R_Mem, a morphing granulator effect

R_Mem is a granulator by Inear Display effect plug-in with additional ring-modulator, multimode filter and delay. It lets you deconstruct the input signal and turn it into a totally different sound, from windy soundscapes to noisy clicks. What makes it special is the addition of a modulation matrix driven by 4 LFOs and of a morphing system that lets you store two states and crossfade between them. For even more radical sound mangling, both state slots can be filled with random values.

Features :

• from 16 to 64 grains (10 ms to 200 ms)
• ring-modulator
• stereo delay up to 1 second
• multimode filter (lowpass, highpass, bandpass, notch)
• grain freeze
• 4 LFOs
• modulation matrix
• morphing between 2 states
• state randomizers
• MIDI learn
• MIDI program change support
• 50 royalty-free samples
• lifetime free updates for registered users

The full version also comes with 50 royalty-free samples (24 Bit / 44.1 kHz) : a selection of dark soundscapes and sound effects carefully crafted from a mix of field recordings and digital experiments.

R_Mem processing an ambient pad to add some glitches, audio demo by Valance Drakes :

 
Requirements :
- a relatively fast computer (R_Mem is cpu hungry, depending on grain density, so please try the demo first)
- cpu with SSE2 support
- Mac : Mac Os X 10.6 or higher (PPC not supported)

Introductory price 10€ - (all platforms and formats + 50 samples). Regular price : 20€. More details at  ineardisplay.com

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Camel Audio announces Alchemy 1.5

Alchemy v1.5 is a major update to our popular sample manipulation synthesiser, designed to keep inspiration flowing with a fully-featured preset browser, 1000 presets, faster loading times, improved remote control from the Alchemy iOS app, and many more enhancements.

The new browser in v1.5 is the most fully-featured sound browser available, allowing you to find all your slow attack strings, glitchy dubstep basses, tempo-synched warm pads, or whatever you need in a matter of seconds. All Camel Audio presets have been carefully tagged by category, genre, articulation, and timbre. Finding favourites is a breeze — simply rate presets with a single click and then sort by rating. You can add tags to make it easy to call up presets associated with a particular project or live set.

Alchemy ships with over 5GB of exclusive samples and a library of over 1000 presets (8000 remix variations) including a free Sound Library of your choice, from many of the world's top sound designers. Sounds range from soaring pads to endessly evolving soundscapes and playable arps. There is an extensive range of Sound Libraries available to further extend your library.

The perform section gives access to the most important controls for the current preset, making it simple to tweak. Quickly alter sounds to fit your music using the remix pad to explore the space between the 8 hand crafted variations of each sound.

The Alchemy App for iPhone and iPad is an inspiring touch remote. It's perfect onstage for live performances or in the studio you'll spend more time getting inspired at your controller keyboard and less time reaching for the mouse.

Alchemy  is available now by $50 till 15th October - just $199/€159/$143.More details at camelaudio.com

Live Ambient Improv by twincamakiko

Live Ambient Improv - Angstrom's Looper VST w/ Waldorf Blofeld, Roland XV-5050, Roland Alpha Juno 1, Roland HS-60, MicroKorg, and Arturia Minibrute.

Bruno Sanfilippo Piano Textures 3 V

Bruno Sanfilippo releases Piano Textures 3, a follow up of his piano based soundcapes series.

In words of John Koch-Northrup, main driver of Relaxed Machinery label and a great Bruno's fan, this album can be described as follows: "Piano Textures 3 is lyrical and beautiful. Bruno has such precision, control, and technical mastery of the piano that he's able to focus solely and be one with the music."

"The piano is truly an extension of him, his feelings, his thoughts. He's not "trying" to convey feeling, the feeling flows naturally from Bruno to the listener.  Nothing is forced, all is where it should be. Piano Textures 3 lives and breathes. I highly recommend Bruno Sanfilippo's work. With Piano Textures 3 - he takes the next step in his musical evolution. I'm loving this chapter, and can't wait for the next."

Piano Textures 3 by Bruno Sanfilippo
 
Piano Textures 3 is now available in CD at ad21music and in FLAC/MP3 formats at Altera Orbe and other sites like Bandcamp, iTunes y Amazon. There is also included in a limited edition box with volumes 1 and 2 named Piano Textures BoxSet. This boxset is a collector's limited edition of 100 units signed and numbered  and contains three Digipack CDs (Piano Textures 1, 2, 3) and a postcard. Its price is €38,50 including worldwide shipping.

More info at bruno-sanfilippo.com

Robert Rich - After Us

After Us is a video koan by Robert Rich. Meditating on the life force, evolution, and our own extinction:

After Us:

I dreamt of the earth after us,
as mountains erode and the sun expands,
as time helps the cities crumble.
So easy to think that the earth revolves around us,
that after us the planet stops.
We, who can change the weather.
When we have made our world so inhospitable we can’t survive,
evolution crawls blindly forward, and consciousness revives, organisms organize,
and the cells of the earth join together to create new minds.
Small lives build new worlds,
cast a net across the surface, and through layers below,
a web of constant construction, destruction, erosion, rebuilding.
After us, on a scaffolding of rust and ashes, salt and sand,
digesting through it, stumbling numbly, vagabond life
picks through the detritus and continues unconcerned.

© 2012 by Robert Rich

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Landru - Fimbria

Landru has just released Fimbria, his second ambient album on the netlabel Altera Orbe.

Fimbria is the latest exploration of Landru into ambient realms, a step forward into complex textures and vibrating grooves from a very personal perspective. The tracks collected in this album presents a priscine production and a deep development on te creation of textures, loops and unique sounds, intrinsic factors in the music of Landru.

Beyond that, Fimbria represents the fragile equilibrium between the most intriguing and dark sequences and the sublime light coming from cinematic pads arising from background subterranean drones. Fimbria is filled with organic sounds varying from aquatic noises to dark aerial pads, from geomorphic rhythms to calm and silent landscapes.

Fimbria is available now in limited edition CDR, FLAC and MP3 formats in Altera Orbe. More info at landrumusic.com

Steve Brand - Sunprints

Sunprints is the latest album from Steve Brand, a rerelease from a previous work originally released in 2010 and now released on Relaxed Machinery, Bandcamp on hisown Pioneer Light Music label.

In Steve Brand's words: "Sunprints is comprised of 4 long, quiet and sometimes intimate atmospheres focused around nature. Sunprints is dedicated to my mentor, Nadja, and accomplished with kora, zither, kalimba, shakers, bells, cymbals, gongs, conch, bone, cane and cedar flutes, didgeridoo, whistles voice, accordion, gutterphone, field recordings and keyboards. The final track, Sunprints, was created just for this 2012 re-release." 



Available now on CDBaby and Bandcamp!. More information at Relaxed Machinery