What is an Evo?
Our recording expertise and acclaimed Evo Grid technology adds extra dimensions to each sample, offering you an instinctive, ever-changing kaleidoscope of progressive techniques. For the newly initiated, Evolutions are hyper-long notes that change sometimes subtly and sometimes radically over time before looping, giving you unexpected results. Evolutions have become widely adopted amongst the composer community as the most effective means of easily writing music that is able to subtly change over time without melodic variation. These textures can be developed, shaped and processed further, offering you a rich range of possibilities.
Our bespoke, sophisticated Evo Grid interface, inspired by the EMS VCS3 synth, positions ‘pegs’ via an onscreen 12 x 48 grid arrangement, giving you access to recordings across 12 intervals, organised in a grid with an almost infinite number of possible configurations. Instantly select which evo sits on each of those 12 key ranges, toggle your pegs, or hit 'Feeling Lucky' to generate randomised evolutions, replay the MIDI, and no cue will ever sound the same twice.
What's Included
Instruments
Band A - Woods
- Flute (3)
- Alto flute (1)
- Bass flute (1)
- Contrabass flute (1)
- Bb clarinet (3)
- Bb bass clarinet (3)
Band B - Reeds
- Oboe (3)
- Cor anglais (2)
- Bb clarinet (2)
- Bb bass clarinet (1)
- Baritone sax (1)
- Bassoon (3)
Light woods
- Light — full
- Light — shimmer
- Normale — pulse
- Light — tongue shudders (episodic)
- Light — shudders
- Shudders — strong
- Breath — tone
- Light — accelerating siren
- Light — beautiful siren
- Normale — overtone flickers
Pitch woods
- Normale — semitone cells
- Normale — tone cells
- Normale — dissonant pulse
- Normale — multiphonics
- Normale — episodic overtones
- Gentle shimmer — overtones
- Normale — harmonic wisps
- Normale — building trill
- Normale — multiphonics and pedal
- Light — dissonant tongue shudders
- Normale — dissonant overtone pulse
- Shimmer — multiphonic overtones
- Light — harmonic cell bursts
- Breath — dissonant pulse
Light reeds
- Light — full
- Light — shimmer
- Normale — pulse
- Light — tongue shudders
- Light — shudders
- Light — shimmer bursts
- Light — accelerating siren
- Light — beautiful siren
Pitch reeds
- Normale — semitone cells
- Normale — tone cells
- Normale — dissonant pulse
- Normale — down bends
- Normale — multiphonics
- Light — siren shudders
- Normale — episodic overtones
- Normale — singing pitch
- Light — random bursts
- Light — shimmers and sirens
- Chatter — dissonance
- Light — chaos
- Soft — overtone pulse
- Singing — shimmer bursts
- Light — shimmered bends
- Soft — full multiphonics
Curated presets
Simple
- A simple start — bright
- Episodic bursts — bright
- Harmonic woodwinds — bright
- Movement pad — dark
- Pulsing presence — dark
- Shimmering ensemble — bright
- Steel pans — bright — distorted
- Stretched moments — dark
- Reed swamp — dark
- Woodwind swamp — dark
- Ensemble swamp — dark
- Grit bursts — dark — distorted
Intense
- Always building — bright
- Cracks of beauty — dark
- Intense sirens — dark
- Is it broken — dark — distorted
- Semitone shimmers — bright
- Is it more broken — dark — distorted
- Dirty moments — dark — distorted
Mics & mixes
Close
- A tight, dry mix
Tweaked
- A compressed version of Close with occasional glitches
Ambient
- Reverberant and atmospheric
Distorted
- A full-on, gritty signal, useful for adding some dirt into the mix
Stretch X2
- The Close mix stretched to be twice the length, giving the sounds a more ethereal quality
Stretch X8
- The Close mix stretched to eight times the length, to slow down busy evolutions
