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Husserl Sapphire

March 01, 2009

Announcing Husserl Sapphire Edition

HeavensOnEarth is pleased to present a new gem in the metamusic line: Husserl Sapphire Edition! The following screeshot shows just the A panel of the main metasequencer; there are more controls on the B panel, as well as additional demo instruments in the ensemble.

sapphire Main Screen (Click image for bigger view)

What is Sapphire? Built as a Reaktor 5.0 ensemble, Sapphire provides the most powerful step sequencing abilities available in a unified instrument. It provides all the sophistication of a modular tool, but you don't need to build your own custom modular setups; the modularity is already built into it! With just a few clicks, all its sequencers can trigger and change each other. And MIDI can also change and trigger all the sequencers in many different ways. Yet even with all its complexity, creating music with Husserl is as simple as it could be.

Obtaining Husserl

A production version of Husserl will be $199, and will be a standalone product not requiring Reaktor. Reaktor users can purchase an advance version of Husserl implemented as a Reaktor instrument for $79.99. Customers are entitled to free upgrades and requests for new features. Payment is accepted via Paypal.  Just click the button below to see how it works.

New features

• Expanded Snapshot Library - More than a 100 demo snaps, fully documented, and each showing a different way to create your own unique music.
• Advanced Snap Handling - Keep 1000s of snaps in multiple, menu-selected banks. Build songs with a few clicks via a simple yet powerful snap changer; playing notes can clip or sustain across snap changes.
• Note Transformations - Clip, filter, wrap, mirror, transform, and shape pitch and/or velocity with curves.
• New Modulation Matrix Panel - View and change all matrix pins at once.
• Advanced Jitter Controls - Realistic note and chord rendering.
• Hard Clock Sync - Trigger notes instantaneously from MIDI and let them multiply across the matrix in real time, or set them to inherit precise tempo and perfect pattern coherence from new modulo-based counter/divider options. Any master note can create slave notes on any other sequencer channel in perfect synchronized songpos-based timing. Both the master and slave notes can change each other, before the note outputs route to any combination of MIDI channels and Reaktor instruments.
• Additional Step Mode Options - New pitch, Velocity, and transport controls in step modes.
• Universal Undo and Hardwired Defaults - Replicate sequencer channels and patterns with confidence. Copy a pattern to another channel and change it with a few clicks. Interconnect, mix, and split your favorite clips across multiple channels in different snapshot chains.
• Display Enhancements - Simpler, faster, and more comprehensive user interface.
• New Direction Modes - Flip patterns and bars around with ease.
• Comprehensive Documentation - To wet your appetite you can browse the online manual. And after you register, you can download the entire owner's manual.

Comments

admin2 SAdministrator Friday, June 19, 2009 Well, the home-page soundtrack is a Husserl piece. In a way it’s a difficult question, it’s like asking what Ableton Live or Cubase sounds like--Sure, they have some soundmaking synths, as does Husserl, but the real point is musical creation. So the answer is more along the lines of screencast tutorials that show how Husserl works. I have been working on them, but I don’t have any prior experience in video production--I’m embarrassed about the low quality of the video, the lack of pretty crossfades, etc, so I am still practicing it. Maybe I should just abandon trying to make something too fancy, but I haven’t given up hope yet! I had no idea there was an article in Future Music. Should this be the June issue of Sound on Sound?

merlinn Friday, June 19, 2009 Hi, I'm new to your site as I just read about Husserl Sapphire in Future Music magazine recently. Is there any way to hear what Husserl Sapphire does on the website? It sounds like a very interesting and exciting piece of music software. Thank you.

ernest Sunday, May 17, 2009 Reaktor is a host application which can run as a VST too. See http://native-instruments.com for more information, or post questions in the forum here.

Anonymous Saturday, May 16, 2009 If then the Stand-alone is for Reaktor, and it is suggested that it can run in Cubase, does that mean it is also an VST plugin ? Or is Reaktor some form of VST pluging and you still need it to run Husserl. I do not own Reaktor - can I use Husserl with Cubase ? Mike.

ernest re: standalone Saturday, May 16, 2009 standalone mode is not cut down, but it is for Reaktor. It refers to the ability to run Reaktor standalone, as a Windows or Mac OS application, as well as a plugin in Cubase, Logic, etc.

Mike Saturday, May 16, 2009 I am not a Reaktor user. Is the Stand Alone version a cut-down version of that for Reaktor ? Mike.

admin2 SAdministrator Monday, March 23, 2009 Yes, one of Husserl's main strengths is in creating chord sequences that can evolve in unique ways. I'm hoping to complete a suite of screencast demos this week.

euster Monday, March 23, 2009 Hi I am really intrigued by this instrument, but would realy appreciate a few more audio demos to give an idea of what it can do. For example, i'd like to know what husserl can do with chord sequences,can they be recorded/programed in, then manipulated and evolved using the modulation parameters. Is husserl suiteble for many different types of music, or just experimental noodley ambient pieces. This could be just the tool im looking for, or just another unused reaktor ensemble to go along with the other 200 on my hard drive. Awaiting clarification all the best.

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