I dunno man, so far everything I’ve heard sounds like Crepe, and that’s putting it pastry-ly
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Audiomoders step in with their version of a mangler… of sorts. Cheap and even free on certain deals this BF.
Sumu is coming out soonish, I hope…got to test the beta…never ever have I been able to manipulate “samples” in this way…you need to convert your samples into partial maps with another app called Vutu and then import it into Sumu…you get to play with 64 partials with each having their own envelope, pitch, volume, pan…endless sonic playground…also that space module and the pulse module are insane…
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Huge fan of Soundghost, so definitley giving this one a go.
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+1 Inflator sounds great on vocals or what ever.
Yeah let us know. Looks like I could get similar results with a sequencer, random chops and modulation but maybe I’m wrong. It does look cool.
I always am hesitant all the examples are
Ambient background sounds. It’s not really my production style.
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So having had a quick play here, there’s definitley some upsides to it, but the issue I have actually is with the demo as much as anything else. It only comes with one example (though the blurb said “limited” so I assumed it would have more than one sample) and you can’t load anything in yourself. It also cuts out very often, which is a tad frustrating - and really that amount of lockdown almost makes me wary (and I like the company behind this, so that’s saying something.)
The basic idea is you load in a melodic sample. This is then randomised (tempo synced) fed into either a HP/LP filter, Fade In/Out, Delay/Verb. The amp & cutoff modulation then goes into a step sequencer where you can control intensity, number of steps etc, which allows another level of sound shaping to take place.
Most other samplers allow you complete control over these pararmenters, but in Jumble the mods are fixed in place (you can’t reroute stuff.) As ever this is one of those things you could build an Ableton rack to achieve a lot of what it does. It seems that the selling point is mostly simplicity and speed with a very specific result in mind. I’d also say if you weren’t in a DAW with no rack system for effects, it would be pretty handy there.
The overall case for it seems to be if you want to quickly create ambient/generative sound beds, or top textures, this will get you there quickly.
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I’m building this Max for Live device. It does some pretty wild shit that other samplers don’t. Free for now.
“A sampler instrument for Max for Live to help you dive deep into the ocean of your failures, to explore the shipwreck of your praxis. Load thousands of samples into one device and select them with just two knobs.”
You can drag and drop a folder and then get a recursive list of all the sound contents of it and its subfolders, up to 16k files. Then select them as 128 samples in 128 banks.
From there you can do multiple weird old time stretching algos to tear them apart, and you can play them in 64 voice polyphony, where you apply different parameters to each voice (each new voice, while the old currently playing voices retain the settings they had when triggered). You can also apply randomised pitch and panning to each new hit. Like granular but each grain can be 30 seconds long or whatever you want.
You can go full Xenakis with this.
The interface is a bit confusing I know, but it’s still under development. Some controls relate to when MIDI is On, and some controls to when its Off. Some work when Timestrech is On, others when its Off. But maybe being a little confused adds to the fun in exploring it. There’s a lot of info on the Github page.
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Sounds great. I don’t have Ableton, but this is sort of how I use my Octatrack
Good to see this idea in Software. I have oceans for sure.
…did someone mention that modular daw where everything modulates everything with it’s endless ways how u can use and abuse it’s eternal internal sampler to try all kinds of wigs on all sorts of bits yet?
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My brother in Christ, humbly I interject; Octa is 8 track monophonic. I had one for years. This is nothing like it. This is 64 voice poly and you can load up as many instances as Ableton can handle. Octa also has a very limited sample pool. In this you can throw a 200 Gb folder with hours long WAV files and it plays nicely. It’s not even remotely similar. It’s closer to a Qu-bit Nebulae 2 on steroids.
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Got it. This seems far superior to my OT. Understood.
Love Sancristoforo’s stuff. No-Fi is actually a few months old, but he just came out with a new instrument: Full Blotter. It’s a “very large grain psychedelic machine” for audio loops, which in practice seems to mean “sound like The Field without even trying.”
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And over I go to the link… 
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I like how this dev thinks, he reminds me of Igor vasilev the dev of many IOS apps that I like,… soundscaper, fieldscaper etc…
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Stick a bass drum under that drone, duck that sucker with some side chaining, and baby, you got a Field stew cooking!
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Factoid is one of my favorite mangling tools, and it has just been updated
https://anemond.net/factoid/
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the oldy but always goody
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