Instead, they let you put rhythms where they don’t normally go. “We’re a music software company that makes no sound,” say the creators in the interview here. (See the video, as it’s easier to see than write about.)
#LIQUID RHYTHM VST MANUAL#
It’s tough to describe, but they have a different view, one that provides manual control in a unique interface that goes its own direction – more like a genetic cell than a piano roll. Yes, this common interface has become tyranny. Design grooves and velocity by color in an accent editor, or re-groove existing materials with something they call GrooveMover. BeatSeeker displays various genetic possibilities of patterns in a huge wheel.Īccents, grooves. Paint with patterns, or make patterns in pitch and rhythm from clusters, in BeatBuilder.ĭial up rhythms. Or Max for Live for Ableton Live, now with full integration with Ableton Push hardware. (They had me at ‘randomize.’) Or, if you’re brave enough to enter the worlds of beat and pattern control, you can use the tools for fine-grained production of unusual musical ideas. You can randomize and remix and shift, for quick ideas. There’s a whole suite of tools with more than enough of what you could explore in any host. Whether you’re using Drum Racks or notes, you can automatically see what pattern goes with what, working in real-time with everything visible as you go. If you use Ableton Live, the integration goes further still. In colored patterns, arrayed in bars and wheels, you can produce all kinds of new rhythms, then integrate deeply with your host software. It looks like a music theory class collided with a mandala.
Liquid Rhythm is something unlike just about anything else in music software.
That’s why I’m pleased to get to share this interview with WaveDNA. And sometimes, the path there involves retooling how that music is made.
Music software is at its best when it goes beyond cookie-cutter regularity, and spawns something creative.
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