Torso Electronics T-1 Algorithmic Sequencer

The T-1 from Torso Electronics is a sequencer with a focus on algorithm-based music and a generative workflow. You can access your electronic instruments and plug-ins on 16 tracks via MIDI, USB-C, CV/Gate and WiFi and make them sound rather unconventional with Euclidean sequences, Turing Machine algorithms, Arpeggiator or chord generators. Since or 2.0, step editing with specific note reference and exact programming is also possible. Each of the 16 tracks can be set to one of three modes. NOTE creates new rhythms and melodies using musical algorithms and adjusts them with detailed editing steps. In CC mode, 16 of the 18 knobs become controllers that can be used to create automation through random modulation. The FX mode can create a complex sequence from simple piano playing via a connected master keyboard and mutate existing sequencer tracks. The musical results often follow inspirational paths and are designed to go beyond piano rolls and TR grids. Once you have internalized the operating principle, many things are literally just a twist away. Just as easily as you can adjust the envelope on a synthesizer, the T-1 changes the entire sequence or parts of it with just a few controls. Is that still too binding for you? Modulatable tone scales, percentage trigger probability and step-related randomizers for a number of parameters allow a high degree of variation within a track with only minimal personal input.