Substantia for Windows Released

Substantia for Windows is now available at giorgiosancristoforo.net. You can find some demos previously posted here.

Substantia (latin: substance), is an electro-acustic physical modelling laboratory with hundreds of models. It is a modal synthesis software with integrated euclidean sequencer and recorder.

Substantia has 16 different models and 23 materials, ranging from Aluminium to Nickel Glass, Marble, Sapphire, Platinum, Gold, Nylon, Uranium and more for a total of 368 resonant models.

You can excite the resonators with contact microphones, samples or white noise and experience a new exciting way to make digital sounds with human gestures.

Substantia is a powerful tool to create new hyper-real sounds from amazing bongos to luxurious glassy and metallic textures.

Ooame - Astrobleme Eucatastrophe - Full Album

Giorgio Sancristoforo

New release from experimental software synth maker Giorgio Sancristoforo. You can find previous posts featuring his designs here.

"The third album from Ooame.
A new voyage in glitch organic music and nwas melodies.

Tracklist
1) 0:00 Extramundane
2) 3:04 Illywhacker
3) 7:58 Mudlark
4) 12:58 Pre-loved Velleity
5) 16:58 Orrery
6) 22:55 Logomachy
7) 28:47 Ecdysiast
8) 37:45 Cacoethes Needs

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Composed and programmed by Giorgio Sancristoforo in Milan, Italy.
November 2020"

Cosmic Rays Music - Prototype Realtime Score and Sequencer Software

Giorgio Sancristoforo

"Working at the prototype of my cosmic rays realtime score and sequencer software.
The software is connected to a muon particle detector that sends realtime data to the computer. The ADC values are converted to MIDI notes as well as fingering for my ancient greek kithara (κιθάρα). I will use this software and detector for my forthcoming ambient music performance κόσμος (Cosmos)."

Quadrivium Orbital Synthesizer-Controller (sneak preview)

Giorgio Sancristoforo

"12 moons orbiting around the four giant gas planets as modulation sources? Yes! Orbital data from Jan 1 2020 to Jan 1 2030 (hour by hour) are used in the forthcoming Quadrivium synthesizer to modulate oscillators, filters, delay and create incredible spacey soundscapes.
Did I mention that you can also use the moons' orbits to modulate your MIDI gear? :D
Soon available at https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net"

Giorgio Sancristoforo is the man behind the Gleetchplug line of software synthesizers and sound machines.

Ultrasound detectors and Encoder. Hide messages in your music.

Giorgio Sancristoforo

"Did you know? You can use any bat detector or ultrasound microphone to listen to the messages that you hide in your music with Encoder!"

https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net

Follow-up to this post.

Hide messages in your music with ENCODER

Giorgio Sancristoforo

"Hide messages in your music (48KHz Aif or mp3) with ENCODER, and decode them with (free!) DECODER.
Available this week at https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net"

My DNA controls a modular synthesizer - rs6025

Published on May 30, 2020 Giorgio Sancristoforo

"In this video the F5 gene of my chromosome 1 (Exons and introns) is used to program a modular synthesizer (Endorphin.es Shuttle System).

Blocks of 16 codons are used to control 16 parameters of the synthesizer like frequency, amplitude, filters cutoff, envelopes, FM modulations etc.

The experiment is a continuation of my sci-art research on my whole genome, which started at the EU's Joint Research Centre in 2019.

This particular gene was chosen due to SNP rs6025 in position: chr1:169,519,049.

Direct live recording on Zoom H5, without edit or efx added."

GleetchDrone Download Link

This is a follow-up to this post.

You can find the download here.

It looks like I messed up the link in the previous post. Apologies for that. For those curious as to why this sometimes happens, it's because I have to add http:// or https:// to any links that omit them in descriptions. Blogger doesn't automatically add them for you and when they are omitted the link ends up getting redirected back here. A similar thing happens with truncated links in YouTube and SoundCloud descriptions. If I simply make the link active it will go to the truncated link and fail. I have to click through and grab the full link. P.S. All of this adds up with 30+ posts a day, and is why I only link when necessary, and/or for supporting members of the site.

GleetchDrone

GleetchDrone from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"GleetchDrone released!

A new stand-alone music software for drones, ambient and experiments for Apple Mac.

Download the demo here"

"GleetchDrone is a MacOS software for drone, ambient and experimental music.

It features 8 oscillators, 8VCAs and 8 AR Envelopes, a Double Stochastic Clock Generator, Double LFO, Double Random Generators, Mixer, Two LP Filters, Tape Echo and Saturation/Distortion."

The Klirrfaktor: Dystopia Sessions "Hammer and Dance" (modular patch)

Published on Apr 24, 2020 TheKlirrfaktor

"Next track. The atmo comes in real time from Gleetchlab. All the other sounds from the modular. Post production in Logic Pro.
It's really hard to get everything in tune. I calibrated all my VCOs and the two Renès. But the calibration of the A-156 (Quantizer) seems to be a pain in the ass and this guy is really detuned.
Also my VCOb and the Rubicon are very sensitive to my shaking mains voltage ...
However - i did my best :D"

Using Substantia with Contact Microphones

Published on Apr 20, 2020 Giorgio Sancristoforo

"A quick example on how to use contact microphones with the Substantia Physical Modelling Lab."

See this post for additional details on Substantia.

Introducing Substantia - Electroacustic Physical Modeling Laboratory

Introducing Substantia from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"Substantia (latin: substance), is an electroacustic physical modelling laboratory with hundereds of models. It is a modal synthesis software with integrated euclidean sequencer and recorder.

Many modal synthesis tools, so far, have a limited number of options and models. Some instruments give you just inharmonicity and dumping controls over a bank of resonators, some other offer few models like a pipe, a plate, a box, and usually a very small selection of materials: metals, plastic, wood…

Substantia has 16 different models and 23 materials, ranging from Aluminium to Nickel, Glass, Marble, Sapphire, Platinum, Gold, Nylon, Uranium and more, for a total of 368 resonant models. (The list will grow with updates).

For unparalleled precision, Substantia uses 100 Resonant Band Pass filter for each voice, for a total of 800 filters (8 voice polyphony).

You can excite the resonators with contact microphones (2 for stereo sound), samples, or white noise and experience a new exciting way to make digital sounds with human gestures. Substantia is a powerful tool to create new hyper-real sounds, from amazing bongos to luxurious glassy and metallic textures.

A must have for experimental musicians, lovers of new frontiers of sound.

Release: April 19th 2020

h12PM CET

www.giorgiosancristoforo.net"

Introducing Fantastic Voyage - Portable Cosmic Studio - Virtual 4 Track Tape w/ Effects

Introducing Fantastic Voyage from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

From the maker of GleetchDrone, GleetchlabX, Berna 2, and Radioaktivnost.

"Imagine a 4 track studio with integrated realtime infinite stretching, glitch, tape echo, filter, luscious reverb, modulators and looper!

Use it with guitars (include VST hosting for amp simulation and other processors), microphones, synths, anything!

Onstage as a live tool or while travelling as a portable studio for amazing experiments.

While home, you can still travel in the outer/inner space!

Release Fri March 27th, h22.00 GMT

at giorgiosancristoforo.net"

New Form of Digital and Analog Sound Synthesis Based on Tropical Algebra

This one is in via Giorgio Sancristoforo, the man behind GLEETCHLAB/GLEETHCHPLUG, and BERNA 2.

"I've release our paper on Tropical Additive Synthesis, a new for of analog or digital sound synthesis based on Tropical Algebra created by me with the mathematician Cristiano Bocci."

Details from Giorgio Sancristoforo's website where you can find a PDF download of his paper on the new synthesis method.

"Tropical additive synthesis is a new form of digital and analog sound synthesis that uses Tropical Algebra.

You are free to use this paper for commercial (software and hardware) musical instruments, both in digital or analog form, at the following conditions:

1) The module must display a “trop(x[n])” logo with Times New Roman font (italic) in white, over a red background (color hex code: 84120a)
2) The user manual must credits the authors: “trop(x[n]), tropical additive synthesis ©2018 Cristiano Bocci and Giorgio Sancristoforo”

The number of oscillators can vary between 2 and 10. But this is just a suggestion.
If you need help with the oscillator’s development, please drop me a line and I’d be glad to help you."

You can find a PDF download of the paper on Tropical Additive Synthesis on Giorgio Sancristoforo website here.

New in forthcoming GleetchlabX 5.2

New in forthcoming GleetchlabX 5.2 from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"Two classics of noise and glitch music for the forthcoming V5.2:

Loop Synchronized Double CD Skipper and Loop Synchronized EMF Disturbance!!

Available next week at giorgiosancristoforo.net"

Berna 2 for Windows Released

"Berna is a faithful recreation of a 1950s electronic music studio (mostly modelled after the Italian RAI Fonologia Studios).

Berna is a software simulation of a late 1950s electroacoustic music studio. Oscillators, filters, modulators, tape recorders, mixers, are all packed in a easy-to-use interface with historical accuracy.

Explore serial, concrete and tape music or create strange new sonic worlds with instruments inspired by the greatest studios of the early days of electronic music.

Are you ready to meet the grandfather of the synthesizer?

Requirements:
Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10, 64-bit Intel® or AMD multi-core processor. Intel® Core™ i5 processor or faster recommended, and GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended)."

http://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/softwares/berna/

Introducing GleetchlabX

Introducing GleetchlabX from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

NEW IN GLEETCHLAB X:

Full Midi Mapping

Polyphonic MIDI TAMS

Polyphonic MIDI Tropical Synthesizer

Retuner

Lowpass

Fluffy Clouds

External Analog Clock

8 Channel Surround

Try it at giorgiosancristoforo.net

Gleetchlab 4 Tutorial 3: TAMS Synthesis - triple axis modal synthesis

Gleetchlab 4 Tutorial 3: TAMS Synthesis from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"Triple axis modal synthesis demonstration using acoustic samples.

TAMS process input sounds sources using a vast and growing library of peculiar resonators in dozens of materials, including gold, platinum, sapphire, uranium, ruby, silver and more...

http://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/softwares/gleetchlab-4/"

The Klirrfaktor: "Lazy Hangover" (Gleetchlab 4 + VCV Rack)

Published on Nov 26, 2017 TheKlirrfaktor

"All sounds arranged, resampled and processed with Gleetchlab 4. Melody patched in VCV Rack. Stereo record from Gleetchlab mastered in Logic Pro X.
The FlowFieldv video is made with Processing based on this sketch: https://github.com/Behemontha/PerlinN...

Get my new album for free on Bandcamp: https://theklirrfaktor.bandcamp.com/a...

Have fun!"

Gleetchlab4 tutorial 2: turn any sound into a lushous drone

Gleetchlab4 tutorial 2: turn any sound into a lushous drone from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"The Vb.Stretch module (thanks to Volker Böhm), is the super stretching tool you need to transform any sound into a wonderful pad/drone. In this short example an electronic track is turned into a space drone."