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lucknow13 · Post by **lucknow13** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:25 pm

What's the word nix808?

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:34 pm

Sorry,
I've been working on another sequencer. This one renders properly as VST. I'm also starting to study Max/MSP so I can produce for Mac. I'll set up my old machine today so I can see the CPU improvements(hopefully) on the DrumRoll. Are you looking for a VST or standalone lucknow? Drop me a pm if you would like to be on the internal beta team for the other drum sequencer project(it's a drum synth)(tat too). It has to be internal because I would like to enter it in the DC.
Anyway, I'll try and make some progress on this today and get back to you. I think song mode is going to be too difficult. I'll do the other stuff first and think about it.
Cheers

tuz · Post by **tuz** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:43 am

someone was asking for link to lunchbox. it was part of the first developer challenge so it's here: http://www.kvraudio.com/developer_challenge_2006.php

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:52 am

Hey,
Here is the first cut down version. Hopefully it doesn't cause any exceptions. CPU is 4% on my quad3. Back soon with a screenie.
Cheers
http://www.sendspace.com/file/a4167r

lucknow13 · Post by **lucknow13** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:52 am

Thanks nix808.Downloading now. This is standalone and will see how it works on my system. Vsti is good too. Will pm you.

tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:16 pm

Cool nix808 ...

I'll go give it a whizz!

tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:18 pm

nix808 .... I haven't had much time at all to play with it, but I feared for a moment or two that I was going to have to feedback some really crap news.

When I opened it up and hit the play button ( Oh, by the way, the play and stop symbols appear to be the wrong way round. ) ... it was fine until I tried playing around with the controls.... then it began to stutter, freeze, and generally become unstable.

However, as with the previous version, I replaced the samples, and it runs good! Also, the CPU load dropped dramatically!

I dont know if this has to do with the size of the samples, or how they are loaded, but I'm gonna save a file with my own samples and open it a bit later and really run it through a few tests.

Are the fx for channels 4 and 5 disabled? .... no prob if they are.
Also, what is the 'rev' for? reverse? reverb? I get no sound from the channel when this is pushed. Is it meant to be disabled? .. or am I missing something?

Are you using synthedit? If so I would be happy to construct/deconstruct/cobble a version or two and send them back to you for your approval.

I'll catch ye later when I've played around a bit more.

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:50 am

Sorry Tattie Mannie, it seems there's a few issues with it. Anyway I fired up my old 2.66 P4 with 2 gig ram and now I see. I'll try and make it compatible with older machines. Also saving states isn't working properly. But bare with me, I'm on it. Also for lucknow what I'll do is make it so you can have only one module if you want, but wire more in with midi yoke(up to 8 )(also single module VST). This should be a way to set it up on different speed CPUs. Sorry for the buggy release, hope I can get it together. I'll make it blank as default, as I'm not using arrays any more(multiple wavs per sampler). If you like the concept tm, we could rework it in SE, but I would need a lot of help. I have SE. If you would like the SM project there is a 30 day demo. For me it's easier than SE. I hear SE has fixed multicore bug. Nice.
Getting there hopefully

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:19 am

Kay there,
Please d/l this version to play around with coz the saving of presets is working. You can make some patches for it now. I'll do a little more testing and make sure you can scroll through your own presets , but you can load 1 to start with. It loads without any samples up. I'll make sure the fx are working on 4&5, i forgot about that one. Let me know if the CPU has settled down- it defaults to nothing so you can add things until you can't(fingers crossed). It was surprising how much better new systems are under load. I'll think about song mode, how long do you want it to be able to play for, as I imagine my implementation would only allow so much.
Let me know how you get on. My old system can't really deal with it, but maybe yours can.
Fixed play button.
Rev is reverse, but it only works in loop mode, so you have to adjust the envelope. I'll have another crack at that too.
Cheers
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yyi9h7
oops forgot the linky. Okay so you can scroll between more than one preset that use different drums, but if a channel is empty it will load the last sample that was in that slot. I think that's the behaviour anyway. Tell me if that's what it's doing for you if you like. I'll do some other stuff now, let me know if we've progress.

later:
Okay maybe I won't do other stuff. I have fixed the loading sounds bug. Now you don't have to reset after loading each drum

. This is fun to play with.
Wishing contents
I also fixed slots 4&5(switched switches

)fx, will up soon maybe I can squash a few other things first

How does it sound if it scrolls through presets for song mode? Just let me know how long you would like your sets.
Cheers
Kay I can scroll through presets, but I'm going to need to use arrays again because it takes too long between bars to load. Not the solution I had hoped though. I'll keep messing

.
Here is the .osm if anyone wants to help out (or have a stickybeak)->
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3snf1z

doctornash · Post by **doctornash** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:02 am

Hard to beat this one for a FREE machine:

www.flexibeatz.weebly.com

* TR909/TB303/X0X style sequencing interface
*Plays any wav files in its 10 channels
*Note resolution to 32nds
*Chain patterns up to 999 measures
*Dynamically vary pan, pitch and level of each sound in each channel, as well as each sample's play start and end point while the sequence is playing
*Set swing and accent
*Mute and solo per channel
*Lock BPMs of sounds in channels to master tempo
*Auto stretch samples to fit a specified fraction of a measure, or to multiple measures
*Dynamically specify which sounds can cutoff (mute) which other sounds, if they are still playing
*Randomize sample selection per channel and notes per pattern per channel
*Auto-generate arpeggiator patterns
*Ability to process and add effects to the samples in each channel: reverse, 3 types of distortion, master LP filter, freely draw and apply pitch envelope to a sound, freely draw and apply LP, HP or BP filter envelope to a sound, freely draw and apply a volume envelope to a sound, chorus, delay, compression, change amplitude of positive and negative halves of the waveform independently, reverb, lo-fi (bit and sample rate reduction), 3-band parametric EQ (featuring LP, HP, BP, Lo Shelf, Hi Shelf, Notch, Peak), stutter effect, auto chop up waveform and randomly re-assemble, apply waveshaping by manipulating individual harmonics, change pitch without affecting duration, change duration without affecting pitch, vocoder, ring modulator, auto-wah
*Ability to synthesize sounds from scratch, and use these in the channels as instruments, or combine them with samples in various ways (such as FMing one with the other)
*Record sequence to a .wav file while its playing
*Record level slider movements
*Export patterns to .wav files without playing them
*Automatically isolate the 'hits' in a drum loop and export each slice as a separate .wav file, and import each slice into a separate channel
*Graphical time and frequency spectrum display of each sound in each channel
*Slave playback via midi sync to another sequencer (eg a DAW, hardware sequencer etc)

doctornash · Post by **doctornash** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:03 am

Hammerhead has been mentioned, and yes it is good for quickly knocking out short loops and patterns, but is limited in so many ways: it doesn't let you easily use whatever .wav files you want (it ought to be as easy as plonking them in a folder and they should automatically become selectable in the channels), you can't chain patterns into a complete song, it provides no synthesis and EQ options (to be able to create your own sounds and tweak them so they sit perfectly in the mix), it only offers two or three effects, it doesn't go to 32nd notes, it only has 6 channels, it can't be driven from midi beat clock from a DAW or external sequencer if you want other instruments to play along with it.

That's why I've just released FlexibeatzII:

http://flexibeatz.weebly.com

You can hear complete productions done with it at www.myspace.com/flexibeatz and even these aren't even fully exploring its potential.

The type of sound processing and effects algorithms it features are atypical for a freeware application, and are such that you're not likely to outgrow it in a hurry, and it is STILL likely to have a place on your desktop even if you acquire the likes of Reason, FL Studio, Guru etc

doctornash · Post by **doctornash** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:52 pm

The first in a forthcoming series of video tutorials exploring FlexibeatzII, is now posted at:

doctornash · Post by **doctornash** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:41 am

The second in the series of video tutorials exploring FlexibeatzII is now posted at
This one focuses on how to use FlexibeatzII to synthesize every instrument sound from scratch (drums, bass, lead, sound effects and all) in a pattern for an Electro track, including vocoding of the vocal sample used in the track

doctornash · Post by **doctornash** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:54 pm

The third in the series of video tutorials exploring FlexibeatzII is now posted at This one focuses on on how to use FlexibeatzII's 'beat slicer' to automatically chop up any percussion loop wav file you may have into its individual 'hits', and then sequence the 'hits' wav files into an entirely new pattern.

doctornash · Post by **doctornash** » Tue May 10, 2011 12:58 pm

The fourth in the series of video tutorials exploring FlexibeatzII is now posted at This one focuses on on how to sync FlexibeatzII to both a software DAW (Reaper is used in the example), and an external hardware sequencer/synth. The tutorial makes plenty use of screen-flows, video footage, diagrams etc

Free standalone drum machine??