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Spectral Pool: a sound studio you can draw on

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Spectral Pool presents a visual music studio for drawing notes and pitch gestures, shaping instruments and effects, and working with MIDI/MPE.

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Composers and sound designers working with expressive MIDI
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A 32-partial additive synth sits in a device graph, while spectral layers can be hidden without changing the mix.

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The described canvas separates the drawn performance from the resulting sound: notes and bends remain editable over a spectrogram, whose rendering can update asynchronously. Sound brushes can recall a track’s synth, effects chain, and playing response. In the session view, clips can be launched individually or together as scenes at musical boundaries; the page says arrangement recording can capture a performance as it is built.

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