Bird Ladies - Baroque Melody Generator 3000 - Demo
Channel: Martin Bussy-Pâris
Date: 2020-05-16

Bird Ladies is a narrative game to be released in 2020.

Baroque Melody Generator 3000 is a standalone program demonstrating the music system of Bird Ladies. Feel free to use it to liven up your baroque nights!
You can download it from https://martinbussyparis.itch.io/baroque-melody-generator-3000

You can see here how it sounds in Unity and what kind of music parameters can be driven by narration and gameplay variables.

The whole generative music logic and both instruments synthesised in real time (the harpsichord and the organ) have been done in Pure Data. The Heavy compiler made by Enzien Audio was then used to generate two Wwise source plugins (one per instrument) out of the Pure Data patches.

The pattern-based melody generation gives much better results than the fully random Markov chain-based generation that we had earlier in the project and that lacked structure.

Have fun and all feedback is welcome :)