-crushing interactive music system in Pure Data in less than an hour.
The main point here is getting a trigger from audio input crossing a loudness threshold. Once we have that trigger, we can use it to make changes in live-processing of a sound and trigger other sounds too. This is a simple idea, but its effectiveness is going to depend on what these changes are and how we play with the system.
More experimental Christmas music: https://youtu.be/ddgVYAs76YU
More Pure Data tutorials: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6FB_mmJ77C6fdV8G6L4zDut
0:00 Demo
0:26 Introduction / Goals
1:23 Input Monitoring
2:41 Direct (Dry) Output
4:08 Feature Extraction with [sigmund~]
6:55 Amplitude as Trigger
8:43 Triggering Changes in Delay
12:44 Sample-Crushing
17:03 Triggering an Oscillator
19:37 Oscillators into Harmony
23:35 Putting it all together
25:33 Closing Thoughts
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#puredata #ChristmasMusic #noisemusic #SoundSynthesis #SoundDesign #ExperimentalMusic Pure Data Live Audio Processing of Sleigh Bells (Interactive Noise Music System) | Simon Hutchinson](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VVFrEd272gk/mqdefault.jpg)


