Let's face it: in our technologically saturated age, algorithms already control most of our lives, from what we watch on television to who we end up dating, so why not see if they can spice up our music-making too?
That's exactly what Flow, a new Max for Live device from the developer Orthogonal, promises to do. Orthogonal tell us that its generative, non-linear MIDI sequencer makes algorithmic music composition "easy", a claim we initially met with some skepticism after coming across the phrase "parallel hierarchical probabilistic state machine" in the plugin's marketing copy.
