Aphex Twin shares new sample matching app ‘Samplebrain’

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Aphex Twin has launched a new sample matching app called ‘Samplebrain’ – find all the details and check it out for yourself below.In a post on his blog, Aphex – aka Richard James – revealed that the software, created by himself and Dave Griffiths, had been in development for two decades, and originally inspired by the emergence of Shazam.Samplebrain is described as “a custom sample mashing app” that “chops samples up into a ‘brain’ of interconnected small sections called blocks, which are connected into a network by similarity.“It processes a target sample, chopping it up into blocks in the same way, and tries to match each block with one in its brain to play in realtime.“This allows you to interpret a sound with a different one.

As we worked on it (during 2015 and 2016) we gradually added more and more tweakable parameters until it became slightly out of control.”Try ‘Samplebrain’ yourself here.Dave Griffiths and @AphexTwin launch ‘Samplebrain’ – free sound design software, available now.→ https://t.co/7QKKLKSFHv pic.twitter.com/biGP9sz5G4— Warp Records (@WarpRecords) September 24, 2022Explaining the origins of the idea, Aphex wrote: “This idea came about a long time ago, not sure exactly when, 2002 ish but when mp3’s started to become a thing, when for the first time there were a ton of them sitting on my hard drive and the brilliant Shazam had recently launched.