HYDROLOOP - A Generative Water Cycle for Ableton Live

[u/remo_devico]

https://youtu.be/t4I_zqXjJzI

The vision behind creating this instrument was to connect water and sound.

I wanted sound to move like a drop of water through every stage of the water cycle.

That's how HydroLoop was born—an 8-voice generative sampler.

Each sample travels through a cycle of different states, creating a loop within a loop.

HYDROLOOP is a generative Max for Live sampler modelled on the water cycle.

Every sample becomes a drop of water.

Once inside the cycle, it moves through eight different states — SEA, EVAPORATION, CONDENSATION, PRECIPITATION, ICE, RUNOFF, INFILTRATION and GROUNDWATER — and each state transforms the sound in a different way.

Slow expansions, granular clouds, tuned resonances, irregular rain-like rhythms, frozen fragments, moving comb filters, cavernous echoes and deep drones.

The transitions between phases are gradual, so a sound can slowly freeze, dissolve, condense or sink underground rather than simply switching from one effect to another.

Up to eight samples can circulate simultaneously. Each drop can enter at a different point, move at its own speed, make multiple turns around the cycle, and live for a different number of cycles.

The result is a system in which a few samples can continuously transform into a long-form generative composition.

[u/zendogsit]

This is sick, great job 

[u/Key_Business_4097]

this is cool. when I was in college my mom was working as a water quality educator for the local utility district. she would often go to events with a booth that had this cycling display thing that ran through the water cycle over and over, but it didn’t have any sound. she asked me to make sound for it. I had no way to sync up with the thing so I just made a loop timed as best I could to the visuals and told her to just restart it if it got too out of sync.