Phosphene 1.2.0

Phosphene 1.2.0 adds a Field track: a sampler for field recordings that puts a place under the music — a rainforest, a night of insects, rain, a river, a cave, a machine hall, the wind on Mars.

Downloads

• Phosphene-1.2.0-Setup.exe — installs the standalone and the VST3 and fetches the data (wavetables, learned models, spoken phrases) from Phosphene-data-1.2.0.zip below. With the component "Field recordings" ticked (the default) it also downloads the Field track's recordings, 2 GB, from the release field-data-1. Untick it and everything else plays; only the Field track and the NASA shots stay silent.
• Phosphene-1.2.0-portable.zip — the program in one archive, nothing to install. For the Field track unpack the two archives of field-data-1 beside Phosphene.exe.
• Phosphene-Manual.pdf — every tab as a picture, every parameter, the signal flow; new chapter "Field".
• PhospheneQuest.apk — the native Meta Quest build (adb install -r PhospheneQuest.apk); the field recordings go on with adb push field /sdcard/Android/data/com.reneweller.phosphene.quest/files/. It has not yet been run on a headset.

Requirements: Windows 10 or 11 (x64) with AVX2, and a VST3 host for the plugin.

New in 1.2.0

• The Field track — a sampler, in the spirit of Kontakt: the original recordings (FLAC, not converted), two layers A and B with pitch, start and direction; a loop over any stretch of a recording, joined by an equal-power crossfade, so a recording that was not made as a loop plays as one; amp and filter envelopes, the synths' state-variable filter or nine circuit models, a low cut, and the same modulation block as the synths (mod envelope, four LFOs, eight-slot matrix). A tab of its own and a strip on the mixer.
• 157 recordings: 120 in 30 categories (forest, night, water, weather, fire, ritual, caves, machines, radio and space) and 37 of NASA's.
• 160 presets, one per recording and twenty scenes of two layered places (Jungle Night, Swamp, Machine Hall …). The composer draws one per track by style — Dark Forest always has its place, Hi-Tech least — and plays it under intros, breakdowns and outros, never in a build-up or a drop. New knob: Field Density on the Set tab. A folder of your own recordings can be added.
• Space Shot, a new effect: NASA's short recordings — a rocket launch, Sputnik's beep, Saturn's radio emissions, a quake on Mars — played whole after the cut of a breakdown.
• 196 spoken phrases instead of 31: NASA's and the radio recordings complete.
• Without the recordings the score is the same note for note and everything plays; only the Field track and the shots are silent.

Licence: AGPL-3.0. Credits for every recording: CREDITS-field.md, CREDITS-voices.md.

Field recordings, set 1

The recordings of Phosphene's Field track (from version 1.2.0 on): 157 original FLAC files, 1.97 GB.

• 120 field recordings in 30 categories, four each: rainforest, night, insects, foliage, wetland, mud, cave, river, sea, rain, wind, underwater, ice, desert, fire, geothermal, seismic, ritual objects, abandoned places, tunnels, metal, drones, electric hum, ventilation, factory, polar station, radio and empty space, grain. Generated with Stable Audio 3 for Noctuary by the same author.
• 37 NASA recordings (not subject to copyright; credit: NASA; the Webb sonifications NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI): sounds from Mars, mission recordings and signals, the Webb sonifications. The longer ones play as atmospheres on the Field track, the ones up to 25 s as the effect "Space Shot". Using them implies no endorsement by NASA.

You normally don't download these by hand: the setup of Phosphene 1.2.0 fetches both archives when its component "Field recordings" is ticked (the default) and installs them once into %ProgramData%\Phosphene\field.

By hand (portable zip): unpack both archives beside Phosphene.exe, so that a folder field lies next to it. Meta Quest: adb push field /sdcard/Android/data/com.reneweller.phosphene.quest/files/

Without the recordings Phosphene plays as before; only the Field track and the NASA shots stay silent. Where every file comes from: field/CREDITS-field.md inside the archives.

Phosphene 1.1.0

The first public release of Phosphene: a generator that composes and synthesizes complete psytrance sets — Goa, Full-On, Progressive, Dark Forest and Hi-Tech — from a seed, a style and an energy arc.

Downloads

• Phosphene-1.1.0-Setup.exe — installs the standalone and the VST3 and fetches the data (wavetables, the two learned models, the spoken phrases) from Phosphene-data-1.1.0.zip below. No runtime to install.
• Phosphene-1.1.0-portable.zip — everything in one archive, nothing to install.
• Phosphene-Manual.pdf — every tab as a picture, every parameter, the signal flow and the reasons behind the design.
• PhospheneQuest.apk — the native Meta Quest build (adb install -r PhospheneQuest.apk). It has not yet been run on a headset.

Requirements: Windows 10 or 11 (x64) with AVX2, and a VST3 host for the plugin.

What is in it

• The composer: a set arc over the night, tracks built from a grammar of intro, grooves, buildups, breakdowns, drops and outro, five style profiles, melodies under written genre rules with a learned model behind them, DJ-style overlaps between tracks, locks and rerolls for any track or section.
• Nine synthesizers with 9216 presets: kick, rolling bass, a 303 acid and six polyphonic voices (lead, counter, arp, stab, pad, drone) with supersaw, VA, FM and wavetable oscillators, a state-variable filter or nine circuit-modelled filters, full envelopes, four LFOs and an eight-slot mod matrix. The composer picks a preset per synth and track by style and evens their loudness out.
• A twelve-lane percussion kit, effects, a shamanic bed and spoken phrases.
• Mixed and mastered as it plays: channel strips with sidechain duck, trance gate and distance; room, plate and hall; level, presence and audibility matching; bus compressor, mono bass, clipper and a true-peak limiter on a loudness target.
• The panel: sixteen tabs generated from the engine's tables; a live ring on every knob and fader shows what the composer and the modulation play; turning a knob takes a sound over. MIDI out, MIDI and set export, a recorder, score cues over OSC.

Licence: AGPL-3.0.