Cycling '74: M

[Zerobae]

With M's ability to act as a virtual source of MIDI for other applications, you can easily use M to control other software such as Ableton Live.

(Taken from: http://www.cycling74.com/products/M
And I heard about it on http://createdigitalmusic.com/.)

Now of course, any application with Core MIDI function can control any other such application, not only Live. Still I'm interested: Any users of M here?

EDIT: M's Core MIDI functionality is the news, sorry I forgot to mention this…


EDIT2: Oh, and a picture - because something in its design instantly clicked with me:

[vo1k1-code]

I used M extensively when it was originally released. Though it is useful for a number of applications, I personally found it most valuable as a compositional tool, kick starting ideas that I would later refine in some other program.

[synnack]

Ok so I'm dumb.

What does this do for me that Ableton doesn't?

This seems like Ableton Live if Live didn't support audio.

[Rinko]

to be honest i've only read about M on createdigitalmusic.com today and downloaded the demo so i'm not the best authority - it seems fun and useful though. the design is nice too - clean and neat.


tempus3r - its more of an algorithmic composition/performance tool. you use it as a sequencer to send midi notes to other soft/hardware. you can create your own sequences and then alter them in a number of ways.

as the article on createdigitalmusic.com says- its prob best to try it out yourself cos its not that easy to explain.

[Lux Libra]

looks interesting. a totally different approach to sequencing is perhaps a creativity gainer. is it mac only?

[Tone Deft]

looks interesting. a totally different approach to sequencing is perhaps a creativity gainer. is it mac only?

http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl;jsess ... ategory=24
Mac only.

[Lux Libra]

looks interesting. a totally different approach to sequencing is perhaps a creativity gainer. is it mac only?

http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl;jsess ... ategory=24
Mac only.

that's a pity! at least for me.....

but this thing has started my interest for midi composition tools. i will look for pc suited things.......has anybody a suggestion? would be great!

[noisetonepause]

Anyone know where if it's still possible to get hold of one of the older versions? I'd love to run it on my Mac Classic (which has a MIDI interface)...

[Rinko]

m:o -

i'm not a windows user and can't vouch for any of the software here but try:

http://www.dontcrack.com/freeware/softw ... m/windows/

and any mac heads who are into similar things might find more at:

http://www.studiotoolz.net/category/com ... ded-music/


i'm sure both these sites have been mentioned on these forums before and they are worth checking out.

your other option of course is to write your own patch/app in supercollider, puredata, chucK or whatever. there is a beta version of sc for windows at:

http://supercollider.sourceforge.net//

pd here:

http://puredata.info/downloads

and chucK is here:

http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/release/

also worth a look is jmusic (java based):

http://jmusic.ci.qut.edu.au/GetjMusic.html

and there's a good chunk on doin algorithmic stuff with jmusic here:

http://digitalinstruments.ci.qut.edu.au ... nerate.htm

hope this is of some use and i'm not just stating the obvious - use google n you'll find loads.

i'm a total novice with this stuff but all i'm saying is i wrote my first 'proper' program in sc the other day - it generates random sequences of midi notes and you can control their tempo in real time. it's far from a work of genius but it made me smile more than i have done in a long while...try it!