AudioMulch 2.0.1

AudioMulch 2.0.1 is created to be a powerful real-time sound synthesis and audio processing software. AudioMulch is an interactive musicians environment for computers running Microsoft Windows. Bringing together the popular with what has up to now been considered experimental, AudioMulch merges the worlds of mainstream electronic and electroacoustic sound composition to create a fluid sonic environment only limited by the artists imagination.

AudioMulch contains many audio synthesis and processing modules and may also be used to host VST plugins. While many of the processes featured within AudioMulch are not new to computer music programs, it is the software ability to carry out these traditionally "studio" or "non-real-time" signal processing techniques in real-time that emerges as its major asset. With

AudioMulch, music that has for so long been limited to the pre & post-production practices of a studio can emerge in a new LIVE and interactive context. Through the essentially unlimited (only by the power of the computer) combination of a network of synthesis and processing contraptions, AudioMulch allows the user to extend their current audio processing capabilities or create new music within their computer without additional expensive software or hardware systems.

AudioMulch is a real-time sound synthesis and audio processing application usable as an audio effects processor or a complete music composition.

Major Features:

1. Perform and improvise with AudioMulch: AudioMulch uses a non-linear "signal flow" approach that's more suited to live performance than rigid, linear, score-editing style software. This together with its intuitive patcher-style user interface makes AudioMulch a powerful performance system. AudioMulch's automation and control features offer a fully-configurable control scheme that allows you to be as hands-on or as hands-off as you want to be.
   • Synthesize, process, loop and sequence sounds live.
   • Rapidly modify, rebuild and reconfigure your sonic ideas with a drag-and-drop patcher interface.
   • Selectively automate and control any aspects of your performance with the automation timeline, MIDI input, automated Startup Actions and AudioMulch's unique Metasurface control interface.
2. Compose "live" with AudioMulch: Composing music should be as satisfying as performing music live. AudioMulch takes its “live” feeling into the studio, allowing composers to build and explore their musical and sonic ideas in a spontaneous, intuitive way. It's a modular approach in which components are plugged together and processes are manipulated in fluid ways - not just by switching things on and off. This workflow allows you to rapidly put your ideas into practice and hear the results as you work.
3. Drive AudioMulch with external instruments and hardware: Process your voice or instrument live with AudioMulch. Or set up a patch, even include some of your favourite VST plug-ins, and “play” it remotely from a keyboard or any other kind of MIDI device. With AudioMulch's editable mapping curves you can customise and fine tune the way parameters respond to your instrumental gestures. AudioMulch now features patchable MIDI routing, so you can use third party MIDI plugins to modify your input MIDI signals. You can even use MIDI to switch between patches and settings. Host your VST software instruments and effects in AudioMulch and control them via MIDI.
   • Incorporate MIDI sequencing and processing plugins into your patches.
   • Configure MIDI controls with Quick Mapping.
   • Use a single MIDI control source to control several effect and patch parameters.
   • Switch between documents and patches via MIDI.
   • Morph between multiple parameter settings with MIDI controller using the Metasurface.
4. Play AudioMulch like an instrument: AudioMulch provides users with a unique high-level interface not seen in any other music software environment: the AudioMulch Metasurface. The Metasurface is a powerful tool for gestural control that turns AudioMulch into an expressive musical instrument. The Metasurface has no virtual knobs and faders; it's an interface designed specifically for performing music with a computer. Instead of having to turn one knob at a time with the mouse, the Metasurface lets you blend smoothly between dozens of parameter settings on a two dimensional plane. You can even automate and loop your Metasurface gestures.
5. Record, mix and diffuse your music: AudioMulch has multichannel input and output, with support for up to 256 channels. This allows you to:
   • Record your jam sessions as multi-track recordings to be mixed later.
   • Use AudioMulch as a live mixer.
   • Spatialize and diffuse music for surround sound or any sort of multichannel speaker array.
6. Pull it all together: Users often comment that when they bring their material into AudioMulch it all comes together and "just works". That's because everything in AudioMulch - from effects parameters to MIDI - automatically syncs to a global pulse. AudioMulch can also sync with external devices and with other computers over a network.
   • Centrally synchronize your beats, effects, loops and processes to a global pulse.
   • Synchronise copies of AudioMulch running on different computers using a wired or wireless network.
   • Synchronise AudioMulch to an external MIDI clock source or generate MIDI clocks in AudioMulch that other devices can sync to.
7. Understand what's going on under the hood: AudioMulch is used by educators to teach audio processing. That's because within the AudioMulch environment what you see is what you get – the process of audio manipulation is represented visually. If you can understand a flow chart, you can understand basic signal processing in AudioMulch. AudioMulch also has an extensive help system that makes it approachable and accessible for first time users. Want help on a particular feature? Contraption help buttons let you jump straight to detailed help information for each contraption.
   • Start off simple by plugging together some of AudioMulch's more high level components like drum machines, loopers and file recorders.
   • Navigate your way around the different parts of AudioMulch easily with the contextual help system.
   • Go in deep with extensive help documentation.
8. AudioMulch is what you make of it: AudioMulch has been designed to be adaptable. For some, AudioMulch is a unique and powerful tool that performs tasks that you can't quite do as easily with other audio software. For others, AudioMulch is their all-in-one environment for composing, performing and producing music. Other ways people use AudioMulch include:
   • As a sound mangling tool.
   • As a multi-track recorder. Record the stems of your improvisations and performances for remixing later in the studio.
   • Composers and sound designers create sound textures in AudioMulch to use as source material for their work in multi-track editors.
   • Keyboardists use AudioMulch to host their software instrument plug-ins (VSTis) and effects.
9. Modules: AudioMulch's signal processing modules ('Contraptions') include:
10. Signal Generators: Test tone/noise, drum machine, bassline synthesizer, additive synthesizer, stored sample granulator, loop player, streaming sound file players and recorders (up to 24 channels), Shepard/Risset tone generator, arpeggiator.
11. Effects: Reverb, flanger, phaser, delay line granulator, ring modulation, stereo delays, dynamic stereo spatialiser, waveshaper, digital grunge inducer, pulsar comb filter, frequency shifter, 16 channel live sampling looper, live sampling "canon" looper.
12. Filters: Parametric EQ, resonant comb filter bank, Shepard/Risset filter bank, granular filtering, resonant lowpass with pattern triggering and envelope folowing control.
13. Mixers: Mono and stereo mixers and gain elements, crossfader, matrix with variable fade times.
14. Your VST plugins: AudioMulch supports VST audio effects plugins, allowing hundreds of free plugins and many commercial plugins to be used within the AudioMulch environment.

Enhancements:

• Fixed crash in patcher when ctrl-drag-duplicating a contraption and immediately docking it into another contraption without releasing the mouse. Crash only occurred when Show Contraption Input/Output Info was enabled and mouse was released over one of the new contraption's input or output ports.
• Fixed bug where Export to Sound File function would not terminate (it exported until the disk was full) if an automated clock stop marker was encountered while prerolling or exporting.
• Fixed bug where pressing the Return (Enter) key when editing parameter values in number editors and Metasurface snapshot and contraption preset names would cause the clock to stop and go to start rather than completing text editing. Also changed number editor behavior so Space bar starts/stops the clock even when a number editor has focus.
• Fixed bug where typing numbers into a number edit in some places (e.g. Parameter Control window) would enter the numbers in reverse order (right-to-left).
• Fixed bugs where tempo automation always defaulted to 120 bpm and did not pick up current tempo when first enabled, nor would it record tempo changes from the GUI (it would record tempo changes from MIDI).
• Fixed bug where choosing Change Color... for a Metasurface snapshot, then pressing Cancel in the Select Color dialog box always made the snapshot black.
• Fixed bug where SoundIn Sync mode didn't function correctly in all File Recorder contraptions.
• Fixed bug where MIDI mapping curve editor in the Parameter Control dialog would not allow insertion of new breakpoints on vertical line segments including at the left and right edges of the editor.
• Fixed bug where automation scroll bar would not take loop end and selection end location into account so you couldn't drag the scroll bar thumb to the loop end and had to use the arrow buttons.
• Windows: fixed bug where Select Sound File dialog for recording and export did not display on some Windows XP systems.
• Windows: fixed bug where Reaper's ReaRoute ASIO driver did not appear in the device list.
• Windows: fixed VST GUI window creation bug which resolves issues with Bidule VST freezing/crashing at startup or during use.
• Windows: fixed implementation of VST audioMasterPinConnected which was causing "assertion failed currentOps_!=0" with some plugins including TinyGod Pegger 3.
• Windows: fixed handling of VST GUIs which change their size using the non-standard method of directly resizing their parent (e.g. Schwa Olga).
• Added Rename menu item to Metasurface snapshots context menu.
• Fixed Export to Sound File dialog box to remember the preroll duration setting from the last time it was displayed.
• Fixed bug where piano keyboard pitch selection popup window didn't show the correct note name when it was displayed (always showed C#8).
• Fixed broken links to Crossfader and Frosscader help pages.

Requirements:

1. Windows
   • Windows XP or Vista
   • Windows-compatible audio interface
2. Macintosh OS X
   • Intel processors only
   • OSX 10.4 (Tiger) or OSX 10.5 (Leopard)