Mozaic: MutatoR

MutatoR is a script found on PatchStorage that allows to apply independant note mutations and humanization to all 16 midi channels with 64 user-defined configurations organized in 4 banks. MutatorR can issue pattern based or random note drops, velocity changes, transpositions with scales and destination channel routings independenly for each channel to transform the melodic and rhyhtmic qualities of the input material.

The script is based on the concepts of the CopyCat, Midi Matrix Switch and ToggleChannels.

Like its predecessors it needs a special project setup:

• All midi generators need to send on different midi output channels and need to be routed into the MutatoR script
• All sound generator reacting to the midi generators need to read their midi input from the MutatoR script and also need to apply an input channel filter to select the correct generator.
• The more midi generators there are, the more variety can be created
• For sonic variety, you can add alternative sound generators receiving on separate midi channels

(See Midi routing for multi-channel-midi processing plugins for an overview about this topic)

Basically all generated midi input is fed into MutatoR on up to 16 separate midi channels and all sound generators listen to the output of the script, but each only to a different one of the channels.

There are three main views

• The CHANNEL View shows the applied modifications on the pad labels of each channel with different colors for each for the channel modes (Thru, Apply or Mute)

• The CONFIG View shows one of four configration banks in batches of 16 pads labeled with user-defined names. The banks have different colors: lavender, violet, magenta and yellow. The current active config is highlighted in light blue.

• The EDITOR View consists of 10 pages with knobs per channel focusing on one mutation aspect per page.

and two secondary views (SWAP/COPY, HELP)