An Addictive Alternative To DAWs

0:00 - Intro
0:52 - The Timelines Of Computer Composing
2:57 - Nodal
3:40 - Midinous Origin
5:03 - Chapter 1: The Basics
13:05 - Chapter 2: Generative Music
19:59 - Chapter 3: Patch Show & Tell
21:36 - A Song
25:00 - Sonicpass/Falcon Simping
25:33 - Examples in my music/bye

[awmaas]

It's so nice when GAS hits an entirely new itch I didn't even know existed AND sets me back $20 instead of like 2 grand. What a delightful program, the "gaming brain plus music brain" is an underutilized crossover. I'm a data analyst in my 9-5 and this feels like programming a solution for manipulating or rolling up and analyzing data. This is going to be a deep enjoyable dive. Thanks again for all the content and Mark Twain lies

[linewizard]

You are about to absolutely exPLOde this steam game that has 26 reviews

[triplezgames]

I'm incredibly impressed that this software was developed by someone who just learned coding as their first project?! I'm a programmer myself and this is insane

[learnerslikeus]

"Anyone lying about what Mark Twain says is a person worth listening to." - Mark Twain

[metafuel]

The fact this was created by someone with no previous coding experience is absolutely amazing. Excellent work.

[lvcifer-cloverfield]

The "not enough alternative ways" thing struck me real hard.

I do field service inspection and when I'm taking a break in my car I'll be zoning off on nanoloop doing live techno and FX-free dnb

[Skanking-Corpse]

"You can make anything sound good with enough reverb" -Mark Twain

[scytube]

5:50 "that gives you access to a thousand instruments… so let's start by loading an 808." 😂

[littlesynthbox]

I bought Midinous ago, played with it a bit, thoroughly enjoyed it, put it down and haven't picked it up again since. Not because it's not great, but because I got distracted and... you know how it goes. It looks like a bunch of features have been added since then and I've now got all of my hardware synths hooked up for midi to my PC, so I'm definitely going to check it out again! Thanks for reminding me of its existence!

[mbessey]

From the Steam page, it looks a bit like a (much) more-approachable implementation of some of the ideas in Orca. Neat!

[gurpaful]

This was kind of like the thing where you think you dislike an ingredient and then go to a good restaurant and realize that you just had a bad version of it previously. The only generative stuff I've seen thus far has been purely mathematical curios with little if any musical value, or modular guys going ham and ending up with a naive salad of noise and random notes. This was really eye-opening, thank you

[brianbergmusic]

Fascinating. The 'basics' demonstration of this non-DAW felt like playing minesweeper whilst conjuring Future Sound of London vibes at the same time.

[gavinpeters]

Jesus how the hell have I never heard of this? I am a hobbyist computer scientist, an IT guy, electronic musician and I am all about the non-random, generative midi. (That was regarding nodal, but also other interesting stuff after..)

[Yarckmusic]

Awesome video!
I can't help but mentioning I made software for Ableton (Max for Live) called New Path some time ago, heavily inspired by Electroplankton as well! 🙂
It has a similar grid of arrows, but it adds many features like teleports and crossroads, etc. And it's a midi device so you can control anything you want with it, synths, samplers, drums, parameters, etc.

[SScribbles]

As someone without classical training, but an interest in music and having the background of a gamer the is such a beautiful thing. Being able turn timing notes into a logic puzzle is awesome.

SIDE NOTE: I stumbled across your video but listen to you work on Spotify all the time and love it! didn't know until the end of the video!

[blackdog]

That's it. That was the final piece of inspiration I needed to get back into making music. Being a visual learner, seeing the (i guess you could call it a neuron) follow the circuit paths just gave me the serotonin I needed

[NicStage]

This is right up my alley. I already get stuck in generative music creation software like it's Factorio.

[fongfeen]

incredible ui visualisation. to me this is a new standard i could see this being incorporated into daws as a toggle view. amazing job

[GourlieRecords]

That song at the end was great. Also loved the patch that was shaped like a tree, very organic! Cool demonstration.

[snoozeperalta]

And it's in these moments where it's a bit depressing to find a video that is so relaxing, cool, exciting and brilliant. And a pity not being able to share it with someone who is not even interested and may be surprised as I have done.