The Interface

┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ RGXP: BPM: 120 MDE: anuesyz BUF: │ │ FLAG: i m DIV: 8 MVE: [f]rdp SYM: │ │ ERRR: - LEN: w:1,h:1 ACM: - RPL: │ │ TOTL: - POS: x:0,y:0 CHN: 1/1 │ │ MIDI: IAC Driver Bus 1 LCK: - TLT: | │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ CHRM C# ━#━#█━#━#━#━━#━#█━#━#━#━━#━#█━#━#█━#━#━#━━#━#█━#━#━#━━#━#█━#━#█━#━ x x [ ∧ ] █ █ █ █ █ █ █ HARM A x x F6 :: ┃ :........:........:........:......:........:........:............ ┃ ░░░░░ E6 :: ┃ A THROW OF THE DICE,....NEVER WHEN WELL EVEN LAUNCHED IN ETERNAL .┃ ░░░░░ D#6:: ┃ CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE BOTTOM OF A SHIPWRECK ................. .┃ ░░░░░ D6 :: ┃ MAYBE that the Abyss bleached furious, .......................... ┃ ░░░░░ C6 :: ┣ slack under a slope planes wing ..................................┃ ░░░░░ D6 :: ┃ hopelessly there his by advance fallen down of an evil ...........┃ ░░░░░ D#6:: ┃ ..to draw up the flight..........and covering the gushings........┃ ░░░░░ E6 :: ┃ crossing to the short-nap cloth the jumps very inside summarizes ┃ ░░░░░ F6 :: ┃ ..................................................................┃ ░░░░░ G6 :: ┃ ..................................................................┃ ░░░░░ F6 :: ┃ ..................................................................┃ ░░░░░ G5 :: ┃ ................................................................. ┃ EVNTQ C#5:: ┃ Imagine that this trust fund is financed not by the taxes youy (e ┃ v D6 :: ┃ ..................................the depth by this alternate sail┃ ░░░░░ C5 :: ┣ en shared in the context of a new Monetary Commons:.............. ┃ ░░░░░ F#4:: ┃ er creativity!................................................... ┃ ░░░░░ F4 :: ┃ ................................................................. ┃ ░░░░░ E4 :: ┃ Imagine how it will enhance society's capacity to encourage sainD ┃ ░░░░░ D#4:: ┃ ividend.......................................................... ┃ ░░░░░ D4 :: ┃ ................................................................. ┃ ░░░░░ C#4:: ┃ ................................................................. ┃ ░░░░░ C4 :: ┃ Is this feasible? Of course it is. Will it be easy to impleme Te ┃ ░░░░░ B4 :: ┃ Is this feasible? Of course it is. Will it be easy to impleme Te ┃ ░░░░░ A#4:: ┣ who will fight tooth and nail to prevent it. Is it worth it? be. ┃ OPRTQ ┗─v─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┛ - - - - - - -

The application is comprised of two main areas The Console and The Grid.

The Console

The bordered box at the top is the console - an input and status panel showing the current state of the sequencer at a glance.

Field	Description
`RGXP`	a regular expression pattern input.
`FLAG`	Regex flags (e.g. `i` = case-insensitive, `m` = multiline).
`ERRR`	Regex parse error, `-` when valid.
`TOTL`	Total number of regex matches in the grid.
`MIDI`	Selected MIDI output device.
`BPM`	Current tempo in beats per minute.
`DIV`	Beat division (steps per beat).
`LEN`	Playhead dimensions - `w` (width) * `h` (height).
`POS`	Playhead position - `x` (column) * `y` (row).
`LCK`	Lock state `-` = unlocked.
`MDE`	Active modes (see Modes below).
`MVE`	Movement direction - `[f]rdp` (brackets = current).
`ACM`	Accumulation mode state.
`TLT`	Sweep tilt angle - `\|`, `\`, `/`.
`CHN`	MIDI channel - active/total.
`BUF`	Buffer contents.
`SYM`	Symspell state.
`RPL`	Replace state.

The Grid

CHRM C# ━#━#█━#━#━#━━#━#█━#━#━#━━#━#█━#━#█━#━#━#━━#━#█━#━#━#━━#━#█━#━#█━#━ x x [ ∧ ] █ █ █ █ █ █ █ HARM A x x F6 :: ┃ :........:........:........:......:........:........:............ ┃ ░░░░░ E6 :: ┃ A THROW OF THE DICE,....NEVER WHEN WELL EVEN LAUNCHED IN ETERNAL .┃ ░░░░░ D#6:: ┃ CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE BOTTOM OF A SHIPWRECK ................. .┃ ░░░░░ D6 :: ┃ MAYBE that the Abyss bleached furious, .......................... ┃ ░░░░░ C6 :: ┣ slack under a slope planes wing ..................................┃ ░░░░░ D6 :: ┃ hopelessly there his by advance fallen down of an evil ...........┃ ░░░░░ D#6:: ┃ ..to draw up the flight..........and covering the gushings........┃ ░░░░░ E6 :: ┃ crossing to the short-nap cloth the jumps very inside summarizes ┃ ░░░░░ F6 :: ┃ ..................................................................┃ ░░░░░ G6 :: ┃ ..................................................................┃ ░░░░░ F6 :: ┃ ..................................................................┃ ░░░░░ G5 :: ┃ ................................................................. ┃ EVNTQ C#5:: ┃ Imagine that this trust fund is financed not by the taxes youy (e ┃ v D6 :: ┃ ..................................the depth by this alternate sail┃ ░░░░░ C5 :: ┣ en shared in the context of a new Monetary Commons:.............. ┃ ░░░░░ F#4:: ┃ er creativity!................................................... ┃ ░░░░░ F4 :: ┃ ................................................................. ┃ ░░░░░ E4 :: ┃ Imagine how it will enhance society's capacity to encourage sainD ┃ ░░░░░ D#4:: ┃ ividend.......................................................... ┃ ░░░░░ D4 :: ┃ ................................................................. ┃ ░░░░░ C#4:: ┃ ................................................................. ┃ ░░░░░ C4 :: ┃ Is this feasible? Of course it is. Will it be easy to impleme Te ┃ ░░░░░ B4 :: ┃ Is this feasible? Of course it is. Will it be easy to impleme Te ┃ ░░░░░ A#4:: ┣ who will fight tooth and nail to prevent it. Is it worth it? be. ┃ OPRTQ ┗─v─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┛ - - - - - - -

Below the console is the grid - the main performance surface. The playhead traverses the text cells every cell matched by the current regex triggers a MIDI note when the playhead passes through it.

Two spatial keyboard strips are embedded directly into the grid:

CHRM C# ━#━#█━#━#━#━━#━#█━#━#━#━━#━#█━#━#█━#━#━#━━#━#█━#━#━#━━#━#█━#━#█━#━ x x [ ∧ ] █ █ █ █ █ █ █ HARM A x x F6 :: ↑ top-keyboard E6 :: │ default scale to chromatic D#6:: │ any triggering note will be determined D6 :: │ corresponding to this layout C6 :: │ D6 :: │ D#6:: │ E6 :: │ F6 :: │ G6 :: │ F6 :: ←───────────────────────────────┴───────────┐ G5 :: left-keyboard │ C#5:: this will be used for "Drone" mode │ D6 :: independent of top keyboard │ C5 :: │ F#4:: ↓ F4 :: Press ~ to toggle between the two keyboards E4 :: then try Plus(+) / Underscore(_) to change scale D#4:: and try Equal(=) / Minus (-) to change root note D4 :: C#4:: C4 :: B4 :: A#4::

Top keyboard ([ ∧ ]) - runs horizontally across the top edge. Notes vary along the x-axis: each column maps to a distinct pitch. Shown as chromatic (CHRM) and harmonic (HARM) rows above the grid.
Left keyboard ([ v ]) - runs vertically along the left edge. Notes vary along the y-axis: each row maps to a distinct pitch, shown as note labels (e.g. F6, E6, D#6) to the left of the grid.

Press ~ to toggle between the two keyboards. The active keyboard is indicated by the [ ∧ ] / [ v ] label at the top-left of the canvas.

The right-side column shows auxiliary queue state - EVNTQ (event queue) and OPRTQ (operator queue) - used by the Queue System.

Modes

Active modes are shown in the MDE: field of the console. Uppercase = active.

Mode	Description
`a`	Arpeggiator - steps only through positions matching the current regex.
`n`	Drain Queue - drains the operator queue automatically.
`u`	Accumulation - semi-autonomously reconfigures via the Queue System.
`e`	Event Operator - enables event operator triggering from the keyboard.
`s`	Sweep - sweeps a crosshair through positions across the playhead range.
`o`	Drone - sustains matched notes at a movable vertical line.
`y`	Dynamic Length - playhead length adjusts dynamically.
`z`	Freeze - locks the active position and retriggers MIDI at that cell each DIV tick.

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