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Empty Magic (software utility for the Machinedrum)

2005-12-08 by Michael Alyn Miller

Hi folks,

My new software utility for the Machinedrum is finally ready for public consumption! The 
program, Empty Magic, is designed to complement the Machinedrum by adding a number 
of performance-oriented features to the MD.

You can mute tracks and groups of tracks with MIDI notes, play the machines from your 
MIDI keyboard and even change multiple Machinedrum settings from a single MIDI control 
wheel. Velocity-based adjustment of parameters is in there as well.

I started out building this thing for myself, but then I saw other Elektron users on the web 
asking for the same features that I was interested in. So I dug back in and turned it 
into a real software product. I am interested to find out what everyone thinks of the 
software, and what other features you would like to see!

Empty Magic is available for Mac OS X and Windows. You can get the evaluation version 
from my web site: http://www.strangeGizmo.com/

If there is enough interest in Empty Magic, then I have a number of other ideas for 
Elektron-related software products that I would like to work on. Graphical editor/librarian, 
anyone?

Thanks for your time, and please let me know what you think of the software!

Michael Alyn Miller

BTW, Empty Magic 1.0.0 (the version on the web site) is designed for use with a hardware 
MIDI controller.  Contact me via e-mail if you would like a prerelease version of 1.1.0, 
which can be controlled by a MIDI sequencer.

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