Cellular automata music on Novation Launchpad

I wondered what it would sound like if I tried to turn "Conways game of life" into music. With help from wikipedia I found several of these cellular automata algorithms and coded some of them to use the launchpad as a display and input to toggle cells as the program ran. The buttons on the right select between different algorithms. The bottom row of buttons is mapped across a major scale and the scale is also moved by the program in a kind of 12-bar progression. The output is MIDI piped into Reason via midi yoke. See my other clips for midi source code...
Its interesting how these rules come up with intricate semi-random repeating patterns which map well to music.. worth more playing i think

Download it for yourself http://hotchk155.blogspot.com/2010/01/playpad-program-for-launchpad-fun.html

Category:

Science & Technology

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• novation
• launchpad
• midi
• reason
• cellular
• automata
• conways
• game
• of
• life

[hotelsinus]

thats cool, can you youse the Launchpad without computer!? i want to go out a gig with no pc or mac , my Blofeldand a cool controller, like Launchpad.(monome do nothing without computer.... lame...

[hotchk155]

funny you should ask... simple answer is No.. Launchpad has only USB not a MIDI socket... however I am working on a project to make a standalone version using a Arduino and a vinculum USB host module. Will post something here if it works...

[onionbuskut]

hey! awesome job, how did you learn to use abelton live?

[hotchk155]

thanks.. this clip does not use ableton though, just homebrew code

[DrumzndStuff]

is it me or can you vaguely see a swastika in the lights o.0

[EDOM666DEVORE]

for your stand alone version i suggest melding it into the slots of an older keyboard (older to keep cost down) and making the notes relitave to the way a harmonic table controler that way you get all the notes in an easy way to play each key has a different key from the keyboard and black and white keys it would be a cheaper version of the harmonic table (like instrument and the stand alone of the launch pad but i think a monome might be easier to convert but more expensive depending

[hujackus]

I did something similar, but without a physical launchpad.

[mrrn100]

CA and UCA on DM, great job, great brew.

[halofanteam]

Scary...

[ZeroSurvivalRate]

launchpad + Conway's game of life = THE VOICE OF GOD!!!!!!!

[qishmish]

hey. what about usb-to-midi? i wanna buy synth with usb and midi-in

[djSpinege]

hope your standalone version works ! good vid's

[hotchk155]

interesting... I will have a look.. puredata looks interesting too