Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Instruōducing the Pocket SCÍON
pocketscion.com
The Pocket SCÍON is a portable device that captures biofeedback data sourced from contact with living organisms.
This data is used by the onboard sound engine to generate evolving soundscapes and a range of MIDI messages.
The data is also accessible as OSC messages which are broadcast from the accompanying desktop application.
Anyone can create, shape, and enjoy music with Pocket SCÍON regardless of existing musical experience.
Despite its stand-alone, plug-and-play interface, experienced or adventurous users can use the MIDI and OSC output capabilities to integrate Pocket SCÍON and biofeedback into their studios, installations, and audio- visual projects.
00:00 Instruōduction
02:11 What's in the box?
03:43 Getting Started:
04:16 Getting Started: Audio Out
04:33 Getting Started: Sensor Input
04:44 Getting Started: Touch Electrode
05:44 Getting Started: Connect with Nature
06:41 Getting Started: Factory Reset command
07:13 The Instruments:
07:21 The Instruments: Secret Garden
08:00 Instrument Selection
08:14 The Instruments: Fungal Waves
09:02 The Instruments: Treebeard's Koto
09:46 The Instruments: Soil Circuits
10:35 CONTROLS
10:45 Volume Control
10:53 Sensitivity Control (Coarse)
11:14 Hardware ports
11:31 Sensitivity Control (Fine)
12:23 Instrument Selection
12:32 ADVANCED CONTROLS
12:43 Shift Controls
12:54 Voice Count
14:33 Transposition
15:30 Interlude with DivKid
How the SCÍON works:
16:15 The common misconception (Plant sounds?)
16:46 Listening to the analogue sensor
17:13 How the sensor works
18:30 What the algorithm interprets
19:00 Raw sensor signal from the Pocket SCÍON (secret feature)
19:26 Pocket SCÍON listening to the sensor
19:54 Back to the Instruments
20:24 Square wave control (SCÍON sensor override)
21:12 Square wave control – Pocket SCÍON
21:31 Pulse frequency fluctuation control
22:06 Complex generative feedback control patch theory
23:02 Pocket SCÍON controller app
23:38 INSTRUMENT SETTINGS
24:16 Programming Scales
24:50 RATCHETING
25:44 Instrument Voice Weighting
27:30 VOICE SETTINGS
27:41 MIDI
28:21 USB MIDI Device
28:53 Single Channel MIDI Example:
30:09 Voice Parameters
30:57 Octave Offset
31:55 Multi Channel MIDI Example:
32:06 Single/Multi Channel mode – Hardware Select
32:47 Multi Channel MIDI in Ableton Live
33:07 External MIDI Instrument control with parallel Pocket SCÍON Instruments
33:35 Polyphonic MIDI orchestration example – Ableton Live:
34:34 Voice range distribution
39:55 External polyphonic MIDI Instrument control with parallel Pocket SCÍON Instruments
40:31 Instruments defining tonality for External MIDI Instrument control
42:12 OSC
Instruōducing the Pocket SCÍON
pocketscion.com
The Pocket SCÍON is a portable device that captures biofeedback data sourced from contact with living organisms.
This data is used by the onboard sound engine to generate evolving soundscapes and a range of MIDI messages.
The data is also accessible as OSC messages which are broadcast from the accompanying desktop application.
Anyone can create, shape, and enjoy music with Pocket SCÍON regardless of existing musical experience.
Despite its stand-alone, plug-and-play interface, experienced or adventurous users can use the MIDI and OSC output capabilities to integrate Pocket SCÍON and biofeedback into their studios, installations, and audio- visual projects.
00:00 Instruōduction
02:11 What's in the box?
03:43 Getting Started:
04:16 Getting Started: Audio Out
04:33 Getting Started: Sensor Input
04:44 Getting Started: Touch Electrode
05:44 Getting Started: Connect with Nature
06:41 Getting Started: Factory Reset command
07:13 The Instruments:
07:21 The Instruments: Secret Garden
08:00 Instrument Selection
08:14 The Instruments: Fungal Waves
09:02 The Instruments: Treebeard's Koto
09:46 The Instruments: Soil Circuits
10:35 CONTROLS
10:45 Volume Control
10:53 Sensitivity Control (Coarse)
11:14 Hardware ports
11:31 Sensitivity Control (Fine)
12:23 Instrument Selection
12:32 ADVANCED CONTROLS
12:43 Shift Controls
12:54 Voice Count
14:33 Transposition
15:30 Interlude with DivKid
How the SCÍON works:
16:15 The common misconception (Plant sounds?)
16:46 Listening to the analogue sensor
17:13 How the sensor works
18:30 What the algorithm interprets
19:00 Raw sensor signal from the Pocket SCÍON (secret feature)
19:26 Pocket SCÍON listening to the sensor
19:54 Back to the Instruments
20:24 Square wave control (SCÍON sensor override)
21:12 Square wave control – Pocket SCÍON
21:31 Pulse frequency fluctuation control
22:06 Complex generative feedback control patch theory
23:02 Pocket SCÍON controller app
23:38 INSTRUMENT SETTINGS
24:16 Programming Scales
24:50 RATCHETING
25:44 Instrument Voice Weighting
27:30 VOICE SETTINGS
27:41 MIDI
28:21 USB MIDI Device
28:53 Single Channel MIDI Example:
30:09 Voice Parameters
30:57 Octave Offset
31:55 Multi Channel MIDI Example:
32:06 Single/Multi Channel mode – Hardware Select
32:47 Multi Channel MIDI in Ableton Live
33:07 External MIDI Instrument control with parallel Pocket SCÍON Instruments
33:35 Polyphonic MIDI orchestration example – Ableton Live:
34:34 Voice range distribution
39:55 External polyphonic MIDI Instrument control with parallel Pocket SCÍON Instruments
40:31 Instruments defining tonality for External MIDI Instrument control
42:12 OSC
