BioMimicry

BioMimicry uses six mathematical physics engines to generate triggers, CV and audio that feel organically alive.<br><br>

Tap the momentary switch to cycle six ecosystems.<br> HORSES: a herd, each animal running its own stride clock driving four hooves at their real equine footfall offsets - walk, trot, canter and gallop as biomechanical patterns, suspension phases and all. <br>GEESE: a cascading probability network across a flock of twelve, where one honk spikes the odds for the rest. <br>FROGS: the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators, fighting between metronomic sync and chaotic swarms. <br>RAIN: leaky integrate-and-fire buckets that fill with noise and splash downstream into each other when they overflow. <br>METEORS: an inhomogeneous Poisson process where a hidden weather system swells a swarm from eerie silence into dense overlapping barrages. <br>CICADAS: four patches of insects coupled on loudness rather than on phase or events, swelling out of step.<br><br>

Voices are animal recordings with up to eight round robins each. In Horses the round robins are the four hooves, so a gait sounds like an animal rather than a drum machine.<br><br>

Hold the momentary switch at power-on to boot TUNED, which plays the same recordings at their recorded pitch with no per-animal or per-hit detuning - so uploaded notes, drips or hits can be galloped, dripped or swarmed in tune. Its Summed routing puts 1V/oct on CV 2 saying which round robin just fired, so the ecosystem can play a melody on an external oscillator.<br><br>

Samples can be replaced from a browser over USB.

Copy the UF2 onto the Computer's program card (RP2040 bootloader drive).