Our goal at grain-brain is to provide a versatile, easy-to-use tool that anyone can use to compose original music. No musical ability required. Listen to a batch of critters, rate them and create a new generation based on your preferences. Breed them repeatedly, 'steering' your critters towards your desired destination. Or, start over with a fresh litter of random critters. Critters is not a loop-based composer. There are an infinite number of potential compositions (Well actually only 2 to the 10,000th). Create endless subtle (or not) mutations of your favorite critters. If you know what you like you can compose.

Critters uses a synthesis of traditional, and experimental music theory along with some of grain-brains' own musical strategies. Critters also utilizes genetic algorithms, chaos theory, fractals, and noise generators (white, pink and brown) to generate its compositions.

OS: >= OSX 10.4
Universal binary will be available sometime in 2006
Recommended: >= 1.33 GHz processor with >= 768 MB RAM
Minimum: If you have a USB midi interface and some hardware synths you might get by with a 500MHz, 256MB machine

Critters 1.5

(App)

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