Elysium is a generative MIDI sequencer. Okay, so what does that mean? Lets take it in reverse: Elysium is a sequencer, that means its designed to produce sequences of notes that can be layered to form music. Elysium uses MIDI which means that it doesnt make sounds itself but can drive MIDI based synthesizers, samplers, and other instruments. It also means that Elysiums output can be recorded, and manipulated, in a DAW such as Logic or Ableton Live. Elysium is generative which relates to the way the music is created by building up a system composed of layers, cells, tokens, and playheads that combined, when played, to produce a sequence of notes.
Still not with me? Thats okay. Once youve played with it a bit it will all become clear. Elysium is a very visual application with all activity being displayed on a hexagonal matrix representing the harmonic table where each cell corresponds to a note. Elysium offers many tools to create variation including control over probability, LFOs that can be attached to controls, and an embedded Javascript interpreter for scripting. Elysium is an open source application released under the MIT license.
