Giorgio Sancristoforo Nakama is a new standalone software performance looper with up to eight channels, tape delay, and granular FX.
The Italian developer Giorgio Sancristoforo has made a name for himself in recent years for special software development. This is mainly because he creates inspiring standalone apps instead of VST plugins. This has a vibe of DAWless computer music creation.
His latest Japan-infused app Nakuma is about multi-layer looping and real-time manipulation.
Giorgio Sancristoforo Nakama
Like the previous releases, Nakuma is a software standalone app. Its core hosts a looper optimized for live performances that can create large layers of asynchronous sound for up to one hour. It works in stereo or in different surround setups (2, 4, 8 channels).
You can use anything you want as an input source: voice, synthesizer, guitar, glockenspiel… and create up to eight tape delays/loops from four simultaneous sources. Now, the mangling time begins – the exciting part.
First, you can degrade the looped recordings with several effects, including tape saturation, wow and flutter, noise, spectral gating, sticky shed syndrome, data corruption, and filters. This allows you to steer the signals in other sound directions instantly.
In addition, you can work with up to four granular processors in Giorgio Sancristoforo Nakama, each with classic controls, such as grain envelope and grain size.
Surround Magic
A highlight of this standalone app is the ability to turn the sounds into a surround soundscape. Nakama works with two, four, and eight channels. With a few clicks, it brings surround to the performance, says Giorgio Sancristoforo.
The second UI page is dedicated to the surround settings. Here, you can place up to 12 sources anywhere around you or move them in orbits. Further, each channel offers a highpass and lowpass filter to fine-tune the sources.
Important note: Giorgio Sancristoforo Nakama is not a plugin but a standalone software application. It records the results directly in the software, so you can work in a soft “DAWless” setup. However, you must use tools such as Blackhole or Loopback to route your compositions in your DAW.
Girigo also added MIDI support to the parameters to use with your favorite MIDI controllers. The results you create drift very much into the ambient spheres because the tape delays and granular processors generate lush textures and floating sounds.
First Impression
This is a beautiful new app from Giorgio Sancristoforo that is a live performance tool for sound creation and sonic manipulation on the fly.
I dig the combination of tape delay and granular FX, but I also like that you can degrade the audio. So your creation not only sticks endlessly to the super lush textures but can also go in more dirty and characterful directions.
Giorgio Sancristoforo Nakama is available now for 19,50€. It runs as a standalone application on macOS, and a Windows version is coming later this month.
You can also grab a special end-of-summer deal until September 26, 2024. Choose four software and get 35% off, or get them all with 50% off. To benefit from this deal, you need to contact Giorgio Sancristoforo.
The offer will end on sept 26th!!!!!
More information here: Giorgio Sancristoforo
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