Drawing In (v3) MIDI
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I transcribed the music in the Drawing In (v.3) video to MIDI and tried it out with a few standard library instruments. Which wasn’t all that impressive initially but something odd happened when I added the timing track in — what had been a fairly basic delay effect on the Glockenspiel (substituting for the bell sound from the MS‑20) started doing some fairly wild and wonderful things. I’m not sure quite why, but this is clearly adding some modulation to the delay timing, so it probably qualifies as a flanging effect. After listening to it for a while I realised it is similar to some effects I heard long ago, possibly on some Pink Floyd albums from about 1971. So presumably you can do this sort of thing with tape delays.
This is the audio output I’m getting. Not a finished track, just for illustration.
To be clear, I wouldn’t expect audio arrangement software to do this. It seems like a bad idea if timing changes can affect your sound. But I’m starting to like the result. I just want a way to do it deliberately without having to change the timing.