Software Sequencers

Developer Dan Nigrin has announced that his software Klee Sequencer is now available. The app, available for Mac and Windows, is a software version of the Klee step sequencer.
Features:

MIDI output to any hardware or software synths
Internal or MIDI clock control
10 preset slots for instant recall of parameters
Presets can be saved to and loaded from disk
Built-in [...]

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Expert Sleepers has released version 1.5.0 of Silent Way, their modular synth control plugins for Mac and Windows, adding Silent Way Step LFO.

Matthew Davidson (stretta) put together this demo video for obo – a Max For Live app that turns Ableton Live 8 into a matrix synth, inspired by the addictive-like-crack ToneMatrix synth:
I’ve adapted obo for use in maxforlive, added monome 128/256 support (not required for operation), 16 pattern memory, edit while play, copy/paste patterns and a [...]

Because it was there: Ableton Live 8 does Twitter, with a bit of help from Max for Live, MXJ and Jython.
“I sat and watched fifteen minutes of the Twitter public timeline while recording this video,” says Nick Rothwell, “and have now lost the will to live.”
Maybe if we could just use the Twitter stream to [...]

WOK has announced ClockWOrK, a MIDI step sequencer plug-in for Windows that promises to let you create hypnotic sequences like Klaus Schulze or Tangerine Dream.
Here’s an audio demo:

 

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Ableton has released an update to Ableton Live 7, version 7.0.18, adding better support for controllers from Novation, Akai and OpenLabs.
Changes Ableton Live 7.0.18:

Support for the Novation LaunchPad controller.
Support for the AKAI MPD-18, MPK-25, MPK-61 and MPK-88 controllers.
Support for OpenLabs devices.
Several improvements for the AKAI APC.

Five12 has released v2.2 of Numerology, their software step-sequencer for Mac OS X.
Updates include a Pitch Glide option for easily adding pitch bends to monophonic sequences, access to the OS X speech synthesizer and expanded support for the Audio Unit plugins Volta from MOTU and Silent Way from Expert Sleepers.
Numerology retails for $119.

Ableton Live tips: This set of videos, via Bjorn Vayner, shows “features in Live you may have overlooked or forgotten about.”
Part 1 looks at ways to resize multiple tracks in the Session View and how you can continue a stopped Session from where you left off.
Part 2 looks at how you can change the tempo [...]