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NewsApril 01, 2009 See the expanding menu on the left for local and pangalactic News! Here are some previous press releases for Heavens*onEarth.
HeavensOnEarth Releases Husserl for Reaktor 511th December, 2008 Heavensonearth, a new company "dedicated to providing the utmost flexibility in creating new and unique melodies, timbres, and rhythms", has released Husserl, a new instrument for Reaktor 5. With Husserl it takes a few seconds to make a complex pattern. Draw a pattern in one channel, copy all the controls to another channel, and change a few things. Already a complex sound, because both channels can modulate each other. And there's 16 channels. Either tempo clocks, MIDI notes, or other sequencers can step, gate, and play up to 16 polyphonic step-sequencers simultaneously. Each may only have 16 beats, 16 steps, and 8 repeatable phrases but, as they can modulate each other in real time, they can make any number or complex rhythms, melodies, and polyphonic textures. A pin matrix lets each sequencer receive not only triggers, but also pitch, velocity, and duration modulations from any number of other sequencers. In step and 1-shot modes, MIDI and other sequencers can step, gate, or '1shot' a pattern and phrase. Each sequencer can filter incoming triggers and notes in different ranges. The beat sequencer can skip incoming triggers, and also skip pattern steps, to make complex evolving patterns. Each sequencer has a chord generator, which is also modulated by the other patterns. Pitch mapping keeps all the results melodic. All controls on the panel, or subsets of the controls, can be copy/pasted between sequencers. Pricing & Availability Heavens*OnEarth has announced the release of Sapphire for Native Instruments' Reaktor 520th March, 2009 Sapphire is a polyphonic sequencer with 16 sequencer channels. Each sequencer channel can create overlapping notes, sequences, and chords with pitch, velocity, and note duration set for each step. Each sequencer channel can play in clock, mono/poly step, poly layer, or poly fugue mode. In clock, layer and fugue modes, each sequencer has its own tempo and shuffle settings. Any combination of clock, MIDI channels, and other sequencers can trigger and gate each sequencer. All sequencers can modulate each other's pitch, velocity, and duration. Each sequencer can filter, clip, mirror, transform, and scale pitch and/or velocity (optionally on particular pattern steps) on input triggers and modulations, or on output notes. A note which is triggered on one channel by one sequencer, then modulated by other sequencers, can recursively modulate the trigger and modulation channels, then synchronously output triggered and trigger notes in the same clock cycle. Each pattern sequencer has a dedicated bar sequencer which can change the pattern sequence each bar cycle, with up to 2,048 pattern steps. Each sequencer can trigger automatic snapshot change after a settable number of pattern cycles. Each sequencer can record notes from MIDI and any number of other sequencers, simultaneously playing back the resulting pattern in a different tempo. Each sequencer can output pitch bend, aftertouch, and MIDI controller values with adjustable smoothing rates. Each sequencer supports preset and custom pitch remapping to 38 different scales on output and modulation values. Any sequencer channel can send its notes to any MIDI output. The number of voices and sustain mode is settable for each MIDI output separately. Internally, 32 separate voice allocators support up to 256 voices and 256 modulations in parallel. Four MIDI outputs may also be directed to other instruments inside the Sapphire ensemble. The ensemble also includes 150 demo and tutorial snapshots and 8 user banks, with 2 analog-emulation synthesizers and a multimode synth/sampler drum machine. Dynamic help in a separate instrument includes >70 topics, 18,000 words, 3 interactive pictures, and 24 screenshots. Pricing & Availability |
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