Screenshots

Loop Console

The basic view of the five loop tracks, each one displays its current action (rec/play/stopped/stacking) as well as a waveform and position indicator.









The Turntables

The new Livetronica Studio works as a turntable emulator.  You can scratch with midi controllers such as the Torq Xponent, or you can use conventional midi controllers or even a mousepad!  The controls seen above allow the user to assign multiple loops to the turntables, then scratch those loops as well as indepedently vay loop bpm, playback frequency, beat splicing, volume pan and effects.  The program even has algorithyms for beat splicing that specify what type of beat to produce, and frequency scale quantization that causes the turntables to stick to certain scales (major, minor, blues, mixolydian, etc.).

DJ Console

a look at the DJ console

There is also a traditional DJ view – this is what every one of our competitors looks like; you’ve seen it a hundred times before, the ribbon style waveforms for the two turntables on top, then filters, effect, cue point, track info and other controls in the middle, and your iTunes library on the bottom. This view is coming along quickly – so send us what you would like to see!


The Drumset

Livetronica Studio also comes complete with a drumset. You can use the Livetronica drumset to load your favorite samples and play them in perfect time with your loops. The drumset will adapt to any tempo, and using the probability matrices you can be easily program the drums to play beat of your choosing, with as much or little variation as you desire.

Additionally, individual drums can be linked to the turntables, allowing you to scratch the beat even as it is being dynamically generated. Using the drum as a sample player you can drop in quick vocal samples and scratch them just as easily.

Visualization

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Though this part of the project has been tabled for a while, look for it to come back in the Spring. Plans are to integrate openGL and particle based systems to allow for the visualization of any waveform in the studio in a variety of ways (perhaps using thousands of particles to give the appearance of the waveform as rolling waves crashing on the beach).

Though visualization and VJ programming is still important to us, it is not the top priority. Know a good cinder programmer? Send him/her our way!