Strange Loop vs PNEUMATIC

Strange Loop writes its own music. Three coupled Lorenz attractors drive the piece — one proposes pitch, one shapes rhythm, one wanders the emotional plane. A Markov policy then decides what actually plays, learning from its own output and rewarding intervals that sound consonant. Chaos proposes, the policy disposes. Slide BLEND to choose who wins. Nothing is pre-recorded and nothing loops. Every run is new. PAINT ON THE MATHS Both scopes are paintable. Draw on the attractor and the trajectory bends toward what you drew and lingers there, pulling the melody into those pitches. Draw on the mood pad and the feeling follows your strokes — brightening the harmony, lifting the register, pushing the tempo. Set how hard the ink leans, how big the brush is, and how long it lasts before it fades. WHAT YOU GET • 26 scales — major and minor modes, pentatonics, blues, whole tone, harmonic and melodic minor, altered, both octatonics, and folk scales from Japan, China, Egypt, Spain, Arabia and Hungary • 7 accompaniment styles — chaos grooves, jazz comping with walking bass, stride piano, Alberti bass, classical, arpeggios, ambient rolls • A sampled grand piano plus synthesised voices: soft piano, glass, strings, FM bell, AM organ, pluck, fat saw and more • 6 moods on a valence/arousal plane, from serene to tense, driving chord quality, register, tempo and note length • Live scopes — the attractors, the note-probability distribution the engine is sampling from, and the mood point, all drawn in real time • Deep control: key, scale, tempo, chaos rho, rhythm spread, grace notes, chord-tone pull, softmax temperature, per-track mixer • Record a take and export it as a standard MIDI file to the Files app — melody, chords and bass on separate tracks TWO AUDIO UNITS Strange Loop ships as an instrument AUv3 and as a MIDI processor AUv3, so it can either play its own sounds or sequence any other instrument in your host. Melody, chords and bass each send on their own MIDI channel, so one instance can drive three different instruments. Both Audio Units follow your host's transport and tempo — hit play in AUM, GarageBand, Logic, Cubasis or Zenbeats and it locks to the grid. One install registers both. CREDITS Sampled piano: Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).

PNEUMATIC is a valve pressure synth from NOIDED Industries. Push the lever and pressure builds in the tank. The pipe starts to whistle, the leak screams higher and the gauge climbs. Let go and it slams back, bleeding off into silence. Push it all the way across and it latches for a sustained drone. PRESSURE sets how hard the tank fills. PIPE tunes the resonant noise. LEAK adds a buzzing whistle that rises with the pressure. BLEED decides how fast it all drains away. No extra hardware needed. Everything is played on screen. If you want, any standard MIDI keyboard or MIDI app can also play it, with every note transposing the whole machine. Play it from a MIDI keyboard and every note transposes the whole machine. Velocity and aftertouch push the lever for you. Standalone app and AUv3 instrument Full MIDI CC control of every parameter Optional MIDI keyboard support (velocity, aftertouch, mod wheel)Keyboard, velocity, aftertouch and mod wheel control Save and load your own presets Works in AUM, GarageBand, Cubasis and other AUv3 hosts Made in Rochdale, UI elements photographed from local industrial areas. STAY NOIDED.