ZOA — Living MIDI Sequencer

The special feature of Zoa, compared to other generative sequencers, is that there are two layers. The upper layer is the Life, which selects a complex sequence of notes to use, and which evolves slowly. The lower layer is the playheads which dance different patterns through the selected notes. These create plenty of motion even if the Life pattern only updates every few bars. You can configure the playheads appropriate to different instrumental styles. I was able to create a credible-sounding j

Just like the Conway’s life sim, it eventually settles down to one or more simple oscillations and either stops or does the same, monotonous pattern/s. Not all that ‘musical.

I love using this app to create hypnotic sound scapes to help me relax. I run it through AUM. Ryan’s tutorials on YT are very helpful.

Really enjoyed the app. Great soft music coming out. Also great to use on USB MIDI devices when testing! Very nice!

Please expand the grid to something more interesting; a 256x256 grid would be ideal. One would wish to explore “GOL Species” but realistically more than 80% of these won’t even fit on the available (limited in size) grid. Please do update this, it’s such a great idea limited by an arbitrarily small limitation (the grid size).