{"id":1484,"date":"2020-04-19T17:51:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T17:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/?page_id=1484"},"modified":"2025-09-14T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:59:20","slug":"trevocon-count","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/patches-and-projects\/trevocon-count\/","title":{"rendered":"TrevoCon-Count"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1484\" class=\"elementor elementor-1484\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49f5776b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"49f5776b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-752b7bbd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"752b7bbd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Part of the\u00a0TrevoCon series<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Control (disambiguation)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TrevoCon-Count is a Max for Live plugin for counting MIDI notes. If we&#8217;ve learned anything from 2020, it is that numbers are important. Insert TrevoCon-Count into an Ableton Live MIDI or Instrument track, click &#8220;Reset&#8221; and watch it count notes in realtime. Data is captured and exported for in-depth analysis.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1490\" src=\"https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TrevoCon-Count_sc1-1024x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TrevoCon-Count_sc1-1024x226.png 1024w, https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TrevoCon-Count_sc1-500x110.png 500w, https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TrevoCon-Count_sc1-768x169.png 768w, https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TrevoCon-Count_sc1.png 1786w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Use<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Setup<\/strong> &#8211; Place TrevoCon-Count on an Ableton Live 10 MIDI or Instrument track. Press &#8220;reset&#8221; to zero the counters. Play your MIDI.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Observe Counts<\/strong> &#8211; Notes in the range fo C0 to C6\u00a0 will be counted and displayed in realtime. Notes outside of that range will show in the &#8220;Out of Range&#8221; box.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Observe a Graph<\/strong> &#8211; The graph on the right side shows a realtime display of the MIDI Note vs Note Count. Use the adjustments at the bottom right to set the starting note for the graph and the width &#8211; MIDI note 36, 24 notes is 2 octaves and the vertical scale.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>View summary data<\/strong> &#8211; Press the &#8220;view&#8221; button to open the Max\/MSP window with data. Note that the numbers start at 1.<br \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1492\" src=\"https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TrevoCon-Count_sc2b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TrevoCon-Count_sc2b.png 690w, https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TrevoCon-Count_sc2b-353x500.png 353w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Export<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8211; Press the &#8220;export&#8221; button to save the data as a tab-delimited text file. Browse to where you want to store the file. Be sure to save with a &#8220;.txt&#8221; file extension so that it is readable by Excel and\/or Google Sheets. The numbers is this file are the actual note counts (and will show &#8220;0&#8221; for no counts).<br \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1493\" src=\"https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TrevoCon-Count_sc3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TrevoCon-Count_sc3.png 736w, https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TrevoCon-Count_sc3-500x450.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Applications for TrevoCon-Count<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Performer stress<\/strong> &#8211; Playing too many of the same note can cause<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Repetitive_strain_injury\"> repetitive stress injury<\/a> (RSI). Use <em>TrevoCon-Count<\/em> to track notes and repetitions. When a pianist plays too many piano Bb notes, for example, they risk\u00a0 permanent pinky damage.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Performer limits<\/strong> &#8211; Are you composing with too many Eb to D repetitions for trumpet? The valve complexity may be too difficult for even an intermediate performer.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pitch of Speech Analysis<\/strong> &#8211; Use The Ableton Live &#8220;Convert to Melody&#8221;, then run the resultant MIDI track through <em>TrevoCon-Count<\/em>. Find a speaker&#8217;s average pitch or octave range.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Scale Rules<\/strong> &#8211; do your compositions deviate too much? Know your &#8220;out of scale&#8221; statistics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Downloads<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Just the Max for Live plugin &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TrevoCon-Count.amxd.zip\">TrevoCon-Count.amxd.zip<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ableton Live Set with MIDI extracted from the 4\/17\/2020 Gov. Cuomo Response &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-17_Cuomo-Project.zip\">2020-04-17_Cuomo Project.zip<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Export of Gov. Cuomo Response data created with <em>TrevoCon-Count<\/em> &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-17_Cuomo_stats.txt\">2020-04-17_Cuomo_stats.txt<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Video:<\/h2>\n<p>In this example, the <em>TrevoCon-Count<\/em> plugin is used on a voice recording that was converted to &#8220;Melody&#8221; in Ableton Live 10.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of Gov. Cuomo&#8217;s coronavirus briefing on Friday, the president criticized him in a pair of tweets. This piece is the 9 minutes 12 seconds created from the governor&#8217;s realtime response reconverted to MIDI and played on a metallic mallet instrument and vocoder. The <em>TrevoCon-Count<\/em> Max for Live patch was used to count the data and show that the <strong>1448 notes<\/strong> are broken out as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A 17<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A# 23<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">B 52<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">C 131<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">C# 89<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">D 193<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">D# 156<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">E 225<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">F 99<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">F# 118<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">G 67<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">G# 67<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A 59<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A# 37<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">B 31<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">C 24<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">C# 10<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">D 11<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[youtube id=&#8221;ghuXKhvpcNo&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Installation:<\/h2>\n<p>No externals are required to run this plugin. Place the <em>TrevoCon-Count<\/em> plugin on a MIDI or Instrument track or unzip and open the Ableton Live 10 Set.<\/p>\n<p><em>View more patches in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trevor.ucsd.edu\/a\/wp6\/patches-and-projects\">TrevoCon series<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Part of the\u00a0TrevoCon series &#8211; Control (disambiguation) TrevoCon-Count is a Max for Live plugin for counting MIDI notes. If we&#8217;ve learned anything from 2020, it is that numbers are important. Insert TrevoCon-Count into an Ableton Live MIDI or Instrument track, click &#8220;Reset&#8221; and watch it count notes in realtime. 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