2CAudio Kaleidoscope Product Demo Playlist.

http://www.2caudio.com/products/kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope is the ultimate sound-design tool and creative effects toy! It is an entirely new class of visual audio effects processors and is one of the most unique generative signal processing tools to come to market in recent history. Technically speaking, Kaleidoscope is a massively parallel bank of physically modeled resonators that can be tuned completely arbitrarily with scientific precision and dynamically modulated over time by over two million points of automation. In simplistic terms, Kaleidoscope uses pictures to control sound!

Kaleidoscope is both an effects processor as well as a content generator, meaning that it is possible to synthesize completely new sounds without any input sound or MIDI performance data as well as to transform incoming audio signals in other-worldly manners. Music is organized sound. The organization occurs in time and frequency. Kaleidoscope is a tool that offers ultimate control over musical organization in both of these domains and adds a third axis of creative control we like to call Spatial Choreography. It is designed with one goal in mind: to inspire and invigorate composers, sound-designers, and artists to push the boundaries of what is possible in cutting edge sound-design. Some of its most common applications are: 

• Custom Sound Design for Film, Television, Games and Electronic Music 
• Scoring for Film, Television & Games 
• Special Effects Processing & Generation 
• Algorithmic Composition & Inspiration 
• Ambient Music Generation 
• Dynamic Filter Effects 
• Extreme Nano Textural Effects 
• Dynamic Resonator Effects 
• Additive Synthesis 
• Vocoder-like Effects 
• Rhythmic Filtering & Synth Patterns 
• Morphing Delay Effects 
• Extreme Spatialization & FIRs 
• Automated Volume & Panning 
• Harmonic & Tonal Reverb 
• Granular Effects
• Academic & Scientific Research into Sound and New Music

2CAudio Kaleidoscope

From the second Wayfarer album: Art Official Life

Completely custom sound design produced entirely by tools I invented and developed at 2CAudio and Galbanum...

Namely Kaleidoscope, B2, and Aether:
http://www.2caudio.com/products/kaleidoscope
http://www.2caudio.com/products/b2
http://www.2caudio.com/products/aether

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Wayfarer -- Cocoon

Wayfarer -- Kapteyn B

Wayfarer -- Sunrise In Bali

Wayfarer -- Adobe Of Light

AS1 -- Hardwired

A short chill experiment using 2C Audio's Kaleidoscope.

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2CAudio Kaleidoscope Product Demo Playlist.

Kaleidoscope is the ultimate sound-design tool and creative effects toy! It is an entirely new class of visual audio effects processors and is one of the most unique generative signal processing tools to come to market in recent history. Technically speaking, Kaleidoscope is a massively parallel bank of physically modeled resonators that can be tuned completely arbitrarily with scientific precision and dynamically modulated over time by over two million points of automation. In simplistic terms, Kaleidoscope uses pictures to control sound!

Kaleidoscope is both an effects processor as well as a content generator, meaning that it is possible to synthesize completely new sounds without any input sound or MIDI performance data as well as to transform incoming audio signals in other-worldly manners. Music is organized sound. The organization occurs in time and frequency. Kaleidoscope is a tool that offers ultimate control over musical organization in both of these domains and adds a third axis of creative control we like to call Spatial Choreography. It is designed with one goal in mind: to inspire and invigorate composers, sound-designers, and artists to push the boundaries of what is possible in cutting edge sound-design. Some of its most common applications are: 

• Custom Sound Design for Film, Television, Games and Electronic Music 
• Scoring for Film, Television & Games 
• Special Effects Processing & Generation 
• Algorithmic Composition & Inspiration 
• Ambient Music Generation 
• Dynamic Filter Effects 
• Extreme Nano Textural Effects 
• Dynamic Resonator Effects 
• Additive Synthesis 
• Vocoder-like Effects 
• Rhythmic Filtering & Synth Patterns 
• Morphing Delay Effects 
• Extreme Spatialization & FIRs 
• Automated Volume & Panning 
• Harmonic & Tonal Reverb 
• Granular Effects
• Academic & Scientific Research into Sound and New Music

Simon Stockhausen - Hang Meets KS Meets B2

Simon Stockhausen - Heavenly Drone

Simon Stockhausen - Psaltery Kaleidoskope

Chord Progression Eb Circuit Breaker Low KS

Devils Due A125 Phrigian

KS Drums Glitch 071 144bpm Ebmin11

RF 126 CONGAS5 KS

Processing a looped and transposed orchestral snippet with Kaleidoscope, Molekular and ÜberMod.

Kaleidoscope Orchestral Plane

A Celtic harp sound from Scattered Entity run into a Kaleidoscope patch made by Simon S.

A Framedrum from the Alchemy soundest by Simon S. heard both processed by Kaleidoscope and with just some Übermod and Valhalla Room

A Timpani from Scattered entity both effected by Kaleidoscope and with just some reverb.. The patch Tremor Drone generated a deep drone growling sound that comes in once in a while

A Vocal ensemble singing a gesualdo piece fully submerged in Kaleidoscope preset.

Everything was extensively tweaked and mixed in Logic X.

KaleidoSunshineTwo

My good friend Daniel Merrill of the awesome IDM group Aligning Minds was kind enough to share this track!

https://soundcloud.com/aligningminds

He says:  "Here's a demosong I put together using sounds from Kaleidoscope.  Melodic IDM/Breaks style  - every sound but the drums and bass is from Kaleidoscope.  

Seriously man - this thing is changing my life!!

-Dan"




Aligning Minds Meets KS

Prog Tech house Kaleidoscope mix  example...


Andreas Sans - Kaleidoscope Funk

Getting into the deep end of things: Kaleidoscope fed into another Kaleidoscope....

This sound is entirely Kaleidoscope  and nothing else. (Two instances.)

The first instance creates the musical phrase -- the rhythmic ostinato thing.  Input modulation creates this as a 1/2 measure loop.  The Output modulation produces shifting variations in it over 32 measures...  The sound is generated entirely by this first instance -- there is no input signal.

The second instance provides morphing delay-based effects.  Here use 128 different delay lengths!  (most delay FXs have 1 or 2!!).  The delays are tuned the same key as musical phase, but down several octaves... they use some variations of a harmonic scale (integers) but Triangle numbers in this case (look it up...)  The low harmonics remain in perceptual delay territory (i.e. they have a longer period and lower frequency than audio signals... ).  The higher harmonics get into the audio rate range and produce additional resonance FX in-tune with the music.  The middle-ground between these ranges produces something sounding like a spring reverb...   4 duplicates of each delay freq are used which give a diffusion effect as the delays decay.  Each delay also has its own independent damping filter with a different freq for each.

Two Mod Images are used.  The input mod uses a semi-discrete image which turns the various delays/on off and pans them.  It uses a 2 measure period, but the X-size is 768/1024 = 75% of the width, so the period is actually 1.5 measures, but the time base is the sub-divisions is still in 1/2, 1/4. 1/8 etc of the tempo...  The Output mod gives smoothly shifting variations again with a period of 9 measures...

The total cycle of the whole construct is: 32 * 9 * = 288 measures long before the whole pattern repeats...




KS - Gen Ost Morph FX

A Kate Bush interview processed with Kaleidoscope.

Giger #1

New ambient piece for the second upcoming Wayfarer project titled "Art Official Life".  

A deeply mediative piece...

All sounds are created entirely with a combination of 2CAudio Kaleidoscope and B2, which I am the inventor/designer of...

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Anyone who is curious to know more, can read three recent interviews I just did if you are interested:

http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/meet-the-programmers-2caudio-619754
http://soundbytesmag.net/andrewsouterinterview/
http://www.kvraudio.com/interviews/pushing-the-limits-an-interview-with-andrew-souter-from-2caudio-29383
