Flow: A Generative MIDI Sequencer for Ableton Live

Flow is a generative, non-linear MIDI sequencer that offers you a new way of composing music. You can set up simple steps and rules that guide how the music evolves over time, and these rules cause more complex behaviors and patterns to emerge.

This introduction demonstrates the basic concepts of Flow, how to use it, and what kind of musical results you can achieve with it.

00:00 Intro
00:33 State Machines
01:34 Probabilistic Transitions
02:58 Parallelism
04:33 Hierarchical Structures
06:46 Outro

All the music in this video is generated with Flow. It makes MIDI notes and events, which are routed to various synths that produce the sounds.

https://orthogonal.one/products/flow/