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I dropped an orchestra doing concert A for 42 seconds into Ellipsynth and ... mmmm!

Here is a little 1 minute Droneo - on - Droneo piece, trying to build up the density of the evolving mirrors. In B flat in case you like B flat.

Upcoming program Synaesthesia takes live video images and scans them into sound. Here, I've made a visual "mandala" of the word Synaesthesia and it's scanning it (like a good old fashioned record).

Ellipsynth is often preoccupied with transforming language into incoherence.

Thank you Ubuweb!

I had an idea to put a lock frequencies button in , and here it is , with the standard "omm" sound. if you have a scale selected, it will clamp to the scale, so here, in just diatonic, it's pretty melodic! I hope to get ellipsynth in the store at some time in the next few months!

synthicity itself 1.2 is ready and here is what it sounds like.

More Droneo 1.3 sneak - peak upcoming audio . it goes through all 256 combinations of the eight "reeds", in gray code order. Thus, it sounds a little shifted compared with the usual binary order. Gray code is counting with the property that only one "bit" changes with each iteration. so instead of: 000,001,010,011 , where fro 001 to 010 two bits change, gray code counts: 000,001,011,010 so that exactly one bit changes each time. It's like counting fractally, I used to say in college back in the 17th century. There are 256! ways to count from 0 to 255, but these two are pretty interesting ways.

Another demo from Droneo 1.3 : a counting mirror is aimed at a harmonium, playing these intervals (roughly) :

1/2, 2/3, 5/6, 15/16, 9/8, 5/4, 3/2, 2/1

I say roughly because I set them by hand and turned the chorus on.

Droneo 1.3 has a number of new timbres, including: more quickly changing evolving chants, a new consort that combines those evolving chants with organs, and a new class of evolver called counting timbres, which enumerate (cf: Enumero) through the reeds in various orders. There's more to come before it's released though. BTW, this example was recorded internally by Droneo itself.

If you were thinking "synthicity itself is a nice program, where do you go from there?" the first answer is Ellipsynth, which is a lot like synthicity (large amounts of multitouch polyphony) extended to granular synthesis. You can record and paste audio into it as sonic source material.