Generative ambient synth
Fluther
Up to six voices play themselves in a scale you choose, each grown from a seed you roll. Each is a creature of light in deep water: drag it across to let it wander, or down to make it strange.
What it does
Voices that play themselves
01 A creature for every voice Tap a creature to hear its next note. Where it swims shapes its voice, and the scale keeps every note in key.
02 Seven knobs over everything Swell, restless, tension, morph, space, tilt and colour each move every voice at once.
Four creatures near the top of the water, labelled friendly. An arrow runs down from each to the same creature lower down, ringed and labelled strange. One tweak knob, tension, turned right moves every voice together towards strange. There are seven knobs in all: swell, restless, tension, morph, space, tilt and colour. friendly strange tension, turned right every voice moves towards strange together seven knobs, each moving every voice at once
03 An arc over hours Set a shape and a length, from 10 minutes to 8 hours. Dusk thins the voices out and ends in silence.
Five rows of dots standing for five voices playing across time. On the left the rows are full of notes; moving right they thin out until nothing is left. The shape is dusk. An arrow along the bottom runs from start to silence, over a length you set from 10 minutes to 8 hours. dusk from busy to silent start silence 10 minutes to 8 hours also: drift, rise and fall, dawn, tide
Features
More of what it has
Scenes: 29 factory scenes in seven banks, from still to pulse. Save your own and back them up to a file.
Voices: one to six, each grown from a seed. Roll, ask for a similar one, or hold.
Engines: thirteen, from drone and pad to bell, choir and glass.
Scales: nine, with a key, a tempo and just tuning.
Effects: three slots a voice, with delay, cloud, phaser, vowel and more.
Mods: up to six, each moving one control. Mix: a far hall with shimmer, glue, tape, tone and width.
MIDI in Chrome and Edge: steer a voice, or play it.
Hide the controls and the creatures stay playable.
Browser now Chrome, Edge or Safari. MIDI works in Chrome and Edge only.
iPad planned An iPad version is planned. For now, open Fluther in Safari on the iPad: it works by touch. There is no MIDI there.
Desktop planned VST3 and AU.
Fluther runs in your browser
Nothing to install. The sound starts after your first tap.