Happy holidays everyone!

We have a very special gift for you this year - a script for Microtonic called BeatSpace.

Using data from nearly 30000 Patternarium presets, we trained a neural network to create stellar-sounding beats and to spread them on a 2-dimensional map. We then converted this neural network into a Javascript for Microtonic that lets you drag eight points around this map to morph and combine sounds and rhythms into your own unique creations.

BeatSpace is included in the latest version of the Official Microtonic Script installer, available for registered Microtonic here. Simply run the installer and use the little puzzle button in Microtonic to open it.

We hope you will have as much fun with this tool as we had creating it.

/ Magnus & Fredrik Lidström

Additional info:

• Each point is a drum channel in Microtonic.
• There are 1000 * 1000 unique points.
• Every point contains sound and pattern data for one channel.
• Together, they form a constellation, an eight-channel beat.
• You can right-click to copy and paste constellations. Paste your coolest findings here. 🤩
• The dice randomizes the eight points.
• Alt-click for solo, shift for fine, and command/control-click for mute/unmute, as it says in the UI 😉
• You can undo/redo with the standard Microtonic undo/redo buttons.
• If you change a channel in Microtonic and the resulting sound differs from the neural network's output, the point will be marked with an X, and its coordinate will be struck through. Touching the point again will reset the channel to the neural network's output.
• You can also right-click and choose "Enable All Points" to remove all X's.
• Bright areas in the spacy background represent existing Patternarium data, while dark areas represent points in the map that have been extrapolated from this data. The colors indicate how the network has grouped different types of sounds and pattern data.

Thank you so much. Very generous and much appreciated!

Thank You so much for your gift !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank You again :) !!!!!!!

Amazing Magnus ❤️💕

This is incredibly cool! Thank you so much and happy holidays!! :)

Thanks ! Looks interesting.

Another wonderful holiday gift from Sonic Charge. Thank you so much!

Thanks Magnus, uTonic is still my favourite!

Hello Magnus.

BeatSpace script, what a right little Xmas cracker!, just superb. Thank you.

Seasons greetings to you and yours.

Wow - thank you both for this inspirational add-on to my favourite beatbox.

Happy holidays!

For me the little puzzle button is greyed out. Am I missing something?

In a world where 'lifetime' licenses seem to be mysteriously losing the 'f' ...

I thank you for your honour and integrity and your ongoing continued support of this wicked little drum machine. I forget when I bought it, it is a loooooooong time ago, and here we are, 2022/23 still getting updates.

This script is super cool - thank you :D

Best wishes to you and all the other Microtonic fans out there.

Thank you 🙏🏼 wishing you and everyone here a very happy new year

Thank you soo much, this is fantastic, Happy New Year

Excellent update. TY!

That looks amazing! But I have the same problem as john unfortunately

Wow this is amazing! It's so much fun to play with. Is there a way to automate the points btw?

yes its greyed out for me too, no options for this new beat space, just installed 3.3.4 mac intel vst3, vst2 is the same....

- loco john wrote:
For me the little puzzle button is greyed out. Am I missing something?

Did you have access to it before? Did you install the scripts in addition to Microtonic?

I can replicate what you're seeing by removing the scripts folder.

ah no i have never installed scripts ! I will investigate thanks

Brilliant! Thank you for this!

Yes thank you that has fixed the problem with an easy install of the scripts download.

Cool update. Thank you. Happy New Year.

Oh yeah! Congrats on this release and also a BIG thank you for keeping MicroTonic still updated( via scripts)!!!

Kitty beat. "meow"

beatspacev1:[233:489|288:92|829:97|558:301|335:345|567:692|877:507|786:353]

Thank you ! that's a great gift , Happy new year

After all these years, Permut8 and Microtonic are STILL my two favorite plugins of all time..

.. and #3 is still SupaTrigga (SmartElectronix). :)

Insane update, thanks so much ❤️

Found it :) I just had to scroll down on the download page. Thanks!

Wow, guys, this is mind blowing, thank you so much!

holy smokes!! Microtonic really is the gift that keeps on giving! unfortunately I am still on Sierra so imagine I won't be able to enjoy this until I upgrade?

You guys are AWESOME! Thank you so much! Patternarium is absolutely terrific, and BeatSpace is an amazing quantum leap further. Happy Holidays to you all, and thank you again!!!

WOW, just wow! Big thanks to everyone at Sonic Charge!

what a mindblowing gift. I have to be honest after so many years of Microtonic, somehow it started to get dust lately, BUT this will definitely get me back to it. Cant wait to explore the BeatSpace.
THANK YOU and happy holidays🥳

Thank you guys! This is absolutely insane! Happy new year 🎉

oh yeah, it's a great gift.
Thank you!

Thanks very much, unexpected treat! I will be enjoying this greatly.

So great! Thank you & happy holidays!

You guys are great! Thank you so much!

Thank you soo much :) Happy Holidays ^^

My favorite plugin just keeps getting better. Thank you guys so much for making this. Genius and inspiring work.

My first beatspace:
beatspacev1:[255:45|125:367|687:486|912:218|801:466|68:942|775:622|393:985]

yall give good gift… love this

Very nice, like having a built in Patternarium with random now! Merci and Merry Christmas boys.

😲🙏💗🤟

Thanks a lot. Happy New Year.

sweeeet....thank you

Thank you!

This is so incredibly cool! And as a free gift! Thank you very much!!! Happy New Year!

Cheers
Dumbo

Genial, microtonic suena cada vez mejor, muchas gracias.

Thanks so much for this! Brilliant!

Awesome, thank you! Happy New Year!

Amazeballs! Thank you, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

My first VST ever was Synplant, you guys have been awesome from day 1

This thing is brilliant, thank you so very much. I want to request that the window be larger and that I can view it separately from the rest of microtonic, because it is so cool! Also visually appealing! But I love it, thank you so very much! You have really won me back to Microtonic I think. I have to see what's up with all the scripts. It's all just very exciting.

Beatspace is insane!! Can't wait to explore it! Thank you so much!

microtonic is my actual radiostation together with your new beatpsace script. Thank you.

Beatspace is cool, Thanks and Cheers!

thanks so much best licence i ever bought 🎅

Thanks for the generousness!

Thank you for the gift! I love you, Sonic Charge!

Sadly Greyed out for me too. Was looking forward to trying.

thank you....

Hi, Great ! Thank you. Cannot use it as the little puzzle button is greyed out. Can someone help and explain please ? Thank you. Wishing all of you a Happy New Year !

incredible

- Fabian Longo wrote:
Hi, Great ! Thank you. Cannot use it as the little puzzle button is greyed out. Can someone help and explain please ? Thank you. Wishing all of you a Happy New Year !

SOLVED WITH THE SCRIPTS ! THX

Wonderful, thank you.... :-)

Solved with the scripts here too. Thank you I LOVE it!

Brilliant! Thank you.

Thank you for presents! Have a wonderful holiday

very nice gift. I still use microtonic on almost every track I create

Nice, look forward to test it ! All the best everyone !

Thank you so much….amazing

I always use Microtonic in all my Tracks…sounds like no other

puzzle icon not available it is grayed out... so no access :s seems i am missing some script files

uninstall and install doesn't work either or solve the problem that is

:O Shockingly good. I already had Microtonic Vs Microtonic set up in a Combinator 2(Reason) So I loaded that up and hit BeatSpace on both Micro's which are both controlled by two X-Touch Mini's and Maaannn, that was so good akin to DJing. Thank you for the time and effort for this script, it is highly useful

Thanks a lot!

- Fabian Longo wrote:

- Fabian Longo wrote:
Hi, Great ! Thank you. Cannot use it as the little puzzle button is greyed out. Can someone help and explain please ? Thank you. Wishing all of you a Happy New Year !

SOLVED WITH THE SCRIPTS ! THX

how?

Great Christmas gift!!! Thank you!

Thank you! This is really useful!

- Marc de Jong wrote:
puzzle icon not available it is grayed out... so no access :s seems i am missing some script files
uninstall and install doesn't work either or solve the problem that is

nevermind fixed it, was not reading

First of all, thank you for this awesome addition.
There is one issue I found though, if you open Microtonic window, then open BeatSpace, it'll instantly switch to BeatSpace preset, which is fine when you're setting it up first time. but then if you close the window and open it again, it'll switch to random BeatSpace preset once you open script again (and undo doesn't recover previous script state), so it doesn't seem to save BeatSpace state upon closing window, even though it does save script state if you just close script window and open it again, without closing Microtonic window.

One other thing, I would love to be able to automate the points, or just bind them to external controller. personally I would just map it to bigger XY pad with multi-touch support, to be able to adjust many points at once.

Brilliant! This will now be my go to beatmaker for inventive & unique beat creation :D

Thank you. Just great and good to have! (=

So cool, thank you very much!

Hi everybody, it is well installed but my micro tonic is in 3.3.3 and I don't know how to switch to 3.3.4!?

Thank you all. Happy holiday.

- Jacques MEURISSE wrote:
Hi everybody, it is well installed but my micro tonic is in 3.3.3 and I don't know how to switch to 3.3.4!?

Same problem here!

Fantastic! Thanks so much!

This opens worlds of possibilities! Thank you!
Better - for orientation - than the little circles within the Beatspace would be the number of the associated drum note.
And it would be great if we could undock the Beatspace window from the main window, just comfortable for editing purposes.

@Roman Gutarev - great points!

Thanks! <3

- roger teeling wrote:

- Jacques MEURISSE wrote:
Hi everybody, it is well installed but my micro tonic is in 3.3.3 and I don't know how to switch to 3.3.4!?

Same problem here!

Solved
Use the Sonic Charge Installer

youre real friends :)

if youd live in my neighborhood id bring you cake.

Thanks Magnus! I think I bought MT in 2004 (anyways way back) and its still one of my go to drum apps.

Would be super cool if there was a mode where the 8 drum select buttons (top left main interface) could be coloured and those corresponding colours would also appear in the white circles in the BeatSpace window.

Thank you!

Outstanding!

I've only played with it for a few hours now, but this is implemented so beautifully! Consistently
great results while still feeling like an exploration. Thank you!

Wow this is amazing ! Super excited to use this !!!!!

XLN’s XO is requesting a Dance Off…. 🤣

Thanks for this cool script! :) Please do not allow it to evolve into Skynet.

Wow, just incredible - thanks so much for this labour of love ❤️

Absolutely AMAZING!!

I hope you know BeatSpace could be a NEW product that MANY people would buy. I know I would :) It kind of reminds me of XO, but in a different, cooler, AI kind of way.

ALSO, I'd love to see the window bigger. It's soooooo small on my 4k screen ... even with zoom at 200%.

Thanks a ton for this completely unexpected gift!!

- Roman Gutarev wrote:
if you close the window and open it again, it'll switch to random BeatSpace preset

I can confirm this. You can use the workaround to right click in MicroTonic "Undo Randomize Beatspace" whenever this happens to retuirn to previous MicroTonic preset..

dudes...duuuuudes!!! 😵🤗🙏 god fortsättning

Wow, simply wow! That's one fantastic addition. And wait, what's that?! Euclidean beats! I love this and will explore it. Magnus, you're really one of a kind. Thanks so much. <3

Dear Lidstrom brothers: Might we see Synplant2 in 2023 ? Merci Ae

- Aesthete wrote:
Dear Lidstrom brothers: Might we see Synplant2 in 2023 ? Merci Ae

Yes.

Brilliant! Unexpected & very cool of you.
All the Best for the New Year!

- Fredrik Lidström wrote:

- Aesthete wrote:
Dear Lidstrom brothers: Might we see Synplant2 in 2023 ? Merci Ae

Yes.

Whoa... nice!!

- Fredrik Lidström wrote:

- Aesthete wrote:
Dear Lidstrom brothers: Might we see Synplant2 in 2023 ? Merci Ae

Yes.

Woooo hoooo!

Any chance you can allow the points to be mapped in the near future?...Thx

- Benson Fables wrote:
:O Shockingly good. I already had Microtonic Vs Microtonic set up in a Combinator 2(Reason) So I loaded that up and hit BeatSpace on both Micro's which are both controlled by two X-Touch Mini's and Maaannn, that was so good akin to DJing. Thank you for the time and effort for this script, it is highly useful

don't forget to add in a Permut 8 amigo's!

This is wonderful! Thank you and wishing the entire Sonic Charge team a safe and stellar holiday!

Thank you so much for this, really looks amazing! Given the age of this plugin, and the fact that I'm relatively new with it, I truly appreciate your continued support and innovation with it.

Sigh ...more scripts
What about some actual new dsp stuff or long standing user requests ?
It's been over a decade now since since microtonic had a new feature ( morph slider )

Thank you! I use MicroTonic in most every project.

Oh yeah this is really awesome… !!

I am using Microtonic in all my tracks. BeatSpace makes it so easy to work with. When I am using the pattern length 8 everything sounds TECHNO!!!!
I can't wait to see Synplant 2 out!

- Pascal Niemeier wrote:
And it would be great if we could undock the Beatspace window from the main window, just comfortable for editing purposes.

Depending on what is possible, maybe Microtonic could just have an optional pane to open as a scripts workspace?

So the scripts would technically behave the same as part of the Microtonic window, and could be moved around within the window freely. But the pane that the user could open would just be expanding the window size with empty workspace.

Or is it possible to create a skin that is wider than the GUI to add that pane? That empty space could be covered in stickers :)

Maybe something along the lines of this? Where you would choose in the menu to show and hide the workspace pane (or whatever it would be called). Is that possible? Is that a dumb idea?

this tool is inspiring and fun. thanks so much!

Excellent, thank you!

I have installed Microtonic Script but no glue where I need to start this. Is there a manual for this?

- Marco Raaphorst wrote:
I have installed Microtonic Script but no glue where I need to start this. Is there a manual for this?

At the right top of the plugin window there's a "jigsaw" button. Click on it to see all the scripts. You can select all the Yummies than, like Beat Space, Euclidean...

- Joey Luck wrote:

- Pascal Niemeier wrote:
And it would be great if we could undock the Beatspace window from the main window, just comfortable for editing purposes.

Depending on what is possible, maybe Microtonic could just have an optional pane to open as a scripts workspace?
So the scripts would technically behave the same as part of the Microtonic window, and could be moved around within the window freely. But the pane that the user could open would just be expanding the window size with empty workspace.
Or is it possible to create a skin that is wider than the GUI to add that pane? That empty space could be covered in stickers :)
Maybe something along the lines of this? Where you would choose in the menu to show and hide the workspace pane (or whatever it would be called). Is that possible? Is that a dumb idea?

Yes, also a great idea - depends on which task is simplier to do for an update, it would just be great, if the plugin gui itself is not covered anymore during use of a script.

Awesome gift, thanks.

- Pascal Niemeier wrote:

- Marco Raaphorst wrote:
I have installed Microtonic Script but no glue where I need to start this. Is there a manual for this?

At the right top of the plugin window there's a "jigsaw" button. Click on it to see all the scripts. You can select all the Yummies than, like Beat Space, Euclidean...

Found it! Thanks!

This is so fun! :D
I wish the random dice was MIDI mapable or exposed to host as parameter.

Many thanks for the fabulous present! You remain, as for more years than I can count, my favorite music software developers.
If you ever come to Los Angeles, lunch is on me)

Okay Magnus, it is fabulous.

Special request, I'd like to have it be fullscreen. I have this great little touchscreen computer I salvaged and I would love to dedicate that computer to this VST. It would be so great to drag the drums around with my fingertips!

A bank of 32 Beatspace generated uTonic patterns. Enjoy!
https://we.tl/t-hgP57m8c1Q

Awesome, thank you!

this is incredible

excellent stuff. thank you!

Thank you very much ! After all these years Microtonic is still the best soft drum machine !

This is awesome !!!!!
Thanks 😄

🖤

- Joey Luck wrote:

- loco john wrote:
For me the little puzzle button is greyed out. Am I missing something?

Did you have access to it before? Did you install the scripts in addition to Microtonic?
I can replicate what you're seeing by removing the scripts folder.

hello i have the same problem, i never touched any script, i am on macos 10.13...

- Lautaro Marulanda wrote:

- Joey Luck wrote:
Did you have access to it before? Did you install the scripts in addition to Microtonic?
I can replicate what you're seeing by removing the scripts folder.

hello i have the same problem, i never touched any script, i am on macos 10.13...

You just need to download and run the scripts installer as mentioned by Magnus in the first post.

BeatSpace is included in the latest version of the Official Microtonic Script installer, available for registered Microtonic here. Simply run the installer and use the little puzzle button in Microtonic to open it.

oh yes thank you, i thouth i just had to update microtonic,
THanks!

It is fire

Found a bug ,
When opening closing the gui of microtonic and then opening beatspace dialogue , it automatically selects a new beat .
Steps to reproduce
-Open beat dialogue
-choose random beat
-Opening-closing the beat dialogue meanu does NOT alter the selected beat
-Now , close and reopen microtonic gui
-Open beat dialogue
Result : a new beat is automatically selected

Microtonic is still alive ! thanks.

Just took it for a spin. BeatSpace is killer! There seems to be no way to make it sound bad.

Fantastic, guys!

Thanks so much for your amazing innovations, products, and generosity! Happy New Year 2023!

really enjoying this. Is there any way to map the points to a midi controller?

Hello i don´t have beatspace in the puzzle menu, any idea please??

*Sorry i just read about de Script

Thanks Magnum!! Loving Microtonic from 2004-2005!!! Yeaaah

rad!

Wow, I didn't realise how great BeatSpace was when I recently bought Microtonic. I know I'm very late to this party but this is a fantastic addition to what was already an instrument outstanding in sound and design. It's so engaging as a way to stimulate ideas and elegantly implemented. Your commitment to ongoing development is so much appreciated - thank you!

Any way to edit the script to be able to map the "Random" button to MIDI please?
Also, how do I auto-load the script so that beatspace opens automatically when Microtonic starts?

Thank you.

This is amazing and should be a default feature of all hardware synth-drum machines :)

Are there any plans to make the points in the beatspace map Midi-mappable? Right now, it's the one reason I'm not pulling the trigger on it.