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Lemurized newscool; Complements of Antonio, and will be available to the public soon.

What is newscool ?

Newscool is a Reaktor classic – now it’s completely rebuilt, with an innovative
sequencer (at the top) and the characteristic sound engine (at the bottom).

The engine consists of a tone generator on the left and a multi-effect unit
on the right. The signal is produced by eight parallel oscillator units whose
parameters are modulated extensively. The effect unit parameters  – providing
pitch shifting, delay and filter -  are similarly modulated.

The sequencer is based on the Life model developed by John Conway in the
1970s. A two-dimensional pattern is processed in steps: An element of the
pattern becomes alive (dark in this implementation) in the following step if
three of its eight neighbors are alive in this step; it remains alive in the subse-
quent one if two or three neighbors are alive in the current one – else it dies
(and becomes a light square again).

Several patterns emerge over time by this set of rules:
Gliders move over the grid, crosses oscillate in several phases,
some objects remain stable and don’t change from step to step while others
remain unstable forever. These patterns trigger the sound engine, generating
“lively” sequences.