Comments on: A Mutating Drum Step Sequencer, New MIDI Library for Processing

By: Create Digital Music » glitch-sequencer: Free, Processing-Based App from GlitchDS Creator Hearts Netbooks

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:14:06 +0000

[...] recently made the jump to desktop software with Quotile, a step sequencer you can live-code for mighty morphing beats. Quotile is cool, but for many, [...]

By: Sparky - themidibus

Sparky - themidibus — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:45:57 +0000

I'm really excited to see people making cool stuff with my library. As people have said above, for mac users, because Apple doesn't provide a built-in Midi subsystem you must get a third party Midi subsystem. I think mmj is currently the best solution I think and as far as I can tell it works really well. I have heard these rumors of that it doesn't work for some people, but I have never had any problems myself. (if it doesn't for you please tell me about it, I'm curious) Please checkout my themidibus library on my website if you're interested and I would encourage people who are having mystery Midi trouble with Quotile (or if you have any questions about the library) to e-mail me or post in my topic on the processing forums. I've downloaded the mac version of Quotile and it works perfectly for me (I use a PPC and an Intel mac). Very cool, I'll have to show all my friends. Sparky

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:17:34 +0000

In order for Ruin Wesen's midi library to work on a Mac Book Pro and G5 Power Mac, I also I had to download the MMJ library. I followed a this different link from the Processing forum. I am working on some Processing musical sequencing applications right now and I am using the Tactu5 library to handle timing, and the Sonia library to handle audio playback.

By: Bret

Bret — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:18:37 +0000

Math-you,

I’ll create a distributable version of Quotile for the Mac. Processing is fairly cross-platform, but the MIDI library is the trick. My previous versions of Quotile didn’t use TheMidiBus library, so there is hope that this new version might work. I’ll post a version soon for Mac users to test.

By: Math-you

Math-you — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:06:48 +0000

Why is there not more morphing, generative drum sequencers FOR MAC! Ones with advanced rhythm functions and can transmit midi.
The best example i have seen of this is Circuit by XOXOS (for windows) and for mac the best available for mac is the Euclidian rhythm gen plugin by Shuriken.
everyone suggest max/msp, but even with reasonably good programming skills, the actual theory behind the rhythm morphing is a blur to me? have tried markov probs and more! any suggestions?

By: Bret Truchan Quotile, a freeware MIDI sequencer written in Processing

Bret Truchan Quotile, a freeware MIDI sequencer written in Processing — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:27:45 +0000

[...] Visit the Quotile website for more information. (Link via CDM) [...]

By: lilith

lilith — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:28:11 +0000

nice!

I’m a big fan of mutating drums, I usually do it with a lot of manual editing, can always use more tools

I’m also a huge fan of cells/glitch/repeater on the DS. Now I’ll have to get into Processing

By: Bret

Bret — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:58:16 +0000

Andy: The source isn’t available, but I’m certainly happy to make it available.

It looks like there’s already a Processing library available for it called oscP5. It shouldn’t be too difficult to tie that in to Quotile. Feel free to email directly (using the email at quotile-sequencer.com) if you’d like to work closely with me on it. :-)

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:50:38 +0000

Um . . . is the source available somewhere? I’m not seeing it in the zip file, and I can’t find a link on the site.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:45:09 +0000

I like the fact that the macro language is based on Bean Shell. This opens up all kinds of programming flexibility.

I’ve been using PD to play around with evolving sequencers. I think it would be great to develop a vocabulary using something like PD, then implement it in this system so that you could call higher level commands.

Also, it would be cool to tack on an OSC server so that commands could be issued over an OSC connection. Then at that point you could go meta on the whole thing, having Quotile send MIDI messages to PD, which would then execute patches that would send OSC commands back to Quotile updating the sequences. Heck, if Quotile spoke OSC in addition to MIDI it would go a long way.

But that’s all just icing on the cake. The system itself looks great as it is. So nice work guys.