Breakage 23

Breakage raises the bar for live drum machine programming and performance. Where traditional step sequencers edit one note at time, Breakage adds neural network and pattern morphing functions to allow composition above the note level.

Breakage is an artificially intelligent drum machine which learns from trends in your rhythms so it can accompany your drumming.

Patterns are written in a step sequencer grid and a neural network is set to learn relationships between drums. After training, the network is able to accompany your drum programming in real time.

For example: you write five patterns with kick, snare, closed and open hi hat channels, train the network to relate the kick + snare and closed + open hats. Now the hi-hats automatically respond to changes you make on the kick + snare channels.

It makes more sense when you see it in action, so please download and try it out. Join the mailing list to discuss, influence development and stay informed of updates.

Requirements:

· Java 1.5.
· it also requires ChucK - http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/.


What's New in This Release:

· You can now select the sample browser's root folder.
· The pattern editor can display circles, squares or rectangles.
· A collection of bossa nova patterns is now included.
· Reset settings. Start Breakage from the command line with 'java -jar Breakage2.jar -reset'
· Debug mode. Start Breakage from the command line with 'java -jar Breakage2.jar -debug'