AudioMulch is an interactive musician's environment. Bringing together the popular and the experimental, AudioMulch merges the worlds of mainstream electronica and electroacoustic sound composition to create a fluid sonic environment.

While many of the processes featured within AudioMulch are not new to computer music programs, it is the software's ability to carry out these traditionally "studio" or "non-real-time" signal processing techniques in real-time that emerges as its major asset. With AudioMulch, music that has for so long been limited to the pre & post-production practices of a studio can emerge in a new LIVE and interactive context.

Through the essentially unlimited (only by the power of the computer) combination of a network of synthesis and processing contraptions, AudioMulch allows the user to extend their current audio processing capabilities or create new music within their computer without additional expensive software or hardware systems.

AudioMulch 'Contraptions' (signal processing elements) include:

• Signal Generators: Test tone / noise, drum machine, bassline synthesizer, additive synthesizer, stored sample granulator, loop player, streaming sound file players and recorders (up to 24 channels), Shepard / Risset tone generator, arpeggiator.
• Effects: Reverb, flanger, phaser, delay line granulator, ring / amplitude modulation, stereo delays, dynamic stereo spatialiser, waveshaper / distortion, digital grunge inducer, pulsar comb filter, frequency shifter, 16 channel live sampling looper, live sampling "canon" looper.
• Filters: Parametric EQ, resonant comb filter bank, Shepard / Risset filter bank, granular filtering, resonant lowpass with pattern triggering and envelope following control.
• Mixers: Mono and stereo mixers and gain elements, crossfader, matrix with variable fade times.

AudioMulch supports VST audio effects plugins, allowing hundreds of free plugins and many commercial plugins to be used within the AudioMulch environment.

AudioMulch can be used to process and generate sound files or as a live performance instrument.

AudioMulch allows any processing parameter to be controlled via MIDI. It can synchronise to an external MIDI clock source or generate MIDI clocks which other devices can synchronise with. You can also synchronise copies of AudioMulch running on different computers using a wired or wireless network.

Up to 24 channels of real-time audio input and output can be generated and / or processed by AudioMulch when used in conjunction with a multi-channel soundcard.

For multi-channel and surround sound applications AudioMulch supports recording and playback of multi-channel sound-files, or multiple synchronised sound-files.

New in v2.0.3

• Fixed crash bug when loading AudioMulch 1.0 documents that contain Drums contraptions with MIDI-controlled or automated channel volumes.
• Fixed bug where you wouldn't be prompted to save changes before closing the document if the only change you made was renaming contraptions.
• Fixed bug where VSTs with a MIDI output and no audio output would receive incoming MIDI messages twice.
• Windows: Fixed "cannot load sqlite database driver!" error while trying to access the help file on some machines.
• Mac: Fixed bug where Save a Copy with Sound Files command would display "An error occurred while creating a directory in which to save the referenced sound files" when trying to overwrite a previously saved document and sound files directory.
• Mac: Fixed bug where contraption names were not displayed on small contraption editors such as those for MGain, SGain and OGain.
• Fixed bug where LoopPlayer, FilePlayer, etc. would sometimes not show the question-mark icon when AudioMulch could not find the sound file.
• Fixed glitch where the sound file name in LoopPlayer, FilePlayer would sometimes be abbreviated with "..." even when there was space for a longer name.
• Fixed bug where the Notes window was given focus after loading a document, so you couldn't immediately use transport key-shortcuts (because they would type in the Notes window instead).
• Fixed bug where you couldn't close the Set Value dialog box by pressing the Enter key.
• Fixed bug where triggering Clock.GoToStart via MIDI didn't update the transport position on the GUI if the clock was stopped.
• Fixed document switcher to scroll back to top when a new document set is Opened, on New, and on Clear All.
• Fixed patcher display glitch where some ports would remain incorrectly colored after reconnecting patch cords.