So how does it work? Basically, there are four stages, or steps, in making a sound (or modifying a sound) in Kaleidoscope.įirst, tuning. The headline for this article says “to the next level.” In fact, that’s an understatement, this has taken graphic synthesis several levels beyond anything previously possible. It goes well beyond any previous graphic synthesis system in its abilities. As I went through the manual and checked out the presets, I was continually impressed as to how each aspect of each parameter had been thought out, and each control provided a number of possibilities. This is a superb program, very detailed and deep. Kaleidoscope can also function in offline mode to do synthesis tasks which stress out one’s CPU to the max. This more efficient behaviour was found in both the 32 and 64 bit versions in Reaper. A typical “preset” on AudioMulch used 31.3% of the CPU, the same preset in Plogue Bidule used 32.97% of the CPU, but in Reaper, the CPU use was 23.4%. Although an i7 processor or greater is recommended, It functioned very well on the i5 in all three platforms, although, for some reason, Reaper was the most efficient. For this review, I used it in AudioMulch (32 bit), Plogue Bidlule (32 bit), and Reaper (32 and 64 bit) on a Windows 8.1 Intel Core i5 laptop. It’s designed to be used as a plugin in a wide variety of hosts. And if the base frequency of the given scale is tuned very low, Kaleidoscope can even act as a filter, a delay or other effects generator. If no sound is fed through, but the “white noise” source is turned up full, Kaleidoscope can act as a sound synthesizer. If a sound is fed through the resonators and they are tuned properly, one can get quite amazing processing of the input sound with the use of interesting tunings and image maps. And then the amplitude of the resonators is controlled with graphics, which are here called “image maps.” There are two of these, and they can be scanned through at different rates, combining to produce very long sequences of sound. The timbre of these resonators is controlled with a series of feedback, damping, and “soft” (a kind of wave-shaping) controls. And the tuning of these resonators can be controlled incredibly precisely. Instead, it uses a massively parallel bank of physically-modeled resonators, one per horizontal row of pixels to make the sound. This, or a graphic specially made in a drawing program is then converted into sound with sine-wave, or other waveform, oscillators, one per horizontal row of pixels, summed to make the final sound. In some of these programs, a sound is analysed with a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to produce a sonogram of the sound. And other graphic programs, such as Coagula, Meta-Synth, AudioPaint and Photosounder, among others, have all used a similar method to produce sound controlled by graphics. Of these, the one that survived was Murzhin’s ANS synth, which is today available as the Virtual ANS softsynth for just about all platforms. Back in the 1950s, Percy Grainger in Australia and New York, Daphne Oram in the UK, and Evgeny Murzhin in Russia, had all devised means of using graphics to control oscillators. It uses a new take on an old technique – using graphics to control sound. 1 add on) is a new product from 2CAudio, the maker of such superb reverb plugins as Aether, Breeze, and B2. Kaleidoscope ( ) (Windows 7 and 8 and Mac OSX.7 and higher 64 bit and 32 bit $249.95, $324.95 with the Galbanum Architecture Waveforms Vol. Very powerful, and flexible, it uses a new paradigm – physically modeled resonators controlled by graphics to produce and modify sound. 2015 Kaleidoscope is a new approach to the use of graphics to control sound. Here is a gallery with many samples.By Warren Burt, Mar. The resulting images are totally exclusive, never repeated. PhotoEchoes can produce seamless tileable patterns nice also as web page backgrounds. The PhotoEchoes kaleidoscope program has features to capture and save at high resolution the images it creates either to a file or directly as the Desktop Wallpaper. See it by yourself with the free trial download: The program will use your collection of photographs (from the folders you choose) and pick images randomly. It will process the images to enhance themĪnd project the result on screen in multiple animated reflections.ĭiscover inspiring new colors, patterns, shapes, cuts and more from your pictures! Endless mandala generator, it ads random to your image art, then just relax and let synchronicity happen. It runs as a stand-alone program and it can also be set as your screensaver. PhotoEchoes is a computer Kaleidoscope that generates beautiful and inspirational images based on your pictures.
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