TATAT
(UNSTABLE) STREAMS GENERATOR
Original price was: €39.00.€19.00Current price is: €19.00.
TATAT is a MIDI plugin designed for 3 main purposes: to create always-changing sequences, to quickly sketch and store music ideas, to add unexpected events to fixed patterns.
If you’re looking for new ways of generating musical ideas, then look no further than TATAT! Set up your parameters, define a mood and listen to an endless flow of notes which you can then record, tweak, export and play along to.
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so fun to explore and provide interesting patterns i wouldn’t come up with on my own. easy to plug in to a session and jam with.
Nice, flexible and certainly worth picking up if you are interested. Great for exploring and generating ideas of developing changes in melody incrementally over time. Lots of ways it can be used and rewards experimentation/time investment. Great interface as usual.
It’s great but you need to spend time with it to understand how to get the best from it. Great for sparking ideas or nailing that wonky lead that your track is missing. Love it!
Multiple Time Res
Set chance for each time resolution to rule the stream, and scale results with main ratio to create organic time fluctuations.
Notes
Set chance for each notes to get triggered, enable the keys toggle to change the notes on the fly, giving a different color to the stream.
Double Hit
Set two intervals and the probability they got triggered, adding harmonic weight to the stream. If you are playing a sliced sample or drums, then you can set some double hits.
Let’s Process The Stream!
You can process the generated notes with several parameters: add a velocity variation, a delay, set the length, randomize, and mute some notes. It’s easy and intuitive.
Flow vs Pattern
LIV/MEM parameter has a 0-100% range. When is set on 0%, a buffer with given length continuously records the stream; when it’s different than 0%, the buffer got locked, and you set the chance to get live or buffered notes. When you set 100% you always have the buffer content as a static pattern. You add the stability you want to the lunatic stream!
Clip Export
You found the right mood? You can export all variations you want as MIDI files in your timeline, clipslots, or even a folder: quick and easy!
2 Flavours: dark and light skin
Resizable GUI
Full Details
How TATAT works
TATAT generates an infinite and always changing sequences of notes.
You cannot say exactly what TATAT will do, but you can suggest a path to it: by setting up its parameters you can create what we call a mood for TATAT.
A mood is a configuration of notes, intervals, time fragmentation, velocity fluctuation, and other factors.
Once you set a mood that you are happy with, you’ll listen to an infinite stream of events, always changing, all staying in the mood.
At this point, according to your needs, you can:
- Let TATAT play its stream, and make some intervention to control it: to add silence (Less), to obtain smooth accelerando and ritardando (Ratio), to control how TATAT generates intervals. You can enable Key In function to change notes on the fly (with a keyboard, or just feeding TATAT with a MIDI clip).
- Add some stability by controlling/automating the Liv/Mem slider, moving between the generated stream and frozen patterns.
- Use TATAT to send its notes to enrich (by enabling Thru) existing/incoming MIDI data/parts.
- Export a nice mood as a series of MIDI files/clip: just click on the export icon and drag it in you session or where you prefer. For each time you’ll drag it, TATAT will create a new variation of the mood! This is a great feature to create a set of coherent ideas/lines/riffs as a starting point for a new project.
Last but not least: TATAT gives you excellent results both with melodic/harmonic and percussive parts!
Parameters
TIME
- Time Resolution – Set numerator and time signature for time resolutions
- Time Resolutions Multislider – Set chance for each time resolution to be selected
- Ratio – Scale all time resolutions by this factor
PITCH
- Notes – Set notes for the stream
- Notes Multislider – Set chance for each note to be triggered
- Keys Input – If enabled, user sets up to 4 notes with incoming MIDI notes
BICHORDS
- Bichords Chance – Set the chance that a bichord is triggered
- Bichords Intervals – Set intervals for bichords
- Bichords Selection – Set the chance to pick up interval 1 or 2 when a bichord is triggered
PROCESS
- Velocity Main Value – Set main velocity value
- Velocity Variation Mode – Set to add or subtract variation value to main value
- Velocity Variation Value – Set a variation value to add or subtract to main value
- Less Value – Set the chance to mute some notes
- Delay Value – Set a delay value for generated notes (0-100% of time resolution)
- Delay Random Mode – If enabled, delay value will be the higher value for random operations
- Delay Mode – Mute or play dry notes
- Lentgh Value – Set note length (0-100% of original length)
- Length Random Mode – If enabled, length value will be the higher value for random operations
MEMORY
- Buffer Length – Set buffer length. This value will affect the other parameters/actions in Memory section.
- Liv-Mem – If equal to 0%, then the generated notes are recorded in a buffer with given length (Buffer Length), live notes are triggered. If different from 0%, then recording stops, the buffer is locked, and this value become the chance to play live notes or buffer content. If equal to 100%, then just buffer content will be played in loop, as a frozen pattern.
- Export Clips – Click and drag to export MIDI files with a given length, in DAW timeline or clipslots, or in desktop/folders you want. Each time you click and drag, TATAT will export a new variation of the current mood.
- Thru – Let incoming MIDI notes pass thru
- Play – Enable/Disable the stream
System Requirements
Available as VST3 // AAX // Audio Unit
Any 64 bits DAW compatible with VST3 or Audio Unit MIDI FX
MacOS (Apple Silicon ready) and Windows
TATAT is also available as Max For Live device.
Manual
TATAT USER?
| Format | VST, AAX, Audio Unit |
|---|---|
| OS | MacOS, Windows |
| Tool Type | MIDI |
21 reviews for TATAT
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davidhiles (verified owner) –
Nice, flexible and certainly worth picking up if you are interested. Great for exploring and generating ideas of developing changes in melody incrementally over time. Lots of ways it can be used and rewards experimentation/time investment. Great interface as usual.
Kevin T (verified owner) –
Great little midi generator that helps get things going. I normally use it as a starting point to get some inspiration, but features such as the memory function give this plugin the scope to craft track long improvisations.
Ianjohnson328 (verified owner) –
It’s great but you need to spend time with it to understand how to get the best from it. Great for sparking ideas or nailing that wonky lead that your track is missing. Love it!
dayjob (verified owner) –
so fun to explore and provide interesting patterns i wouldn’t come up with on my own. easy to plug in to a session and jam with.
jussiriissanen (verified owner) –
Using multiple instances of Tatat for slow, mutating ambient.
Anthony palaskas (verified owner) –
It’s a great tool for creating melodies out of nowhere and experimenting over time in a track as everything can be modulated.
Great addition the export button.
Jan Steiner (verified owner) –
Definitely worth the money: different, quirky, and just fun to experiment with. Love it.
Marcin Regucki (verified owner) –
Great tool if you need quick idea for a melody or generative flow of sounds. I am using it working on ambient, experimental electronica.
Adding some effects to it may blow your mind :). I like the interface which is really easy to use and love all the functions which allow you to customize the flow of sound.
n4m (verified owner) –
your midi mate
BRUCE GRAY (verified owner) –
I love it, it’s quirky and fun. I like putting other notes through it and letting it generate based on rhe input, which is iften another random midi generator.
One suggestion, the Ratio dial…can you provide bpm timing divions for this as well as the existing freely variable ratios. Thanks.
pdequina2000 (verified owner) –
As someone who has little keyboard knowledge and new to sound synthesis, this helped me a lot in terms of using different virtual synthesizers. Make you appreciate the effort you have and discover new ideas and hit that sweet spot to your ears delight.
Josip Kokot (verified owner) –
Nice looking.. Creative… Not system resources demanding.. I like the interface and color scheme… I love it 😊 it makes my creative process interesting and painless. Thanks K-Devices
Andrew Reissig (verified owner) –
A little complicated at times. But it can liven up a score and inject something unexpected. Still playing with it.
Glenn Robson (verified owner) –
I love and have a number of midi generator plugins. I find this one is very affordable, inspiring, and fun to play around with.
Will Morton (verified owner) –
This is a GREAT little MIDI generator, good for those random filler patterns you need. It is quite straightforward to use, but I would definitely recommend watching the videos about it to see what you can use it for.
Alan Laauwen (verified owner) –
I have many generative devices.
What I like about this generator is its thru and memory option.
Its also very versatile and I like the little accidents it gives.
You cant go wrong with this one!
Also the UI is very good, its a pleasure to look at and work with.
joschplant (verified owner) –
Its inspiration ,has a lot potential and surprises. Easy to use .
rockonthemoonfm (verified owner) –
Add some predictably randomness to your melodies and grooves, or just sit on your couch and let the generative music flow in the background. Spice it up with a midi effect chain, just have fun!
brianwakil12 (verified owner) –
It’s a bit of a learning curve – but that can mean endless hours of play. And great for creating colorful drones!
Tom Langton-Lockton (verified owner) –
It does take a while to get your head round it -not that I have -but enough to turn a boring drumloop in to a thing of beauty and as ever the UI is a thing of beauty-like fiddling with a bit of Art.
Derek Langley (verified owner) –
What an interesting plugin. Minimalistic but appealing GUI, and the presets jump you straight into ideas-territory.
I reckon that’s where its biggest use will be (for me) – generation of odd ideas to kick-start the creation process on those days where it’s not firing… you know those…
The fact that it drives your own instrument plugins yields a pretty much infinite range of sonic possibilities. And really affordable too. I expect I’ll find ideas, export the MIDI, fiddle about with various instrumentation, and almost certainly edit the pattern so it’s not just autogenerated – it’ll be my grandfather’s axe in the end, but the ball will be rolling!
Still lots for me to learn about TATAT but, even so, I’d recommend getting it into your toolkit immediately. 👍