Zyklus Improvisor, real-time harmonic sequencer

[bronswerk]

This is very interesting.

I was pointed to this by a friend, been out of the industry for years.

Bill Marshall, was one of the founders of Zyklus, along with myself and
Peter Kellock. I was the MD of the company.

Its gratifying to know that our ideas are finally being taken up.
In some ways I am amazed that this has not been developed sooner.

Given modern hardware, processing power and software tools.

Pete and myself developed the original Zyklus MPS code in about 8 months.

Would be great to have a follow up

Good Luck with the project

Thanks gjmair. You guys did a marvelous job designing the Zyklus MPS. It's a unique sequencer still today. And it's build like a tank. I've one here on a loan basis and I'm "stealing" ideas from it, with permission of Bill of course.

And as the moment we speak I'm working on a new version of Improvisor, the project working title is "Zyklus Connect". What's new is sequences are no longer tightly connected to a certain slot/track. There's now a common pool of 16 independent sequencers and each sequence can be assigned to any of the 8 mixer channels. Each mixer channel has a 16-knob input selector to accomplish this, assigning multiple sequences (but each with their own specific play parameters like transpose, velocity offset etc) to a mixer channel are allowed. The GUI is totally overhauled. I've made it more touch screen friendly, but before anyone jumps up, it's still an ordinary Windows program without real touch features, the controls are only bigger, that's all.

[gjmair]

Hi Bronwerk,

Thanks for the reply.

If you are in contact with Bill Marshall can you
get him to message me?

Looking forward to a Demo of "Connect"

Best Wishes

GJ

[bronswerk]

email sent.

[Musical Gym]

Can you post a link to basic tutorial? I have it loaded but don't see yet how to load sounds. All I see is program and numbers.

[Musical Gym]

Bump for help with step-by-step basic set-up.

[dnigrin]

Join the Yahoo group, and take a look in the documentation section.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/zykl ... mentation/

It's not really a step by step tutorial, but hopefully enough to get you going...

Dan

[Musical Gym]

Thanks Dan. I posted there and will look at documentation.

I'll keep at it.

[CitizenB]

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Hi everyone,

I found about the Zyklus Improvisor a couple of days ago and wanted to try it, but I cannot find the Yahoo Group everybody is talking about.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/zykl ... r/messages (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/zyklusimprovisor/messages)

I tried to find it (and Join It) through the group index but no luck either. Has anything changed? Is the group still alive?

Any help is appreciated. It's really driving me crazy

[dnigrin]

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/zykl ... s/messages

[CitizenB]

Still no luck. All I get is a blank page with the following message:

"Oops! You need to be a member to perform this action."

I've been reading around to see if it was my problem or has something to do with Yahoo. It seems it's the later. According to what I've read, on August 29th Yahoo changed the groups engine (policies or whatever) and the default option is that Non Members cannot see the about page (and therefore the "Join" button is not shown). Apparently, on the settings page, under the "Who can see" section "Non-members can view about group section" must be selected to make it visible.

Does anyone know any of the creators/moderators of the group so that they can see if this is the case? Or just send me a private message with their contact so that I can reach them.

Again, thanks for the help. I know this is not exactly related to the topic, but if the reason is the one if pointed out, this might be happening to more people.

Best.

[dnigrin]

Here's the About page link:

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/zykl ... visor/info

Now that I think about it though, I seem to remember that Bert (Bronswerk, the author of the software and moderator of the group) recently changed the group preferences to battle spam. Sure enough, on the About page it says this:

* Membership by invitation only.
* Messages require approval.

So Bert may need to tweak the settings a bit to allow for folks to at least be able to request membership without receiving an invite first?

[bronswerk]

I've changed the yahoo group forum policy, more restricted, because it was receiving a lot of spam lately and to protect the members for receiving unwanted mail. For the moment I want to keep it that way. If things are cooled down on the spam front I will make it more open. OTOH CitizenB should have received an invitation by now.

[CitizenB]

Already joined! Thanks to dnigrin and bronswerk!
CitizenB.

[fwestivus]

Hi, just signed up to the forum to be able to post here!
I saw Vangelis using some very cool-looking kit in a recent BBC documentary on the Sounds of Cinema, and that sent me searching the net for what those boxes were, which ended up with me stumbling across the Zyklus MPS.
Wow. But impossible to get hold of!
And then google throws this at me! Brilliant! It looks absolutely wonderful!
I'm afraid I'm not exactly the most technically minded - I come from a classical piano background rather than a synthesis/programming one, so I'm probably not terribly useful for testing other than for idiot proofing...

It'd be amazing if I could get an invite to the group to have a play around with this?

Thanks and keep up the great work!
Francis

[samdean]

Hi bronswerk, Can you please send me an invitation? Thanks in advance!