Nest - a rule based MIDI sequencer from Sugar Bytes

[antic604]

What is Nest?

Nest is a modular sequencer. It offers all kinds of modules to generate and process triggers and numbers. You can build highly complex sequencing environments with the aim to produce music with a life of its own.

Nest is equipped with resemblings of classical, transistor based integrated circuits like Shift Registers or Multiplexers, plus programming tools like the if/else and math modules. Also a writable Sequencer and flexible Arpeggiator are onboard, to make life easy when needed.

A clever voice assignment distributes the 8 possible MIDI voices to up to 4 different sound generators like VSTs, internal Synths and Drums or MIDI channels. This can make Nest not only fun when hosting your favorite plugins, you can also use it to drive your hardware park.

Key Features:

• Build your own sequencer!

• More than 20 different modules

• Generate 8 MIDI voices and assign to 4 targets

• Host up to 4 VST2 plug-ins

• Use internal synths and drums

• Recall 12 scenes via MIDI

• Send to 16 MDI channels

• Plus MIDI CCs and automation

• Multi audio outs (5 stereo)

• Flexible scale system

More info:
https://sugar-bytes.de/nest

[pekbro]

Cool!

[Tj Shredder]

It looks interesting but for the price of Architect I get a very limited number of modules. Unlike Architect its only semi modular. (ACE for Midi…)
I watched the first tutorial, and any thing shown there I could patch in Architect or if I don‘t use Midi even in the Grid. Architect was too expensive for me, as I own also Max and still could route Midi into my DAW…
But its a different kind of thinking, which is welcome as inspiration…

[antic604]

But its a different kind of thinking, which is welcome as inspiration…

I think that's the intended goal - make it easier than what competition offers but still deep enough. Like Grid compared to M4L or Reaktor.

[Tj Shredder]

I do like the double patch idea, we should pass it as feature request to Bitwig… But I think they did it only because otherwise the number of simple math modules would be way, way too small. I guess its still too small. You‘d get ideas, but to implement them its too limited and you would realize those ideas then in another tool and finally skip it completely…

[toitoi]

That awful trailer does the opposite it should do to sell me a product. The NEST concept is interesting but Sugar bytes did their usual mistake they did with Obscurium and Consequence, hosting vst's and boring and simple internal sound engine. Loomer Architecture path is much more appealing to me. Anyone who wants mimic the euro modalar will use free VCVRack with it enormous amount of sequencer modules.

[fairlyclose]

It looks interesting but for the price of Architect I get a very limited number of modules. Unlike Architect its only semi modular. (ACE for Midi…)
I watched the first tutorial, and any thing shown there I could patch in Architect or if I don‘t use Midi even in the Grid. Architect was too expensive for me, as I own also Max and still could route Midi into my DAW…
But its a different kind of thinking, which is welcome as inspiration…

Architect is still not finished and was not at all user friendly - I sold my copy and have not regretted it at all. If one puts a simple sequencer at one end and coding at the other, Architect was too close to coding for me and in many ways more difficult than just coding from scratch - might as well use one of the live coding languages

[BoogerSnot]

Cool... I guess?

First glance and it seems mostly like a really complex way to arrive at relatively basic results.

I'm going to give it a longer look though...

[SLiC]

Had a quick look at the demo but I have to much of this type stuff already. Cool concept, I just cant see myself using it.

[NinjaToon]

I think this looks pretty slick. I'm surprised there isn't an intro discount. I would probably insta pick it up at half price tbh.

Pretty good implementation imo. I'll demo it.

[gentleclockdivider]

It looks interesting but for the price of Architect I get a very limited number of modules. Unlike Architect its only semi modular. (ACE for Midi…)
I watched the first tutorial, and any thing shown there I could patch in Architect or if I don‘t use Midi even in the Grid. Architect was too expensive for me, as I own also Max and still could route Midi into my DAW…
But its a different kind of thinking, which is welcome as inspiration…

Architect is still not finished and was not at all user friendly - I sold my copy and have not regretted it at all. If one puts a simple sequencer at one end and coding at the other, Architect was too close to coding for me and in many ways more difficult than just coding from scratch - might as well use one of the live coding languages

You're exagerating
You don't have to code to get architect up and running , just the basic understanding of a few simple things , array , value , list etc..
What the sequencers actually do and WHAT kind of data they accept at their inputs
If you want to delve deeper ..take your time and absorb it, do it a couple of times , make a macro and that's it..it will become second nature
I have created live environments in architect that are constantly re-usable .

As with al complex environments you have to dedicate time to it , I wouldn't be surprised that people will ask sugar bytes to add new features which are already there in architect becasue it's can go low level
But as always , most people are just too lazy or perhaps not so smart ( not aimed at you in particular ) , dunno ...
Architect is a wonderfull masterpiece !

Edit , Now that I have cjhecked the price of NEST , 100 euro ,
Generate 8 MIDI voices and assign to 4 targets
Ridiculous

[fairlyclose]

It looks interesting but for the price of Architect I get a very limited number of modules. Unlike Architect its only semi modular. (ACE for Midi…)
I watched the first tutorial, and any thing shown there I could patch in Architect or if I don‘t use Midi even in the Grid. Architect was too expensive for me, as I own also Max and still could route Midi into my DAW…
But its a different kind of thinking, which is welcome as inspiration…

Architect is still not finished and was not at all user friendly - I sold my copy and have not regretted it at all. If one puts a simple sequencer at one end and coding at the other, Architect was too close to coding for me and in many ways more difficult than just coding from scratch - might as well use one of the live coding languages

You're exagerating
You don't have to code to get architect up and running , just the basic understanding of a few simple things , array , value , list etc..
If you want to delve deeper ..take your time and absorb it, do it a couple of times , make a macro and that's it..it will become second nature
I have created live environments in architect that are constantly re-usable .
Architect is a wonderfull masterpiece
But as always , most people are just too lazy or perhaps not so smart ( not aimed at you in particular ) , dunno ...

f**k you and your "insult with cowardly caveat" - but I did not say one had to code, I said one might as well code rather than use Architect as coding was in some ways easier

[CrystalWizard]

It looks a bit like an oldie but goodie originally called SoftStep but now called MusicWonk.

[BoogerSnot]

Cool... I guess?

First glance and it seems mostly like a really complex way to arrive at relatively basic results.

I'm going to give it a longer look though...

Second glance… Maybe not quite as complicated as I thought, and with interesting results that are actually achievable relatively easily?

I think the main thing to separate here is complexity and depth, and not confuse the two. Because if something has depth, and yet it still has an entry point, it removes that scary and off putting “complex” label.

This clearly has depth, and I think I may have to demo it to see if it has that accessible entry point.

[DrGonzo]

Wow. This one came out of nowhere... I like the way Sugar Bytes just releases their things into the wild, rather than doing hype for weeks. Looks incredibly cool for modular-heads.