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    Dec 31, 2019 5 minutes

    Audiomodern

    Playbeat €49 (PC/Mac); £7 (iOS)

    Web audiomodern.com

    Format PC/Mac, VST/AU/AAX/standalone; iOS

    This friendly drum and percussion sequencer lets you load your own one-shot samples (none are included, unexpectedly) onto each of its four tracks, then either program your patterns manually or hit one of four ‘dice’ buttons to randomise the number and positions of active Steps, Pitch, Volume or all of the above. This randomisation can be applied to one track at a time or all four at once – there’s no way to select two or three, although you can copy patterns between tracks – and is apparently generated using “algorithmic and random procedures”. It all just seems, well, random to us – we certainly don’t detect the influence of any artificial intelligence at work, and if there is any, the lack of any form of documentation leaves you

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