Fundamental 4
sonicLAB presents the root of electronic music brought into the now with immense computing power.
Available as VST3, AU, standalone.
Fundamental is designed and programmed by Sinan Bökesoy.
first release 06/2020
sonicLAB presents the root of electronic music brought into the now with immense computing power.
Available as VST3, AU, standalone.
Fundamental is designed and programmed by Sinan Bökesoy.
first release 06/2020
In a pioneering move, sonicLAB has embedded accessible AI Large Language Model ( LLM ) into Fundamental 4, allowing for control over synthesis parameters through natural language.
By using natural language prompts, the AI LLM can translate and unlock the ability to compose sonic gestures that go beyond manual control.
It can create sonic details so precise they would be impractical to build by hand or with detailed DAW automation.
Fundamental 4 shifts your role from a parameter programmer to a system designer. It offers bridging the gap between creative intent and technical execution.
Instead of thinking “what value should this knob have ?” , you are thinking “what makes the structure of the sonic universe ?“. This is a fundamentally creative and high-level approach to sound design.
With Fundamental 4 you can control the synthesis engine based on imagination, physics, and methapor rather than just numbers.
Fundamental 4 offers the standard features of the Fundamental 3 revised and better optimised. You will require a purchased license for running the Fundamental 4.
The AI LLM features on Fundamental 4 are offered with Pay-As-You-Go system. No monthly payments, no subscriptions.
You can purchase a pack of tokens which do never expire on your account. It costs just 3USD and will give you access to 150 – 200 AI prompt requests. A new purchase of Fundamental4 license includes a pack of tokens which you can activate.
You only pay for what you actually use. Fundamental 4 remains fully functional with or without the LLM.
Caution : Fundamental 4 uses a cloud based AI API service, therefore a stable internet connection is needed to operate the AI.
– a built-in AI Large Language Model interface with token based Pay-as-you-go system. No subscriptions.
– Prompt the AI with direct, emergent or abstact definitions and the generative AI will apply its interpretation to the Fundamental synthesis engine.
– You can save the AI prompt and its interpretation along with presets.
– Improvements made on the user interface, easier manual frequency assignment and added graphical components.
– Fundamental 4 will work with a Fundamental 3 license.
Fundamental3 welcomes a built-in stochastic sequencer driving all its oscillators as sequencer events with sample accuracy.
A stochastic sequencer calculates its event with probabilistic functions to decide their onset time and durations to distribute them on the sequence time lime.
Also the sequence length can be changed with probabilistic means after each cycle.
On Fundamental3 one can deterministically distribute the events as well, multiply the durations / compress or expand the sequence distribution.
One can select and edit the duration and onset time of each event, freeze the current distribution, and quantize the onset and duration values just like on a DAW.
Fundamental3 offers oscillator cloning, where each oscillator
has a unique clone with custom detuning and unique GEN modulators.
Fundamental3 offers additional set of envelopes which are applied on sequence event apart from the ones on the oscillator gain level mixer.
Fundamental is a sound synthesis tool combining different roots of electronic music history. Fundamental wave engine is a faithful recreation of a vintage Rohde&Schwartz vacuum tube oscillator ( having been widely used at WDR by Stockhausen )
Fundamental leaves behind the limitiations of the original device with a genuine instrument design by proposing effective modulation possibilities, stochastic distributions addressing the sonic parameters like frequency, gain, panning etc. in continuum, which has not been applicable until now.
Fundamental feels like something Stockhausen, Xenakis and HAL 9000 might have dreamt up after a bender; recalling the past of electronic music through a dynamic modern interpretation of massive german vacuum oscillator.
A test equipment sound is not pure technically. The gain stage has a vacuum tube also the frequencies below 60hz do sound anything but a sine wave. All these are the signature of a vintage sonic richness.
The core idea here is was basically recreating an instrument with a test tone equipment sound in software form but with the approach and design which sonicLAB has followed on its previous products.
The initial concept is based actually on sonicLAB PaSSBot.
Fundamental is available for OSX , Windows and iOS platforms as VST3, AU, standalone and AUv3 formats.
All sonicLAB products are 64bit only.
Recommended system : OSX Catalina or higher , Windows10 or higher.
Apple Silicon M1 1st gen. equivalent or better.
