Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope is a sound-design tool and creative effects toy, a visual audio effects processor and a unique generative signal processing tool. Technically speaking, Kaleidoscope is a massively parallel bank of physically modeled resonators that can be tuned completely arbitrarily with scientific precision and dynamically modulated over time by over two million points of automation. In simplistic terms, Kaleidoscope uses pictures to control sound!

Kaleidoscope is both an effects processor as well as a content generator, meaning that it is possible to synthesize completely new sounds without any input sound or MIDI performance data as well as to transform incoming audio signals in other-worldly manners.

Kaleidoscope uses pictures to control sound. It scans an image from left to right where the horizontal access represents time, and the vertical access represents frequency. The brightness of a particular pixel in the image determines how loud the sound will be at that particular point in time and frequency. This is similar in some ways to a spectrogram or even to piano-roll notation in standard musical sequencers. The difference is in scope and the unprecedented level of control and flexibility offered by Kaleidoscope.