The BOTANICA Sequencer: First Look

video upload by human.motives

Playlist:

1. The BOTANICA Sequencer: First Look at My New Project

0:00 Intro
2:35 What is BOTANICA
4:00 Sequencer features
12:17 Jam demo
17:29 Outro

2. Botanica: Live Demo of My Custom MIDI Sequencer 3. BOTANICA - Sequencer Prototype | Try It Now

"I've been designing and building my own midi sequencer called BOTANICA. This hardware midi sequencer creates expressive sequences from simple patterns.

In this video I tell you about how I started this project (learning electronics and pcb design), a demo of the sequencer and the project status. You can get involved by playtesting, discussing in my discord channel and stay up to date.

Go to https://humanmotives.org/ for more information and links.

Timestamps:

A first look at the Botanica midi sequencer prototype. See how this custom hardware controls generative sound design.

I have been refining the design and interface of this new project for quite a while now. This device features a custom pcb and a tactile front panel, allowing for hands-on control over complex musical patterns. It is built for anyone interested in diy electronics and the process of creating custom musical tools from scratch.

Watching the digital display react to each knob turn is satisfying. Botanica is designed to push my generative music performances further, giving me more control over the output. It is a work in progress, but seeing it come to life on the workbench is a major milestone for this modular synth project."

"BOTANICA is in prototype phase with a small group of testers. After that, the first 5–10 units get built for sale."

"A natural sequencer that grows simple patterns into whole compositions."

FEATURES
Sculpt intricate sequences from 1 to 64 steps. Add, trim away, create space to add fills and variations.

TIMED PHRASES
Add timed phrases and variations to from 1/2/4/8 bars to continuous chance-based evolution.

GENERATIVE MELODIES
Seed melodies and dial in Root, Semitones and Range to taste. Color them with a preset scale (Seasons)

EXPLORE WITHOUT RISK
Turn knobs, modulate, experiment. Dial everything back to return to your original sequence and tones.

EXPRESSIVE REPEATS
Blossom adds timed MIDI repeats at varying intervals and velocity curves

TONAL OPTIONS
Pattern, Arpeggiator and Chord modes

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Palpitation - Ambient Eurorack Modular Synthesizer

Published on Feb 8, 2020 Human Motives

"This is my second ever recorded patch to learn modular. I am now 5 weeks since I first started. Since the last video, I tried a lot, but was not satisfied with any sounds. Maybe some modular fatigue? Learning a lot, but definitely still struggling to get something I like. Uploading this mainly to look back later so I can appreciate what progress I have made.

When making this patch, I did not plan for it to sound this way. I was trying to use white noise from the Shuttle Control to “erode” some of the envelopes, to get a lo-fi sound. I would have loved the piece to be more uplifting musically, instead of the dark mood, but I could not figure out how. It could also do with more melodic variation, so that’s what I am going to practice.

— The Patch —

Morphagene starts with sound from the patch in the buffer. Marbles triggers the envelopes on Quadra and v/octing Plaits and the Instruo T-sl going into Clouds. I'm using the Intuitive Quantizer to force all notes into a scale. Plaits is doing a bass drone that slowly fades in and out. T-sl is feeding Clouds to make a dirty lo-fi pad sound. Rings is doing a weird tribal percussion thing that is a little out of tune. Mimeophone blends it all together with some smeared delays. I'm using WMD clock multiplier to make the Marbles into slow and fast triggers.

- Chris"

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