Poll: Any interest in a subscription for Kaleidoscope content?

[Sampleconstruct]

I am just thinking loud here: after spending many, many, many, many hours with 2CAudios Kaleidoscope over the recent months, I am feeling more and more obliged to produce content for it as the possibilities are simply vast - no - endless. Rather than producing single expansions every now and then, this content could be distributed in an annual subscription scheme.

Subscribers would have to have at least 2CAudio's Architecture Vol. 1 expansion installed, as I won't start making 2 gazillion tuning files in major, minor,major7, augmented minor, minor major augmented suspended minor major and whatnot.

But I would provide waveforms for the resonator tuning, images, presets and maybe even input content which works especially well with Kaleidoscope.

So please cast your vote, any interest in such a subscription?

Some videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emlTOHb-QJA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdtOqXaeics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcErn_e6NRc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-bN5hMHqtU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CitQgOiDtYg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tLrAS5y62Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHXJRN2ykOc

All my KS videos are here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 2PxoUbW05k

Here are some of my KS audio tracks and examples other than the ones which Andrew posted on the 2CAudio website.
http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/s ... -fx-tracks

[aMUSEd]

Yes

[Sampleconstruct]

Yes

Ok, poll closed, 100% of the users voted with yes.

[Sampleconstruct]

Btw, I opened a moderated Soundcloud group for Kaleidoscope some days ago, feel free to join and share your KS music/experiments/tracks.

https://soundcloud.com/groups/sounds-of-kaleidoscope

A group for sharing experiments and music produced with Kaleidoscope by 2CAudio. Please don't post tracks which only use KS as a minor component and mention Kaleidoscope in the track description /tags, otherwise your track will get rejected automatically.

[TwoToneshuzz]

Since I have work, which means I don't have a sea of time to experiment with a tool like Kaleidoscope, I would always opt for getting help with sound design duties on complex new interfaces, although I suspect that with Kaleidoscope it is infinitely addictive, I would likely with my relative small brain be soon going around in circles.. You Simon usually strike boldly out into unknown territory and yet don't get lost but almost unreasonably quickly find the pot of gold..

Yes

[Sampleconstruct]

I like the pot of gold analogy - it might seem easy to you sometimes how I do things, but inside me it feels very difficult too. But the challenge to overcome my own intellectual limitations is often a very good motivational force

[TwoToneshuzz]

I like the pot of gold analogy - it might seem easy to you sometimes how I do things, but inside me it feels very difficult too. But the challenge to overcome my own intellectual limitations is often a very good motivational force

I don't mean that it's "easy" in the way that you find the pot of goal without some considerable effort. I mean easy in that within a reasonable time frame you come up with something unique and useful. Whereas I using 10 x the amount of time am still thrashing around in the darkness. This apparent lack of progress on my part is mostly because of holes in my knowledge and experience in the field of "sound design", but also on a more general level my lack of deep understanding of musical instrument acoustics and performance practice is a stumbling block. I'm not making any excuses for my lack of proficiency, but I think it's important for me to understand my weak spots in order to improve upon them or in the case here seek the help of an expert!

[Sampleconstruct]

I am privileged in a respect that I learned and experienced a lot of sonic mayhem and music of all kinds during my childhood, due to my familiar background. Synapses which grow at the age of 6 -12 are there for the rest of your life and my intuitive understanding of certain musical/sonic principles seems to be related to this.

[Sampleconstruct]

4 pros against 3 get losts, hmmm, not happening yet, is it...

[jtenney]

Sorry, Simon, I totally spaced on this! You know I'm a KS fanboy (albeit an aging one...) so if it's not too late please allow me to put in a heartily enthusiastic YES regarding annual KS content. And, regarding your family background and growing synapses: Sonic mayhem is good at ANY damned age!!

[Sampleconstruct]

Sorry, Simon, I totally spaced on this! You know I'm a KS fanboy (albeit an aging one...) so if it's not too late please allow me to put in a heartily enthusiastic YES regarding annual KS content. And, regarding your family background and growing synapses: Sonic mayhem is good at ANY damned age!!

LOL, thank's John. I already decided to offer a subscription service, no matter what the outcome of this poll would have been, I just created so many images and presets already, it would be silly not to share them.
So within the next weeks I am planning to launch this, I am still waiting for some help from the devs though concerning the packaging of assets needed for the presets, installing everything manually with each new subscription set would be a total PITA.

[jtenney]

Maybe not such a PITA for people who already know what goes where... I dunno... It seems like the KS "crowd" has largely RTFM, and has at least a basic idea of how it works/fits together. So will you be including all kinds of assets you have created with other apps, like images and waveforms, but maybe not actual sound files since it doesn't look like you can "containerize" them like in Kontakt, Iris etc.?

[Sampleconstruct]

Maybe not such a PITA for people who already know what goes where... I dunno... It seems like the KS "crowd" has largely RTFM, and has at least a basic idea of how it works/fits together. So will you be including all kinds of assets you have created with other apps, like images and waveforms, but maybe not actual sound files since it doesn't look like you can "containerize" them like in Kontakt, Iris etc.?

If Andrew doesn't provide me with something (he said he would but he seems so busy...) to compile the assets (images, tuning files, waveforms in their respective folders with the correct paths embedded in the presets) then I will go the clumsy/manual installment route. I might also include some audio files which work well to excite the resonators (I try to stay away from the white noise generator inside KS these days, as everything sounds similar when using it), but I don't think I'll provide soundscapes made with Kaleidoscope.

[jtenney]

Another possible plus to having the assets manually is that it might encourage mixing-and-matching, with the experimentation and possible new directions that can come from that. In other words, maybe there isn't really a need for "correct" paths... More like saying, "hey, here's some cool building blocks, now go build your own house/skyscraper/universe..."

[Sampleconstruct]

Another possible plus to having the assets manually is that it might encourage mixing-and-matching, with the experimentation and possible new directions that can come from that. In other words, maybe there isn't really a need for "correct" paths... More like saying, "hey, here's some cool building blocks, now go build your own house/skyscraper/universe..."

True, but if I supply presets, I would like them to work without those "missing whatever"- warning messages in KS.