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A GUIDE TO GENERATIVE PATCHING

Generative music means many things to many people, which makes it both exciting to explore, while also making it harder to cover a lot of ground in the limited space that we have here. That said, we’ll try to make this less about genre and more about exploring the tools and techniques you can use to set up your own generative patches.

Before any of that though, let’s take a look at what generative music is. There are some people out there, including some musicians, who look

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