Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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A Pure Data interactive system that plays hardcore drumbeats when it's not receiving any audio input.

At the start of winter break, I wanted to make some music and burn off some steam. The "Interactive Hardcore Music System" was the perfect solution for both. Here, I talk through the Pure Data patch explaining how it works and how I've used it, and waxing philosophical about how things don't need to be complicated to be sophisticated (and musically expressive).

Get the "Benjolin Synthcore" album on bandcamp: simonhutchinson.bandcamp.com/album/benjolin-synthcore

More Pure Data Tutorials on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6FB_mmJ77C6fdV8G6L4zDut
No-talking Pd patching/jams: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6ESr9SuBYJARJkETfp12Dp3

0:00 Intro/What is this thing?
1:41 Input section of the patch
4:30 Interaction with Logic Pro X
4:53 Compression as secret sauce
6:03 Creating the beat (probability gates)
7:34 The results
8:13 Other examples
9:25 Closing: Sophisticated ≠ Complicated

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#SoundSynthesis #SoundDesign #ExperimentalMusic