Developer Giorgio Sancristoforo (Gleetchlab, Berna, Bento) has introduced Nakama, a performance looper/delay with progressive tape disintegration granulation and surround sound.
It’s out today for MacOS, with a Windows released planned to follow “soon”.
Features:
- Nakama is a live performance looper/delay that’s designed to create huge layers (up to one hour) of asynchronous sound in a stereo or surround setup. (2,4 or 8 channels). Nakama can process one to four separate musical instruments at the same time, with 8 tape delay/loopers and 4 granular processors.
- Nakama can loop and delay the sound at full quality or gradually transform it with several modes of sound degradation, including tape saturation, noise, wow and flutter, sticky shed syndrome, spectral gating, data corruption and filters.
- Nakama is designed to work with 2 4 or 8 channels. 12 sources can be placed anywhere around you or moved in orbits.
- Recording is possible without using a DAW and if you want you can record multichannel PCM audio files.
- All the controls are MIDI mappable.
Pricing and Availability:
Nakama is available now for Mac for 19.50€.
Well, that’s a cringe GUI.
Indeed. This sounds right up my street, but I’m not buying it with that image.
“asynchronous sound”… as in, polyphonic?
as in the loops of different lengths run without sync, phasing off of each other
Please, please give us an iPad version!
Ah yes, because every potential user wants a sexy Japanese schoolgirl looking at them the whole time.
The interface gave me parasites and also creeped me out, and I haven’t even used the thing.
If this was made by a Japanese company I’d have no issue with it, but considering he can’t even pronounce the word nakama correctly in his own promo video, that tells me everything I need to know.
Seems fun. Shame about the UI, definitely not inspiring.
Would have been nice with a re-skin option of the ui
finally a GUI that reflects the true nature of VST’s, and not some imaginary virtual hardware.
Would buy if it had a different UI. Gut rot until then. Why the double think that a juvenile in a skirt is ok unless you were in the same age bracket. I’m not. Is he?
Very creepy interface, if it didn’t look so pervy I might have bought it but I won’t even download a demo, it would make me very uncomfortable having an image of a Japanese schoolgirl looking at me.
Ignore my previous rather reactionary comments, since then I have been trying out the demo versions of Giorgio Sancristoforo’s other titles and I am extremely impressed.
Still not a fan of the graphics in Nakama, but I am a huge fan of Berna 3, Creature form the id, NOFI Tape loop and Ongaku, which are awesomely detailed and great sounding musical playthings, which I will be adding to my collection very soon.
I recommend anyone who likes making music or just weird noises on their PC or Mac try out the demos or just take the plunge on some of these amazing titles. I am a huge fan of his work and I apologise for my uninformed review from a few days ago.
Come on, A Yast Pixel, give us Loopy Pro for Mac and not just silicon but terrestrial Intel macs!
Come on, A Tasty Pixel, give us Loopy Pro for Mac and not just silicon but terrestrial Intel macs!