Kenaxis A loop based software that allows you to easily manipulate sound in many creative ways.
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A loop based software that allows you to easily manipulate sound in many creative ways. Kenaxis is a loop based software that allows you to easily manipulate sound in many creative ways. Designed to be used by musicians interested in being able to interact with other players or create solo works, Kenaxis transforms your computer into a powerful instrument of real-time musical expression. It works by playing back prerecorded sounds from your hard disk, and/or by capturing sounds from an external source on the fly. The pitch, loop points and volume can all be easily controlled to create all kinds of sonic textures.There are many more advanced features as well such as full MIDI, joystick, and/or random generated control of all parameters. Granular synthesis, analog synthesis and a multi file player are included as well.Kenaxis is made up of 4 main parts: the 6 klangs, the 2 basuneras, the granular synth, and the mixer. In addition there is an analog synth, and various screens for setting up control of all of these parts via random generators, joystick, or MIDI control. These extra windows may be accessed from the Extras menu.Kenaxis has default setups to be used by the Wingman Rumble Pad Joystick, and the Evolution UC-33 or UC-33e MIDI controller. Other controllers can be easily configured for use as well. While using a keyboard and mouse goes a long way, to realize the full potential of Kenaxis, a MIDI controller is invaluable. What's New in This Release: · Added the ability to use a fft phase vocoder algorithm to freeze and time stretch sounds. The old spectrogram has been moved to its own window which you can open from the preferences menu. (Pressing escape will enlarge it.) · The new sonogram not only shows you a realtime frequency vs. time graph with amplitude displayed as intensity. The Sonogram also doubles as a way to freeze and time stretch sounds using phase vocoder fft techniques. Clicking on the X axis freezes a sound while dragging in the Y axis changes the blur factor. · You can chooses the source you see in the sonogram as well as which source you will be able to freeze. You can also drag and drop a sound file onto the sonogram to see it and freeze it. You are limited to a maximum of 20 seconds and the freeze sonogram must be created in realtime due to how the phase vocoder algorithm works."; · Click the freeze on/off to freeze the sonogram and allow you to play with the currently recorded 5.6 seconds of sound. If the box is unchecked the sonogram will begin to automatically update again. · You can use the freeze speed to time stretch through the current spectrum seen in the sonogram. A speed of 0 means the sound is frozen, 0.1 would be 1/10 the normal speed, 1 = normal speed, -2 would be backwards at double speed. Time stretching using the phase vocoder technique sounds different than granulation and also allows for changing the speed of a sound without changing its pitch. · The blur width, blurs the current fft frame being played back with frames around it. Each frame is about 23ms in length so a blur width of 10 would blur the spectrum of about 230ms of the sound. As the blur is a random process adding a blur of 1-5 frames helps create a movement and vitality to a frozen sound. · The individual slots for presets had to be moved to make room for this new feature. You can still use them - just press the more button to see them.

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