Yesterday Sonic Charge announced Patternarium, a Flash-fueled semi-random patch and pattern generator for their drum synth Microtonic. Anyone tried it out yet?My personal thought is that this is an amazing, perhaps revolutionary approach to generating new content for older products. Combining a user voting system and the 'evolution' based approach to patch generation first seen in their Synplant synth is a really forward thinking approach. I'd love to see other developers follow suit with patch generators for synths and effects. Can you imagine how much it would extend the shelf-life for virtual instruments? What do you guys think? Yea? Nay?
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The Patternarium is great. I would love to see other developers do patch generators.
It's instructive pulling down on the upper right where it will show you the current votes for each pattern. What will happen -- what has happened -- is that the most conventional patterns get the most votes.
So it's still left up to really talented people to find the awesome beats that don't sound like every other beat you've ever heard... this thing won't generate one truly arresting, awesome drumbeat, just hundreds of conventional ones.
I've spent quite a while with this. I hope other devs try something similar.
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