For the last couple months I have been learning Common Lisp by prototyping a tracker-influenced MIDI sequencer. It's been a lot of fun! The UI is still much too barebones but the dream (& reason for the lofi look) is to keep prototyping until I have something that would work in a hardware form-factor. Here is a short demo of it hooked up to Waves Audio Electric88.
masterblaster.progress1.mp4
A few ideas I'm playing around with:
- Looping on different track lengths creates evolving rhythmic textures
- Euclidean sequencing (
track-set-euclidean
) is a fun & quick way to generate ideas - Side-by-side display of tracks with different ticks-per-bar
- UI is still keyboard* driven ala Trackers (* & in the future hopefully knob-driven)