I have been playing with Scapes Wizard for 30 minuts now and have to stop because of ... "Finally ScapesWizard is out and even at a special X-Mas deal with 50% off!
ScapesWizard is a machine for soundscapes with very different control concept by triggering different samples via keyboard, or, using LazyPlay play a pool of waves in sequence or at random driven by inbuilt clock or triggered by keyboard.to advance manually.
There are three different soundengines: Slow Motion Scapes (Osc 1&2), OneShots and Loops (Osc 3), and Space Rumble Background Noise. Each engine has got some dedicated soundmodifiers partly with special controls. But the most important feature is you can trigger i.e. switch samples with a dedicated tune setting via keyboard (with velocity) which is ideal for live interaction too!
Basically you have a keyboard split to trigger a sample of Osc 1 & Osc 2 (alternating or Osc 1 only) from C2 to B3 (left side) and Osc 3 from C4 to B5 (right side). So simply give a key a short push and the resp. sample will play until it's changed by pushing another key. For Osc 3 looped sampled can be faded out by giving key C6 a short push, and even you can retrigger it via key F6.
You got 2 x 24 samples (= 2 x 2 octaves) in direct access via keyboard. To each keyrange (from C2 to B3 and C4 to B5) a different waveset out of 5 can be assigned. This makes the plugin suited very well for usage with trigger pad controllers. Also for live interaction pitchwheel can be used for Osc1 & Osc2 with a range of +1/-1 octave and for Osc 3 the same for Modwheel.
The basic usage is intended to have a setting 'in motion' and then play different samples and maybe with occasional tweaking of some knobs. Although there seem to be very few control elements most of these have a double function: left side is setting a dedicated value while right side adjusts modulation amount. Note those knobs with a marker at top/mid.
there is a little demo video (it's quite early thus featuring old, temp. name) but it gives quite an impression what ScapesWizard does.
2nd video:
Or, try out yourself with the demo or the mini (special X-Mas freebie)
http://www.hgf-synthesizer.de/se/dl/prdl.html
have fun
HG
