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Hello Bela!

Knurl uses a microcontroller to run its systems, it is attached to its bottom part. This interface design offers a diverse range of music composition techniques and automated systems.


HOW TO NAVIGATE


You may navigate at Knurl interiors by playing with 4 sets of capacitive buttons hidden in its 4 cavities between each set of strings.

In each cavity, The are a set of management buttons (4) , Digital (4) and Analogue buttons 1 (8) and 2 (8).

With it, you can control the sound, change some variables for automated systems, control the lights, motors, send messages to other musicians and even for your audiences.


OKAY, But how do I start it?

The 4 management buttons (M1 M2 M3 M4) will offer you and mode of performance (M1), a function (M2) to your action, an input (M3) and output (M4) for your sound.

These buttons redefine the others (Digital and Analogue) by each instance. That means you can reach a great variety of possibilities that a computer keyboard could offer by a small set of buttons.


Modes of performance

For this release (V.4 - 2021) we offer 5 modes of composition:

Programming Analogue Synthesis Detection Recording

What does each mode offers:

Each music aesthetic has its own composition process. Navigating by the modes of performances, you are better guided to compose a better flow, simplicity and expression for each material. Press the arrow on each mode to discover what each mode wants to offer you:

ANALOGUE

Delightfully Stockhausen

Analogue music has an unique behavior of haptic feedback and a peculiar appetite for the choice of inputs and outputs of your sound design. You may compare it with the composition practice developed in an analogue studio, when wires are being constantly disconnected and connected. This relationship between an instantaneous response and its hierarchies composes the relationships of this sound generation mode.

code

missing Algorave?

Inspired on the live coding movement, this mode aims to build meaning through loops and sequences. Here you are able to play and interact with live recordings

synthesis

Cheesy colors

Here is where you can add complex synthesis into Knurl, having physical sound trackers and analysis of colors. The general feeling is more about a subtraction, not addition.

record

Philip Glass on the XXI century

Analogue music has an unique behavior of haptic feedback and a peculiar appetite for the choice of inputs and outputs of your sound design. You may compare it with the composition practice developed in an analogue studio, when wires are being constantly disconnected and connected. This relationship between an instantaneous response and its hierarchies composes the relationships of this sound generation mode.

detection

Let me be guided

Unexpected Response and less responsibility. This AI system enables the machine to respond to the musical expressions made by you

system update

versions

v.24 - Hierarchy (in, out and mixer)

v.23 - General settings

v.22 - Approaches