Sumu 合成器已正式上线。该合成器在软件合成方面开辟了全新的领域，将加法再合成与 FM 和矢量场空间化相结合。它的十个模块集合围绕独特的多通道跳线器设计，提供了任何其他乐器所没有的音乐可能性。
在 Sumu 中，采样的声音表示为最多 64 个带宽增强分音的集合，每个分音的频率、音量和噪音都可以随时间变化。这种声音的表现使得各种创造性的改变成为可能，从自然的时间拉伸到异国情调的音色处理。
通过中央多通道跳线程序，用户可以独立操纵声音中的每个分音，感觉更像是演奏而不是编程。用户可以选择一些谐波并对它们进行频率调制，或是根据频率延迟每个分音。
Sumu 可以映射分音，64 个分音与 3D 映射可视化提供了一种独特而强大的加法合成方式。调出部分预设（或你自己分析的部分），塑造音高、电平和噪音包络，你就能获得从打击感、前卫色彩到丰富音色的各种音色。
Sumu 借鉴了 Aalto 等其他 Madrona Labs 的产品，提供了一个直观的可视化跳线界面，每个跳线都有 64 个独立通道。由于数据庞大。因此Sumu 采用不同的方式来可视化这些数据，包括空间模块，它呈现每个部分位置的 3D 视图，以及具有条形图和水平波模式的 64 通道示波器。
合成器提供了一个优秀的架构，包括64 个 VCA 或（Buchla 风格）低通门，一个建模/非线性 24 db/倍频程、 Moog 启发的梯形滤波器（非常适合这种情况），带有一点点温暖的过载，每个声部的载波调制器与噪声相匹配 — 这里有很多选项，但所有选项都呈现在一个非常易于管理的界面中。
以上所有功能都很棒，但真正让 Sumu 进入新领域的是具有多普勒移频和混响模型的空间化矢量场运动。Sumu 合成器可以在空间和时间上进行精确而细致的变化，也可以进行狂野而混乱的变化。选择一个采样，选择几个分音，然后将它们放在音场的其他地方，或者将所有声音引爆，搅动成一股多普勒移频合唱旋风，让每个分音在自己的轨迹上旋转。
Sumu 还提供了一个免费的配套程序 Vutu，让用户可以用自己的声音制作 Sumu 分析文件。设置分析参数需要一些创造性的选择，而 Vutu 能让你访问所需的所有控件。该程序支持 Mac 和 Windows 平台。
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Sumu breaks completely new ground in software synthesis, combining additive resynthesis with FM and vector field spatialization. Its collection of ten modules, designed around a unique multi-channel patcher, offer musical possibilities not found in any other instrument.
Sumu breaks completely new ground in software synthesis, combining additive resynthesis with FM and vector field spatialization. Its collection of ten modules, designed around a unique multi-channel patcher, offer musical possibilities not found in any other instrument.
In Sumu, sampled sounds are represented as collections of up to 64 bandwidth-enhanced partials, each with a frequency, volume, and noisiness that can change over time. This representation of sound makes all kinds of creative changes possible, from natural-sounding time stretching to exotic timbral manipulations. Using the central multi-channel patcher, each partial in a sound can be manipulated independently in a way that feels more like playing than programming. Pick a few harmonics and frequency-modulate them? No problem. Delay each partial according to its frequency? Sure.
Sumu enables precise and careful changes in space and time, or wild chaotic ones. Take a sample, choose a few partials, and place them somewhere else in the sound field. Or explode everything and stir it into a whirlwind of doppler shifted chorus as each partial zooms around on its own path.
And then a stream comes burbling through, and as we listen, the individual droplets are gradually nudged into line to make a quantized rhythm. The pulses module in Sumu is a rich modulator for resynthesis, or a source of complex sounds all on its own. It offers smooth transitions between rhythm and noise, organic and synthetic.
As a balance to all of this very modern digital manipulation, there’s an analog-modeled filter based on the classic four-pole Moog ladder design. It can self-oscillate for big vintage sounds, or just round off those prickly edges.
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