New Track: Heckmannufer

Back to synthesizers and straight beats for a moment, I have been busy testing some new sounds. Heckmannufer is now on my SoundCloud page.

Two new processed field recordings

I published two new field recordings on my SoundCloud page. Both were recorded while strolling around Musikmesse this year, and later processed in Pure Data using the excellent Rjlib.

NeuronVS now free

Although the Neuron Synthesizer was and still is a flagship synth that stood for innovation in the field of Resynthesis, it was not a commercially successful product. After the hardware version, the creators also released a software plug-in based on the same engine. The unique approach in this engine is that concrete material, such as a user’s own samples, can be fed into the engine, which then creates an abstract semantic model from it and uses its own sound-generating means to recreate the original sound. The model is rather complex and includes many parameters in both timbre and temporal development of the sound. It is interesting as an example of a bold abstraction process, transforming sound to the symbolic level, while retaining much of its information. The engine then allows the user to go beyond the more or less faithful recreation of an original sound, and work with the parameters of the model – musically the much more interesting part. The NeuronVS software part is now available for free for Mac OS.

The Neuron Project