Play withpossibility.

Follow the frequency

Soundcat

Find it. Shape it. Make it yours.

BehindSoundcat.

Design and development

Andreas Kaitis designed Soundcat and directed its development. He shaped the software architecture and how the instrument responds when you play it. He used AI assistance during development.

A newbranch.

Randomize

Not a scramble.

Randomize starts a new branch: a playable set of values, plus a few musical modulation routes and typed engine routes. Mutate stays on the branch you are on and nudges it. Locks, tempo, and audio-file paths stay put.

Earlierfutures.

Branch

Lanes you can return to.

Variations are lanes, not a single undo stack you fall off. Randomize forks. Mutate continues the selected lane. Edits stay on the variation you picked. Earlier futures remain, and you can go back to one.

Holdboth.

A / B

Compare, then morph.

Two sounds held at once. Compare them, then morph between the pair. Exploring a variation does not wipe the A and B ends or the morph position.

And therest.

Four enginesSubtractive, FM, additive, and wavetable, or a hybrid of them, in one voice.
Patch bayRoute audio, or turn audio into control: follow, rectify, sample and hold.
LEARNDrop in a short reference and get an ordinary editable patch back. Inverse synthesis, not a preset lookup.
Sound BodyOne gesture toward bright, wild, wide, deep, dark, clean, focused, or dry.
ExpressionsRelative macros on the controls you care about.
Keep itPlay from MIDI, the mouse, or the keyboard. Save a .soundcat file.

Hear itmove.

Recordings will live on YouTube. These frames stay quiet until then.

Random

Still to come

Branch

Still to come

A/B

Still to come

Open

Still to come

GetSoundcat.

AGPL-3.0-or-later

Soundcat 1.0.6 beta 3

Free downloads

macOS for Apple Silicon (unsigned DMG) · Windows x64 installer

Public source archive (ZIP) · SHA-256 checksums

Development on GitLab (requires sign-in and project access).

Optional support: buy Andreas a coffee.