The purpose of this particular video is more to test screencasting workflow than anything else. I have to say that every time I get in to video stuff, I have to be prepared to spend the whole day frustrated. It is simply amazing to me that more television producers don't go apeshit, running around their studios shooting production assistants in the head.

Anyhow, after my brief experience with Camstudio today, I think that I will use that for quick demonstrations of alpha software, and put those in my personal Vimeo account. However, I will create an Audio Damage account on Vimeo for proper demonstrations of finished (or near-finished) software, and do that on a Mac with Screenflow, as that seems to be a far more sophisticated program than Camstudio, and generally easier to deal with. (I like what Oliver is doing with his Wire To The Ear screencasts using Screenflow, to name one example.) Dealing with the audio portion is especially annoying on PC, due to the way I have my music computer rigged, and the Screenflow method makes that much simpler, what with CoreAudio and all. That in and of itself makes the whole thing worthwhile.

Ranting aside, here we have a quick overview of some of the things Automaton can do. I'll do in-depth videos with narrative of each section in the plugin once we have an OSX build. In the video, I start out with a little glider object, and then add one single trigger for the Stutter engine and fool with that a bit. After that, it's back to the sequencer and you can see how the RAND FILL and RAND RESET controls work with the Life ruleset. The random stuff is kind of ruleset-specific. When I do a full overview of the sequencer, I'll go in to detail on the different rulesets and how the randomization affects them.