Spherical Sequencers

[kperry]

What else is spherical, I wonder? Hmm...b*ll*cks!!!

[THE INTRANCER]

thanks that makes more sense and seems worth exploring as there could be contexts where it is a better visualisation of the piece

Yeah, it's definitely worth exploring how music software could be adapted in this way, as it also adapts to touch screen devices. The high speed CPU's we have today in our PC's will eventually be passed down to 16" / 17" Ipads, so I think DAWs we have today will eventually change to adapt to that. Tablet PCs are of course an alternative that we have now, of course.

For me, it does trigger my imagination for circular sequencer concepts. I wouldn't know where to start to code a program that would go down this path. I have Reaktor 6, but you can't build a DAW with it, nor does it have the depth in which creating a circular sequencer requires, to work as imagine.

[gentleclockdivider]

You can most def. make circular sequencers in reaktor ,
As always you are probably overestimating yourself thinking you know reaktor good enough, but in reality you don't and rather just blame the tool .
It would take me a couple of hours in reaktor and photoshop to make a good looking polymeter, polyrhtym capable circular sequencer
\Keep going

[El°HYM]

Might be the most natural way & concept for creating music. I always liked XronoMorph for this, which unfortunately seems a little bit abandoned. As an alternative there are some of the HY-Sequencers; also some pretty good M4L - Devices, so it still seems to be more of a niche.

https://www.dynamictonality.com/xronomorph.htm

[THE INTRANCER]

With Reaktor in years past, I've designed and explored different sequencers and Native Instruments Rounds is an example where segments are displayed in a sequenced circular fashion which I've used in my music productions.

With this one I used 2 different sequencer systems, but displayed very differently, so it looks like there are 3. The drum machine is a bit different though, as the volume is controlled vie the button, so one could call it 3 in practicality.

Multi Sequencer

This is probably the closest I've come to simulating a spiral sequencer. It is though just a test where the music is triggering the movement.



Something more cylindrical did pop up on my searches... which gives me an idea for 3D software based one.

[gentleclockdivider]

You don't know s..t about reaktor , perhaps you're reskinning existing ensembles but I bet for a fine belgian premium beer you can't make a circular sequencer in reaktor using the core language + poly-multidisplay
Show some of your reaktor-core structures , custom made that is..
All you do is show mock ups ,a 5 sec.3d animation of something that will always remain "a concept" stop
Stop pretending ,stop lying to yourself
Stop making useless threads

[Unaspected]

You don't know s..t about reaktor , perhaps you're reskinning existing ensembles but I bet for a fine belgian premium beer you can't make a circular sequencer in reaktor using the core language + poly-multidisplay
Show some of your reaktor-core structures , custom made that is..
All you do is show mock ups ,a 5 sec.3d animation of something that will always remain "a concept" stop
Stop pretending ,stop lying to yourself
Stop making useless threads

Thirsty?

[fairlyclose]

been a segue from DAWs to sequencers - the DAW application is the more challenging one

[THE INTRANCER]

I had forgotten about a project I did some time back in 2014, it was a circular sequencer system unlike any other. In fact, that was one of the motivating factors in why I bought Reaktor in the first place, which was to build new exciting instruments. Whilst I initially started off buying a few ensembles, it would have been about a year later before I got into learning how things were built. And for that, it meant stripping down ensembles from the Reaktor library to the basic components and rebuilding them in a new way whilst utilising the 14 years of knowledge of modular wiring Reasons rack devices. The Reaktor instruments, I linked to above, were developed over a 2 - 3-year span, on and off, every few months, whenever I felt like a change. During development, there were often a lot of walls to bump into, but that's part of the fun, as one would say. Eventually I got bored with it and frustrated with how Native Instruments really didn't bring what I wanted to the development of it. That said, even after 4 years of not even opening up Reaktor to build anything with it as I was creating music and buying commercial VSTs instead, if not doing other film and graphic projects as well, there is a slight glimmer of doing some sequence project in Reaktor again. Perhaps, maybe take on the project like this. 3D Circular Rendered Instrument At least in some small part. Honestly, I'd rather find a better development platform to go down, though.

This looks interesting...

https://defectiverecords.com/portfolio/cyclic/