Sonora Cinematic Harmonic Bloom: Everything You Need to Know

Harmonic Bloom is available now: sonoracinematic.com/products/...
Harmonic Bloom exploits the concept of the harmonic series to turn noise into musical material that can be used in your compositions.
You can drag and drop any “noisy” sample in the GUI, or choose from one of the 30 included different flavours of noise and just start extracting harmonics from these chaotic waveforms to obtain a musical pitch.
This is only the beginning: use the built-in LFOs to independently modulate panning, volume and filters of each single harmonic! Creating lush, evolving soundscapes is as easy as turning a few knobs.
The noise is only half of this incredible library. Add a second layer from a curated selection of deep sampled sound sources ranging from rare instruments to classic analogue synths, from guitars to reamped acoustic instruments… ever wondered how a french horn played through an electric guitar tube amp sounds like? How about a classic analogue mono-synth from the 60ies passed on cassette and through a granular processor? We have both of those.
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[@ReubenCornell]

Ooooo - this sounds so heavenly.

[@SonoraCinematic]

Thank you!

[@sirvazo1633]

Very nice instrument for experimental sound artists. I'll be buying this one 👍

[@AlessandroMastroianni]

So glad you like it :)

[@SonoraCinematic]

Thank you so much!

[@sirvazo1633]

@@SonoraCinematic my pleasure! Just bought it and looking forward to experimenting with it.

[@G.Man-]

​@@sirvazo1633 How you finding it? Came here after a review from the latest issue of Computer Music mag

[@michaelklubertanz]

Magnifico!

[@AlessandroMastroianni]

Grazie!

[@christopherdonnelly6154]

GUI reminds me of tape loops plugin

[@jeremyryanVO]

Sweet. Is it possible to MIDI map the F - H7 Noise Harmonics Faders?

[@AlessandroMastroianni]

Certainly, they’re midi learnable.

[@jeremyryanVO]

@@AlessandroMastroianni Excellent. Thanks for the speedy response too. I'm headed to your store now. 😁

[@SlowDescentToWild]

Sounds lovely. With all that’s going on under the hood, is it ok on CPU?

[@AlessandroMastroianni]

It does require a fairly powerful machine but a lot of the CPU usage comes from the double reverb and delay. Turning send knobs all the way down for both NOISE and MAIN layer and using your own reverb and delay in the DAW halves the CPU consumption.

[@SlowDescentToWild]

@@AlessandroMastroianni thanks - good to know

[@SonoraCinematic]

Tested on different machines both Mac and PC ranging from consumer laptops to powerful studio computers we got between 8% and 25% CPU usage

[@SlowDescentToWild]

@@SonoraCinematic Thanks, sounds like it does better than Slate and Ash stuff (which I love and this seems similar to
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[@urallnutz5294]

Is it right to interpret that normally the 'main' sound is like the note and the 'noise' sound is the bloom? Does the 'noise harmonics' part in the middle affect both layers, or is it to shape the kind of bloom after the note?

[@SonoraCinematic]

The MAIN layer works like any other virtual instrument, the NOISE follows the harmonic series so the fundamental is the main pitch (same as MAIN, although occasionally an octave up depending on the sound), H1 is an octave higher, H2 is a fifth etc. the Noise harmonics part only affects the noise layer.

[@_grahamjacobson]

@@SonoraCinematic Can the MAIN layer be disabled, so that only the NOISE layer and its harmonic series sound?

[@AlessandroMastroianni]

@@_grahamjacobson Yes, they have independent volume controls, just turn the volume of MAIN all the way down

[@MusicalWizardryMarcoIannello]

❤

[@SonoraCinematic]

Thank you for the demo!

[@MusicalWizardryMarcoIannello]

@@SonoraCinematic thank you for asking me to make that!