Boite Diabolique vs Konkreet Performer

Mr Sandbags

This isn’t a track per se. I made a video of progress with an instrument and this is the soundtrack. It’s something of a mishmash of strange noises. That will come as little to surprise regular listeners.

The instrument is an evolution of my Boite Diabolique Reaktor sample mangler. Two major changes here are the interface (which is why I made the video) and the use of a phase vocoder to mix the sounds of the two samplers.

Boite Diabolique stalled because the interface ended up a tangle of knobs & sliders that wasn’t any fun to play with. Now a much simplified interface can be controlled using the iPad app Konkreet Performer.

It’s going to take quite a bit more work to make it into a really expressive interface but it’s already a lot more fun to play with.

If you enjoy the video and have Reaktor I hope to be uploading the instrument to the UL in a month or so.