Hey there, I’m pleased and scared to announce that the firmware for the beatseqr hardware is now available for your improvement at the following URL:
http://github.com/stevecooley/beatseqr-software
Statistics: Posted by stevecooley – Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:51 pm – Replies 0 – Views 13
Hey, just testing out a wordpress plugin I’m writing to embed etsy items into wordpress posts… it’s working pretty well, and there’s room for improvement, but here we go:
Beatseqr is an arduino mega based computer interface. It is aimed at electronic musicians and visualists. By itself, it connects to a desktop app that runs on mac or windows and can send out OSC messages to arbitrary network ports. However, combine beatseqr with a tightly integrated sequencer like Dajis Systems' Steppa (included in the price) and you have a powerful interface to create a MIDI loop which you can use to control sounds from pretty much any music software that accepts incoming midi data. We've tested it out with Logic, Live, Reason, Quartz Composer, Max/MSP, PureData, and Processing. It works great!
The source code for the arduino firmware, the processing app, and the max/msp patch are all available for you to modify, customize, and improve as your skills will allow. You don't have to be technical to use beatseqr, but it will certainly help if you're thinking about modifying the firmware. You'll be using the free and open source Arduino IDE to do that. And hey, you'll be getting an Arduino Mega that you can take out of the beatseqr hardware and use for whatever you want.
There are a lot of videos and photos elsewhere.. here are some URLs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k6Evcq3zuM
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2487807
http://vimeo.com/7409311
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecooley/sets/72157621882557089/
Loads of photos, videos, and a small but growing library of documentation is available on http://beatseqr.com
Notes about the photos... photos 1-4 are by myself, photo #5 is by my friend Donald Bell. Photo 4 is a size comparison next to a Roland TR909, but it's not included in this sale. Also, other photos feature laptops... they're also not included. Duh, right? :)
Shipping will be insured and with tracking numbers.
Steppa v0.36 is now available. New in this release:
steppa036.zip
Statistics: Posted by stevecooley – Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:19 pm – Replies 0 – Views 9
This version of Roxor will let you change the output port to an arbitrary number. The input port looks similarly functional, but it turns out to be kind of hard to change that on the fly. I’ll get something sorted out sooner or later. In the meantime, you can at least change what port you are sending OSC data out on.
roxor2_3.app.zip
Statistics: Posted by stevecooley – Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:31 pm – Replies 0 – Views 6
Hey there. A new version of steppa has been released. Here’s what’s new in v0.35:
steppa035.zip
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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:
UPDATE: This beatseqr was sold on 2010-06-04. I’ll have more for sale soon! Do leave a message here or email me if you’re interested!
Please send me an email (steve at 3rl dot us) if you are interested in purchasing this beatseqr.
Or click here to fill out the web form
This version of Roxor is largely cosmetic in that it’s visually smaller on screen. This became an obvious improvement when we started using the previous version in performance situations. We found it helpful to verify what roxor and steppa were doing, but not at the expense of too much screen real estate. So they’ve been made smaller to do their job and be useful without being a live performance workflow problem.
The other recent updates are that the radio buttons in the serial device list are now functional if you need to disconnect from your beatseqr hardware for any reason. Also, the random circle drawing effect has been replaced with a more functional tempo and swing value readout from the hardware. When you are connected to the hardware, turn a knob to verify that Roxor is reading values. The tempo and/or swing values will mirror what the hardware says on the LCD panel.
roxor2_1.app.zip
Statistics: Posted by stevecooley — Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:59 pm
Derek has released steppa 032. This feature enables on-board handling of the Midi CC modes for sliders and voice select buttons. This was previously possible by using the awesome and extremely useful Osculator. However, we’d always planned on bringing the functionality into our own toolchain, and now we have.
steppa032.zip
Statistics: Posted by stevecooley — Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:50 pm
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/