Tired of Big Tech scanning your online data? Why not make your own deep scan of all the lost sound files on your own hard drive, producing an entirely local result? No sooner than Envion wowed us with its beautiful esoteric sonic landscapes, its developer Emiliano drops a killer second act.
We’ve been training for this moment. Sure, others mocked us for our chaotic packrat approach to leaving random audio files scattered across an incomprehensible directory structure. What’s there: some melody you sang into your phone, a collection of distorted 1-shots from a vintage Eastern Bloc drum machine’s snares, bounces of three dozen unreleased witch house albums, a podcast you recorded with a friend while doing a pandemic rewatch of SeaQuest DSV … it’s all fodder for your next hit release to send to The Wire.
My God. It’s full of sounds.
I’m sold. Here’s the full description.
On this laptop, the hard drive searches you.
Deepscan is the new Envion 5.2 module dedicated to “domestic found sound”: it doesn’t fetch from the web — it excavates your own machine. How many fragments of audio are you already storing without knowing? Old exports, abandoned stems, rehearsal takes, broken render files, forgotten DAW bounces, pre-crash backups… every hard disk contains a dormant sonic ecosystem. Deepscan takes this hidden mass and turns it into living material:
- it scans any folder (even your entire Documents or Home directory)
- extracts all usable audio files
- feeds them directly into Envion’s routing matrix
Immediately ready to be articulated through Dynatext, saturated through Nuke, diffused through tape-echo, Dynagran or shaped through gesture and process. It’s almost archaeological: you don’t choose the sound → the sound re-emerges. The idea is partly inspired by Brian Eno, who recently described a very similar approach: modern composition often means curating what already exists, rather than generating ex nihilo. Envion converts this intuition into an algorithmic, living workflow — not a library, but a living archive that keeps resurfacing. For DAW users (Ableton, Logic, Reaper, etc.): this means instant access to all your forgotten exports, test bounces, texture sketches, “temporary” renders that became ghosts in the file system — all resurrected through a single scan. Not browsing — resurfacing. Not nostalgia — active memory.
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