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Here’s a highdea. If weed could make music, what do you think it might sound like? Would our little buds make stoner metal, droning along hazily as a gruff-voiced man sings about chemtrails? Would it churn out bratty punk songs, scrawling crude drawings of cats and anarchy symbols in the margins of their notebooks? Would it make foggy, drawling West Coast rap? Thanks to the green-thumbed folks over at MIDI Sprout, we have an answer. Back in mid-April the makers of the plant-based instrument—which reads micro-voltages on the surface of leaves, not unlike a lie detector test, and translates them into MIDI data that can be read by a synthesizer—took some time during a trip to South America to attach their device to a cannabis plant. In a video posted to their YouTube channel—which was originally published on April 20, naturally, but started floating around again yesterday thanks to the wonderful weed zine Dope Girls—you can hear the results. Videos by VICE The pattern it produces is slow and droning, with high-pitched melodies that move in graceful arcs and bass tones that hum monotonously. It’s, frankly, not all that different from the sort of spacey synth stuff that I spend most of my days listening to whilst blogging. So, happy 4/20 in July. Check out the beautiful music of marijuana in the video below, and head over to our 2016 feature on MIDI Sprout for a more detailed understanding of how the instrument actually works.

Scaling, MIDI routing, CC mapping and polyphony settings can take your plant music to the next level. Let's dive in a little deeper.About MIDI Notes and CCPlantWave's firmware allows you to change MIDI settings on your device, including the channel you're sending MIDI notes as well as the Control Number of CC messages. Factory settings have notes coming on Channel 1 and Control Number set to 80.MIDI notes on a PlantWave are generated by changes in conductivity of your plant. MIDI CC messages are generated by the velocity of those changes. While MIDI note messages determine the note sent to your synthesizer, MIDI CC messages can be used to allow a plant to make timbral changes to the expression of those notes.For instance, if you had a Roland Juno 106, you could set the MIDI CC value of your PlantWave to control the Attack Envelope by changing the Control Number on your device to CC20. This means, that, while a plant may generate a note message of C4, it's activity level will determine the attack of that note. This allows for more expression in the music played by your plant and also gives you more information to tune into through monitoring your plant with a synthesizer.Different synths have different Control Number configurations, so getting the most out of your synth will require getting to know what parameters can be controlled by MIDI CC message and then changing the output of your PlantWave accordingly. Please proceed with caution when giving a plant control of CC parameters of your synth. It's best to stick to more subtle effects. We do not recommend giving a plant control of volume or low pass filters with high resonance, for instance.About Scaling and PolyphonyPlantWave's firmware comes with a variety of Scaling and Polyphony options, allowing you to scale your plant's data to a specific key and decide how many notes will be sent to your synthesizer at one time. While the device ships with Chromatic tuning, we recommend Pentatonic scales for their ability to be played in any order and maintain harmony. That said, some users of our previous device (MIDI Sprout) report their plants coming into harmony with singing over time, even with the device set to Chromatic. Surely there is some experimentation to be had here. Was this article helpful?

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