REQ: Leafcutter John Forester 2022
Unique and inspiring modular sonic playground and successor to the original Forester released in 2006.
For Mac (Intel & M1), and Windows computers.
Played like an instrument and good at making work feel fun!
Brilliant for working with: Field recordings, Stems, Whole tracks, Live inputs of all kinds.
Forester is a living thing and will be updated regularly (at least every month for the first year 2022). There will be new Generators and Effects periodically which will extend Forester’s capabilities.
Currently in Forester:
GENERATORS
42TF – Rhythm generator which makes a beat out of your input
anni – Weaves a sonic fabric from 8 pitched samples. Inspired by Anni Albers
chunker – Creates rhythmic chunks of the input sample
classic – 2 pitched and looped sections of the input
droner – 2 wandering pitched and looped sections of the input w/phasor
elastique – A speed variable filtered grain of the input with drive. Inspired by Bernard Parmegiani’s Étude Élastique
granular – 16 voice granular playback of input
grit – A crude un-windowed mono grain inspired by Jon Wall
incidenced – Creates rhythmic chunks of the input sample inspired by Bernard Parmegiani’s Incidences / Résonances
phaseVoc – A frozen or slowly moving spectral moment
play – Simple sample playback
stereoIN – Stereo external live sound input
EFFECTS
ampEnv – Looping volume envelope applied to input
ampEnvQ – Looping volume envelope locked to tempo applied to input
fastShift – 2 channel delay based pitch shifter
freqShift – 2 channel FFT based pitch shifter (4096 sample latency)
frozenMo – Spectral hold
grubbyDelay – A slightly fuzzy tape-like delay
looper – Non-quantized looper
reso – 12 resonators
space – Artificial reverberation
squish – An odd little volume increaser
strata – three-band-multi-distorter
Minimum System Requirements
Mac Intel: OS X 10.11.6 or later, Intel® CoreTM2 Duo processor. Intel® CoreTM i5 processor or faster recommended, 8 GB RAM.
Mac Silicon: OS 11.0 or later, Apple M1 ARM-based processor, 8 GB RAM.
Windows: Windows 8 or Windows 10, 64-bit Intel® or AMD multi-core processor. Intel® CoreTM i5 processor or faster recommended, and 8 GB RAM.
Screen size at least 1440 x 900. (Users with smaller screens can use View/Zoom out to make it fit).
Optional: MIDI Keyboard – Very much fun and reccomended.
Disc Space: 1GB.
Forester runs within the Max 8 software Mac or PC. You need Max 8.1.10 or later. You do not have to pay for this. It will just run in demo mode after the 30 days trial. Forester will continue to work perfectly.