Divisions by Dillon Bastan
GENERATE MIDI NOTES FROM SHAPES!
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Divisions is an inventive MaxforLive MIDI effect by Dillon Bastan where music is generated through physics. Design complex MIDI patterns by drawing shapes that bouncing balls interact with—every collision becomes a MIDI note. Launch up to 32 emitters, sculpt behavior with force and friction, and modulate note parameters with spatial and motion data.
Create arpeggios, rhythmic delay lines, evolving harmonies, or wild melodic counterpoints in a visual and playful way. With scale quantization, custom timing options, and automation looping, Divisions becomes a powerful MIDI generator for producers who like to think outside the grid.
Key Features:
- Draw shapes for bouncing ball MIDI triggers
- 32 customizable emitters with friction, velocity & trajectory
- Modulate pitch, velocity, duration based on movement & position
- Built-in emitter automation looper
- Shape tools: freehand, lines, sine waves, polygons & more
- Includes 30 presets and Divisions Listener device for routing MIDI per emitter
Whether you’re designing generative melodies or playful pattern chaos, Divisions offers a fresh way to sequence.
USER GUIDE: Divisions User Manual
Divisions by Dillon Bastan
GENERATE MIDI NOTES FROM SHAPES!
TRIPLE PACK SAVINGS: Add any three or more Dillon Bastan products to your cart and save 15% automatically at checkout!
Divisions is an inventive MaxforLive MIDI effect by Dillon Bastan where music is generated through physics. Design complex MIDI patterns by drawing shapes that bouncing balls interact with—every collision becomes a MIDI note. Launch up to 32 emitters, sculpt behavior with force and friction, and modulate note parameters with spatial and motion data.
Create arpeggios, rhythmic delay lines, evolving harmonies, or wild melodic counterpoints in a visual and playful way. With scale quantization, custom timing options, and automation looping, Divisions becomes a powerful MIDI generator for producers who like to think outside the grid.
Key Features:
- Draw shapes for bouncing ball MIDI triggers
- 32 customizable emitters with friction, velocity & trajectory
- Modulate pitch, velocity, duration based on movement & position
- Built-in emitter automation looper
- Shape tools: freehand, lines, sine waves, polygons & more
- Includes 30 presets and Divisions Listener device for routing MIDI per emitter
Whether you’re designing generative melodies or playful pattern chaos, Divisions offers a fresh way to sequence.
USER GUIDE: Divisions User Manual
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Like every other device by the great Dillon Bastan, this thing is brilliant. It's such a fun way of programming sequences or beats.
Divisions by Dillon Bastan
OVERVIEW AND INSPIRATION
Divisions by Dillon Bastan is a groundbreaking audio software that revolutionizes the way music is composed and produced. This innovative tool allows users to dynamically divide and manipulate audio loops, creating unique and intricate musical arrangements effortlessly.
With its intuitive interface and powerful features, Divisions opens up infinite possibilities for music creators to explore and experiment with their sound. Whether you’re a professional musician or an aspiring producer, this product is a game-changer that will take your music to new heights.
Divisions is a MaxForLive MIDI Effect. Use various drawing tools to draw walls that balls can bounce off of. You can create up to 32 emitters to launch balls with different settings. When a ball bounces off of a wall, a MIDI note is output based on the settings of its emitter. Use Divisions to create various different MIDI effects in a less conventional way! Whether a sequencer, arppeggiator, melody/counter point/chord generator, note delay, and whatever else you come up with!
DIVISIONS CONTENTS:
The device, user manual, 30 presets
DIVISIONS FEATURES:
- Various cursor modes for drawing walls, and more:
- Emitter selector cursor for selecting, moving, and rotating emitters
- Free draw tool
- Line draw tool
- Ellipse, rectangle, and triangle shape tools with rotation and arc options
- Sine wave draw tool with phase and frequency options
- Eraser and clear drawn walls function
- Up to 32 emitters with independent settings that launch balls:
- XY Position and angle of launching balls
- Force of launch
- Friction for the balls (slows them over time)
- Chance of skipping ball launch triggering
- Two ball removal modes: after a certain interval or number of wall hits
- MIDI note pitch (the note it outputs when colliding with a wall)
- Various pitch scale options and tonic option
- MIDI note velocity
- MIDI note duration with sync options
- Modulation sources and bipolar amounts for the MIDI note pitch, velocity, and duration
- Modulation options include: Ball position (X and Y), distance from the center, speed, angle, index of total balls, random spray, number of hits left
- Functions for copy and pasting emitter settings to each other
- NOTE / DISCLAIMER: Emitter parameters cannot be modulated, automated or mapped! This is to avoid creating 32 instances of emitter settings which would make long loading times for the device. To compensate for this there is an internal parameter automation looper for the emitters described below!
- Various methods for triggering emitters to launch a ball:
- Manual and auto triggering at a set interval
- Various options for choosing which emitter is triggered
- Ability to have incoming MIDI notes trigger emission and even control when balls are removed
- Simulation speed option
- Lock to transport
- Various edge handling modes
- Note output interval quantization
- Emitter Parameter Automation looper, which loops changes in Emitter parameters
- Attractor/Repeller for adding simple attraction physics to the balls
- A small auxillary device called Divisions Listener, which allows sending MIDI notes from different emitters in once device instance to seperate tracks in Ableton so that you can control various instruments from one device.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A: Divisions is a MaxforLive MIDI effect that generates notes based on bouncing balls. As the balls collide with user-drawn shapes, MIDI notes are triggered, allowing for generative sequencing, arpeggiation, and rhythmic experimentation.
A: Yes, MaxforLive is required to use Divisions within Ableton Live.
A: MaxforLive is a platform that integrates the visual programming environment Max with Ableton Live, allowing users to create and use custom audio, MIDI, and control devices.
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Important Information
V1.0.0 – Initial Release – July 2023
Our Products are generally provided as Zip file downloads which in all cases will need to be extracted and saved to your hard drive prior to installation. Details on the different file type provided and what to do with them are below.
.alp Files – These are Ableton Live Packs and will either install directly into the Packs Section of the browser of Ableton Live or ask you to save them to your hard drive. For packs that install to the library, when you double click on them you will see a pop up window asking you to confirm that installation is ok as the files are described as “Legacy”. This is fine and you are ok to proceed, the packs are created using the format for an earlier version of Live and so remain compatible with the current version.
.amxd files – These are individual MaxforLive Devices and can be stored anywhere on your hard drive. We’d advise creating a folder for them and then adding that folder as a location within the Places section of Lives Browser.
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