Noatikl 2 | Generative & Inmo Music Lab

Create your own generative & 'inmo' music with Noatikl 2, a powerful creative tool for generating new musical ideas. It uses generative / aleatoric / stochastic / algorithmic music techniques developed over the last 20 years.

Noatikl 2 includes the advanced Partikl MIDI, Sound & FX multi-synth for sound generation and can also generate / send MIDI notes and controller info to control settings of favourite external synths, FX units & samplers.

Noatikl 2 also includes all the Mixtikl-included Tiklpaks so you can start with some great sound templates, and you can also now tweet your pieces as "partikls" (for other Noatikl users to play) or as "mixtikls" for people with Mixtikl or Mixtikl Free to play!

Noatikl is the exciting future for the award-winning Koan generative music system. "Noatikl" can now open Koan files created back to 1992. See what's new!

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User Comments

"I've only been using [Noatikl 2] for 10 minutes & love it already. Thank you!": Chris Pollard

Noatikl Reviews

★ ★ ★ ★ Noatikl review by Computer Music Oct 2012 (+ more user quotes):

"One of the best interactive composition tools on the market"
"Noatikl is the coup de grace in the fight against creative block"
"Offers serious built-in tone generation via Intermorphic's Partikl modular synthesis, sampling and MIDI environment"
"It would take us page upon page to convey the wealth of goodies in Noatikl 2"
"Improvements over the previous version are significant"
"Capable of truly inspiring progressions"
"You'll get as good as you give, and then some"

Use Noatikl To...

Create custom inmo music and export for tweeting/sharing/emailing
Generate new MIDI musical ideas
Generatively change external synth, FX and sampler settings
Break composer's block
Augment an existing musical work
Create reflective music
Create ambient sound tracks
Experiment with generative music systems
Experiment with synthesizer sounds and effects using Partikl
Noodle with music sculptures
Use in generative music installations
Build your own hyperinstrument
Get creative with scripting
Simply have fun creating music!

The Generative Music Lab

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Noatikl 2 is a combination of both the Noatikl generative (MIDI) music engine, and the Partikl synth/audio engine. The Noatikl music engine uses various algorithms and rules to create musical information in the form of both MIDI notes and MIDI controller events. These MIDI notes and controllers can be used both to drive the Partikl synth/audio engine, and to generatively control settings of your own favourite synths, FX units and samplers.

Noatikl's interface is deceptively simple and uncluttered; yet Noatikl still lets you easily get remarkable results without needing to understand music theory or be a music scientist or audio expert. We have plenty of users who have testified to how Noatikl creates great results for them, and these users come from all walks of life. See our user quotes page for many user testimonials.

There are Noatikl variants available for both Mac OS and Windows, including the core Noatikl Standalone version, as well as Plug-in versions (VSTi/AU) for those users who like to use Plug-ins e.g. Logic (Audio Unit [AU]), Sonar (VSTi), Cubase (VSTi), Ableton Live (VSTi), Reaper (VSTi/AU) etc.

Noatikl has extensive built-in scripting features, and can also be used as a customisable hyperinstrument!

Get started now by looking at the Noatikl 2 User Guide!

Generative Music

Generative music (more background) is a whole area in and of itself, and Noatikl is the perfect tool for exploring and creating it. To quote a haiku by Mark Harrop:

Music, recorded,
A meal, frozen.
noatikl: Real,
home, fresh cooking.

Noatikl's Roots

Noatikl is created by Pete Cole and Tim Cole, creators of the 2001 BAFTA-award winning SSEYO Koan Interactive Audio Platform, the 2005 BAFTA-award winning SSEYO miniMIXA, Liptikl (2007+) and Mixtikl (2008+).

We bring to this product the years of experience we have of developing generative music engines, and a past user base who is keen to see what we can do next. Noatikl is much more powerful and versatile than Koan ever was.

For those interested, there is more history here.

System Requirements

250 MB hard disk, 512 MB RAM; Windows: Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7; Mac: Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later (Noatikl Standalone Desktop) or Mac OS X 10.5.x or later (Noatikl Desktop Audio Plugins).