Quincy overview

Quincy is a musical explorer of Life, a cellular automaton created by J.H.Conway. Conway’s Game Of Life has long been of great interest to musicians specifically as a pattern generator. Quincy is a full implementation of Life, capable of generating all possible variations, the common B3/S23 as well as others like HighLife or Seeds. It is document-based and features adjustable grid size, random cell insertion and more. Quincy comes with a large library of patterns, a color mixer for a document’s color set and many display options. Editing tools beyond pen and pattern stamp also include options like copy, paste and rotate.

Features

Intuitive interface
Adjustable grid size
Document based
Full general MIDI instrument library
Large pattern library
Virtual MIDI
File transfer with iOS versions via iTunes File Sharing
Extensive online documentation
Ready for Retina
Academic discounts available
Localized into Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish

What’s new in version 1.6.3

Updated on Jan 26 2022

Fixes some minor cursor and layout issues.

Information

License

Commercial

Size

7.9 MB

Developer’s website

https://rogame.com/quincy.html

Downloads

287

App requirements

Intel 64
macOS 10.14.0 or later

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skippy-dies

May 25 2015

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I bought Quincy for iOS a long time ago, but I still don't have a current device on which to run it (I'm on a 1st gen iPad). The dev has updated it six times so far on iOS, which to me shows commitment to maintaining the app. Also, it looks like it might be more accessible than a certain other cross-platform generative music app. I'll be interested to see what people say about this.