The audio support in vvvv uses directshow. That means no ASIO, so most audio things are better done (for now) outside the app in another host. Its not really intended as a sequencer- and its frame based processing makes audio clocks a bit of a headache. I highly recommend it with OSC since it adopts “spreads” very well so all iterations are handled swiftly.. it is my definative goto for interfacing with hardware like menomes or serial interfaces. To do shaders, which is really where the visual tricks take place, it uses high-level shader language which is similar to C coding.

One of the purposes of this creation, is to use it as a giant touch screen on my presentations, so a “looking cooler” is a must.
To be honest I was working mostly on the frame work, the interaction between cells, direction handling etc. I din’t spend more than half an hour on the midi generation part. Now that I have a functional hexagonal framework I will take care of the “musical part”, but wait… the fact that I didn’t spent time programming the musical part doesn’t means I didn’t spent time thinking about it. Spreading different scales on an hexagonal pattern, then activate some hexs and let them behave by cellular automaton rules is a kind of random that I think is not possible to achieve today on Live (I said today because with the new MAX integration may be all can be possible on Live from then)

If you think this could be interesting just stay tuned!

Also the vvvv patch will be available soon, so you can do your own mods.

Best,
Gustavo

- ya, you should totally build a visually based generative synth in VVV controlling ableton and have it do the same shit as you can in ableton, except a little bit looking cooler, freshness ;)

I mean most of this generated stuff they all sound the same, random , glitchy , and “caotic”

this in many cases is on purpose , and is its natural sound, but i would like that this same example could sound more “musical”

but with the same versatility and freshness, anyway is a nice technic.