Puremagnetik has introduced Ember, an open-source microsound resynthesizer.
Here’s what they say about it:
“Ember is a sophisticated microsound collage tool that employs granular resynthesis to configure complex sound composites. Inspired by musique concrète pioneers of the past several decades, Ember harnesses modern digital algorithms with classic splicing techniques to create dense and evolving soundscapes. Point it to a folder of sounds and Ember will generate a composite of granular textures that you can later use in your electronic composition process.”
Controls:
Composite Time – The length of the output recording (in seconds)
Min Sound Dur – the minimum length to slice a sound (in seconds)
Max Sound Dur – the maximum length to slice a sound (in seconds)
BINARL – Create a spatial audio (binaural) mix
RENDER – Load the samples and begin processing. Abort the recording by pressing it again.
Ember is available as part of Puremagnetik’s $9/month Lore subscription.
Developer Andreas Remshagen shared this video demo of his free music sequencer for Windows PCs.
It is designed to be an alternative to hardware sequencers for controlling analog gear.
Here’s what Andreas Remshagen says about it:
“This is the Sequencer-Software I made with Flowstone (a graphical programming system) for my Live-Performances. It should run on every Windows-PC and is written to control Midi to CV-Devices like the Polyend Poly. It can Handle two different Devices with 8 Midi-Channels. Maybe you can use it for your own Performances.
It is completely free, so I don’t give a guarantee for everything.
If you have the Flowstone-Software you can edit the source-code-file called FL-Sourcecode in the Zip and change the Sequencer as you like!
This Sequencer works extremely stable in performance and Timing.
I normally work with analog sequencers but a Sequencer with the complete Functions like this Software-Sequencer would take up more space in my room than I have.”
Baby Audio Spaced Out plugin is a superb reverb and echo processor that can deliver wildly creative results, billed as ‘a Space Echo for the 21st century’. And now you can have all of its processing goodness in a free plugin, Magic Dice, which generates random atmospheres with a single click.
One of Spaced Out’s strengths is its simplicity, but Magic Dice is even easier to use. Simply click the dice and it gets to work – if you do not like what you hear, all you have to do is just continue clicking until you do. There are endless combinations and you will never get exactly the same result twice.
Though you can’t tweak any parameters, behind the scenes you are getting access to the same reverb/delay/modulation processors as you will find in Spaced Out. Expect to hear everything from hazy space echoes to lush reverbs and out-there modulation effects.
Magic Dice is the successor to Magic Switch, Baby Audio’s previous freebie, which offers one-click ‘80s style chorus effects. This will remain available.
Magic Dice is available for PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats.
