Seti Transmitter

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Generative sequencers have a problem. You press randomize, you like what you hear, and

now you're racing to record it before it's gone.

SETI Transmitter doesn't work that way. It calculates its pattern from six numbers on

the panel, so the same settings produce the same groove every time. Live saves those

numbers with your set. Find something good and you already have it — nothing to

capture, nothing to lose.

It is random. It's just the same random every time.

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WHICH MEANS IT CAN EVOLVE

MUTATION sets how big one change is. GENERATION says how many changes deep you are.

Generation 5 is always the same five steps from the same starting point — so you can

walk a pattern somewhere interesting and walk it straight back.

Put GENERATION in an automation lane and the rhythm develops across the arrangement,

playing back identically every pass, with no MIDI recorded.

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RANDOM NOTES THAT COME BACK

Point NOTE A and NOTE B at any two notes from C-2 to G8 — two pads in a drum rack, two

keys on a synth. Then open RANDOM and hits start straying somewhere else, with RANGE

deciding how far, up to two octaves either side.

The strays are calculated from the seed and the step number, so a melody you like

returns exactly, every playback. On a rack it wanders into neighbouring pads. On a

synth it's a line you can keep.

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EIGHT KINDS OF SIGNAL

morse sends a real word in dots and dashes — SETI, SOS, HI, LIFE, ECHO, WOW, PING,

CALL, LOCK, SIGNAL — with a dash held as one long note. binary repeats a short motif.

prime only allows hits on prime-numbered steps, so the gaps never settle. pulsar is a

tight periodic pulse. beacon is a short call and a long silence. burst is clusters

separated by space. drift runs four bars, nudged at each bar line so bar four isn't bar

one. contact stitches together fragments of earlier transmissions, so phrases come

back.

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INTELLIGENCE

runs each of them from scattered to rigid. DENSITY thins from the quietest

hits up, or fills the rests with ghosts. LOCK decides how tightly it holds the grid —

open it and notes scatter late, deterministically, like a signal losing lock.

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PRINTS WHAT YOU HEAR​

One button writes the pattern into a MIDI clip on its own track — your notes, the

random ones included, with velocities, note lengths and LOCK's timing exactly as

played. For when you want to edit it by hand or hand it to something else.

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ONE STRIP​

Eighteen parameters, all of them on the device face. No floating window, nothing to

open, nothing hidden.