Immersion Station - Infinite Ambient Music
By Freeman Media, LLC
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Description
Immersion Station brings you infinite ambient music, created from the soundworlds of ambient music pioneer Steve Roach. Use Immersion Station to create the perfect atmosphere for deep listening, meditation and supportive sound spaces for working at the computer, reading, and sleeping.
Immersion Station is an elegant interactive sound immersion tool. Create infinite mix combinations from five different loops of varied lengths for endless playback. These sounds have been extracted from the heart of Steve Roach’s soundworlds and carefully chosen for a congruent relationship allowing the user to sculpt constantly changing ambient music.
The Immersion Station interface and application, created by Software Artist Eric Freeman (working closely with Steve), allows you to mix loops using a simple, intuitive, interactive and organic interface that is reflective of Steve's work. You can visit http://www.immersionstation.com for a complete demonstration.
FEATURES
* Easily create custom soundscapes from Steve Roach's source loops
* Includes 80 megabytes of loops custom crafted by Steve Roach
* Includes five custom mixes from Steve Roach
* Each mix provides constantly changing ambient music
* Save your own mixes at any time
* Control the volume or stereo pan of each loop
* Incubate new mixes using the evolve function
* Plays music in the background with iOS 4
* Optimized with HD Images for iPhone 4 Retina display
* CD quality sound
* Supports Apple's remote interface for controlling playback
* User's guide provided in the App and online
Recommended for headphones or external speakers.
ATTENTION iPhone/iPod touch 3.1 Users
iOS 3.1 does not support stereo pan, but that's okay, the Immersion station still sounds wonderful. To enable control of stereo pan, just freely upgrade to iOS 4.
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Customer Reviews
Infinite ambient soundworlds from Steve Roach, highly recommended
The shifting, warping, meditative soundworlds of ambient-atmospheric-electronic music master Steve Roach melt into endless combinations. Drag the spheres into position to alter the mix, then let them gradually slide around your head and into your subconscious mind. Perfect for hours of uninterrupted meditation, study, yoga, or just tuning-out the Real World. Created in collaboration with Steve Roach, this is first-class and highly professional in every last detail, as any fan of Steve's music would expect.
This app cost me $231.99
...because I bought an iPod specifically for it. And it's WORTH EVERY CENT. I had the great fortune of studying with Steve Roach a few years back. Not only is he a master of his craft, but is generous in sharing his knowledge and philosophies, and when this app was rolled out a few weeks ago at SoundQuest Fest 2010, in Tucson, AZ, I knew I had no choice but to immerse myself in Steve's newest artistic evolution. The app is beatiful to look at as it is to listen to, and simple to use. You can select preset sound mixes, manipulate the spheres to create your own mix of the 5 different sound environments, or set the environments to evolve on their own - ad infintum. That's what really hooked me; set to Evolve, you could listen for days, weeks, months... and it never sounds the same twice. This is a truely brilliant work for lovers of ambient music.
Worth it for anyone interested in a great pan-ambience generator.
If you're looking for a program to generate airy new-age type stuff, then yes, this program is probably not for you. However if you want truly immersive, deep, dark, pan-ambient soundscapes, then this program is superb for relaxation and meditation. (and, according to some, sleep-aid) While Bloom seems to the app most people recommend when discussing these types of generative ambient programs, Bloom is not for everyone, especially people who want something with a little more edge to it. Immersion Station basically fills that gap by providing a generative system (to an extent) that is less melodic and more about soundscape and mood. The idea of creating your own continually playing mix based around 5 superb loops (each with it's own sound characteristics) is great on its own, and this program lets you do that wonderfully. Where it really shines, though, is the "Evolve" button which essentially takes the mix you have set up (or preselected) and slowly changes the characteristics. The end result is something any lover of ambient sound environments/installations will fall in love with. An amazing program for fans of this stuff. If I had any suggestions for the developers it would be perhaps an upgrade to the evolve feature whcih allows the program to randomly turn spheres on and off instead of only working with the spheres that are already on.
- $2.99
- Category: Music
- Released: Oct 20, 2010
- Version: 1.11
- Size: 74.5 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Eric Freeman
- © 2010 Soundquest Music and Freeman Media, LLC
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later
