SwarmSynth

 

 

* Makes sound by mixing output from a user-sizeable bank of oscillators.
* Oscillators are controlled by five parameters - volume, pitch, pan, resonance and noise.
* Values of each oscillator's parameters continually change, equating to movement through five-dimensional hyperspace.
* Movement through hyperspace is constrained to a bounding box specified by a home position and permissive range for each parameter.
* Graphical envelopes modify the bounding box through the duration of each note.
* Within the bounding box, each oscillator follows a rule-based flocking algorithm - a 5D equivalent of AI simulations of 2D and 3D animal flocking behaviour.
* 3D visualisation of the oscillator's movement through hyperspace, using hue & luminance to represent the other 2 dimensions.
* Mouse-clicking the hyperspace visualisation affects the sound by causing oscillators to veer towards or away from the mouse.
* Hotkey powered sticky-mouse for moving the cursor in 5 dimensions.
* Controllable reseeding to make the algorithm deterministic or non-deterministic.
* 100 automatable parameters, controllable through VST automation or fully remappable MIDI control messages.
* Collection of preset sounds.
* Anarchy button to randomise current settings.
* Context-sensitive help system.

 

 

 

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