Gumball wizards
There has to be a twist, and of course there is:
Created by a group of UC Berkeley students, the Bubblegum Sequencer is basically a step sequencer that uses gumballs to generate MIDI events. A multi-row grid, with each consisting of 16 holes — representing the 16th-notes in a measure — are color-mapped to a specific sample.
Sound and video at the link.
(And, because it’s the weekend, a title reference.)
