Maybe best to start with a „pattern“-engine, where you can finely define which notes to play/how often etc. Best way to start is (IMHO) opening a mix and finding what it‘s doing. Wotja generates audio and midi inside the space (instrument/scale/harmony/rhythm) that you define. It’s a really great app and the devs seem very committed to it which is super said: Also feeding a bunch of AUs into it and having it randomize loops from those has led me to some crazy ideas and rhythms. I’ll even use it to make a composition that I record and then export to chop and sample elsewhere. I think must have tapped on the plugin scanner, which you only need to do if you're using Wotja as an AU said: (This is where it gets deep and you need to burrow into the copious in-app documentation, but the heaviest lifting is done by the Rules section.) Click on a Generator to select it, and scroll the parameter pane for all the various things you can set and tweak.Click on the synth network or effects chain to see inside either, and on each component in the network to see and edit its parameters. Each Cell consists of one or more Generators (algorithmic note-composition modules) on the left, each speaking to a modular hybrid synth network patch on the right via a MIDI channel the audio output then passes through an effects chain.Click on a Cell to access its internal construction. Most of the built-in Flows generate Mixes with three tracks of four Cells each. Save the current piece to a Mix (a single editable piece), which will allow you to examine and edit how it’s built.(You can also build a piece up from scratch, but this is the quick-entry route.) Generate new pieces by hitting the fast-forward button. These are collections of randomisation templates that will be randomly selected between to auto-create pieces in an infinite generative radio. Here's a 2023 update of the 1-minute quickstart giftorial I did a couple of years ago (original here): and am happy to pay the annual subscription as a small tip for the enormous amount of work this represents. I dont use it everyday, but come back to it regularly. There is very detailed documentation linked in the app, and the devs are extremely responsive to questions a feedback. I think the devs see Wojta as a tool for making Wotja compositions which are then shared and played back in Wotja. Wotja is great to DO, less attractive to those around who might be listening! Again, might be my limitations! hearing flashes of stuff you think have potential then losing them forever. But TBH I've tried that, and it definitely hasn't gone that way I expected. it can be cajoled into producing interesting, meandering work, which I guess you could export as MIDI and work on from there. Wotja isn't going to make a structured pop song. OR you can run Wotja as an AU3 plugin inside another host ( Ive used it in Cubasis. The standalone app supports AU3 plugin instruments and effects. Or you can just generate a random composition at the get go, and work from there. Once you have a composition running Wotja allows it all to be randomized with a set of configurable randomization parameters. The synth can be turned off, used separately or in combination with the Midi outputs. This is presented in a customizable flow-chart GUI. The synth is modular and contains sound generating nodes like Oscillators, Samples ( sound fonts ), then filters, envelopes, modulators, effects. Midi output feeds midi outs like the apps on iOS/Mac/PC

and it's all happening over 16 midi channels into the multi timbral synth. in addition to all the usual MIDI CC stuff. Things like which notes in a scale are used, the length of each note generated, the next note interval, whether chords are produced, the depth and spread of the chord. The composer can generate ( no musical input from the user ) music in several ways - musically rhythmic notes, ambient time based notes, Pattern based notes, Notes based on Text input, plus special tracks which will Follow any of these, or even repeat them over and over with a delay.Įach of these types of composer modes has a lot of probability based parameters to dial in. Conceptually Wotja has two components, a MIDI note composer and a built in modular synth.

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