Matter / Field

SHAPE THE FIELD

• Emitters as in a particle system: a band across the field, a point bursting every way, a spray, a drip, or one carried by an object, like a sprinkler on a spinning arm. Up to four, each with its own place, sound and rhythm
• Up to twelve forces, placed by hand: Attract, Repel, Vortex, Wind, Turbulence, Drag, Lift, Pulse, Shear and Wave
• Up to twelve objects, from spheres and plates to spiral ramps and bowls, in glass, steel, wood, rubber, stone, ice, brass or bamboo, still or moving in time
• Your own 3D models as objects (OBJ, STL or PLY), and a scan of a room or a place as the ground
• Ten surface forms, eight fragment shapes or a mix of them, nine materials and seven landing surfaces
• Every grain shaped as it sounds: amp, filter and pitch curves you draw, played by each strike
• Walls, floor and ceiling that can each strike in a material of their own
• 14 rooms, from a close, dry one to a stone cathedral and a night forest; two of them sing in your key
• Up to 960 fragments and 128 grain voices at once
• VISUAL: the field alone, full screen, with the four sliders that change the sound most

PLAY IT IN TIME AND IN KEY

• Pulse lets the matter fall in waves, each landing on its beat: grooves, clave and bell patterns, odd meters and even spreads, with Swing, Chance, Strum and Lock
• A keyboard under the field: hold notes, play chords, or arpeggiate them over up to three octaves
• Chord and key snap, and a key sequence of up to 16 steps
• Up to 16 loop lanes, automation that repeats: draw how a control moves over one to eight bars
• Tilt to pour on iPhone and iPad, and haptics on iPhone: feel each beat land

START ANYWHERE

• 101 studies in ten groups, from rhythms to slow, soft studies for rest, focus and sleep
• SONG: arrange studies into a song, each one blending into the next, and automate the echo, the effects and the output across it; or start from a ready-made song
• GENERATE makes a new field, and can write its movement too
• Live input: the sound taken from your microphone or audio interface as you play; keep the one you like

LISTEN

• Headphone 3D: every grain placed around you on ordinary headphones, using measurements of a dummy head’s ears
• Head tracking with AirPods and other headphones that track your head: the sound stays put as you turn and nod
• Spatial stage for two speakers, and classic stereo
• A master chain of four effects, and an output channel whose compressor can duck the rest under one emitter
• Opens on Studio quality: every strike sounds the moment it lands, Pulse hits its beat exactly at full Lock, pitched grains stay clean, and the low cut sits at 5 Hz instead of 30

KEEP IT

• Save a scene, your own sounds in it, and open it again
• Export a 24-bit WAV faster than real time, in stereo or AmbiX

IN YOUR MUSIC APPS

On iPhone and iPad, Matter / Field is also an Audio Unit (AUv3) instrument for music apps such as GarageBand, and on the Mac, an app and an AU, VST3 and CLAP plug-in. A MIDI note lets matter fall in its pitch, and the field follows the host’s tempo and transport. Its strikes can play your other instruments too: MIDI out sends a note for each, and in hosts that support multiple outputs, each emitter has an output of its own.