This isn’t quite ready yet, but… Check out this one-shot recording of the new 64 step length capability

Hey there, it’s Steve Cooley from Haptic Synapses and Beatseqr.com.

Here’s a trick that I’ve been playing around with using quartz composer to generate curve data and send it out to osculator, and then from there you can send it out as midi cc to whatever music app you want that will accept that data to control various things. It’s pretty neat, and there’s a lot of room for exploration here. As required by the Rules of Ideas Being Spread On the Internet, we have to have a silly name for this, so let’s call this a “quartzillator”.

Load up quartz composer. I think even 10.4 had the OSC sender patch, so it should work that far back. 10.5, 10.6, and presumably every version after should be able to do this.

In a blank composition, place an “interpolation” patch and an “OSC Sender” patch. The options of these patches are ok at the default, just find out what port quartz composer is going to be using to send the OSC data out on so you can tell Osculator to listen on that port.  Add a new float OSC argument with whatever name you want.. I called mine “/oscillator”.

listen to the port sent from QC in osculator and set it up as MIDI CC

Connect the interpolation patch’s Result output port to the OSC argument’s input port. Quartz Composer is now sending curve data out on that udp port with that argument.

Connecting the interpolation patch to the OSC send patch

Launch Osculator and set the OSC Input Port to whatever the output port number was in the OSC Sender patch in quartz composer.   The argument that you made (in my case “/oscillator”) in QC should show up automagically.  Set the event type to be a “MIDI CC” output and set the value to be zero (for now.. there may be some conflicts on some numbers you choose.. most seem to be ok).

listen to the port sent from QC in osculator and set it up as MIDI CC

Ok, so if everything is working correctly, you should be able to go to your music app of choice that will accept MIDI CC messages, and assign the new “quartzillator” to whatever parameter you like.  Here’s a video of the effect in Propellerhead Reason… again, this should work in logic, live, reason, VSTs with midi learn, AU’s… pretty much anywhere that will accept midi cc.

ENJOY! Happy exploring!

Hey, so I’m switching off soundcloud… so look for the links to the audio recordings as below:

Live at Works 2009-11-09 ———————————————————————————–

Another great set!

We had a beatseqr user meetup at my house on friday night. Check out the photo!

Also, I wanted to mention that Derek and I did some great work and managed to get chase lights working while the sequencer is running. This feature will give you a sense of where you are in the sequence.

Here’s a short video on how to use beatseqr’s midi note number slider mode to access all 25 instruments in Logic Ultrabeat!

Here’s a video demo of me using Beatseqr v3 with Propellerhead Reason…. but you could use pretty much any app that accepts midi.

hey, while i have everything set up to record video demos.. here’s another one for using redrum to control Thor. I thought that was a cool trick.

I recorded a short video to show off the interface of the version 3 hardware. Here it is:

Beatseqr v3 interface tour from stevecooley on Vimeo.

oh, and.. solo mode is done…