sonicLAB has released Thermo, an experimental synthesizer for iOS (also available for Windows and MacOS). It’s a wild concept that will appeal to game and film sound designers, as well as the bloops ‘n’ bleeps crowd.
Thermo is “a self-regulating hyper oscillator engine inspired by thermodynamic systems.” The four oscillators of the Thermo are in continuous interaction sending each other their signals. This design, allows each oscillator engine to evaluate its environmental conditions and make decisions accordingly. The self-regulation reacts to these changes applied by the stochastic modulators or by the user through some perturbations called the injections into the system.
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sonicLAB Thermo For iOS
Thermo extends the classic oscillator concept and claims to provide a far richer engine dedicated to waveform synthesis. The oscillators of Thermo begin their signal path with a waveform generator (pure mathematical, not samples nor optimized tables) rendering basic waveforms and capable of morphing in between, but the signal path is unusual. “The oscillator engine observes its environment via audio analysis and takes the actions to self-regulate itself accordingly.”
Besides the basic waveform generator and a standard filter section, the Thermo oscillator engine exhibits several components for systemic action, reaction to dedicated DSP targets such as gain suppression, amplitude modulation, filter modulation. The user can specify the degree of this reactive behavior, and can inject some stress to the system against its self regulating acts. There are three different Injection models. These stressors generate some basic DSP such as AM, Filter Mod, Artificial system malfunctions, which effect the temporal and spectral aspects of the signal.
The oscillator engine is also subjected to the signals of other oscillators, a result of the feedback routing matrix, likewise its internal actions are effected not just by its own signal generation. This interaction creates an organic behavior perceived as sonic transformation. Stochastic modulation generators (GENs) will modify the system conditions. Each oscillator has seven independent GENs which can modulate their dedicated synthesis parameters with a rich palette of stochastic distribution functions and standard waveforms. The GENs are characteristic to sonicLAB and here you can directly perform their parameters with MPE controllers.
Thermo Features:
» Unique thermodynamic synthesis engine
» Four oscillator engine with high precision sonic calculation, no quality degrading optimizations
» Seven GEN’s for each oscillator engine, independent AR envelope with random times
» Three Injection models , which can be applied also simultaneously. Several audio transfer functions for harmonic distortion, which can be modulated
» Pitch quantizer reading Scala tuning tables.
» Full MPE support for performing real time modulations on sliders and GEN’s
» Process visualization with inside out and efficient GUI design
We asked sonicLAB’s Sinan Bokesoy what was his motivation for creating Thermo. “This are based on my Ph.D studies on self evolving sound structures. So it has some research background. If you look into sonicLAB products, they all have the generative aspect of sonic texture rendering,” Bokesoy explains.
“The results are hard to achieve with traditional methods (mostly impossible since the computer / app delivers an immense amount of calculated interaction and projected to meaningful sound parameters in motion. Thermo might sound industrial, with an engine room sound, but it’s also capable of rendering very long lasting animated drones driven by endless feedback processing.”
