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LENS TOLVANERA

Wind lifting dust off a dry plain. Snow on a wall of rock.

Record ten seconds of anything: a bird outside, your own hum, the radiator ticking. TOLVANERA lays it down as layers in a wall of rock and snow, and the keys play it. Not as a sample stretched up and down the keyboard, but as weather moving through the sound.

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LENS TOLVANERA: the WALL of layers on the left, DEPTH, GRAIN and VOICE controls on the right, a keyboard below

The first five minutes

Three ways in

An empty wall gives you three buttons. Pick one and play the keys.

01Take your voice

Press TAKE, sing or hum a few seconds, and it goes straight into the wall. The computer keys play it before you have opened a single menu.

02Open a sound

Drop any file on the wall. A field recording, a loop, a single note from another synth. The first key you press already sounds like something.

03Walk the shore

Your sound folders laid out as stones on a shore, sorted by what they sound like. Click a few, keep the one that speaks.

04READ

One switch decides how a note reads the sound: LIGHT (grains where the light falls in the wall), PASS (each note its own pass through it) or SAMPLE (the sample itself, with loop, reverse and WARP). What doesn't apply dims and says why.

05AMALGAMA

Join two to eight sounds into one: blend them, line up their hits, let one turn into the other over time. Drag the result into your DAW as audio.

06VOC

A vocoder that speaks through your wall. PRINT sends what it says into a folder of its own, ready for the next take.

07The player

CHORDS that voice themselves, EUCLID rings and REMOLINO sparks: hold one key and it keeps moving, in time with your DAW.

08HUELLA

Drag your hand across the shore and the path becomes a new sound. Shift-drag to gather several into the amalgam at once.

09Safe to explore

RANDOM covers every parameter but the ones you protect, the history keeps every step, and DEL on a take asks twice. INIT is a clean start that still undoes.

Inside

A wall, a shore, a voice

The SHORE: sounds laid out as stones by how they sound — Shore

The WALL with a field recording laid down as layers — A real recording

The FX page: ECHO, SPACE and two effect slots — FX

A frozen drone held in the wall — Frozen drone

An empty wall offering three ways to start — Start

Listen

One recording, many instruments

Rendered offline by the TOLVANERA engine: one sound from the factory library, then a factory preset. The tag says what went in.

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