Datamind Audio released Concatenator, an AI-powered audio mosaicing tool that turns any sound into a playable instrument.
Distinctly different from sampling, Concatenator can use any microphone, instrument or audio file as real-time input to create complex and idiosyncratic sounds and textures.
Using proprietary machine learning techniques that analyze live audio input in real-time, the Concatenator plug-in re-constructs the signal using fragments of the samples you load into it. The result is a sonic potential as broad as whatever is thrown at it.
Concatenator uses a little known synthesis method called Concatenative synthesis which uses machine learning to analyze an incoming sound, and then tries to recreate it in real time, using fragments from samples that you load into it. It’s great for complex sample layering in sound design applications, but it also affords the user the chance to get really creative with it by manipulating how the algorithm selects and plays back the samples you put into it.
Datamind Audio Concatenator Features:
Lightning Fast Load Time – Your computer’s RAM size is the only limitation for how many samples can load into Concatenator.
Machine Learning control – Modulate how the audio matching algorithm “weighs-in” the spectral and amplitude components of the input signal.
Total control – Control sample repetition with “Variation”, re-scatter the probabilities for chosen slices with “Particle Reset”, and then modulate how likely the sample is to hold once selected with “Stickiness”.
Dynamic Presets – Presets can be used with any sample combination, while additionally Corpus Presets store the currently loaded samples.
Datamind Audio Concatenator is available now for $149. A free one-week trial of Concatenator is also available.
For more information and demonstration videos, visit the Datamind Audio website.
Erica Synths has introduced the Pikocore, a lo-fi music mangler developed by Zack Scholl that’s available as a DIY kit.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
“The original DIY kit comes in a miniature pocket calculator form factor, but we at Erica Synths wanted to make it more playable, so we reached out to Zack and developed Pikocore XL version that has identical functionality, but comes in Erica Synths signature hands on user interface and proper aluminum enclosure.
Infinite Digits Pikocore XL by Erica Synths is a full DIY kit that includes all components to build an instrument and put in in action straight away.”
Features:
A lo-fi music mangler based on the Raspberry Pi Pico.
Capable of holding 8 minutes of 8-bit 33 kHz monophonic samples.
Powered by a single alkaline AAA battery for up to 3 hours or by powered by USB-C.
Tempo-synced with a selectable BPM between 60 and 300, with samples mangled by beat-synced effects (stutter, retrig, gate, tunneling).
Loaded with real-time effects like a resonant filter, timestretching, volume, and wavefolding.
Sequenced with a 128-step sequencer with recording/playback
Saved and loaded via EEPROM for instant patch recall.
Able to load custom firmware, new samples, all through USB-C.
Expressive E shared this preview of Osmose 2.1, a free update that adds 80 ‘analog’ style presets, new filter options, 2 new built-in FX and more.
These additions were made possible by a simultaneous big update of Osmose’s DSP & programming tools, the EaganMatrix and Editor which make it easier to create sounds and analog timbres.
Topics covered:
00:00 preset demo intro
00:30 overview
00:54 new DSP update & 2 FXs
01:15 new sound expansion
01:36 new preset demo
03:30 how to access the new FXs
04:40 deleting presets & playlists
05:08 bugf ixes & other improvements
05:37 upcoming instrument editors
06:15 install process
For users with a registered Osmose, the update is already available in the “my downloads & serials” section of your account.
