KVR Audio

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:42 pm

BTW, this is the first use of KS in film:

https://soundcloud.com/andrew_souter/wa ... leidoscope

I did this in 2013, and ambient music legend Robert Rich asked me to use it in a film he was music director and lead composer for. And we ended up making a collaborative version of it. (this piece uses many other things too, not just KS... as would be the expected norm in real world use... KS did't play the piano here, etc.

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The first use of KS in a game was Dead Rising 3, which I helped Sonic Mayhem with.

Richard Devine has told me he is having great success with it in a game he is working on right now. BT has told me he is using it in a film he is scoring right now....

So i'm not exactly making this stuff up when I say I fully expect KS to be used extensively in film, television, games, electronic music, etc.

welldone · Post by **welldone** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:43 pm

I earlier reported that the 1.01 version of Kaleidoscope was performing worse on my system than 1.00. Also due to the assistance of Andrew in this thread- thanks - I can now very happily report that I get an acceptable performance with the following system specs:

Intel i5 M540 @ 2.53 Ghz
Windows 7 64-bit
Cubase 5.5 32-bit
Focusrite 18i8 soundcard

With 1.00 of Kaleidoscope the performance with the Focusrite Interface was not too well, so I used another interface. Changing back to the Focusrite at max buffer settings and a Kaleidoscope-buffer of 1024 samples did the trick! Kaleidoscope now works quite fine in realtime mode even on this quite antique system that is clearly below the recommended specs!

Kaleidoscope is really an unique world for sound-design and I'm absolutely hooked. Right now, I'm working on a soundtrack for a performance with myths. The dark texts in the performance really come to life with Kaleidoscope!

Before I press the "Buy" button: What is the best way to purchase Kaleidoscope, if I want a Hazarai-bundle (Everything 2C) including The Perfect Storm?

lnikj · Post by **lnikj** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:45 pm

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:48 pm

welldone wrote: Before I press the "Buy" button: What is the best way to purchase Kaleidoscope, if I want a Hazarai-bundle (Everything 2C) including The Perfect Storm?

Send me an email. We will see what we can do.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:50 pm

lnikj wrote:

Import that into KS and see how it sounds with an augmented tuning!

jtenney · Post by **jtenney** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:54 pm

lnikj wrote:

Yup. Heeeere we go again...

jeremydb · Post by **jeremydb** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:37 pm

https://soundcloud.com/jeremy-bernstein-5/blep

Just some horsing around, but a little different from the "signature sound".

jb

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 1:52 am

I'm looking forward to checking out that long list of examples when I'm not writing from my phone.

In response to a few comments:

I have been testing mostly with my own sound sources and not as much with white noise. I'm well aware of how the input influences the output.

I think Simon really did put it best: it is what it is. Everything sounds like it was run through a big bank of resonators, because that's what is happening. I totally get that there is a lot of variety to be had within those constraints. My personality is such that I immediately try to understand the boundaries of the system. It sounds like a big bank of resonators with some interesting tricks up its sleeve and a lot of room to explore. I'm merely questioning whether, for myself, that is worth the price being asked. And for me, I'm right on the tipping point between yes and no. That decision is further complicated by the fact that I've already bought a ton of new stuff inn the past few months, and I have some other expenses coming up, so I need to be a little more cautious than I otherwise might be. But if I'm ever going to buy this, I have to do it while the intro pricing is still available.

I'll check out those demos as soon as possible.

GW · Post by GW » Wed Feb 11, 2015 3:01 am

I've read the manual and this thread. I'm the type of person who has to try and understand things conceptually to use them. I think I get the images and how the resonators work but I'm still not getting the tuning part. What does the red plot line represent? Is it a wave centered around one frequency? The shape determines the harmonics?
Is your tuning table system like Scala in that the root of all scales is the standard tuning for "C" (in A 440)?

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 3:58 am

Processing an orchestral snippet - recorded backstage during a rehearsal, processed and imported into Kontakt for laying out several octaves - with Kaleidoscope; Molekular and ÜberMod on 2 separate busses add some warp.

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/k ... ral-plane2

I for one can't get enough of these resonating textures...

Phorous · Post by **Phorous** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 5:16 am

Managed to make a very lush sounding pitch sweeping preset and recorded a video tweaking some various settings with it. Gives me the chills around 1:48

Microtonal scales sound quite lovely

Here is the preset if you want it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wykh4m8g55xfu ... d.2ca?dl=0

TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 5:19 am

Sampleconstruct wrote:Processing an orchestral snippet - recorded backstage during a rehearsal, processed and imported into Kontakt for laying out several octaves - with Kaleidoscope; Molekular and ÜberMod on 2 separate busses add some warp.

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/k ... ral-plane2

I for one can't get enough of these resonating textures...

Nor can I! I notice a large contribution to the library of Sound Designer presets.. so I'd like to thank you Simon for your hard work showing what can be done with Kaleidoscope! THANK Thankiy you, yeuw Thanks he who thinks and listens astute to his Muses, Thankily ho ho ho and merry good cheer the year round Thanks in the high and low thin and thick....

Thanks, and btw, thank er what was where was when was oh ya better say thanks to Andrew and Denis too!! Great Work on Kaleidoscope! Amazing Work, Astonishingly, Brilliant, well just good job, that's the ticket! Jolly good show and all that!

Valery_Kondakoff · Post by **Valery_Kondakoff** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 6:08 am

jeremydb wrote:I'm using Max and Jitter to algorithmically generate shape fields, having pretty interesting results so far, mostly just experimenting with quads and lines so far...

jeremydb:

Can you, please, share several examples of Max/Jitter patchers which are generating images for KS? I'm Max user as well, but never dived deep into Jitter until now. Maybe it is time for me to learn something new?
Thank you in advance!

jeremydb · Post by **jeremydb** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 8:45 am

Valery_Kondakoff wrote:
jeremydb wrote:I'm using Max and Jitter to algorithmically generate shape fields, having pretty interesting results so far, mostly just experimenting with quads and lines so far...
jeremydb:

Can you, please, share several examples of Max/Jitter patchers which are generating images for KS? I'm Max user as well, but never dived deep into Jitter until now. Maybe it is time for me to learn something new?
Thank you in advance!

I'm doing pretty much everything in JavaScript and generating raw opengl commands for jit.gl.sketch to draw the graphics. So there's not much to see in the Max patcher, in fact, just some number boxes and messages like "regularity $1" and "similarity $1" to influence parts of the drawing process. I'm not ready to publish my JS file yet (first, it's too hacked together and embarrassing; second, it's not done and I'm still trying some stuff out; third, it's not general, it's making geometries which I find interesting and doesn't have ways to make lots of different drawings for different purposes).

But I've attached a reasonably simple Max patcher which generates some very rudimentary pics using jit.gl.sketch. There might be better ways to do this (jit.gl.multiple would be one way of spawning -- click the toggle next to that object to see what that does), but this is how I'm working so far... This sort of iterative drawing is much easier to do in a procedural language like JS once you want to do anything even a little fancy, though.

Hope this helps a little bit!

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Valery_Kondakoff · Post by **Valery_Kondakoff** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:31 am

Thank you, jeremydb!

Your patch is working well. This is pretty enough for me to get started!..

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