dAnushri

Mutable-Instruments “Anushri” synthesizer has a nice built-in drum pattern generator (“generative sequencer”).

I did steal the essential code and made a renoise tool out of it.

There is a lengthy description of how it works at: http://mutable-instruments.net/anushri/manual

In short:

- X & Y knobs define the basic pattern

- The main Kick, Snare and HiHat knobs control the density or amount of hits in the pattern

- Swing is just a shortcut to the renoise groove settings (controls all four sliders at once)

Differences to the real Anushri are:

- Velocity values are handled in a different way, with dAnushri you can adjust the impact of the ‘importance’ of a hit freely with the small “vel” knob

- the “acc” knob is an addition by me, turned left it will emphasize the notes on the beat, turned right the notes on the offbeat

NOTE: When renoise is in edit/record mode the tool will only write pattern data from the current playback position to the end of the pattern. It’s possible to record variations etc. that way (sortof).

MI Anushri is licensed GPL 3.0, therefor dAnushri is too.

Happy jammin :)