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Wotja 3
Reflective Music System Now Enables Custom Player and Backing
Dec 19 2015, UK: Intermorphic Ltd today releases Wotja 3 for iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch®.
Wotja is a deceptively simple reflective music system and generative music publishing and creativity system for fun, ideas, thinking, relaxation, sharing and peace. To it you just add text to make chilled-out, magical music. Wotja 3 includes the latest generation of Noatikl Music Engine (NME) for generative music generation and Partikl Sound Engine (PSE) for sound generation and represents a significant step forward in the generative music work trajectory started by Tim Cole and Pete Cole, Intermorphic co-founders, over 25 years ago with SSEYO.
Most important of all, however, is that Wotja 3 includes the ability to import Noatikl* files for use as a Custom Player or Backing. This means wotjas can now be seen as a new artform. The key changes include:
- Gorgeous new Players and Backings for more enjoyment.
- Improved sounds with revamped, integral, Partikl Sound Engine 3 (PSE 3), as is in Noatikl 3 / Mixtikl 7.
- Ability to Import/Export "Custom" Noatikl 3 Players and Backings (Noatikl 3 not included, available seperately) means you can create/share wotjas with totally custom generative music & sounds - great for creative expression! When sharing as Wotja URLs these are tagged with "WotjaPro".
- Custom colour that lets you set your own preferred background / text colour for your wotja - enhanced personsalisation!
- New Melody Composition factors - Start and Length - gives you more control over playback of the melody created by your text.
- When exporting to Twitter or Facebook the background image use by your wotja (if any) is appended to the message.
- Simpler, cleaner Full Screen mode and now easier to enter/leave it (tap Wotja in Edit Mode to enter it).
- Improved randomisation of Players and Backing tracks.
- New "Show Text?" toggle so that you can enjoy your wotja without seeing text.
Tim Cole and Pete Cole, the Intermorphic founders and brother team said “Wotja 3 is a big step on for Wotja. We've focused hard on improving the integral Partikl Sound Engine, have included gorgeous new Players and Backing that really take advantage of that work, and added support for Custom Player and Backing. That last thing has enormous potential and allows Wotja to become a generative music publishing system as well as a reflective music system. We hope you enjoy it and look forward to seeing what you can do with it!”
*Noatikl not included, available separately.
Further Information:
- General Information: http://intermorphic.com/wotja
- User Guide: Wotja 3 User Guide
- Examples: Demo recordings
- Wotja 3 for iPad / iPhone / iPod touch in the App Storeā
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About Intermorphic (press contact):
Intermorphic Ltd was co-founded in 2007 by Tim Cole and Pete Cole. It develops music creativity & relaxation ("creative relaxation") apps that use generative, text-to-music & cut-up techniques.
The Cole brothers ("the Coles") have a history in music software innovation: they co-founded SSEYO in 1990 and from then to 2001 they created and worked on the BAFTA Award-winning "SSEYO Koan Interactivity Platform" which included the "Generative Music" engine used by Brian Eno for his seminal 1996 "Generative Music 1". SSEYO Koan software was available for Windows, Mac and Windows Mobile and in a range of variants from Standalone to Audio Plugin to Web Browser Plugin.
Following Tao Group's acquisition of SSEYO in 2001, the Coles created the intent Sound System (iSS) and BAFTA Award-winning "SSEYO miniMIXA", one of the world's first mobile music mixers. In 2007 it released both "Noatikl: Generative Music Composer" (the evolution to SSEYO Koan) and "Liptikl: Cut-Up Text Writer". In Q2 2008 Intermorphic secured the IP rights to the iSS and SSEYO software and in December 2008 released "Mixtikl: Generative Music Mixer" followed in 2012 by "Tiklbox: Generative Music Player".
After many years of updates to the forgoing apps and after much deliberation on the next step forward for Generative Music, the Coles decided that it was "Reflective Music". And so in 2014 along came the first of the releases of the "Wotja®: Generative Music System", an all-in-one 'Creator, Mixer, Lab & Player'. By 2017 the key authoring capabilities of Noatikl, Mixtikl and Liptikl had been fully consolidated into Wotja for iOS and macOS, including the playlisting of Tiklbox.
February 2018 saw the first release of "Wotja X", a cross-platform UI variant that finally allowed Wotja to be available for all of Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. By 2019 this had become the cornerstone of all further Wotja apps, including the Wotja interface for TV. In 2021 Wotja for iOS/macOS became a single App ID and an AUv3 Audio Unit Plug-in was added, as well as support for Apple silicon.
In 2022 support for AUv3/VST3 Plug-in Hosting was added and a Wotja VST3 Plug-in was created in addition to a new "Euclidian" Generator Type. Ever since its first release Wotja and its WME (Music), WAE (Audio), WSE (Script) and WTE (Text) engines have continued to be extended with many new features and improvements.
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