You can download the demo of Swarmsynth and try it for 28 days which is great - So rather than a review, even a short one, just download it and try it Yourself - I particularly liked the percussive sounds & harsh techno stuff.....
- Makes sound by mixing output from a user-sizeable bank of oscillators
- Oscillators are controlled by five parameters - volume, pitch, pan, resonance and noise
- Values of each oscillator's parameters continually change, equating to movement through five-dimensional hyperspace
- Movement through hyperspace is constrained to a bounding box specified by a home position and permissive range for each parameter
- Graphical envelopes modify the bounding box through the duration of each note
- Within the bounding box, each oscillator follows a rule-based flocking algorithm - a 5D
- equivalent of AI simulations of 2D and 3D animal flocking behaviour
- 3D visualisation of the oscillator's movement through hyperspace, using hue & luminance to represent the other 2 dimensions
- Mouse-clicking the hyperspace visualisation affects the sound by causing oscillators to veer towards or away from the mouse
- Hotkey powered sticky-mouse for moving the cursor in 5 dimensions
- Controllable reseeding to make the algorithm deterministic or non-deterministic
- IIR resonant lowpass filter
- Overdrive
- 101 automatable parameters, controllable through VST automation or fully remappable MIDI control messages
- Collection of preset sounds
- QWERTYUIOP control - SwarmSynth can be played with the computer keyboard
- Anarchy button to randomise current settings
- Context-sensitive help system
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