steve cooley presents

Here’s a short video on how to use beatseqr’s midi note number slider mode to access all 25 instruments in Logic Ultrabeat!

Here’s a video demo of me using Beatseqr v3 with Propellerhead Reason…. but you could use pretty much any app that accepts midi.

hey, while i have everything set up to record video demos.. here’s another one for using redrum to control Thor. I thought that was a cool trick.

I recorded a short video to show off the interface of the version 3 hardware. Here it is:

Beatseqr v3 interface tour from stevecooley on Vimeo.

oh, and.. solo mode is done…

Two updates:

1. Up until now I had been working on an objective-c/cocoa desktop app to handle the serial communication with the Beatseqr hardware. I was doing it to use objective-c and cocoa for a really fun project, and because I wanted to build on the “Rosco” platform that I’d built before Roxor and Beatseqr. For whatever reason, the snow leopard upgrade was not very kind to the serial communications functionality, so I downgraded back to leopard until I could figure out what the problem was or figure out an alternate solution. I don’t believe my preference of operating systems is necessarily *your* preference, so I knew at some point I’d have to tackle creating an app for Windows, at the very least.

So I took the opportunity to solve all of these problems by writing a new app called “Ubirox” (or “ubiquitous roxor”) using the extremely awesome Processing IDE. So now there are Mac, Windows, and Linux versions available. The downside is that the user interface that I’d built to mirror what was going on with the hardware is not present, but the upside is that I have two additional operating system platforms that I can support now.

Roxor will continue to be a downloadable app for the Mac, and will continue to work in conjunction with Steppa to give you a taste of what the Beatseqr hardware is like to use. I made one of my recent tracks released on Dobox Recordings with Roxor and Steppa, and without Beatseqr, so Roxor is still a really fun tool to play with.

2. Mute mode on the voice select buttons is operational! I’m working on a “solo” mode too, so I’ll write up a post with illustrations soon. Ubirox is affected by these developments, so links will go up when they’re all done.

New versions of Roxor and steppa are available. tempo and tempoadjust are the primary upgrades in these releases.

Roxor 4.3

steppa v.027

I can’t even begin to tell you how big the puddle of drool is in front of me after watching this video. But, ouch, that pricetag!

Number 1 of 5 of beatseqr version 3 is done!!

Take a look at the whole photoset!

If you’re going to participate in a political discourse, how about bringing some facts to back up your claims? It’s a skill you should seriously consider developing. For the sake of the merit of your claim, start learning how to use google before you post next time. I won’t do your homework for you, and I’m unswayed by your impassioned statements of your beliefs. If you’re trying to change my mind, show me factual proof of why you’re right and I’m wrong.

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I’m beginning to formulate how I would implement a data logger for airlock bubbling activity in a primary fermentation vessel. I’m not exactly sure how I will take a sensor reading from an airlock yet. In a 1 piece double chamber airlock, I could try putting a photo interrupt sensor where the carbon dioxide blows into the second chamber… not sure if that’ll work at all. In a 3-piece airlock, I could try to record up and down movement of the internal piece by bouncing a light beam or something off the top? I dunno exactly what to do. Something tells me I may end up fabricating something else. Simpler is better, so I’ll have to think long and hard about it. In the meantime, I think this is the workflow of data capture and reporting, using an Async Labs WiShield:

Success. Definitely good enough for a first attempt… and several lessons learned in the process. I’ll be tightening up the box outlines and trusting the accuracy a little more next time. Everything lined up exactly how it was designed to, to the point of me now realizing that the steps I took to give myself some margin of error were not needed at all. Everything lined up, surprise!

There’s been a lot of good progress being made, some of which is fundamental to playing and performance, and some of which is tightening up the user experience. Here’s a short list of the new stuff:

* external case designed and prepped for laser cutting:


ready to go, I’m off to Techshop tonight to try to get these done. Hopefully there will be an update tomorrow on how it went.
* Midi CC slider mode. While not strictly outputting midi cc data directly from roxor, it does spit out OSC data for 8 controls that canbe connected to Osculator today, and steppa soon.
* master tempo set and tempo adjust knob modes. Along with swing, you can now dial in coarse and fine tempo values from right on the hardware.
* tempo and swing controls feedback on the lcd. The knobs behave as the sliders do in regards to maintaining their values until you return the control to the last known position before it will change the value, and using the controls don’t overwhelm the lcd. Two thing you might not notice, but thats what good user experience is all about.

it almost goes without saying that this man has no limits to what he’ll do to manipulate peoples’ automatic human reactions and emotions.

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