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I don’t know what to say about this bizarre, not quite steampunk music sequencer! Let me know what you thinks!

 

Genoqs has introduced a special edition of its Octopus sequencer, the Octopus Vampire edition.
Here’s the scoop:

Bordeaux lacquered wood frame
Anodized black front panel
Aluminum-gray anodized lettering
Blue-yellow-purple tri-color LEDs
Production strictly limited to 25 machines total
Pre-order yours now
Delivery starts December 1st, 2008
Price 2699.- EUR

Genoqs has a gorgeous Octopus Vampire brochure (pdf) that you can download.
via Gearjunkies

 

DJ Thomas White has created this 8-part introduction to the Music From Outer Space 16-stage modular analog sequencer. 
MFOS Modular Analog Sequencer 1 of 8

Pages: 1 2

 

Kyle McDonald’s cell phone-based beat sequencer, a small-crowd improvisation interface.
Here’s what McDonald has to say about the project:
Developed in an afternoon with a webcam, projector, and Open Frameworks. Squares of the video are thresholded for average brightness, and when the line reaches them MIDI notes are sent to Reason.
This was mostly inspired by “I Eat [...]

 

MuTools‘ MU.LAB is a software application for OSX and Windows that turns your computer into a virtual music studio.
It’s available in two versions:

MU.LAB Free has a 6 track limit and can only mixdown in 16 Bit. 
MU.LAB Unlimited can do unlimited tracks and can also mixdown in 32 Bit for more extensive musical productions.

Included is MuSynth, a modular [...]

 

Over at CDM, Peter Kirn turned me onto Hans Kuder’s tiction - a new visual music performance/sequencing application.
Tiction is a flexible, nodal music sequencer created in processing. You can see it in action in the video, above. 
Each node represents an event, and a connection from one node to the next triggers the next event after a [...]

 

A short demonstration of some of the features of the Klee sequencer with MOTM modules.
Explains Stephen Drake:
I’m controlling 3 voices with it - all MOTM 300 vco’s through various filters and vcas. All in real time with no input from other sources. The sound quality’s not the greatest - just using the camera mike - [...]

 

Atomo Labs has introduced the Mochika2 Sequencer Synth - now featuring Midi synchronization..
Description:
This synth features:

one square and saw waveform VCO (voltage controled oscillator) with a huge pitch range, from subsonic to ultrasonic sound
One square and triangle waveform LFO (low frequency oscillator), that modulates the VCO for the vibrato effect creating old school arcade Atari-like [...]