Pendulate

About

Bored of the same old synth sounds? Newfangled Audio's Pendulate is refreshingly different. Pendulate is a chaotic monosynth that uses a brand new double-pendulum-oscillator to create previously unheard sounds - biting basses, searing leads, and gritty textures. It can smoothly fade from a sine wave to total chaos, with an expanse of territory to explore in between.

When designing the Pendulate oscillator Newfangled Audio took great care to bring out these underlying patterns. The result is an oscillator that can smoothly fade from a sine wave to total chaos, with an expanse of territory to explore in between.

Pendulate’s chaotic oscillator is based on the physics of a double pendulum. What initially looks like randomness contains underlying patterns, interconnectedness, constant feedback loops, repetition, self-similarity, fractals, and self-organization.

Pendulate’s chaotic oscillator is matched with a wavefolder and low pass gate inspired by the ideas of legendary synthesizer designer, Don Buchla. These three modules, oscillator, wavefolder and gate, combine to make everything from warm basses to searing leads.

Features

• Novel chaotic oscillator based on the double pendulum makes sounds you’ve never heard before, but will want to hear again.
• Wavefolder based on the one in the Buchla 259 Complex Waveform Generator, adding MIX and CUTOFF.
• Low Pass Gate based on the Buchla 292 adds controls for POLES and RESONANCE.
• Innovative modulation UI allows modulation over every control from the main page, allowing up to 169 simultaneous modulation routings.
• MPE support allows amazing control from innovative new controllers.
• Envelope and LFO each have multiple outputs generated at once like a modular synth should.
• Modulation! Every mod output to every control means up to 221 modulation points in an intuitive single pane.
• Animations! The Double Pendulum, Wavefolder, and Low Pass Gate modules each have animations to show how each module responds to your input, and to modulation.
• Three unique colour schemes to customize your look.
• 136 Presets including artist presets from Matt Lange and Matthew Wang.
• Support for new tunings via MTS-ESP. (This is a new tuning standard from ODDSound being implemented across the industry with backing from Aphex Twin.)
• Master pitch modulation to the Pitch Bend knob. (This allows for vibrato which was an oversight that it wasn’t in 1.0.  It also allows for pitch envelopes and arpeggio style sequences when using the Sequencer.)
• Modulation to the LFOs, Envelopes, and S+H module. (This is a power user feature, but it really opens up the modulation system. Modelled after modular synths)
• LOOP mode for Envelopes, turning them into LFOs. (Functionally bringing Pendulate from 1 to 2 LFOs)
• Modulatable Output Level control to the LFOs and Sample and Hold modules. The bipolar switch allows them to be bipolar outputs. (More flexibility in modulation programming)