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You will need steppa for this to do anything interesting. http://beatseqr.com/downloads/steppa_041.app.zip
I'm pleased to announce a reintroduction of a mac os x cocoa app I wrote which is now called "bootscats 1.44". It is an 8 voice, 16 step button matrix and other controls, as configured like the beatseqr hardware interface I make. It works with Derek Scott's "steppa" sequencer app to create a midi loop that you can use with whatever music app you like.
Several notes:
system req's: Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) or later is required. You need Steppa as well. http://beatseqr.com/downloads/steppa_041.app.zip You'll also need some kind of music or visuals software. Anything that takes midi.
The name: Mark and Erin Pauley had twittered a week or two ago about their sister/in law saying something to the effect that all techno sounded the same to her: "Boots cats boots cats boots cats boots cats" which of course is awesome on all kinds of levels. The next day after I'd seen them tweeting about that, I caught myself saying that all day long. Then I started looking for imagery of cats and boots which is fairly abundant for several cultural references that I'll leave up to you to discover on your own. But I kept thinking, man this is such a cool phonetic concept. I didn't want to confuse what Roxor is now by keeping this older version also called roxor, and maybe "beatseqr simulator" would be more correct, but the full functionality of beatseqr isn't in the app. So I asked them if I could use "bootscats" and they said yes. Thanks guys!
the version number: This is mostly a reference to several realities. This used to be Roxor, which arguably was the "1.0" version, but I'd taken it up to a revision number of what I felt was 4.4. So I just combined these factors to get 1.44.
the back story: Back at the dawn of time (this timeline, anyway) I had written a mac os x desktop app to talk to the beatseqr hardware, handle serial data parsing, and generate the OSC data out to steppa. Time went on and my objective-c skills started to show their green roots more than was reasonable for our time frame to get to a stable and usable state. So I rewrote was was then called roxor in Processing, and sadly got it rewritten and cross platform in like 1 day compared to the months I'd been toiling on the obj-c version. Arguably, the cocoa version is a fairly functional app all by itself without having to interface with hardware at all, and the new version of roxor has almost no interface at all. So there's that. But I couldn't help thinking "dang, I sure spent a lot of time on that program. Doesn't it mostly work?" And yes, it turns out that it did mostly work. And that it's still pretty usable with steppa. It still suffers from the mouse-click-mouse-click problems that we're solving for with the beatseqr hardware... so ... consider checking out what we're doing with the hardware. It's pretty cool. Here's a screenshot:
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You will need steppa for this to do anything interesting. http://beatseqr.com/downloads/steppa_041.app.zip