The VOSIM66 software is a Vosim generator and creator, based on the Vosim model. It is written in GNU Octave script language (which is more or less the same as Matlab). The GNU Octave shell can be downloaded and is free. With Vosim66 you can create single Vosim sounds and more complicated series of layered sounds. You can write a score and play it with your sound or you can design soundscapes by defining patterns. Each sound is the sum of two Vosim signals (two generators). Series of sounds can be layered. The software is controlled via the terminal of Octave, using the keyboard for editing. Learning how the Vosim signal works needs some study, but the result is therefore very precisely controllable. The final sound material can be spatially mixed into 2, 4 or 8 speaker reproduction. 

The VOSIM66 software is still work in progress. Send us an email if you like to try the software.

ABOUT VOSIM66:
* Programmed in GNU Octave script language. You need to install GNU Octave first
* Free open source system based on the Vosim model
* Command line inputs with keyboard editor
* Many features to control very precisely your sounds
* Compositional system to combine sounds into scapes
* Sound layering in as many layers as you want
* Controlling of 2, 4 or 8 speaker setups with spatial positioning and reverb
* Manual with detailed instructions
* Examples and libraries

To install VOSIM66, you first have to install GNU Octave on your computer. On Windows platforms its quite easy, because all additional libraries are in the basic package. On Mac OSX there can be more problems especially when your OS is older. Check it via the link below. Extra Octave packages can be loaded directly from Octave forge or via Homebrew or MacPorts. 

System requirements:
Minimum: Windows 7,8,10,11 with GNU Octave (newest version)
Minimum: OSX 10.11 (El Capitan)
Sound Card 2,4 or 8 channels

In the last six years Heinerich Kaegi and Ludger Hurts investigated many different sounds with the VOSIM66 software. This resulted in a wide range of Vosim files. These files will be available in the future for use in VOSIM66 as a library and can be the basis for many new sounds you can design yourself by changing parameters. Our goal is not to compete with existing sound libraries of samples or to create a new production tool for music with "traditional" instrumental sounds. Our goals is to find new sound worlds. To reach this goal it is the best way to start in the field of known sound classes. 

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