our band Haptic Synapses did a live show using 3 beatseqrs at Radio Integrated in alameda on january 29th, 2010. Our friend Donald Bell stopped by for a test drive and took some nice photos, which are here:

Please send me an email (steve at 3rl dot us) if you are interested in purchasing this beatseqr.

1. this is beatseqr serial number 6.
2. It is the 4th instance out of 5 in the version 3 series.
3. $299. Shippable today.

Or click here to fill out the web form

You may have questions. We may have answers. It’s a little minimal so far, but we have a forum available now.

http://beatseqr.com/forum/

the new new stuff is “four pattern mode” where all 4 patterns will run in a row for an effective 64 step length sequence, and being able to clear a voice sequence or a whole pattern sequence.

Three down, two more to build. $399, interested?

Here’s an early and very simple example of how you can take the midi loop transmitted from Steppa to drive some visuals. Every sound you hear in this video is doing something to the visuals. Some are obvious like making the main shape jump around and spin, and then there are some other effects that are more subtle, like the crystallize filter that appears later. The way I did this was through Quartz Composer via the midi note receiver… it’s a really cool effect!

Programmatic visuals from a midi loop from stevecooley on Vimeo.

What I like about this is that unlike a “music visualizer”, it’s not reacting to bands of the audio spectrum, it’s reacting directly to the midi loop, so there’s absolutely no question about what instrument is driving what visual element. More to come soon!

This isn’t quite ready yet, but… Check out this one-shot recording of the new 64 step length capability

We had a beatseqr user meetup at my house on friday night. Check out the photo!

Also, I wanted to mention that Derek and I did some great work and managed to get chase lights working while the sequencer is running. This feature will give you a sense of where you are in the sequence.

Here’s a short video on how to use beatseqr’s midi note number slider mode to access all 25 instruments in Logic Ultrabeat!