GlitchDS

Glitch Sequencer is a free cellular automaton based MIDI sequencer for the PC and Mac.

It offers an interesting style of composition based on evolving patterns and is great for fast, fluid experimentation.

Glitch Sequencer was written by Bret Truchan in Processing using themidibus MIDI library.

See the video above for an overview of Glitch Sequencer. More videos and documentation are available at the Glitch Sequencer site.

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cellsDS is a free programmable grid-based music sequencer for the Nintendo DS.

Description:

cellsDS is six sequencers in one, with each sequencer being controlled by a user definable Lua script. It is the peculiar anti-social stepchild of the Tenori-On and Monome.

Features include:

• Dead simple user interface.
• Ability to create your own unique sequencer rules using the Lua programming language. CellsDS comes with a developer’s guide and example scripts to get you started.
• 175 sounds are included. With a little work, you can add your own sounds.
• Ability to customize the scale. (Microtonal nerds will be pleased.)
• Coming soon… Wifi-Midi support.

There are some limitations to the Lua scripts that you can write due to performance issues. Please refer to the Developer’s Guide (included in the distribution) for more details.

In short, cellsDS sequencers need to perform briskly – which might rule out things such as doing expensive cellular-automaton calculations.

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GlitchDS is a free cellular automaton music sequencer for the Nintendo DS that could be great for creating IDM and Glitch style loops.

Features include:

• Customizable Cellular Automaton sequencer
• Create your own “trigger points”
• Load in your own sounds
• Save and load your work
• BPM settings, or “strum mode” for controlling tempo
• Up to 6 sounds can be loaded at once
• Each sound has its own 32 step frequency modulation sequencer
• Global Distortion setting