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Overview
| Name | Version: | Spectranaut 1.0 |
| Author: | ijoaudio |
| Device Type: | Audio Effect |
| Description: | Spectranaut is an ambient playground - a love letter to ambient music. It's a metaphorical club sandwich of spectral resonators and reverbs, all tied to the global scale mode of Ableton Live 12 - allowing you to turn monophonic material into lush, evolving chords and soundscapes, or re-harmonize polyphonic material. The device begins with two spectral resonators. Each of these resonators can be set to a specific pitch, or, by pressing the Global Scale button, the device will cycle through notes of the current selected scale at an interval that you choose. The output of these spectral resonators is then fed into a cavernous reverb and its output is then fed into a third spectral resonator, allowing you to blend in a third pitch, or, again, allowing you to activate the scale mode to have a reverb that shifts through notes of your scale at an interval you choose. The result is moving, evolving soundscapes, drones, choral washes, harmonically rich pads, even drum loops that remain percussive while taking on melodic qualities. Spectranaut requires Ableton Live 12 and Max 9 - it unfortunately won't work with Live 11, as it doesn't support Max 9. If you've already upgraded to Live 12.2, Ableton has upgraded the internal Max4Live version to 9, so you're good to go. And if you're still on Live 12.0, you'll need to have manually installed Max 9. I'd also recommend that you have at least an M1 chip if you're on a Mac, or a powerful i7 chip if you're on Windows. This device has a lot going on and it's going to require hardware from the last ~5 years or so. |
Details
| Live Version Used: | 12.2 |
| Max Version Used: | 9.0 |
| Date Added: | Aug 12 2025 18:34:07 |
| Date Last Updated: | No Updates |
| Downloads: | 0 |
| Website: | https://ko-fi.com/s/e679d53058 |
| ⓘ License: | Commercial |
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Heads-up, if anyone else out there was wanting to pull the trigger not this but you're not sure if you're machine can handle it - my machine ended up handling it just fine (specs below in my prior post from 8/14).
When I run it with all the bells and whistles turned on (high diffusion %, damping, unison, etc. etc.). Live shows my CPU at around 18%. So it's not super lightweight but I can run it with a few other VSTs with no issues (I definitely have other M4L devices that chew up more CPU than this).
It's a lot of fun - sounds great and there are a lot of different settings to play around with and tweak (which is what we all really want at the end of the day - isn't it?). Oh and it also looks super clean - I'm digging the UI and the dev is cool/helpful as well. Would recommend to a friend!
When I run it with all the bells and whistles turned on (high diffusion %, damping, unison, etc. etc.). Live shows my CPU at around 18%. So it's not super lightweight but I can run it with a few other VSTs with no issues (I definitely have other M4L devices that chew up more CPU than this).
It's a lot of fun - sounds great and there are a lot of different settings to play around with and tweak (which is what we all really want at the end of the day - isn't it?). Oh and it also looks super clean - I'm digging the UI and the dev is cool/helpful as well. Would recommend to a friend!
Posted on August 17 2025 by FreddyFingaz |
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Also if you are on windows, I can tell you that I am on a 11 year old Intel CPU gaming computer and it runs just fine. There are far worse offenders to the CPU out there. One to be wary about would be Grotta 3D on Isotonik store.
Ijo did a great job (again).
One thing I would suggest.. maybe an input mode for Midi notes would be possible? Do not think it does that now.. or did I overlook something?
Ijo did a great job (again).
One thing I would suggest.. maybe an input mode for Midi notes would be possible? Do not think it does that now.. or did I overlook something?
Posted on August 20 2025 by aoxomoxoa23 |
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I'm on a 2016 MacBook Pro which sounds old as hell (because it is! But honestly, it's pretty few and far-between I come across something I can't run - I just have to be cautious of not running multiple instances and bounce down more often. Running a 2.7 ghz i7 processor and 16 GB of RAM.
I'm tempted to pull the trigger but maybe someone has already rolled the dice and wants to give me some feedback? This is the type of device I wouldn't mind running in a set on it's own with very little else going on, just record the audio then mess with it