not necessarily related to this... I found that my girlfriend has two metal plates on her design room wall (for sticking magnets to)... and they make a lovely reverberation! I'm tryin' to figure out a way to hornswaggle them into my agenda!

I just tried it... and it definitely melds everything together quite nicely! I was having problems understanding when is the right time to release the note... and this helps immensely!

That was very pretty. I liked the chord progression a lot and I'd love to see an analysis of it. It was rather Chopin-esq which I love. A sustain on certain notes will help, but it was bootyfull. Nice work.

C M IV

C = key
M = Major (or m=minor)
IV = chord

yes.. saro... this would be the F... of course.

I take it a step further and use this as the mode for every note playing in my max patch,

basically.. I generate a sequence of notes...

1 5 10

...which get run through a filter that is based on the notation string I detailed above.

the filter interprets each number as the interval where 1=root... 5=fifth etc...

these numbers get converted into midi note numbers which can then be tranposed by octaves (or otherwise).

I find this advantageous in that I can have multiple parallel processes generating notes that remain in the same key/scale/mode... which I apply globally to the whole system. for me it allows me to compose on all white keys then easily "color" the music after the fact.. and in real time.. without much thought.

note that my use of minor keys is very simplistic. I designed my filter so that I can design my own scales using ttsttts or whatnot... but I know very little about minor keys at this point.