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Turing machine looper

A shift register full of random bits goes round and round; the leading byte is read as a note, quantized to your key. One knob — change — sets the probability that the bit wrapping around gets flipped. At 0 the loop is locked and repeats forever. In the middle, the melody evolves: familiar, then suddenly not. At 1 every wrapping bit flips, which locks a loop of exactly twice the length. Loop ↔ evolve ↔ chaos, one knob — the trick the hardware Turing Machine module made famous.

Transport

Key

The register

the outlined bit is the read head; the first 8 bits are the note
locked loopevolvechaosdouble loop
0.00 — locked

Export

records the loop from the register as it stands — the live loop keeps evolving from there