Your mission to investigate sonic anomalies could use a holiday boost. NeverEngine Labs’ Incline gets a significant update today, festively labeled as an “Easter egg.” Now you get internal echo in playback, high-fidelity audio output options and tweaks, and proper zoom.
I covered Incline earlier this week — it’s an extraordinary tool for exploring sound as a “toposonic” corpus, using machine learning to segment sounds into something the granular engine can perform.
Echo is significant in using Incline live. Depending on how a sound is segmented and the parameters you choose, you often wind up with gaps. You can now fill that dead air with free-running or tempo-synced delays, as well as transform the character of the playback using short delays and feedback. Here, listen:
Official update details for 1.0.25:
- Added a dedicated, high-quality echo delay with tone shaping which syncs to bpm (int or ext)
- Fixed the ‘start’ button so it actually starts the audio
- Upgraded PCM out and recording out to full 24bit
- Recordings now match the system sample rate properly
- Full screen resolution support via a Zoom native menu item
Note: if you feel you’re hunting around, a last-minute issue has prevented auto-update from functioning as I published this. For now, here are the direct links:
ARM (Apple Silicon/M1): https://cdn.crabnebula.app/download/neverenginelabs/nel-incline/latest/platform/dmg-aarch64
Intel: https://cdn.crabnebula.app/download/neverenginelabs/nel-incline/latest/platform/dmg-x86_64
And here’s the story from earlier this week:
More: https://neverenginelabs.com/products/incline-toposonic-corpus-explorer