AudioMulch is, somehow, a forgotten, yet incredibly powerful, music software/sound design tool developed by Ross Bencina in Melbourne.
“It is software for live performance, audio processing, sound design and music composition.”
It brings together elements of tradition analogue routing with effects and control options only possible within the computer.
It has a Patcher Interface similar to PureData/MaxMSP, which allows you to think and compose your music in a non-linear way, thanks to his improvisational signal flow approach.
A great feature of this software is the MetaSurface, a powerful tool for gestural control that turns AudioMulch into an expressive musical instrument. This surface has no virtual knobs and fader, it’s designed specifically for performing music with a computer. Instead of having to turn one knob at a time with the mouse, the Metasurface lets you blend smoothly between dozens of parameter settings on a two dimensional plane. (You can even automate and loop your Metasurface gestures.)
It also has multichannel input and output (up to 256). So you can use it as a multi track recorder, live mixer, to spatialize and diffuse music for surround sound and so on.
(An amazing granulator is also featured!)
Many artists have used it, such as Nine Inch Nails, Four Tet and Girl Talk.
There is just one problem, the last update for AudioMulch was in July 2013, this means that no 64-bit plugins can work. Some rumors say there should be a 64-bit beta for Mac and Windows soon, we’ll see
Reference
www.audiomulch.com
