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Mark Gordon wrote a full page feature review, summing it up thus:

“At first glance, its almost otherworldly design, with ethereal main screen and what look like alien symbols or ancient runes, makes it difficult to work out exactly what this plug‑in is all about, and that’s one of the driving forces behind its design. Creativity in music can sometimes be displaced by too much technical detail, and an air of mystery can stimulate a greater level of creativity, brought about by experimentation. Flowstate enables you to take anything from a drum loop or vocal phrase to a recording of a mountain stream or traffic noise and create unique, evolving musical soundscapes without really knowing what you’re doing! The ability to morph between the five harmonic states in real time, with additional manipulation via the central control knob, allows for an endless stream of sonic possibilities that are singular and absorbing.”

Read the full review here

At the time this technique found its way into many Geosonics 2 presets. There are even key commands in Geosonics to fix the filter pitch quickly at various octaves.

From that it was a short conceptual jump to creating a bank of filters, and tuning these to a collection of frequencies. This would impose a more complex “formant” onto the ambience. It seemed logical to tune these a bit like a drawbar organ, set at the first few overtones from the fundamental up, and then mix them as you like.

But by choosing different overtone sets, you could create quite different formants, so it wasn’t long before we started editing the frequencies themselves. Eventually the idea of morphing between them came along which resulted in a quite radical, surreal effect. Flowstate as a concept started taking shape.

It’s very simple to drag your own ambience into Flowstate and have the formants “pitch” it, turn it into a pad or a backdrop drone or whatever, but we wanted to demonstrate the full scope of this technique, so have provided a wealth of presets of different types. Even within each Snapshot there are five distinct STATES, which you can switch between.

There’s lots of room to experiment, tune your own world.

Flowstate is available now

Daniel used the following instrument libraries:
1) Soniccouture Vibraphone, Marimba, Pan Drums, Celeste, Tubular Bells, Glass Armonica, and Gamelan
2) Ableton Live stock synths.

Composed by Philip Glass Arranged by Peter Martin and Third Coast Percussion Production and performance by Daniel Leibovic

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Diogo Borges from Gearspace Pro has put together a nice video review of our latest release, Tonal Drums. After a short tour of the instrument functions, he plays with some preset kits and changes their tunings.

It’s always interesting for us to see how people interact with our instruments, and so it proves here:

“I love the pure, unaffected, breathy tone of these wooden flutes. Whether you’re recreating the heady, high‑pitched swirling suling parts of a real‑life gamelan performance, adding a folksy ethnic flute to a fantasy film score or emulating a classical piccolo/concert flute/alto flute/bass flute quartet, their positive attack and ultra‑lifelike lilting legatos do a great job.

A comprehensive set of controls enable you to vary breath pressure, legato time, vibrato depth, rate and start time and subtle performance‑related tuning artefacts, but none of that is necessary: these expressive, adaptable and wonderfully playable Balinese flutes sound perfect straight out of the box.”

Full Review Here

Balinese Flutes webpage

Balinese Gamelan II webpage