Trilobite

Trilobite 1.3 Pro Edition is a soft synth and effect for Mac OS X and Windows which lets you use Darwinian Evolution to create new modular synthesis audio patches.

This is both a commercial and freeware application/plugin package that anyone can download from: www.darwinarts.com

Trilobite 1.3 is a Modular Synthesizer application and plugin which features full visual patch editing, extensive parametric control, and an innovative patch breeding system to carry your creativity into hitherto unexplored territory! Using the same natural phenomena that brought you jellyfish, slime molds, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and yourself, this synth exploits Darwinian Natural Selection to help you create radically bizarre new sounds from basic acoustic building blocks. Trilobite's visual editor gives you the tools you need to create drones, soundscapes, keyboard instruments, effects...you name it! Once you have an appealing patch, you can go on to evolve thousands of mutated possibilities.

This particular version of Trilobite introduces parameter naming features, two new module types, and several important bug fixes. Both the Pro and Free versions now include a Signal Smoother module useful for portamento effects, and the Pro version introduces an A/B Gate module which can be used for vector synthesis. Since our last posting on KVR we've also added Sample Hold features, sequencers, and the Sound Color vocal filter/synthesizer module along with a bank of patches to demonstrate it.

Find out more details in the product release notes and online user guide.