Harmonal Binaurics 2 Promises to ‘Hijack Your Brainwaves’


Faded Instruments has introduced Harmonal Binaurics 2, a new “mind control drone synth and experimental sound design tool” for iOS, macOS and  Windows.

Here’s what they have to say about it:

“Harmonal Binaurics 2 combines Binaural Beats with Isochronic Tones and custom tuning systems to hijack your brainwaves and bend your unconscious mind. It’s a psychoacoustic powerhouse – originally designed as simple tool for live performance, Harmonal Binaurics has evolved into a deeply flexible instrument for composition, performance, meditation, sound experimentation, and sonic exploration.”


Features:

  • Seven harmonic drone generators
  • Binaural beat and isochronic pulse generation
  • Complete tuning control for all generators
  • Flexible harmonic and microtonal tuning systems
  • Expanded wave shaping and wave morphing
  • Two new MIDI performable play modes
  • Slew-based modulation and movement controls
  • Experimental psychoacoustic sound design
  • Multichannel output support (stereo mix + 7 stereo generator discrete outputs)
  • Plugin formats including VST3 on Windows and VST3 and AU on macOS
  • Standalone desktop application for Mac and Windows.
  • Dedicated iPad version optimized for touch performance

Harmonal Binaurics 2 is available now for desktop with an intro price of $20.20 USD, and iOS for $12.99.

 

Tape Fiasco 2 Gives You 4 New Ways To Mangle Your Audio


Developer Jonas Eriksson has released Tape Fiasco 2, a VST/AU plugin for your DAW that he says “turns a single audio loop into a performance instrument.”

Version 2 is a major update that adds four new effects, unlimited modulation, and more ways to “destroy your audio.”

Highlights of the Tape Fiasco 2 update include:

  • New FX: Clang (Creative Ring Mod). Aether (Shimmer Reverb). Orbit (Auto-Panner). Tremor (Tremelo).
  • Morph, wreck, or mangle — one controller does it all. L/R channel locking, free and clocked FX rate, new presets.

Tape Fiasco 2 is available now for $29 USD. It’s a free update for existing users. it to you.

Free Soundbank Turns Novation Peak Into A Drum Machine


TheGuacamoleXplosions shared this video demo of a free sound bank that turns the Novation Peak (or Summit) into a drum synthesizer, drum machine or even a groovebox.

All Peak Patches in this video were created from scratch. All Peak tracks were recorded through RME audio interfaces (Babyface Pro and Fireface UC) directly into Cubase stereo tracks. There are absolutely no effects on the individual Peak stereo tracks, not even panning, and levels are set to unity gain, to give an as-clear-as-possible impression of the Peak’s sonic potential and limits.

On most parts (except intro), there is brickwall limiting on the stereo master, and on most multitrack parts also additional compression and EQ on the stereo master. Guitar parts recorded D.I. into the Fireface UC with a 1973 Stratocaster, several track and send FX on those.

Topics covered:

00:00 – Intro

01:06 – Peak Drum Jam #1: Fake Trance for Drake Fans

03:13 – Kraftwerk — Autobahn throwback

03:36 – How to turn your Peak into a drum machine? The Autobahn beats

05:10 – Peak as a Groovebox: The Streets — Blinded By The Lights

06:22 – “What if?” break: AFX mode for the Peak now!

07:02 – Simulating AFX mode by sending MIDI PCs to the Peak

08:32 – Surrogate Multitimbrality: Marvin Gaye — Sexual Healing

09:15 – 6 Methods for Peak beatmaking — Drummer from yet another Mother

09:55 – JMJ — Oxygène IV throwback

10:38 – “Played” drums

11:28 – Arpeggiator “played” mode — how it works

11:59 – Pink Floyd — On The Run throwback

12:08 – Feeding “played” mode from an external sequencer

12:18 – Testing the limits of “played” mode: Elbow — Grace Under Pressure

13:05 – Patch from scratch: Four-to-the-floor beat with rumble

19:24 – Changing the master tempo (impact on LFOs vs. Envelopes)

20:12 – Peak Drum Jam #2 (with the patch just made from Scratch)

22:39 – Making a drum template patch (with random Peak Spa Meditation background music)

26:02 – LFOs vs. Envelopes: Creating an early 80s beat from our drum template patch

36:14 – Final Peak Drum Jam #3 (1983/84 throwback)

The sound library is available now as a free download (sysex).