Isotonik Studios have released Songbird, a MaxForLive audio instrument featuring a simulation of a flock of birds, available for £15.00.
Each bird havls its own model of a syrinx (a bird vocal organ) as well as a model of a simple birdbrain that controls the syrinx to create different syllables. Each bird’s position, speed, angle, etc in the flock can be mapped to various parameters as modulation sources.This device yields anything from textures, drones, rhythms, harsh/haunting/noisy/pretty tones, generative soundscapes, odd melodies, and of course different sounding bird calls!
Features include:
- A boids or flocking simulation with up to 32 birds with several parameters:
- Rate, alignment, grouping, separation, sight radius, and force strength
- Option to visualize sight radiuses
- Randomize flock function
- Save flock state function and a function to revert to saved state on transport start
- Various parameters that are able to be mapped to several qualities of the flock for modulation:
- Index spread, X position, Y position, Angle, Speed, Proximity to neighbor, Density of neighbors, Birds in sight, Brain modulations,
- Random spray
- Several parameters for the bird brain model which create syllables (envelopes)
- Several parameters for the syllable qualities
- Parameters for making phrases or songs from the syllables
- Wavefold, FM and AM options
- Simple reverb parameters
Songbird requires Ableton Live 10 / 11 Suite or Ableton Live 10 / 11 Standard with MaxforLive installed.
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