GRIDLESS

Handmade Max for Live device By Gooooose

from Sequencer Electronics

It’s true that grid and quantisation are great tools for making electronic music, however, many times we might want to make something moving in a more interesting way. These patterns might not be used in the production immediately, but many times they will bring unpredictable results or inspirations. However, apart from generating interesting results, pure randomness could also bring uncontrollable chaos, meaning although musicians might benefit from the inspiring side, they also have to spend quite a lot of time to make it meaningful, or semi-repetitive.

To make the life of curious electronic musicians easier, the GRIDLESS sequencer is made. In the core of the sequencer, it’s an FM synthesiser. The generated waveform will send out 6 different triggers in each cycle, and each trigger’s position (trig-pos), pitch, velocity and note length could be specified. Any incoming midi note will pass the device, and also reset the waveform, to generate a repetitive pattern. Through adjusting the frequency of the carrier and modulator, along with the modulation index, a nearly infinite list of waveforms could be generated, and each waveform could be considered as a rhythmic pattern.