General informations

L’Ingenuo is a piece for voice, euphonium, french horn and real time electronics.

The electronics consists in soundfiles, harmonizers, resonators and spatialisation on voice, tuba (euphonium) and french horn.

The cues are trigerred with a midi sustain pedal by the tuba (euphonium) player.

Install - Installation Procedures

1. copy the folder called Ingenuo-2019 on your hard disk drive.
2. launch Max8.
3. in the options menu, click on file preferences. Then add the folder Ingenuo-2019 (Cf. Fig. Files Preferences).
4. quit Max8
5. launch the file called Ingenuo-Max8

File preferences

Patch presentation

The concert patch main window is structured this way:

• on the left side : Interface for checking and modifying parameters of live treatments.
• detect_&_harmo : detect, count and harmonize attacks.
• syllabes_soprano : yin detection to separate voiced and unvoiced parts.
• psychoirtrist : make choir with 1, 2, 4, 7, or 11 voices.
• IO_tuba : detect attacks, and apply 2 resonators to make “I” and “O”.
• footsteps : sound files of foot steps.
• fichiers_son : sound files.
• reverb_A and reverb_B : 2 different reverbs.
• panning_edit and panning_matrice : panning.
• on the right side : Step by step initialisation.

A Midi mixing desk (like BCF2000 from Behringer) is used to control volume output from all treatments.

Ingenuo main window

Inputs/Outputs

There are 3 inputs for soprano, tuba and french horn.

There are 6 outputs: (dac 1..6 on loudspeakers 1 front left, 2 front right, 3middle left, 4 middle right, 5 back left and 6 back right)

Initialization

1. Click in the reset bang.
2. Click in the init bang.
3. Choose the midi device for the midi mixing desk.
4. Click to start DSP.

DSP should be set to sampling rate 48000, I/O vs 256, Svs 256, overdrive on, audio interrupt off.

1. Check the midi pedal and click in the little toggle labelled “on”.

Now, the first pedal starts the patch.

Initialization part of the main window

Stage Setup Diagram

Loudspeaker Setup Diagram

MIDI setup

Midi connection diagram

Midi connection diagram

Midi mixing desk configuration

Midi mixing desk controls the “out” volume for all treatments :

• 1 - detect & harm
• 2 - syllabes soprano
• 3 - psychoirtrist
• 4 - IO tuba
• 5 - soundfiles
• 6 - footsteps
• 7 - RevA
• 8 - RevB

Midi mixing desk