![]() Owen’s work has been featured in Wired, Future Music, Pitchfork, XLR8R,, computer arts magazine, and shown at events such as NASA’s Yuri’s Night, Google I/O, and the New York Cutlog art festival. Over the past 10 years, he has: worked as a research scientist for Twitter developed multi-touch interfaces for Nokia research labs worked for leading ribbon microphone manufacturer Royer Labs has had musical production featured in major motion films designed and built recording facilities and produced, engineered, and mixed records in Tokyo, Nashville, and Los Angeles. During his graduate research, he focused on developing new musical interfaces, interactive musical agents, and large networked music ensembles including The Machine Orchestra. in 2013 at the New Zealand School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington. With Jordan Hochenbaum and Jasmin Ruiz Blasco, he founded The Noise Index, a research platform to explore questions emerging from increased access to information and information saturation, with installations in New York, London, Paris, and L.A. As co-founder of Flip-Mu, he explores and designs open-source interface design, real-time data sonification, generative audio/visual systems, and large-scale multitouch surfaces. * The Nymphes logo has been used with kind permission from Dreadbox (I emailed them and asked).Owen Vallis is a Professor of Music Technology at the California Institute of the Arts, MTIID (Music Technology: Interaction, Intelligence, and Design program). The bottom displays show M-Wheel, PB, AT and Velocity values (and can also be edited from the panel). Mod source (LFO2, M-Wheel etc.) is selected from the bottom of the panel and edited using the white sliders to the right of the main panel controls.Įnv 2=1 button links Envelope 1 to Envelope 2 controls… this means the VCA and VCF envelope controls can be adjusted easily from the front panel hardware controls (without having to use shift)… very handy IMO. If anyone fancies trying it out feel free to download and have a go.Īlthough there are other editors out there now I thought this might still be of interest to some (I tried to keep this neat and in keeping with the Nymphes aesthetic). See attached Nymphes Reaktor editor for anyone that might be interested (I had to update my patch for the new v2 firmware). Should be available soon in the Reaktor UL If anyone has interest in this, and has any ideas for some other simple additions let me know and I’ll see what I can do. So the LPF control in Reaktor also sends CC for HPF to Nymphes (for easy pseudo band-pass type tones). I find single envelope synths much easier to work with when first creating a patch. I’ve tried to make it appealing to use with the GUI as a lot of h/w synth midi editor plugins I’ve used in the past looked a bitĪdditions (that will hopefully all pan out ok… still patching and testing at the moment):Īmp Envelope+Filter envelope link (so the amp envelope controls in Reaktor also send CC’s for the filter envelope). So… I started working on a Nymphes Reaktor Midi Editor (not proficient enough with M4L to come up with anything quickly). Not having the amp envelope on the same page as the other main parameters is the big gripe that I have. Unfortunately I am finding the interface a little finicky (and this is no slight on Dreadbox I understand compromises had to be made to meet the low price). I just got a Dreadbox Nymphes (sounds great… fantastic value for the money really). I’ve been using it this week working at home and I’ve found it works nice for some background ambience. It started out with loads of controls but I’ve tried to slim it down to something I (or others) can just load up and leave to play.Īnyways… thought some of you here might like it, and let me know what you think (always like a bit of feedback). There is also a ‘Pad’ layer also triggered from some of the Chimes. Some other random modulation is also going on in the background (cutoff and resonance filter mod, frequency shifting etc.). The chimes are simple FM tones (single carrier and modulator) with some LPG type modulation (frequency decreases with decrease in amplitude). Some random modulation of the interval is also applied to some of the chimes. ![]() The tuning for the Chimes are selected by the Melody control (taken from real wind chime scales). Nothing too fancy (no physical modelling etc.): A 2D LFO (the ‘Wind’), with random modulation (‘Scatter’), triggers the ‘Chimes’ depending on the XY location of the wind. It’s a ‘Wind Chime’ generative synthesiser. You can download it here on the user library: I made a Reaktor ensemble over the weekend (first one in a while that I’ve actually finished!).
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