Arturia Preset sound: Random Melodies

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#1

I understand what random means, but unfortunately that very nice preset sound is too random.

I made a melody with Random melodies-preset and saved, as the rhythm of certain melody parts were excellent.

Now I wanted to change the drum track and noticed that the random melody track has different rhythm at each time I play it. As I know nothing about programming/mapping the sounds etc, is there any method to get the “original” rhythm again as it was saved the first time?

I have played the track now about 20 times and it is different each time in rhythm.
Luckily I took a high quality MP3 saved of the original back then, but I cannot get it anymore, despite no changes are done to the track since then.

Again - I understand what random means, but should it keep the “randomness” same as it was saved and is there any way to re-create it?

#2

Hi @Kippis and welcome to The Sound Explorers Forum!

You’ve kind of answered your own question to some extent there, i’m afraid.
Unless you had the original audio as an example for people to hear, it’s going to be impossible to reproduce, unfortunately.

I know it doesn’t really help you to get back to your original sound, it throws up a couple of things to keep in mind and be aware of… Possibly record ALL your audio if you’re working with something ‘random’ to avoid the same situation and spend time learning how each synth plugin works so you can ‘reverse engineer’ them when needed.

HTH!

#3

Thank you for the answer. Luckily I have an audio sample existing.

Cheers

#4

Good stuff!
You’re clearly a ‘quick learner’! :sunglasses:

#5

Hi Matjones,
I found a file “.asd” which was created by Apple computer while taking an “mp3” copy of the song.

I compared that to the other “.asd” file made from the same song, different day and naturally the content is different.

In order to try to recreate the wanted song again, is that info in any means valuable? There is maybe 15 lines on non-understandable rows of characters.

The other idea, how to break down the Preset-sound to the components it is using, if I try some day to play it one by one to the MIDI-tracks? Advantage of this is, it will not use random anymore.

BR
Kippis