THE BUBBLEGUM SEQUENCER

Mon, February 25, 2008  
The Bubblegum Sequencer is a project by Hannes Hesse, Andrew McDiarmid and Rosie Han.Their project is a physical step sequencer that lets you create drumloops by arranging colored balls on a tangible surface. It generates MIDI events and can be used as an input device to control audio hardware and software.

It senses the position of the balls through a video camera mounted underneath the surface. The captured image is processed by a computer vision routine that computes the average color in each hole. The colors are quantized and mapped to notes. For each note, a MIDI event is generated and sent to the operating system's MIDI bus. The computer vision software is written in Java and makes use of the ImageJ image processing library.

More info about the project through the link below.


  The Bubblegum Sequencer

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The output of the Bubblegum Sequencer is generated in the form of MIDI events so it can be used to control any kind of audio hardware or software.

"This sequencer will really blow you away!"