Sound Quest Infinity - Sound Design and Multi Media Device Control Studio for Windows

Sound Quest's Infinity won the 2003 EM Editor's Choice award for Ancillary Software in the January 2003 issue of Electronic Musician.

Infinity turns your computer into a real musical instrument. It is a truly open-ended sound development system that you can use without requiring any additional custom hardware. With the power to create a virtually unlimited number of sounds, it may be one of the most powerful sound creation tools you will ever own.

With Infinity, you can now create synthesizers, samplers, digital audio effects, MIDI effects, and multimedia presentations which are as simple or as complex as you need them to be. Its potential is virtually limitless. Imagine creating your own synth using 4, 8, 12 or16 oscillators instead of just 2 that a typical hardware synthesizer usually gives you.

Infinity is a powerful and intuitive real-time audio development platform. An extensive set of modules – there are over 370 of them – provide the building blocks you use to create your own audio tools. Building your instrument is as easy as clicking, pointing and linking up each of the necessary elements together. You will quickly be able to build virtually any audio effect, synth, or sampler you can imagine.

With Infinity, you can connect any module to any other module. This gives you the freedom to create your own collection of completely original sounds from the unusual and unexpected, to the extreme – all of the things you can’t do with your traditional instrument hardwired to the standard Oscillator-Filter-Amplifier audio path. This “no boundaries” approach will make Infinity an indispensable part of your studio. Infinity gives you all of the standard synth and sampler sounds when you need them but now you will also have the tools to undertake any audio exploration you can imagine – from twisted FM, to mutated samples, to frequency domain processed sounds.

Not only does Infinity include everything you need to create your audio tools, it also includes a collection of instruments and effects you can use in your music right now. Just choose from 23 synthesizers (including straight ahead 1, 2, and 3 oscillator synths, organs, FM synths, and string machines), 2 drum kits, or 42 different audio processing effects and you’re ready to go. Each instrument has its own unique and customizable interface and the selection will continue to grow as Sound Quest adds new instruments which can be downloaded from its web site. Infinity also includes over 100 MIDI processing patches and can manipulate MIDI in any way you wish.

Infinity gives you a head start when you begin creating your own instruments and effects from scratch. With over 140 predefined macros, Infinity already includes the basic building blocks you will need to make your synthesizer. For example, if you need to add an ADSR envelope you don’t have to build it, just drag and drop it from the envelope macros menu and you’re done. It’s easy to create massive chains of synthesis, sample and processing modules using Infinity’s graphic signal flow layout window and you can create your own custom control surfaces without writing a single line of code.

Infinity features the most extensive drag and drop capabilities possible. Anywhere that a file from disk is used, be it a wave file, bitmap graphic, Midi Quest patch, or Infinity patch, instead of going through the hassle of typing in a path and file name, you can simply drag the file from Explorer and drop it into Infinity.

With Infinity, you have complete control over the design and layout of each instrument’s control panel. You can place the controls anywhere in the window you wish and make them any size you want. Most importantly, for the graphic knobs, sliders, switches, and VU meters, you can display the control using a selection of included bitmaps or use your own custom bitmaps for the display. You can even specify that your own graphics be used as defaults for every control where a bitmap isn’t specifically selected. You won’t find this level of flexibility and customization anywhere else.

Features:

• Utilizes an easy-to-use graphic flow to process audio, MIDI and program control events. Events flow from one object to another through color coded cables
• The only program of its type to utilize a tree view display which gives you a complete overview of your entire device as it is developed
• Dynamic object loading - load objects only when required for faster program loading and reduced memory requirements
• Create your own customized palettes of Infinity objects
• Includes a complete complement of editing options
• Create custom panels for each of your Infinity devices
• Create an unlimited number of setups that are stored with each device (instrument, effect, processor) that you create
• Full automation support so that instrument or effect parameters can change over time

System Requirements:

• Platforms: Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98, 95 and NT 4.0
• Minimum Hardware: 333MHz PII or Celeron system (for MIDI only / no audio)
• Recommended Hardware: 500MHz PIII or higher
• Memory: 64MB
• Audio interface (optional): any audio interface with WAVE, DS, or ASIO drivers
• MIDI interface (optional): any MIDI interface with Windows drivers

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