This device grew out of a desire that I had for Ableton’s native Seed MIDI Tool. Seed generates a random cloud of notes, which is a useful way to get an idea started. The problem (in my opinion) is that the distribution of these notes in time can be very uneven. There might be a lot of notes at the beginning of the clip, and nothing at the end. So, I made Even Seed to solve this problem. It does so by first slicing the clip into segments, then generating notes within each of the segments. This ensures that the notes are more evenly distributed.

Even Seed also allows you to generate chords by forcing the notes that line up along the time axis. You can also control the pitches and velocities more finely by using a bank of sliders that acts as a probability distribution. Like all of my MIDI Generators, Even Seed respects the MIDI Clip’s scale, so the generated notes will always be in key.