Glitch Sequencer: FREE midi sequencer based on Conway's Game of Life



This Über cool free midi sequencer is made by SF local and robotspeak friend Bret Truschan. It was Built using Processing, an open source programming environment. Needless to say Glitch Sequencer is a winner! Its a great app to get the creative juices flowing and lately I can't seem to set it down. Check it out! Now featuring OSC in and out!


*Excerpt from glitch-sequencer*

New!! Version 2.0 Beta. New features:

Configurable "world wrap" (off by default) gives your patterns room to grow.

Completely customizable CA rules. (See /Data/rules.bsh)

MIDI automation of snapshots, volume, and mutes. Fully configurable. See /Data/config.xml

OSC support for both automation and for sending out note information. See /Data/config.xml

Ability to turn MIDI off entirely. This might be useful for people who only wish to use OSC.

Fixed a few bugs with the Nudge Select control

Customizable swatch colors

"Glitch Sequencer is a free cellular automaton based MIDI sequencer for the PC and Mac. It offers an interesting style of composition based on evolving patterns and is great for fast, fluid experimentation. Glitch Sequencer was written by Bret Truchan in Processing using themidibus MIDI library. "

Go get it NOW! and if you feel so inclined kick down a donation for Bret's awesome work!
www.glitch-sequencer.com

Siftables Interactive Computerized Tiles!

These things are soo f**kin cool! I can't wait until they are a commercially available product, reactable look out!

Siftables Music Sequencer from Jeevan Kalanithi on Vimeo.

*The Following is an excerpt from David Merrill's website*

Imagine overturning a container of nuts and bolts, then looking through the resulting pile for a particular item. Or spreading photographs out on a tabletop and then beginning to sort them into piles. During these activities we interact with large numbers of small objects at the same time, and they utilize all of our fingers and both hands together. We humans are skilled at using our hands in these ways, and can effortlessly sift and sort - focusing on our higher level goals rather than the items themselves.

Siftables aims to enable people to interact with information and media in physical, natural ways that approach interactions with physical objects in our everyday lives. As an interaction platform, Siftables applies technology and methodology from wireless sensor networks to tangible user interfaces. Siftables are independent, compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication capabilities. They can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media. Siftables can be used to implement any number of gestural interaction languages and HCI applications.

The Siftables interaction platform is a collaboration with Jeevan Kalanithi, of Taco Lab.

Novation Automap App for the iPhone / iPod Touch

I am really looking forward to this one, it should be available through the iTunes store in July.

MIDI CONTROL IN YOUR PALM
Now you can turn your iPhone / iPod touch into a MIDI controller, with multiple faders and buttons easily assigned to parameters in any software that allows MIDI control, and even some that don't!

AUTOMATIC PLUG-IN MAPPING
Instant, wireless, palm-sized control of all automatable VST, AU or Pro Tools format plug-ins in any DAW.

INSTANT VISUAL FEEDBACK
See at a glance how every control on your iPhone / iPod touch is assigned, both on the iPhone / iPod touch itself, and across your computer screen

LEARN AND CLEAR MODES
Make and delete assignments directly from your computer screen using lightening-fast 'Click-Touch-Assign' facilities.

AUTOMATIC MIXER CONTROL
Ideal for remote track arming and muting, transport and master level controls in a growing number of supported DAWs. (Control these elements in non-supported DAWs using separate dedicated Automap systems, or your own custom mappings.)

PLUG-IN AND MIXER MAP BROWSING FACILITY
Get to the right software fast! Control maps are automatically placed into categories depending on type (instrument, mixer etc.) for quick and easy browsing and selection with hardware or software.