Slice the Rain is a variation on the beat-slicer concept. It allows for loading two different samples, which are divided into 16 segments. The positioning of the segments can be manually adjusted or randomized. The segments can then be triggered with a QWERTY keyboard, or by an automatic random process, or by an automatic Fibonacci-based algorithm. Version 1.1 will also allow for MIDI triggering.

Each sample can also be tweaked at a granular level with a broad palette of precise controls, allowing for a micro/macro interaction of slices.

By automatic triggering of two samples, complex quantized poly-rhythms can easily be explored while manually tweaking other parameters.

Also features the standard Lamplight Forest effects, MIDI mapping, and in-built recording.

Alternate Realm is my first foray into the world of alternate tunings. It is a limit 7 tuning system by default, but each note can be retuned by frequency. If using a MIDI keyboard, you can tune an octave and have that tuning replicated across all other octaves, or you can tune up 120 different MIDI notes individually, if you wish to have more than 12 pitches.

The synthesizer has the same flexible filter and amp envelopes as Fertile Grounds (i.e. separate for each wave-type) and has the addition of random mixing between waveform types. This randomization is also scalable -- which means that you can have very subtle or very dramatic timbrel and dynamic changes as the sine, saw, triangle and square wave volume levels shift.

Just a really quick and simple release today -- Organ of the Forest is a solid and versatile polyphonic organ with heaps of texture and personality. This is totally and unashamedly low-fidelity.

Enjoy!

I've just released Organ of Fragments -- a polyphonic sampler organ. This instrument allows you to drag and drop up to four different samples which can be played and looped at multiple different pitches via a MIDI device or QWERTY keyboard.

For sound design / musique concrete purposes it features a randomizing volume option for each channel -- so all four channels can randomly mix around each other.

The amplitude of the first channel can also be used to modulate the filters of all other channels.


Please note: there may be issues in Windows with samples not initiating -- re-selecting your audio device in Preferences after dragging in samples will fix this

I've just updated Fertile Grounds subtractive synthesizer -- to now include low-pass filter envelopes, FX chains, and panning for each wave type, and duty cycle editing for the square wave.

The filter envelopes also feature an easy to use looping function -- allowing for sustainable filter loops with speed control (= autowah!)

Enjoy!

Array is a new synthesizer created for an upcoming performance at the Adelaide Uni Electronic Music Unit.

The theme for the performance is using data feeds from pachube.com to generate audio.

Array allows the user to copy-paste any set of numbers of any length into a graph which can then be used to amplitude modulate or frequency modulate a multi-waveform synthesizer -- uniquely texturize and colourize synth sounds with real-world data!

Array will be released shortly.

The Blend has been released! A unique instrument for textural, granular, and gating effects -- part synthesizer, part sampler, part vocoder...

>>Get it here...

I'm just putting the final touches on to The Blend. The basic concept to this instrument is simple -- take two audio sources and multiply them together. These audio source can be:

-an input (e.g. microphone, guitar, keyboard)

-a sample (e.g. a drum loop)

-a built-in synthesizer

Between any of these sources, signals can be multiplied directly (think of it like intersecting two mountain ranges), or a threshold gate of one can open and close the flow of another (when a certain volume is reached on one, the other is allowed to play).

These allow for some very interesting polyrhythmic and granular interactions of audio.

Special tricks like using a microphone to open a sound gate (breath-controlled beats for example), and a basic type of vocoding (by multiplying voice with synthesizer) are also easy to achieve.

Will be released in a few days.

Happy tweaking!

Lamplight Tracker released today!

Here's the features, as of v1.0


:: features ::

Drag and drop sample loading

Tracker-style sample sequencing -- trigger samples and control volume, pan, pitch and other parameters straight from a sequencer grid

Dynamic sample and parameter sequencing -- easily change sample order and parameters even while sequences are playing

Dynamic non-linear sequence routing -- create and re-route the ordering of sequences as they are playing

Waveform editing -- crop and dynamic looping

Flexible pitch controls -- semitone and record-player-style continuous pitch

Easy MIDI mapping of controls and effects

Effects chains -- delay, reverb, distortion, ring mod, and more -- each sample can be individually assigned to an effects channel -- up to 26 separate effects channels, plus master effects

In-built Recording

Save/Load all sequence, sample and effect settings