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Stochas (legacy)

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Stochas (legacy) by Audio Vitamins is a Virtual Instrument Audio Plugin for macOS, Windows and Linux. It functions as a VST Plugin, an Audio Units Plugin and a VST 3 Plugin.
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1.3.3
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1.3.3
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1.3.3 
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Open Source
GPL 3
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This product is now open-source and is no longer supported by Audio Vitamins, but instead supported directly by the developer.
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Stochas is a revolutionary new type of step sequencer that has a unique randomization engine. Designed to work either in mono or polyphonic modes the engine will select from a set of user inputted notes and takes into consideration the probability set for each, this means Stochas can be used to create evolving melodies, rich sounding string and synth sections, unique bass lines and even chaotic yet looping drum patterns, perfect for live and recorded performances. Chord input and predefined scales, make editing and inputting patterns quick and easy, without any knowledge needed of music theory.

With the ability to create polyrhythmic and polymetric patterns up to 64 steps in length, independently on each of the 4 layers, Stochas can create interesting ideas for your next musical project, be it a Phillip Glass style classical piece with varying rhythmical and metric sequences playing against each other, to a polymeric dance style project that has more life and rhythm than the standard 4/4 patterns. Patterns can be chained and created so that little phrases can be triggered randomly during the playback sequence, this can also be used to prevent repetition of the same note if using Stochas to write a bass line or to keep the pattern evolving.

With the groove template editor, you have total control over the timing and feel of the playback in Stochas, these can also be saved and loaded into other sessions, allowing you to recreate the same feel from track to track easily. MIDI input control means that you can use any hardware controller or another MIDI channel to control Stochas, allowing for live performance control of the polymeric lengths, transpositions, the bias of the maximum number of notes played.

Features:

  • Randomisation engine works in both mono and polyphonic modes.
  • Groove templates with export and import function.
  • Chord input.
  • Predefined key and scales, including custom import.
  • Note chains for phrase creation.
  • up to 64 grid steps and 125 rows.
  • Humanization control.
  • Polyrhythmic and polymetric control.
  • 4 layers and 8 patterns.
  • Midi input for live performance control.

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Latest User Reviews

Average user rating of 3.25 from 4 reviews
Stochas (legacy)

Reviewed By Retired Catholic [all]
September 16th, 2020
Version reviewed: 1.3.3 on Mac

Awesome plug in. Intuitive interface, very easily understandable and modifiable. It's not the London Symphony Orchestra but it's not supposed to be. It's supposed to be a way to generate quasi random events and it does a great job at it.

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Stochas (legacy)

Reviewed By FunkEQ [all]
September 8th, 2020
Version reviewed: 1.3.3 on Windows

Amazing Plugin, Worked 100% in Reaper and Ableton. I love how it makes it so easy to create unexpected changes. So much fun to use. So good on drums.

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Stochas (legacy)

Reviewed By NhojKces [all]
September 5th, 2020
Version reviewed: 2.5.59 on Windows

Followed the online tutorial for setting up Stochas in FL Studio and still could not get Stochas to work. Looked to the comments section in order to seek some help or see if anyone else was having similar issues, and the comments were disabled. Disappointing to say the least.

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Stochas (legacy)

Reviewed By Adr1an0 [all]
July 3rd, 2017
Version reviewed: 1 on Mac

I would give this closer to a 10 if it weren't for the fact that it doesn't work properly in Ableton.

It's remarkable, given the popularity of Ableton, that this company released Stochas without getting to the bottom of the issue.

On their support forum they say "they're looking into it" but that reply was May 2017 and it's now early July.

One of the selling points of Stochas are its 4 layers that can work in parallel to enrichen your sound/melodies etc.

To do this layer 1-4 are routed to MIDI channel 1-4.

On a You tube demo a bloke using Kontakt does this. However Ableton users can't use this functionality. There were 2 other people like me who had written on the Audio vitamin website about this.

The plug in does nearly everything I want for my experimental installation type soundscapes, and I have a workaround for this issue where I just have 4 instances of Stochas each routing to a separate synth/device.

However at $50 this shouldn't have been necessary and the really nice functionality they created for working across layers is lost using my workaround. The functionality is that the notes of other layers are 'shadowed' as you work in parallel layers. It makes it easy to make/see the possible polyrhythmic patters.

So in conclusion. A potentially 'awesome' tool is handicapped. I will come back here and give it a 10 if they fix this issue in an update. But after 2 months since they were "looking into it", I am not convinced that's going to happen.

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Discussion: Active
Protocol_b
Protocol_b
5 July 2017 at 3:31pm

I love the concept, it looks like a fantastic tool for semi-random pitch variations etc. BUT: it is not 'trigger-able' - it just starts playing blindly as soon as you engage the transport, so it is useless in a live situation. Come to think of it, even for sequencing: who says I want that particular sequence to be the very first thing that happens?

That said, if they add some user control to the triggering, I would buy this in a second.

audiovitamins
audiovitamins
9 November 2017 at 12:59pm

Hi Guys

We've been busy in the updating of Stochas, so apologies for not getting back to you both here. Firstly Ableton unfortunately is a handicap from within, it does not permit internal routing of MIDI like all other DAWs, it just smudges any outgoing MIDI data into a single track, the only work around is multiple instances of Stochas, which then means you're losing out on the layers feature of being able to view another layer underneath, unless you save out a patch and load it again into another.

The live triggering is something we are working on at the moment, hopefully we can get this into the next update. The one issue we have is Stochas is tempo dependant, so we're trying to get a good way of listening to the DAW clock and syncing playback to the start of a beat or bar, and have this as an option.

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