It's a digital rhythm sequencer manipulated by an analog interface designed by Jeff Hoefs, Stijn Schiffenleers and Greg Zifcak. Beat Blocks allow the user to create and change a 4 track drum loop on the fly by physically rearranging blocks within its 4x4 matrix. Each block is marked with its own patterning scheme. This allows the user to quickly identify the beat and change it, much faster that one could using a mouse and computer. Beat Blocks can also directly integrate and synchronize with other midi hardware and communicate with a computer.
Although the current 4x4 matrix version is just a prototype, The final version will come in two flavors, one for performance, the other for installation. Both will use an 8x8 matrix utilizing an even more compact design.
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