Early description about my Generative music mood machine

Here is the very early words about my next iOS machine.
This will be my 3rd application on App Store after:
- Mobile Particles
- Digital Collisions for iPad & iPhone/iPod
- The Droner

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I’m still developing some parts but the main core is totally ok and I’ll make you hearing a bit asap.
The main purpose is to make the most amazing & efficient mood machine ever.

Because Less is More, I worked and removed progressively a lot of features to keep only the main interesting from an aesthetic & zen point of view.

It includes around 7 moods and more are coming.
Each mood can play (or not, as you’d prefer) unique soundscapes  designed especially for this application by me.

Mobile Mood Machine is one of the strangest iOS application amongst a lot of music application for iPad.

Mobile Mood Machine provides a playground you can touch with your fingers.
Rules are really easy and minimalistic:
- touch the screen to create spherical creatures popping out sine waves sounds
- the more the touch is made at the top, the more the creatures pop out high pitched sounds
- choose a Mood which consists in color gradient, sequences rules, scale
- choose to listen especially designed soundscapes in the background or not
- adjust the delay and the effect of time over the age of those digital creatures
- enjoy !

Minimalism, Zen & Quietness are the main words that could describe this iOS application.

The Mobile Mood Machine ‘s engine works with circular buffers recording til 8 sequences represented by 8 colors.
Each sequence is repeated according to specific rules related to the current chosen Mood.
Some Moods are minor, some are major with a lot of time between sequence repetitions, some are hypnotically repetitive.

You can choose to make creatures becoming old. In that case, they will progressively disappear and their sounds will have a bigger attack til their end, when they will completely disappear.
Some Moods make them to be old faster, or slower.

Here are some possible uses:
- walking in the street
- being in the train
- beginning to try to sleep
- before going to an hardcore meeting
- together with your loved one relaxed

This promising system have already a nice roadmap for the next months.
Especially, The mode Near Sleep Experience will provide a nice way to enter in sleep progressively with a VERY long fade out from the moment when you set up the global time of fading and the last notes played.
This is a nice digital creature holding your hand til the dreams’ world.

Spread your Max6 standalones through Mac AppStore

Some of us, geeks, developers, testers had already tried to do that, because the way seemed an amazing manner of spreading: Build Max6 – based applications as standalone and distributed via Mac AppStore.

It wasn’t really difficult, BUT it seemed a bit unofficial (which doesn’t absolutely mean illegal)
It was just undocumented.

That time is up.

You can now read & enjoy this

Basically, the challenge has been to fit tightly with Apple’s requirements, which was a bit facilitated by the fact Cycling 74‘s developers are one of the rare development company to code very well & clean.
The most important thing is about security and drives us to make things clean about the filesystem.
Indeed, OSX & iOS worlds are both very secured (as any UNIX-based OS) and of course the application cannot write everywhere, everytime etc. So this is the point to be close to.

Read the doc, and come back if you have problems, I could also help you.

By the  way, making an app like that isn’t that hard BUT the main problem remaining is, ever, the sync.
I obviously studied many systems but, because I don’t want my users to have to make too much complex tasks, I didn’t (yet) produce app like that.
By sync, I meant: as I LOVE sequencers, I need to sync them to your preferred DAW. That way requires an accurate & solid clock.
We’ll see if I have time / opportunities to make a system on my own.

The Droner for iPad

You can find this application on App Store now

FEATURED BY MATRIXSYNTH

Here is a very small extract from it:

Here is the GUI screen:
A builtin Help is provided and, as usual, Design the Media’s forums can be used for ANY questions. Indeed, you’d have to register an account, but it can take only 2 clicks using you facebook or twitter account (some haters will hate that, but you are warned here)

The best way to use it is to use earphones or a sound system line input.
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Miller Puckette at Stereolux 2012

Thanks to my friend Beryann (Parker) to have pointed me to this video of Miller Puckette (one of the brain behind the core of Max & Pure Data, and specifically developping Pure Data branch)

Some mobile particles

I just finished another (wow) iOS application.
It would be better on iPad, but is totally designed for iPhone / iPod too.

This is an algorithme which generates in real time particules with strange behaviours.
You’ll have some sliders to interact with the algorithm.
I hope you’ll like it.

The nice thing is: A totally new & high quality music loop by me will be included inside the app in order to illustrate on an accoustic way the strange particles cloud atmosphere.

It would be released on app store this afternoon.
It means, considering the long Apple’s process of reviewing, it would be available if everything is fine, around end of march.

A nice interview by ADEMAIN.TV

This is just me talking about, en français pour une fois, my project temporarily named Mobile Drone Machine
This is a project I’m currently developing myself around iOS framework.

The official place of that video is: http://ademain.tv
BIG UP to Axelle Benaïch / Design the future Now !

I’m currently at the specifications & sketching step.
More infos soon et vous moquez pas de mon accent qui chante!

The latest weekend release…

Available here, I launched the protoclidean on latest saturday night.
I want to thank you all for your enthusiasm.
Launching tools for you is everytime a huge experience.

Synthtopia reviews website already reviewed and featured it.
I really appreciate that and I’m each time more honored.

Someone wrote about the fact it would contain an accent feature.
My euclidean sequencer probably won’t feature it.
I’d prefer to have constant velocity in each channel and a real scaler between each channel.
It is a bit the sequence approach I introduced with the Uncanny Sequencer with the one note per channel mode.

It forces the mind to build the sequencer VERY differently compared to usual sequencers.
There is not a process like “that channel contains different notes” but more “each channel contains one notes offering a micro approach, but the global sequencer contains 8 channels offering a more global approach”

Let’s see what YOU think about that.

The Protoclidean sequencer for Ableton Live

Announcing the next sequencer for Ableton Live. Based on euclidean algorithm, it offers a very nice & flexible way to distribute your notes in a time interval.

It will be available very soon at http://designthemedia.com/theprotoclidean 

I enjoyed to design it because I tried to use the sketch javascript object inside JSUI Max6 object.
This is a very nice way to embed UI + engine inside something that is … very fast.

I hope you’ll like this new unusual sequencer.
As you already know, I don’t like boring usual stuff.

Break the line, go where noone waits for you then become unique!

My M4_U feelings & report

I wrote “my” because I wanted to relate my feelings, my perception of this very great & unique event made in Leicester and at which I have been invite by Sean Carroll.
My M4_U started a bit late, because I was travelling.

Indeed, I caught my flight around 10h50, landing on Gatwick Airport, then took a train to St Pancras Intl, and then another one to Leicester.

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