Akihiko Matsumoto Telequencer

Telequencer: Compose the Unpredictable
Not all music is written. Some of it is discovered.
Telequencer is a sequencer for Ableton Live, crafted for those who prefer to explore rather than control. Inspired by the tactile unpredictability of analog devices like the Make Noise René, it brings generative composition into a digital environment where precision meets surprise.

This is not about automation. This is about emergence.

Patterns That Refuse to Behave
Each step in Telequencer holds more than a pitch. It carries a duration, a place in time, a potential to shift the groove. You can shape how long notes last, how many steps the sequence spans, how often it resets. The clock offers five tempo subdivisions, each capable of pulling the same pattern into a new mood.

With just one parameter, the feel of your sequence transforms. A shuffle control lets your rhythm swing gently or stutter unpredictably, evoking the pulse of UK Garage or deep House with minimal effort.

Discovery Through Randomness
The Random button is not an accident. It is a method. Press it until the sequence speaks. Then press again. Because it will speak differently each time.

With the Ableton Scale device, each generated phrase remains within a chosen musical key, so randomness retains its musicality. You can randomize pitch, sequence patterns, or even parameter behaviors. The result is controlled unpredictability. A form of composition that listens back.

Sound Beyond Notes
Telequencer includes a Ctrl tab that maps step data to any parameter in your Live session. Filter cutoff, wavetable position, or anything else you can imagine becomes part of the sequence. Velocity is not sequenced directly, but can be routed through Ableton's Velocity device for expressive control.

Global parameters like Master Duration and Master Velocity let you stretch or compress the entire groove in real time. A whole phrase can breathe differently with a single touch.

Motion Within Structure
Included are sixteen Snake patterns, each one a unique traversal through the sequence. A Rotate control offsets the entry point, shifting the sequence in subtle but meaningful ways. You can loop, rotate, evolve. The result is not repetition. It is variation through form.

A Living Instrument
Telequencer is not finished. It is updated frequently and always free for existing users. Each new version expands its vocabulary, deepening the musical conversation it enables.

You do not program this instrument. You collaborate with it.
Let it suggest something you did not expect.
Then shape it into something only you could hear.