lifeforms03

semi-random organic texture generator

(408 Votes)

Author: Rolf Schmuck

Version: 1.3 (Updated 19 years ago)

File Size: 183.5kB

Created: June 23, 2003

Made with: Reaktor 5 or lower

Category: Instrument Other

DESCRIPTION

this one goes back to my early experiments with reaktor 2.3.
the random section is not that optimized, but trying something more effective has harmed all the snapshots. so i decided to work it out, and it got a life of its own.

use the random button and play around.

updated for reaktor 4.02 but not tested on macs. slightly CPU optimized and some new snapshots.

COMMENTS (50)

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Patrick van Raalten

10 months ago

I love this for creating interesting backgrounds! Thank you!

Rob Stuart

4 years ago

Old but wonderful!

Didier Michel Joomun

5 years ago

Impressive thanks !!

mohbub hossain

6 years ago

thanks

Madalin Dragos Luca

6 years ago

Thanks!

Ivan Winke

6 years ago

big love from Melbourne/Chicago ! ! :)

Stephen Fountain

6 years ago

Awesome!! Thank you for generously sharing these instruments. I especially like this one!

djsegwon

6 years ago

thanks

dkatran

6 years ago

Many thanks!

beat spichtig

6 years ago

thx for the new life.

benjamin kilchhofer

12 years ago

i just rediscovered lifeforms on my harddrive and this time i have to thank you for this peace of art! a must download for every reaktor lover!

Neal C. Bowie II

17 years ago

If I can figure out why I get this static or digital distortion, this will be a great tool for me. I seem to get it on a lot of other downloads as well but am not yet experienced enough to know what to do. Thanks for your work on this instrument, it is awesome!

Neal C. Bowie II

17 years ago

If I can figure out why I get this static or digital distortion, this will be a great tool for me. I seem to get it on a lot of other downloads as well but am not yet experienced enout to know what to do. Thanks for your work on this instrument, it is awesome!

William French

18 years ago

Fantastic! I love this instrument!!!

tim prebble

18 years ago

its so beautiful! thanks for sharing this FWIW i think everything should have a 'Random All' button on it, just like the dice in Artmatic

gabriel mulzer

18 years ago

habs erst jetzt endeckt, das ist super

Jan Schmidli

19 years ago

hmm are there some lifeforms in my computer? great ensemble, very inspiring. ps: thx for the swiss alps preset. i live in switzerland an cold winter nights really sound like that :-)

James Hamilton

20 years ago

Absolutely stunning piece of work.

Alonso Toro

20 years ago

just organic!

Evan Schiller

20 years ago

takes me to another galaxy with many worlds

Tim Monticelli

20 years ago

this is getting to my brain very nice work

noblecourt stephane

20 years ago

" " [:-) (-:] _^_ cool !!!

hello programchild

20 years ago

10. too good.

Maximilian Schäfer

20 years ago

I love it. Beautiful and imaginative interface, sounds to listen to for hours.

Michel Steiner

20 years ago

I must have some hidden arthropods in my bed now.... 10!

Mark Rennie

20 years ago

This is a really nice ensemble. Excellent work Rolf. I am not usually that keen on effects generators, but I think this thing is brilliant. What's great about it is that the noises it produces are eminently useable almost straight out of the box. Really professional look for the user interface as well.

paul chauncy

21 years ago

Very nice - lovely interface

Jens Focke

21 years ago

the aliens are here !!! COOL !!!

Ned Bouhalassa

21 years ago

What a beautiful, original, inspired work. Congratulations, and thanks! PS: works fine on my G4 867, OS 10.2.6

San Barry

21 years ago

Works on my Ti PowerBook 500 Mhz G4. Sounds great! Thanks for making this!

john mcCaig

21 years ago

friggin amazing

David Vrooman

21 years ago

i am very pleased. was looking for an evolving static that still had a bit of user input for a track i'm working on. fit the bill perfectly with only a little tweaking.

Phil Durrant

21 years ago

works also for me on my Mac. i am glad because this is really very good. keep them coming.

John Stainton

21 years ago

This one works for me (mac) the last one didnt??

Thomas Weber

21 years ago

What an astonishing trip. There are many wonderful surprises here. I can't help but smile when I select most of the snapshots. Sounds range from (quasi-)natural to surreal worlds. Definitely ranks among my favorite sound effects engines. Great work!

Thomas Watson

21 years ago

Excellent!!! Works fine on mac :o) Great source of inspiration.

Sven Röhrig

21 years ago

nice

Rob Klippel

21 years ago

This is excellent at what it's trying to do... and I have a feeling that I will find a lot of uses for it... (but then I am a noise and random freak to begin with so it's a good fit for me... but readers please note that this is much more sophisticated than just random noise generator and is quite capable of very subtile and complex textures and sounds)... anyway, I just wanted to thank you for sharing it in this forum... and to congratulate you on your work.... and lastly, may I add that this has a great name and concept.... it really does have a sort of amped up organic feel to it's sounds... a superb work I think... (good enough to develop even further if you decide to... thanks again!)

Henry Gibson

21 years ago

This is an amazing ensemble. Fantastic sounds, lovely evolving textures, well thought out panel...very functionable. Well done

Cliff Douse

21 years ago

Thanks for that, Benjamin - works now! Nice sounds! :-) Some of the presets seem to produce an extra clicking noise that I could do without, though!

Benjamin Suthers

21 years ago

I made it work. The 'Selector' (in lifeforms:molecular level) that has mutation as it's control input doesn't have a 'shape' (none, linear, sine) selected. I selected linear. boo yah.

Christian Sykes

21 years ago

Some more comments within for all the controls would be nice.

Christian Sykes

21 years ago

Awesome! I tend not to like things this noisey, but this creates some absolutely fascinating sounds. Rich, complex, dense, amazingly compelling. Recommended.

Rolf Schmuck

21 years ago

thanks. there is a way; if i can use some friend's mac for a day. this will take some time. i think the pc and mac version send different initialisation values.

Thorsten Quandt

21 years ago

Rolf, this looks so tempting! Is there no way to make this Mac compatible?! Brilliant and simple design, by the way. Much better than the standard fare of synths from the user library.

Rolf Schmuck

21 years ago

i just deleted the updated version, it seems not to work. all you can do is to wait for the next reaktor update.

Rolf Schmuck

21 years ago

Rolf Schmuck

21 years ago

just uploaded an updated version, which MAY work on macs. cross platform? why should this work, when so many things don't? let's pray that the update will fix these things.

jürgen kühn

21 years ago

Same here on a powerbook 1 GHz - no sound

Cliff Douse

21 years ago

Looks interesting but it doesn't produce any sounds with R4 or RS on an Apple Mac! :-( Strange, as your gliss_swarm works fine.

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lifeforms03

semi-random organic texture generator

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