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user meetup and chase lights

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

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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.

Beatseqr v3 demo with Reason

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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.

Mute mode and “Ubirox”

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Two updates:

1. Up until now I had been working on an objective-c/cocoa desktop app to handle the serial communication with the Beatseqr hardware. I was doing it to use objective-c and cocoa for a really fun project, and because I wanted to build on the “Rosco” platform that I’d built before Roxor and Beatseqr. For whatever reason, the snow leopard upgrade was not very kind to the serial communications functionality, so I downgraded back to leopard until I could figure out what the problem was or figure out an alternate solution. I don’t believe my preference of operating systems is necessarily *your* preference, so I knew at some point I’d have to tackle creating an app for Windows, at the very least.

So I took the opportunity to solve all of these problems by writing a new app called “Ubirox” (or “ubiquitous roxor”) using the extremely awesome Processing IDE. So now there are Mac, Windows, and Linux versions available. The downside is that the user interface that I’d built to mirror what was going on with the hardware is not present, but the upside is that I have two additional operating system platforms that I can support now.

Roxor will continue to be a downloadable app for the Mac, and will continue to work in conjunction with Steppa to give you a taste of what the Beatseqr hardware is like to use. I made one of my recent tracks released on Dobox Recordings with Roxor and Steppa, and without Beatseqr, so Roxor is still a really fun tool to play with.

2. Mute mode on the voice select buttons is operational! I’m working on a “solo” mode too, so I’ll write up a post with illustrations soon. Ubirox is affected by these developments, so links will go up when they’re all done.