KVR Audio

pckvr · Post by **pckvr** » Thu May 26, 2011 7:16 am

Hi kvr-ists,

Mixtikl 3 is out today!

Versions for iOS (iPad/iPod/iPhone)...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mixtikl- ... 09277?mt=8

... and Mac (app/VSTi/AU) and Windows (app/VSTi)

http://www.intermorphic.com/tools/mixtikl

Major improvements all-round, including fully real-time-designable modular synth sounds and what have you. Oh, and it is a free upgrade for existing users.

Small poster of some of the screens:

Big version of the poster: http://www.intermorphic.com/images/home ... terBig.jpg

Best to all,

Pete

~Pd~ · Post by **~Pd~** » Fri May 27, 2011 12:32 am

It's pretty damned impressive. Someday I'll figure out how to use it!

pckvr · Post by **pckvr** » Fri May 27, 2011 7:55 am

~Pd~ wrote:It's pretty damned impressive. Someday I'll figure out how to use it!

Many thanks!

We're starting to post video tutorials to YouTube... ... I hope these will help!

Pete

manducator · Post by **manducator** » Fri May 27, 2011 9:29 am

Hello,

Here's an honest question; I'm a very satisfied noatikl user. Is it useful for me to buy mixtikl? I'm only using it on pc, no need for portable iphone stuff.

Can mixtikl be an good addition to noatikl?

pckvr · Post by **pckvr** » Fri May 27, 2011 11:02 am

Hi!

That is a good question. Clearly, I'll answer with some bias, but you know I wrote them both, so at least you'll know that influences my answer.

Whether or not it would appeal, depends on to what end you're using Noatikl; and to what end you'd *like* to use Noatikl.

Mixtikl of course *includes* a Noatikl music engine. But it adds a lot to the Noatikl party. It lets you work more quickly with generative music, by focusing on higher-level issues, without focusing as much on the process of setting-up generative rules. And Mixtikl is about generating sounds, so includes its own sound generators - whereas Noatikl is a pure MIDI engine that you use to attach to your own sound sources (e.g. to VSTi synths in your desktop workstation).

In Mixtikl, you're taking pre-authored Noatikl content that has pre-attached sounds (and maybe audio loops!), tweaking sound FX in real-time, and throwing them all together into a generative melting pot. Mixtikl's version of the Noatikl engine combines the composition process for all ongoing internal Noatikl pieces, to give a single unified generative output stream - an *audio* stream - where everything "just works".

There is so much content in Mixtikl that you can spent a very, very long time simply using pre-build content/fx and hanging various items together - generally having a blast.

Of course, you can also pull-in your *own* Noatikl content, attach sounds (using Noatikl's built-in Partikl synth), and have a blast mixing-up your own custom Noatikl content with the pre-built content we provide in Mixtikl.

So, Mixtikl gives great results very fast, and is aimed at being a high-level generative authoring tool that gives instant results, with big impact, and great flexibility, where the built-in timbre manipulation and FX engine is all just there and ready to use. The built-in sounds & FX in Mixtikl are very good, and very flexible, but of course they are not anywhere near as powerful as the many, many excellent VSTs and Audio Units that are available e.g. to Logic or Cubase, however!

Noatikl instead is a pure MIDI engine, where you focus on the generative rules themselves. The process requires you to configure Noatikl to interact with the various top-end synthesizers that you have in your desktop music workstation.

You can also use Mixtikl to create audio recordings, that you can pull-in to your wavetable synth in your workstation, and then have Noatikl drive...

So in the end, Mixtikl and Noatikl are both different ways of looking at similar problems. The Mixtikl demo is free - do please give it a go and see what you think!

Best wishes,

Pete

manducator · Post by **manducator** » Fri May 27, 2011 5:20 pm

Wow, what a great answer, Pete.

I have done some ambient songs with noatikl and some various synths (Sylenth1, Dune, Loomer Aspect,...) and I really enjoyed it.

I gonna test the demo of Mixtikl for sure but I'm really happy with the answer you gave as a starting point of what to expect.

Thanks again,
manducator

Francisco Cepero · Post by **Francisco Cepero** » Fri May 27, 2011 11:58 pm

Just to let you know that I'm interested... and a good price too. VST plug-in on PC. This is the kind of stuff I dreamed of when I was a teenager, LOL. Nice work

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Sat May 28, 2011 11:33 pm

Very interesting software. I purchased it for my iPhone and am having a blast with the sonics!

However, having said that.. the user interface is HORRIBLE. By far the worst interface I have ever seen on iOS. Very cumbersome, horrible graphics and incredibly silly design decisions.

For sound and general audio possibilities I'd give the app 4 out of 5 stars (1 star lacking for the horrible general midi instrument quality) but because of the atrocious UI the overall score must be 2/5, barely. It is simply so incredibly off-putting that it's a real commitment to start the application. Especially in this day and age of very polished music apps on the iOS system.

NOTE that I am NOT only talking about graphics but rather the interface in general. There are TONS of superfluous buttons and menus. It could very easily be streamlined and have much more drag&drop / touch interaction without losing any features at all.

Can not recommend it at all at this point.

- bManic

Mixtikl 3 - out today!