"lamentations" MetaSynth Sound Design

Published on Dec 26, 2013 Anthony Distefano·280 videos

"Soundscape using Metasynth's Image Synth"

via Anthony on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

"Vocal type sounds using MetaSynth."

http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php

"MetaSynth is an award-winning electronic music and sound design studio for OS X. Its six "rooms" provide six unique environments for creating and manipulating sound. There is much more to MetaSynth than creating sound from pictures. See and hear it in action on our videos page. Take the Room Tour.

Image Synth. The Image Synth is our paradigm-smashing composition environment where you paint sound. With a host of available synthesis methods and nearly infinitely customizable microtonality, the Image Synth makes possible the sounds of your dreams. Take a quick Image Synth tour now.

Image Filter Room. The filtering counterpart of the Image Synth. Precise dynamic stereo filters that can create a limitless range of effects from the conventional to the otherworldly. Watch our introduction to the Image Filter. The examples were all created from the same source: Image Synth Example 2.

Spectrum Synth. The Spectrum Synth analyzes sounds and creates events that capture the original's harmonics which you can manipulate, filter and re-arrange to invent new sounds.

Effects Room. The effects room provides a new approach to sound effects. We provide both traditional effects like delay, reverb and chorus and a wealth of unusual effects like our granular synthesis-based Grain and Shuffler. Our unique graphic envelopes make it easy to turn "standard effects" into something special.

Sequencer Room. This is a lightweight non-MIDI sequencer where you can compose musical phrases and rhythm loops that you can render to disk, import into the Image Synth or add to your Montage Room compositions.

Montage Room. 24-track mixing environment. Use this room to mix down full-length compositions or to layer and composite the sounds you create in the other rooms. The Montage Room's single-window, modeless operation makes it a snap to use. Even if you use another digital audio workstation, you may find yourself using the Montage Room for quick assembly of your MetaSynth-created components."

All demos on site.

Click here for all posts on MetaSynth.

Todd Barton and Metasynth and Shakespeare

via brian c:
"Todd is the resident composer of Ashland Oregon's Shakespeare Festival among other things. He wrote an article a few years back on Metasynth ( see http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php) . The article does a very good job of placing that software and synthesis into a context of actual music production for theatre (as opposed as to yet another TB303 groove). Metasynth allows you to visualize a sound clip as an onscreen graphix and then manipulate the image to work changes into the sound and vice versa. It's kind of like the offspring between Fruitlyoops BeepMap and SonicCharge SynPlant where sound derivation is indirect thru image manipulation. - interesting stuff indeed.

The article is at http://toddbarton.com/library/sound_advice_article.pdf

His site is pretty interesting too. www.toddbarton.com Shakespeare and synths - cool stuff -

Prithy, wouldst thou resonate with my four pole filter that I might divine thy note?

8-)

Peace
Brian"

U&I Metasynth - Sound Scape ( Guytano )

YouTube Uploaded by ANTsynth on Dec 5, 2011

"Sound Design I did in U&I MetaSynth Software."

http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php

Todd Barton metascapes album re-release

Todd Barton

"For years, in a pervious life, all my music was composed, created, mixed and produced in the amazing software, Metasynth by genius Eric Wenger.

I’m re-releasing the digital version of my 2001 CD metascapes on July 3, 2020 on my bandcamp. https://toddbarton.bandcamp.com

Be sure to checkout the Metasynth website here: https://uisoftware.com/metasynth/

My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"

Metasynth Sound Design (Organ)

YouTube via ANTsynth | January 10, 2011 |

"Sound design I did in U&I MetaSynth Software. Most of the work was done in the Image Synth Room."

Update:

Metasynth Sound Design (Two) - glitch

ANTsynth | January 11, 2011

metascapes bonus tracks

Todd Barton

https://toddbarton.bandcamp.com

"For years, in a previous life, all my music was composed, created, mixed and produced in the amazing software, Metasynth by genius Eric Wenger.

I’m re-releasing the digital version of my 2001 CD metascapes on July 3, 2020 on my bandcamp.

Be sure to checkout the Metasynth website here: https://uisoftware.com/metasynth/

my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"

NI Reaktor- U&I MetaSynth - Sound Scape ( Aorta)

YouTube Published on Jun 27, 2012 by ANTsynth

"Sound Scape I did using a granular synth I made in Reaktor and U&I MetaSynth."

Metasynth Image Synth Piece "ROU"

Published on Jan 11, 2015 Anthony Distefano

"Piece I did using Metasynth's Image Synth"

"Enmu" MetaSynth sound piece

Published on Jan 12, 2014 Anthony Distefano·273 videos

"Piece I did using MetaSynth's Image synth"

Arturia prophet V -Native Instruments -Absynth -Sound Design ( Mould)

YouTube Uploaded by ANTsynth on Aug 3, 2011

"I first created the patch in Arturia 's prophet V, then imported the patch into Absynth for further processing."

Arturia prophet V - Native Instruments Absynth-Sound Design ( The Dark Palisades )

Uploaded by ANTsynth on Aug 3, 2011

"I first created the patch in Arturia 's prophet V, then imported the patch into Absynth for further processing using the aetherizer"

Native Instruments - Absynth - U&I MetaSynth - SoundScape- Based on Arvo Part's ( Fratres)
Uploaded by ANTsynth on Jul 26, 2011

"The work is based on the chord progression Of Arvo Part's Fratres. I first created the sound using Absynth's envelopes . I then imported the patch into Metasynth for further processing."

More: http://www.youtube.com/user/ANTsynth

Native Instruments - Absynth - U&I MetaSynth - Sound Design ( Voix Céleste )

YouTube Uploaded by ANTsynth on Jul 12, 2011

"I first created the sound in Absynth then imported the patch into Metasynth for further processing."

"The Wolves" MetaSynth sound piece

Published on Feb 13, 2014 Anthony Distefano·275 videos

"Creepy sound piece using MetaSynth's Image Synth"

Minimalist improvisation using "MetaSynth's Image Synth" (Video)

Published on Jun 3, 2013 Anthony Distefano·233 videos

"Quick little video using MetaSynth's Image Synth.The video starts with a arpeggio pattern i created.I was going for a Steve Reich kind of feel when adding patterns to the arpeggio."

via Anthony Distefano on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

NI Absynth - Plogue Chipsounds - U&I MetaSynth - Sound Design (SHO)

YouTube Uploaded by ANTsynth on Aug 16, 2011

"I first created the piece in Plogue's Chipsounds using the VL-1 chip. I then imported the file into Absynth and Metasynth for further processing"

MetaSynth 5

"Many people consider the Image Synth to be the heart of MetaSynth. The presentations on this page will introduce you to Image Synth "Basics" as well as demonstrate some of the extraordinary sounds that the Image Synth makes possible.

The Image Synth is a composition and sound design environment where you paint music and sound.It is not a soft-synth or synth plug-in."

via twitter.com/parasitk

Matrixsynth by vgermuse

Click here for Buchla 200e tracks by Todd Barton, aka vgermuse. The following is the track listing along with synths used for each.

1. drifting--evi-2000, steiner-parker synthacon, boss rc-20
2. being and time--steiner-parker synthacon, boss rc-20
3. metalliton--buchla 200e
4. slowEvolution--buchla 200e, metasynth 4
5. cresting--buchla 200e
6. autumnAmbience II--steiner-parker synthacon, boss rc-20
7. stormBirds--buchla 200e
8. spaceMetal--buchla 200e, metasynth 4
9. exponentialSpace--serge modular music system, roland jp-8
10. horizoning--buchla 200e
11. offering--evi-2000, boss rc-20

Bay Ridge Groove

Published on Mar 16, 2014 Anthony Distefano·280 videos

"FolkTek Luminist Garden and Bass Guitar processed using MetaSynth's shuffler and inertia effects

Bass Guitar: Brian Clevinger"

Folktek on eBay

In The Lobby

Published on Jan 9, 2015 Anthony Distefano

"Short sequence using Metasynth"

OBP TV Interview with Composer Todd Barton

via OBP

"He’s the man behind much of the music at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. And he says, it’s OK if you don’t even notice the music. Todd Barton’s goal is to affect the mood without being obvious."

Some synth spotting in an interview with Todd Barton aka vgermuse. You should recognize the name from numerous posts. Metasynth, the Waterphone, and a pocket theremenin get a mention along with various other instruments.

Todd is currently working on the premiere of an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood in NYC by Ping Chong.

The vOICe - Video to Audio - Seeing With Sound

Brian writes in with the following:
"I came across this program while searching for a PC version of Metasynth. It can use either live video or a picture and converts it to sound. Lots of experimental stuff too - using the mouse position as input, sonifying a URL (?!), and much more. Very cool!...

It actually uses images (either video or still pictures) to generate sound. I've attached an AVI illustrating what was generated from a wolf picture. You can apply a filter for what colors to use - kind of a spectrogram ran backwards. Speaking of, I attached another AVI illustrating what a spectorgram (made in Audacity) of me saying "funky town" sounds like after running it through vOICe. There's even a mode for entrainment of brain waves (must register to use that mode)!" Videos below.

via http://www.seeingwithsound.com/
"The vOICe vision technology for the totally blind offers the experience of live camera views through sophisticated image-to-sound renderings. In theory this use of digital senses could lead to synthetic vision with truly visual sensations ("qualia") through crossmodal sensory integration, by exploiting the existing multisensory processing and neural plasticity of the human brain through training and education. The vOICe implements a form of sensory substitution where the goal is to bind visual input to visual qualia with a minimum of training time and effort, and improve quality of life (QoL) for blind users."

Update via Brian in the comments: "I tried to sonify the Matrixsynth page URL, but I got an error of "Too many links" :)"

The vOICe Wolf

YouTube via matrixsynth | Mar 1, 2011 |

The vOICe Funkytown