Aura Flux Ambient Music App Now at App Store
iPhone and iPod Touch software specialists Hige Five have announced the availability of Aura Flux on the App Store.
The Aura Flux ambient music app is now available.
An auto-generative ambient music App for iOS devices, Aura Flux ($1.99) is an interactive ambient music maker that uses intuitive graphics to create complex, evolving melodies with a few taps of the touchscreen.
Non-grid based, Aura Flux is like an interactive dot-to-dot experience, where each picture created generates an individual and totally unique soundscape — moving objects in space dictates the sounds that are produced.
Aura Flux has 48 Instruments, and four Seasons (keys) to choose from, along with a constantly evolving background ambience. Chains of notes are created quickly and easily by visually connecting nodes using the multi-touch interface. These nodes can be customized by setting the pitch, trigger rate, volume, decay and adding additional ‘chord’ notes. By layering these chain reactions together the user can easily produce lush sounding ambient melodies. With the option to randomize many of the settings can introduce elements of generative music into their creations.
The keys are locked to certain intervals so that it is impossible to create harsh dissonance or unpleasant-sounding harmonies – users can choose from a range of these keys (or ‘Seasons’) ranging from Mixolydian to more minor sounding modes, which vastly change the character of the piece. To complement the melodies being produced by the interacting nodes, there are a number of background ambience pads that serve to knit together a more coherent piece.
“For the most part Aura Flux is about building visual structures made up of connected nodes that interact with each other to create music,” says Aura Flux designer David Newman. “Once you have a structure in place, you can sit back and listen or get in there and tweak to hear the subtle differences. The way in which the nodes are connected and their individual settings contribute to the way the sounds are played back and often small tweaks can result in big changes in sound. The result is a constantly evolving soundscape with rhythms that come and in out of play – in a way that’s vaguely reminiscent of the music of Steve Reich, Philip Glass or Steve Hillage.”
Aura Flux Key Features:
48 High quality stereo instruments
14 Stereo background ambience sounds
4 Seasons (keys)
Unlimited generative music
Full save and load of scenes
Multitouch playback of instruments
Universal App – one purchase for iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad
Supports multitasking on iOS4
Volume, Trigger Rate, Pitch, Additional Note, Pulse Speed and Decay settings for each node
Solo each node
Instrument preview
Under 8Mb