" Mod271 pronounced as "Mode" (the 271 being a play on Euler's constant) is really a DSP playground with unified audio/MIDI support and functionally is supposed to exist somewhere in between Reaktor, reacTable and Reason (although this isn't the case quite yet). I will refer to Mod271 as M271 throughout the documentation.This all started out as my own personal frustration with clumsy knobs and sliders in current use by most audio software. I wanted to have an intuitive interface with variable resolution control built-in. The entire interface is rendered in 3D, so you can zoom in and out with the mouse wheel. Zooming in on a node will give you more precise control over its position, zooming out does the opposite.
Really I wanted an environment where there is no different between MIDI or audio signals, so an audio effect will work the same with a MIDI signal. Also I wanted an integrated way to handle envelopes, something that has a direct and visual connection with a node, this ended up meaning the removal of the GUI all together, there is only one interface for everything :) PCs are fast enough now to make this happen.
I'd like M271 to end up as a total modular environment where you can easily make performances just as easy as a synthesizer or effect.
Some cool features include:
* ASIO/MIDI support
* built with portability in mind, a mac/linux version shouldn't be terribly difficult.
* everything is a full audio-rate signal which means you can do DSP type stuff to say a MIDI stream.
* there is a VSTi version in the works but it is still pretty unusable in a general case.
* every node can be automated with unlimited control points and automation takes place right in the 3D environment.
* nodes can influence any amount of other nodes or switched into a singular state.
* all signals are drawn at audio rate and with full hardware acceleration, although this can be disabled.
* the entire environment is rendered in 3D.
* radial and linear influence modes are supported for every node.
* all envelopes and motion are completely sample accurate, meaning you can make an oscillator out of an envelope.
* over 25 node types, of course this is going to grow.
* Python node type that will allow easy extensions.
* and most importantly it's fun! "
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