Good News for Home Made Musicians - Bram Bos' New Plans!

Dear Home Made Music enthusiasts,

Bram - the creator of the cult classics - Hammerhead drum machine and the Tuareg sequencer has unveiled his new plans in his yahoogroup. This was what he had posted:
Message: 1
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:13:26 -0000
From: "bram_bos"
Subject: My ideas are slowly materialising..

Hi all..

My new project is starting to get shape now. It will be positioned
alongside Tu2 so it will not replace it or compete with it. Tu2 is
still aimed at sample mangling, loop-construction and sounddesign
while my new project will be a lightweight audio sequencer with
full VST 2.3 (VSTi) support.

My design-goal: "back to basic"; to offer the flexibility of the
big pattern-based sequencers while retaining the simplicity and
the fun of HammerHead.

I specifically want to go back to the basic concepts of HammerHead.
I never really fully grasped why it became such a success but I
think much of it had to do with:
- ease-of-use
- hands-on music making
- the ability to have sound in less than 5 seconds from starting up

After delving into Reason and Fruityloops Studio I know I don't
want to go their way. Too much window-management, too little
actually making music. By selectively leaving out bells-and-whistles
and trying to incorporate the important features in a truly basic
(single-window) GUI I am now developing/designing a pattern-based
audio/vst sequencer which should enable people to quickly compose
music.

Some sacrifices to functionality will have to be made for the sake
of simplicity, ofcourse. You can't expect all the functionality of
Reason + FL + Sonar + Live to be packed into a truly simple user
interface but I promise it will be sufficiently flexible for entry-
level home-studio music production. Especially when the right VST
plugins are used for instruments, compression and EQ et al.

It won't be the be-all-end-all music production tool for everybody,
but it's my aim to make it something I can and will personally use
for my own music-making purposes as well.

Ok.. I'll stop rambling now.. gotta get back to work :-)

cheers!


Judging by the hits that Hammerhead and Tuareg were, we are all in for a treat I guess!

Way to go Bram!