Visual Beat vs sqsl Latch

Create your own composition with the interactive music video Visual Beat! Conduct different musicians by mixing their versatile instruments and vocals. Explore hand-crafted stop motion animations matching with each musicians' specific style of music. Experiment with the repertoire of soundtracks to get various results. Lets Play! **AWARDS** Best of the Best - Red Dot Award 1st Prize Visual Music Live Contest - Visual Music Award 1st Prize Motion Art - kurzundschön moving images Junior Award Silver - Art Directors Club Germany FWA Mobile Of The Day Award Selection - :output award Visual Beat is featuring the diversified music of Mohna, Nutia, Clara and Dobré: MOHNA Mohna works as a solo artist as well as with the Hamburg-based band ‘Me Succeeds’. Her process is intuitive and her vocals transmit a sensitivity that adds to the purity of her overall sound. This is complimented by the minimalistic additions of different instruments including piano and clarinet. NUTIA Hamburg-based artist Nutia is an electronic tech-house musician creating silky, pulsating tracks punctuated by different textures and sounds. This is achieved by mixing electronic samples with live sounds to produce spherical and groovy beats.   CLARA Clara is an experienced cellist who has played with an orchestra for many years as well as with different chamber music ensembles. She is also interested in experimental ways of playing her instrument. Using different techniques, she lets the warm sound of her cello vary between soft floating tones and vibrant staccato rhythms.   DOBRÉ Originally from Munich, now based in London, Dobré’s style ranges between indie and folk. His singing and songwriting emits high spirits and is often accompanied by his band. Being very versatile and spontaneous, Dobré manages to create different moods using a wide range of instruments.

sqsl Latch is a conceptual MIDI controller and sequencer designed for working with evolving drone, textural or soundscape synthesizer patches. It can send out MIDI notes, pitch bend and CC values. There are 16 groups split into 2 banks (a, b, c, … p). Groups have assignable MIDI channel, color and 8 Continuous Controllers (CC). When user touches one of the pads, note is activated and is held on until new touch (on the same pad) is registered. Left slider controls the velocity of note to be activated. Every group has a looper able to record note state changes - phrases. Order and velocity of recorded notes is automatically shuffled after phrase restarts (can be optionally prevented by activating group’s LOCK button).  Phrase playback speed is adjustable (CLOCK and DIVIDER parameters). Phrase can be synchronised - set to restart automatically with previous group's loop. Synchronisation can be set to happen on every pass, every second, third... up to 16th and can be set to be ignored randomly (probability setting 0-100%). Group parameters can be adjusted using sliders or modulated by internal randomiser with adjustable range (RANGE and RANGE 2 parameters) and speed (per group LAG control - left-most slider). Apart user definable CCs, each group has following MIDI parameters: MOD (mod wheel), BEND (pitch bend), VOL (volume), EXP (expression), PAN (pan), FOOT (foot controller), TOUCH (aftertouch/channel pressure). Group parameters related to phrase playback are: CLOCK (resolution and playback speed), SYNC with divider (loop synchronization), NOTE SKIP (randomly skipping notes events 0-100%), SYNC SKIP (randomly skipping sync events 0-100%), DIVIDE (integer group's CLOCK divider), LOOP (loop or one-shot setting), SHIFT (degree offset with selected scale). LAG can be applied to parameter changes - when new value is selected, change does not happen immediately but value is transitioned smoothly based on LAG time (left-most slider). Setup setting (CC numbers, channels, colors, and MIDI output) are saved and recalled when app is restarted. Loops, CC values, parameters and their modulation states can be written to preset positions for later recall. For detailed description visit https://www.seqsual.com/latch Important notes: - Latch does not make any sounds on its own, it generates MIDI messages (notes, pitchbend and CC values). - Latch does not synchronise to incoming external MIDI clock. - Latch was designed for full-size iPads and is not recommended for iPad Mini users.