2. A navigable sound house
The Preset Explorer introduces a spatial method to looking. As a substitute of presenting presets as a static record, it organizes them in accordance with how they really sound. Utilizing AI evaluation, every patch is positioned primarily based on its “timbral DNA,” capturing perceptual qualities similar to brightness, maintain, noisiness, alongside subtler traits.
Brian and I shared the identical conviction: when musical interplay is lowered to prompts and descriptions, one thing important is misplaced—the embodied suggestions loop between gesture, sound, and instinct. The Preset Explorer was designed to maintain that loop intact.
“The map successfully removes language from the search course of. I really feel like music and language are normally totally different elements of the thoughts, and as quickly as language will get too concerned it tends to dominate. It feels irritating and intrusive to cut back the delicate emotions and sensations of sound right down to a string of phrases. I feel that’s why I by no means appreciated textual content/tag-based browsers.” — Brian Clevinger, creator of Absynth
What emerges is a navigable sound house through which associated textures naturally sit close to each other. Related sounds cluster; contrasts turn out to be seen; transitions really feel fluid fairly than categorical. On this surroundings, looking is not about finding a file by identify. It turns into an act of exploration: shifting by way of timbral relationships, discovering connections, and letting sound itself information the journey.
