Cracklefield

V1.2 UPDATE

Cracklefield received a major feature update, introducing field animator, new function which can dynamically transform the whole sequencer field. The field can be scrolled, rotated or evolved using game of life family of cellular automatons.

It offers a new approach, thus far we had cursors travelling a static field, now we can have static cursors and a changing field. Different transformation modes can be sequenced and combined opening nearly endless range of new possibilities.

INSERT YOUR OWN SOUNDS

I decided to package it with a set of sounds that, most likely, nobody has already.

There are, mostly acoustic/electroacoustic, unconventional, experimental or unusual sample sets, featuring a hollow soviet balalaika, copper rod mallets made with contact microphones, experimental guitar setups, glass chimes or wire-brushed crash cymbals.

Also, it is designed, to make adding new sounds relatively easy, just duplicate a group, put new samples and refresh the instrument.

EVOLVING PATTERNS

Cursors can interact with the field itself, paint, erase or flip cells, build or destroy walls. As well as shift whole field rows or columns. It's a playground for building evolving patterns.

Cracklefield can also use a mathematical phenomenon, named 'Langton's ant' to animate cursors. An ant is basically a cursor, which changes direction depending on what kind of cell it steps on. For example, it turns right on a filled cell and turns left on an empty cell, flipping the state of cell it has visited.

Sounds very simple, but the fascinating fact is, it creates surprisingly complex structures.

In Cracklefield you can combine several ants of different types to explore a variety of possible generative pattern setups.

MIDI out

Cracklefield has a built-in note recorder, it allows the user to capture multichannel MIDI clips, which then can be exported to a DAW by drag'n'drop mechanism.

Preset system

Crackelfield can assign presets to keyswitches or store them externally in nka files. Presets can be loaded seamlessly, without stopping the sequencer.

You can also filter which part of the setup to load. For example, only load different field content, or only change sounds.

It comes with 120 presets, to showcase some possible setup ideas. There's also a function creating random presets, which is a fun way to explore the instrument.

The Arp

Cracklefield can act as an apreggiator.

Each cursor can be bound to one of notes from the chord being currently held.

Arp patterns can modulated (transposed depending on cursor position), transposed and fit to a scale pattern, while each cursor can play a different sound.

The arp is great fun to tinker with.

requirements

• full version of Kontakt 5.6.6 or newer
• at least 1280x1024 screen resolution
• 950MB hard drive space