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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:

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.

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.

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.

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

m:o wrote: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.

Tone Deft wrote:

m:o wrote: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!

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)...

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!