Heavens*onEarth Cleans up NeigborhoodMay 16, 2010 Oak Park (Sacramento, California) - Heavens*onEarth is contributing to the global effort in improving the environment by devoting extensive time to neighborhood cleanup in its local area. This week, Heavens*onEarth turned the corner on its cleanup campaign with the collection and disposal of more than 400 cubit feet of wrecked car parts, food containers, broken glass, and other waste from curbs, empty house lots, parking lots, and freeway ramps.
"The cleanup campaign has not only improved the appearance and respectability of the neighborhood," said Ernest Meyer, Heavens*onEarth Principal. "Food wrappers, broken beverage containers, and other waste was a breeding place for bacterial contamination, making the streets less safe for children to play and fouling the air. This ongoing effort is making the world a better place for everyone to enjoy."
Heavens*onEarth receives no grant or fiscal compensation for this effort, but hopes neighborhood organizations will continue to support its endeavors. Godel 5, the Arpeggiator Dream, is Here!November 28, 2009 Finally, after seven years, the original dream of a complete polyphonic arpeggiator is ready! And here it is: Godel 5!
This design has a long history. In 2002, I started building custom voice allocators in Reaktor modules, based on computer architectures I discovered while when working for Pentium I designers at Intel. It occurred to me then that voice allocation is similar to CPU cache algorithms, because the voice assignment discards least-recently used notes. In 1998 it seemed perfectly possible to use the voice age as an index into a simulated cache for voices, with the advantage the the voice age would also be available for arpeggiating notes in the order they are played. Why did it take so long to build?
Click to continue... Husserl Reviewed in Sound on SoundJune 20, 2009 The June 2009 issue of Sound on Sound gave Husserl Sapphire Edition a huge thumbs up! The author chose a few snippets to whet your appetite:
"Once in a while, I stumble across a niche product that deserves to be introduced to a wider audience, and Husserl Sapphire Edition definitely falls into this category...There's a lot to take in at first, but it's a tribute to the panel design that I found myself creating memorable results within a few minutes of first launching HSE....HSE moves way beyond the competition with the intermodulation possibilities of its Matrix panel, where one sequence can change the melody of another in a variety of ways, and your mind begins to boggle at the possibilities! With all the modulations available, using just two or three channels can result in complex, evolving melodies that may not repeat themselves for hours, and there's even a Jitter panel where you can apply random variations to each note, to restore the human touch."
The full article is now available on the Sound on Sound site at this link. Husserl is currently $79.99, which also garners you a free subscription to all members of the Husserl family until the end of 2009. This will include a standalone version of the metasequencer which will not require Reaktor. The 'Buy Now' button below connects you to a preconfigured, secure HTTPS server for a simple transaction.
How Husserl Mysteriously Changes its Own MelodyMarch 05, 2009
Perhaps the most unique facet of Husserl is its built-in intermodulation. The design is intuitive and flexible; generally, when you set a modulation, it occurs where you expect. Conversely, if you don’t want a modulation, you can stop it from happening.
Click to continue... | Husserl 1.0 ReleasedJanuary 02, 2010 Heavens*onEarth today released version 1.0 of the Husserl Metasequencer, the most sophisticated, integrated step sequencer available on the planet. Since its initial release last year, Husserl is one of the few Reaktor ensembles to be reviewed in "Sound on Sound" magazine and has garnered worldwide aplomb, as well as support from musicians in such prime-time TV series as "Kings" and "30 Rock." Containing >27,000 modules, Husserl goes beyond most step sequencers in enabling MIDI input and concurrent sequences to trigger and modulate each other in multiple ways. A full crossbar implementation lets the input and output of any combination of sequencers route to internal and external instruments via any combination of MIDI channels. A unified multiview panel provides alternate views, polyphonic clock jitter, trigger and matrix control, controller modulation, bar sequencers, beat generation, permutations, filters, step recording, pitch/velocity/duration/clock modulation, and separate customizable pitch mapping for each of 16 concurrent and fully polyphonic sequencers. Currently Husserl is available for its early release price of $79.99. As of January 6, Husserl will be $94.79. For more information, please see http://heavensonearth.com/Husserl.html. New Electric Synthesizer AvailableOctober 30, 2009
Heavens*onEarth today provides Electric, a new analog-style synthesizer with a huge amount of sound power and modulation possibilities compacted into a clean and apparently simple user interface.
Click to continue... It's a New Gem!March 05, 2009 Since its release on 3/7/09, Husserl Sapphire Edition has met with vibrant delight from subscribers. Many also provided enthusiastic feedback on the documentation. All site visitors may now browse the owner's manual on this site, via this link: Husserl Manual. When you are ready to own the most powerful integrated step sequencer ever built, Heavens*OnEarth provides the Paypal service. Paypal supports Echecks and credit cards even if you are not a Paypal member, and Paypal also processes international orders. Husserl is currently $79.99. This will include a reduced-feature, standalone version of the metasequencer which will not require Reaktor. The link below connects you to a preconfigured, secure HTTPS server for a simple transaction.
Or, if you'd prefer to try out the free ensembles, site registration is free, and you are most welcome to join our little community, and listen and watch for awhile to our heavenly sights and sounds. Enjoy :) About the MetaMusic SeriesNovember 11, 2008 What is the Metamusic Series? ~ The Metamusic instruments, or which Husserl is a premiere example, blends ideas of digital logic with analog audio processing and unique user interfaces to transcend conventional paradigms. This is part of the reason that the instruments are named after philosophers. But Metamusic is far more than that.... Click to continue... |
