Slate and Ash Choreographs [KONTAKT]

• Writer: Slate and Ash & Group DECiBEL
• Product: Choreographs
• Necessities: Kontakt 6.7.1 or greater

A malleable, open system of interconnecting alerts, pulses, and patterns, CHOREOGRAPHS explores the precept of designing sound by sequences of motion. It’s a map of perpetual animation, the place dynamic types dance in area, form, and time.

PATTERNS OF CREATION
With over 150 individually modulatable controls scattered all through its sign path, CHOREOGRAPHS has motion at its beating coronary heart. Three sample-based oscillators feed right into a refined structure of distinctive musical units to kind a sound design atmosphere that begins as a polyphonic synthesiser, however augments right into a drum machine, drag-and-drop sampler, or granular processor. Motion is injected virtually wherever by deciding on from a broad vary of modulators together with complicated LFOs, MIDI CC, fluctuating random alerts, and extremely versatile step-modulators.

BODIES IN TIME AND SPACE
Like a choreography, a synthesis system is a map of movement, a blueprint of shifting elements. CHOREOGRAPHS is an exploration of this concept; an instrument the place motion finds its personal sonic expression. Because the choreographer plots out the actions to be carried out, CHOREOGRAPHS units the parameters for the efficiency to emerge. It’s the assembly of the composition and the efficiency: half-spontaneous, half-designed.

AN ASSEMBLY OF WAVES
CHOREOGRAPHS is comprised of a big assortment of expertly sampled analogue, digital, and modular synthesisers, drum machines, acoustic devices, and noise sources. Over 400 pattern sources cowl all the pieces from the heat of prized analogue classics to the plucks and bursts of modular oscillators; the bell-like twinkles of bodily modelled supplies to the rompler-like mix of acoustic samples. Included is also a financial institution of attribute noise layers – crackling static, buzzing amplifiers, fumbled material, scraped membranes, distant chook calls – that layer collectively to interrupt down generic synth sounds into half-erased, dusty textures.

SONIC CONSTELLATIONS
The CHOREOGRAPHS preset library accommodates over 650 patches, every of which may be picked aside inside the engine. Something from churning, tangled arpeggios to heavy drones dripping in reverb; buckling swirls of deep bass to cross stitched rhythms of sharp percussion; beastly, cinematic gestures to round pulses filled with kinetic repetition; and angular polyrhythms that twist and flip at will, untethered from the standard four-bar grid.

HARMONIC GEOMETRY
Central to CHOREOGRAPHS is the power to complexly modulate pitch. As in modular synthesis, the pitch of a voice may be indifferent from the triggering of its envelope. This blows large open an entire new methodology of harmonic sequencing – pitches are constantly and instantaneously up to date, permitting for intricately plotted sequences, LFO pushed melodies, and uniquely fragmented polyrhythms. All the pieces feeds right into a scale quantiser, intelligently pulling pitches into line, turning chaos into concord.

CIRCLES IN TIME
The Euclidean sequencer in CHOREOGRAPHS spawns summary sequences primarily based on geometric divisions and mathematical symmetry. 4 lanes of rotating round triggers play in opposition to one another, carving out overlapping polyrhythms with a singular gravitational pull. Every lane sits in its personal orbit, creating evolving harmonic progressions, phasing counterpoints, and angular percussive constructions.

CURATE + CREATE
CHOREOGRAPHS is as a lot a sampler as it’s a synthesiser. Samples are loaded into the engine by merely dropping them into any of the three voice slots. As soon as loaded, a myriad of voice shaping parameters can chop them into form. In addition to ranging from scratch, dragging a customized pattern into any of the 600+ preset patches is an instantaneous method to get one thing novel out of it. Customized impulse responses can be loaded by dragging them onto the convolution impact slot, permitting for an infinity of areas.

TECHNICAL DETAILS
Kontakt or Kontakt 6.7.1 or greater
Intel Macs (i5 or greater): macOS 10.15, 11 or 12 (newest replace); Apple Silicon Macs: macOS 11 or 12 (newest replace); Home windows 10 or 11, Intel Core i5 or equal CPU
22GB download
8,387 samples
661 engine preset patches
427 pattern sources
122 curated engine states