Description
Creating Beauty Out of Disorder and Randomness
Anarchia combines rhythmically unpredictable performances with long samples and multiple playheads for an immersive, texturally intricate experience.
User Interface
Anarchia's clean home screen features sound source menus for each of the two layers, waveform displays as well as A/B balance control, master dynamics and navigation controls.
CONCEPT
Anarchia is based on long, rhythmically aleatoric performances across a few different categories/articulations.
The articulations are designed to capitalise on a range of different textural qualities - from very soft and minimal (intermitted simple repeated notes in one pitch) via more elaborate (octaves) to detailed, noisy (scratches, buzzing piano, woodwind/brass flutters).
Because the timing of the sampled performances is aleatoric/unpredictable, their textural aspects layer up in a very pleasing, organic way.
Rhythmic unpredictability - key to the Anarchia concept
Choose between 1 and 12 voices per layer
MAKE YOUR OWN ENSEMBLE
The engine allows for up to 12 different playheads per layer, starting at random positions in the performances.
The simultaneous playback of different parts of the samples layered together achieves an immersive quality full of sonic detail and intricate sub-textures. The randomness crosses over a threshold to become pleasing complexity and fullness, and is the basis of lush evolving pads, pulses, evolutions and sound design presets.
The stereo width of the additional voices can be adjusted for each layer separately, allowing for a full stereo field or a narrow perspective, depending on preference.
The overall effect is to create layered, ensemble-like textures with varying density and timing.
SOUND SOURCES
The sample recordings stem from sessions with select instruments from four groups: PIANO (Upright), GUITARS (Vi Bass, Lap Steel), WOODWIND (Irish Flute) and BRASS (Trumpet).
Together they cover an array of timbral qualities - for example hammered, plucked, scraped or brushed strings (PIANO, GUITARS) or tongue flutters (TRUMPET, FLUTES).
The timbral characteristics complement each other and can be used for contrast (e.g. airy blown FLUTE articulations combined with PIANO plucks) or blending (e.g. staccatos in FLUTES and TRUMPET)
BONUS FEATURE
There are two types of sound sources available - simple and combined. Using the random multiple playhead function, the combined sources allow for even more complexity by stringing together two sound source types.
PRESETS WALKTHROUGH
PRESETS
Anarchia comes with 100 ready-made cinematic and ambient snapshots/presets, including:
20 Evolutions
30 Pads
30 Pulses
20 Sound Design Patches
Watch the Presets Walkthroughs to hear them all in action.
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