Month: August 2009

Here’s Beatseqr v3. I did discover some bugs in the circuit board, and I also discovered all kinds of fun new things I didn’t know previously.. I won’t go into details. The end result is that version 3 is alive and well! Roll over the photo above to see the breakdown of how I laid out this version.

awesome demo!

More photos and a lot of progress coming soon.

Whew… I can’t wait to see how my PCBs turned out… but I’ll have to. 🙂

I just ordered 5 of these:

I’ve never ordered custom PCB’s before in my life, so this awesome and terrifying all at the same time.  So hopefully, in a few weeks I’ll get my boards and I’ll be able to put one together, test it out, have everything work out just fine, and then I can work on laser cutting the panel and enclosure… and bask in the glow of a successful venture into horrifyingly unknown territory.  Cross your fingers!

We are pleased to announce that Roxor 4.2 and Steppa v0.26 are available on the downloads page.

Roxor 4.2 features:

• Launching!  I think I’ve figured out all of framework problems I was having.
• Auto-updates, and if not fully automatic, try “check for updates” in the application menu.

Steppa v0.26 features:

• takes advantage of the /midinotenum1 – /midinotenum8 OSC messages that Roxor can emit… so for instance, in Roxor, there are what we call stepper controls labeled “Note number” and sub-labeled 1 through 8 as see highlighted in yellow in this image:
• Steppa will now take advantage of these controls and let you set the arbitrary midi note number to whatever these controls are set for.  This is awesome, because now you can really expand, for instance, which of the 25 instruments in Apple’s Logic Ultrabeat plugin you want to loop with in roxor+steppa:
  

  Or instead of being stopped at instrument 8 in Propellerhead Reason’s Redrum drum module, you could push one or two channels out to address redrum’s 9th and 10th instrument slot by changing the midi note number controls up a couple of numbers.
  

  And further research has shown that you easily use roxor+steppa to control synth and sampler modules in any Apple Mac OS X application that can receive and utilize midi notes…  some of which include PureData, Quartz Composer, Chuck, Live, Logic, Garageband, Motion (!)… the list goes on and on and on.

Big huge ups to Derek on implementing midinotenum!!  It’s awesome!