Strange Loop: Chaos Melody1.0.9 - App Store

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).

Version History - Improved power and cpu usage. 1.0.9 Sep 28 - Added Standalone midi out.
- Minor UI adjustments. 1.0.8 Sep 11 - Improved help explanations
- Added Tempo Rate multipliers and dividers. 1.0.7 Sep 10 > Added UI scaling
> Other minor bug fixes. 1.0.6 Sep 5 UI fix for iPad large screen. 1.0.5 Aug 20 Bug fix and improvements. 1.0.4 Aug 17 - Influence the Lorenz by painting on the graph.
- Bug fix and improvements. 1.0.3 Aug 14 New Features

• Strange Loop MIDI, a new Audio Unit that sends MIDI instead of sound, so
Strange Loop can play any other instrument in AUM, GarageBand, Logic and
other hosts. Both Audio Units are included in the app.

• Host sync, the engine now follows your host's transport and tempo. Hit play
in your DAW and Strange Loop starts in time with everything else. Turn it off
with the SYNC button to run on its own clock.

• Eight new scales: Melodic Minor, Lydian Dominant, Locrian, Dorian b2,
Altered (Super Locrian), Octatonic (Half-Whole), Octatonic (Whole-Half) and
Neapolitan Minor.

Fixed

• Menus for key, scale and sounds can now be opened when Strange Loop is
running as an Audio Unit inside another app.

• Cancelling a purchase no longer shows an error message, and the remaining
purchase messages now explain what happened in plain language.

• The version number is shown in the header, which makes it easier to report
problems. 1.0.2 Aug 11 1.0.1 Aug 6