Leafcutter John released Forester 2022

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Leafcutter John released Forester 2022, a unique and inspiring modular sonic playground and successor to the original Forester released in 2006.

Played like an instrument and good at making work feel fun!
Brilliant for working with: Field recordings, Stems, Whole tracks, Live inputs of all kinds.
Forester is a living thing and will be updated regularly (at least every month for the first year 2022). There will be new Generators and Effects periodically which will extend Forester’s capabilities.

A Gentle Introduction to Forester 2022 Audio Software

Currently in Forester:

GENERATORS

  • 42TF – Rhythm generator which makes a beat out of your input
  • anni – Weaves a sonic fabric from 8 pitched samples. Inspired by Anni Albers
  • chunker – Creates rhythmic chunks of the input sample
  • classic – 2 pitched and looped sections of the input
  • droner – 2 wandering pitched and looped sections of the input w/phasor
  • elastique – A speed variable filtered grain of the input with drive. Inspired by Bernard Parmegiani’s Étude Élastique
  • granular – 16 voice granular playback of input
  • grit – A crude un-windowed mono grain inspired by Jon Wall
  • incidenced – Creates rhythmic chunks of the input sample inspired by Bernard Parmegiani’s Incidences / Résonances
  • phaseVoc – A frozen or slowly moving spectral moment
  • play – Simple sample playback
  • stereoIN – Stereo external live sound input

EFFECTS

  • ampEnv – Looping volume envelope applied to input
  • ampEnvQ – Looping volume envelope locked to tempo applied to input
  • fastShift – 2 channel delay based pitch shifter
  • freqShift – 2 channel FFT based pitch shifter (4096 sample latency)
  • frozenMo – Spectral hold
  • grubbyDelay – A slightly fuzzy tape-like delay
  • looper – Non-quantized looper
  • reso – 12 resonators
  • space – Artificial reverberation
  • squish – An odd little volume increaser
  • strata – three-band-multi-distorter

 

Price
for the waged. Currently at a pre-version 1 discount £40
for the un-waged. Currently at a pre-version 1 discount £20

More info here: Leafcutter John | Forester 2022