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Record and play samples.

Loops of your voice, whooshes from door creaks, pads from field recordings.

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Things to make
a voice take, the same voice scattered into grains, and a creak turned into a swell
01

Loop your voice

Sing a line, close the loop, sing over it.

  1. Record a phrase.
  2. Close the loop.
  3. Layer another on top.
AudioCaptureInterface→AudioLooper→AudioPlaybackInterface
a voice take with its first phrase selected, ready to loop
a voice take with its first phrase selected, ready to loop
02

Turn a door creak into a whoosh

A one-second creak, reversed, stretched and given a long tail.

  1. Reverse it so it swells.
  2. Stretch it to twice as long.
  3. Add a plate reverb with a tail and fade it in.
InputAudioFile→AudioReverse→AudioTimeStretch→AudioPlateReverb→AudioFade
the creak reversed and stretched: it now swells into the hit
the creak reversed and stretched: it now swells into the hit
03

Turn a clip into a cloud

Tiny grains of a sound, scattered into a pad.

  1. Load a sound.
  2. Set the grain size and spray.
  3. Move slowly through the clip.
InputAudioFile→AudioGranular→AudioReverb
a voice scattered into a dense cloud of grains
a voice scattered into a dense cloud of grains
04

Record a take and keep it

Record, keep the best one, trim it.

  1. Pick Record a take on the mic.
  2. Press Record, then Stop, then Keep this take.
  3. Drag a range around the good part and trim.
AudioCaptureInterface→AudioTake→AudioEditRange→AudioPlaybackInterface
a voice take, kept and trimmed
a voice take, kept and trimmed
05

Slow a vocal down

Half speed, same pitch. Or a new pitch, same speed.

  1. Load the vocal.
  2. Stretch it.
  3. Shift the pitch on its own.
InputAudioFile→AudioTimeStretch→AudioPitchShift
a voice stretched to twice its length, with the stretch settings open over it
a voice stretched to twice its length, with the stretch settings open over it
06

Freeze a moment into a drone

Hold one instant of a sound forever.

  1. Play a sound through it.
  2. Hit freeze.
  3. Filter the drone.
AudioCaptureInterface→AudioFreezeFrame→AudioLowPass
one moment of a song frozen into a drone and filtered
one moment of a song frozen into a drone and filtered
Take it further

It all connects.

Every part of Kinematic works with the others. Wire one into the next.

Perform

Glitch the picture on a hit

Pixel sorts and smears that hit with the drums.

AudioOnsetDetect→ImagePixelSort→ImageDatamosh
Show me →Play

Edit the take

Trim, fade and clean it.

AudioTake→AudioEditRange
Show me →Simulate

Make it move a cloud

The music sets how hard two whirlpools pull the particles.

AudioRMSLevel→3DGeoParticleChainVortex
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Keep going
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Tutorial: Turn a creak into a whoosh→Browse the Play demos→Coming from Reaktor?→

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