sonicLAB Instrument
CREATION V2
How does a Big Bang sound?
Designed & programmed by Sinan Bokesoy.
Preset sound designs by Laurent Mialon.
First release 01/2023.
V2 pushes Creation to the next level.
Like sonicPlanet Protean, Creation now drives both multi-core CPU threads and GPU compute shaders, for an unparalleled realtime performance.
Engine
- 999 simultaneous sounding objects on a MacBook Pro M4 is easy.
- Up to 400 simultaneous objects on Ryzen 3.
- Dynamic voice allocation — voices follow the most audible objects in the swarm, so scenes can grow far beyond the voice count without losing the sounds that matter.
DSP
- True anti-aliased wavetable oscillator — an 11-level band-limited mip pyramid, built by harmonic analysis at load, keeps every note free of aliasing across the entire pitch range.
- Cubic (Catmull-Rom) interpolation throughout the wavetable oscillator and the granular engine — greater clarity and harmonic detail in the top octaves, most audible on sustained low notes with bright tables.
- Band-limited granular transposition — a four-level mip pyramid keeps upward pitch-shifted grains clean, so extreme transpositions stay musical.
- Reworked distance model — object distance and stereo width are now independent controls, for a far more convincing sense of depth.
- Updated resonant filter, with automatic loudness compensation as the band narrows.
3D Spatial Audio
- 32-bit float, 48 kHz stereo WAV export.
- 3rd-order Ambisonic export — 16 channels, AmbiX format. Download example files ↓
Non-realtime Disk Recording
- Creation V2 addresses up to 9999 objects.
- The new non-realtime disk recording captures audio and video in full detail, sample-locked, however long each frame takes to render.
- CreationRemote updated to match.
Imagine Einstein & Ligeti
Collaborating on a Musical App
Creation is an advanced sound design tool giving the user the principal dynamics of your universe. The user gains the architect's role by creating dialogues in a 3D simulation scene based on gravitational interaction.
A force which is responsible of the macro-formal evolution of our universe.
Creation calculates the gravitational interaction between up to 999 objects and 5 masses and renders the cumulative sound from this dynamically evolving space data.
We can bend the physics of the nature, change the constants in the gravitational force formula and therefore the relation of the masses. We can even introduce a negative force, rather than only a positive one.
Each object itself represents an oscillator with a rich sound synthesis engine and unique modulation capabilities.
From Space Objects
to Sonic Structures
- Think in 3D 3D representation and real-life simulation of a dynamic scene. Sound synthesis is a result of a causal and visual narrative in a 3D space.
- Sonic Texture Architecture Simulating the principal physics which forms our universe, the gravitational interaction of its elements and rendering the sonic structure all together.
- Sound in Motion Remembering Einstein's famous quote. Here the sound has no separate existence from space, time and matter (gravity).
- Space Objects as Oscillators Each gravitational object becomes a sonic oscillator with rich sound design and modulation capabilities. It offers the masses and objects interaction as a unique paradigm in sound synthesis.
- Scene Transitions Capture different scene organizations and animate continuous sequences / transformations between them. Shift continuously incredible amount of data for sonic rendering.
Sound Design Meets
Visual Design
- Visual Design Realistic 3D visual for a perfect narrative medium. GPU utilization for fast dynamic motion calculation with precision, and the sound is the result of this interaction.
- Remote Control Full control of app parameters with CreationRemote VST/AU within your DAW. Also full OSC remote control.
- Presets It comes with 30 meticulously designed presets exemplifying a true audio-visual art.
Creation
Remote Control
CreationRemote is a VST3/AU plugin which lets you remotely control the Creation application inside your DAW. Use your DAW's facilities for drawing your plugin automation or assign MIDI controls at your will.
Creation is for everyone who is passionate to create and experiment.
System
Requirements
Creation is available for OSX and Windows as a standalone application with CreationRemote VST3/AU plugin.
For OSX: A minimum Apple M1 (Monterey or higher) or equivalent.
For Windows: 10th Gen i5 or higher, Ryzen5 4500 or higher is recommended.
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