Sounds At Dusk has introduced Strange Attractor, a chaotic oscillator and fractal texture generator Max For Live device for Ableton Suite.
What they say about it:
“Create pulsating tones, slowly changing rhythms, drones and rich noises. Use as a standalone oscillator or as an audio effect.
Essentially a feedback system, but one that includes nonlinear elements so that complex and unpredictable sounds emerge dependent on the system’s history. Seed oscillations with the input and steer the system with subtle changes of parameters.”
Strange Attractor was originally released in 2012 as an iPad application. Strange Attractor is available now for $10
Be Good Audio, a new audio software company based in Denmark, has introduced Time Razor, a dual delay, with integrated effects and modulation.
Features:
4 different delay modes: Single, Ping Pong, Dual Serial, and Dual Parallel
2 different controllable time transition modes: Repitch and Fade
Control the level of the delay lines in Parallel or Serial delay mode
Option to add Chorus, Phaser, Bit Crusher, and Reverb to the feedback path (with both dry/wet audio options)?
1 multi-mode filter in the feedback path (with both dry/wet audio options) for further enhancing the sonic character
Processing in stereo with independent left/right repeat time and feedback for each delay line
Possibility to sync delay times to the host tempo
Stereo tools to control spatial width
Processing in M/S stereo mode
Shape the delay lines with lowpass, highpass filters in the feedback path. In Parallel mode, each delay line has separate filters, while in Dual Serial mode, both delay lines share the same filters.
Ducking for the delay lines with separate ducking settings in Parallel mode
Envelope follower for dynamic modulation with multiple dual destinations (select between 32 targets)
2 LFOs with multiple dual destinations and the possibility to sync LFO rates to the host tempo (select between 32 targets)
Modulation sources can modulate each other
Comes loaded with 140 presets for quickly adding magic to your sound. Easily edit and save presets. More free presets will be added in future updates.
Control audio input and output, changing the sonic harmonics
Clear Audio button (top-right “Time Razor” text in the UI) for working with massive feedback
Integrated help-text displayed when hovering over UI elements with the mouse
Audio demos are available at the Be Good Audio website.
Time Razor is available now for Windows, with an intro price of €39 (normally €79). A Mac version is ‘coming soon’. A demo version is also available.
Jason Donnelly of Soundtrack Loops let us know about their latest sound library, C64 8 Bit Adventure, which features sounds of the Commodordian.
The Commodordian is a unique 8-bit Commodore 64 accordion:
What they say about the sound library:
“Here we have C64 8-Bit Adventure, a collection of loops, one shots and more, all generated by a bespoke musical instrument that Linus has dubbed the Commodordian—an ‘accordion’ comprising two C64 computers that bookend a real, functional bellows system, constructed of an origami-like assembly of 5.25” paper floppy disc casings!
This instrument sets C64 8-Bit Adventure apart—the bellows is actually an electro-mechanical modulator that changes the sound as it’s being played.
So here, in a package containing 82 loops (distributed across 10 different theme kits), 168 delightful one shots, 9 Kontakt .nki files, and an Ableton Drum Rack, we have the sound of the Commodordian—an one-off, genius-grade, mad scientist-level instrument that captures the classic sounds of the Commodore 64 computer in all its 8-bit glory, and with added organic modulations that go far beyond typical circuit bending exercises, and into some truly esoteric and fun places.”
