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Otomata: Fun little music-generator thingy


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http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata

A free little 'generative sequencer' that is designed in such a way that you can make gradually-evolving sequences of music.

There's only one scale, so a lot of things tend to sound the same, but all in all, it's a fun program to dick around with for a little bit.

Each square has 4 possible directions, and when it hits an edge it plays a certain note on a scale. When it collides with another square it changes direction, so thus, set up in a certain way you can have constantly-changing sequences of music. You can post the results you've made, as well.

Here's some tests I've whipped up, so you can see how things go about:

http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=6t7q8o2o2x1335

http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=324n5x3u4a5g

How even a really simple pattern can yield impressive melodic results

A guy from another forum made this; it's pretty fun to watch

No recording feature yet (though that'd be really awesome), and while I've posted this on other forums (with limited success), I thought since we're all music nuts around here, you guys might be able to have some real fun with this.

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I wouldn't say no to this with midi and different scales, no sir no.

Yeah. Ideally, you'd be able to turn notes on and off to get the scale you wanted, program behaviors and tempos for the blocks, set each block or note to output on a specific channel and at a specific velocity, and so forth. There are so many things that could be done with this.

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Hmm, more fun than it first seems. It's cleverly made, in that it often pays off to make patterns that are obviously constructive, then adding something small that'll slowly destabilize the pattern to create more intricate lines.

http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=243s6c107m2v5o632h5m6t7o6d302i1s4z4l4k4j

VST, anyone?

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