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Bioscape - A Sonic Kaleidoscope of Found Sound Cinematics

Luftrum said:
Hohoho! Welcome to the festive cheer of Christmas, a time where hearts grow warmer and generosity knows no bounds. I have a special gift to you below, but there's a playful twist attached, so before you go ahead and accept the gift I say this:

If you take the exclusive one-time-use gift code below and redeem it, I ask of you to pay it forward with a kind gesture of your own before the end of December.

How you do that is all up to you, but it could be anything from surprising a stranger with a thoughtful gift to lending your talents in composing, producing, or assisting someone - all without expecting anything in return. (giving gifts to your children doesn't count, assisting your spouse in the kitchen doesn't count either!)

Are you cool with that? Okay then, enter the code crossingfingersIwillpayitforward in the promo field at checkout and secure a licence of Bioscape for completely free, for absolutely 0$, nada, zip, zill.

Merry Christmas if you celebrate, or happy holidays otherwise.
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You've gone mad with virtue!
 
samjoh said:
Really?
It worked for me just a few minutes ago, and it says it's valid until the end of December?
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it seems so, but the other code for Lunaris 2 worked for me! So I’m still VERY happy! Thank you very much @Luftrum, and will pay it forward too! Merry Christmas!
 

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Oh I see…
So I’m the only one to redeem it then?
Now I almost feel bad. But I’m super grateful and glad to now be a owner of Bioscape.
And I’ve been shoveling snow at my neighbours for a couple of hours due to a blizzard here in Sweden. I hope that counts as a good deed. At least I’m dead tired now. 😅
 
It's one time use only. They aren't going to give everyone a free copy of Lunaris 2 and Bioscape. That would obviously make a mockery of their sale and infuriate everyone who's bought it recently.
 
Oh - never mind, I get it now. “One-time-use” didn’t mean per customer, it meant one single unique use. So basically, whoever got it first. Still generous I guess, but I’m not really a fan of this style of giveaway, it’s a little too “haves and have-nots”
 
danstein said:
Oh - never mind, I get it now. “One-time-use” didn’t mean per customer, it meant one single unique use. So basically, whoever got it first. Still generous I guess, but I’m not really a fan of this style of giveaway, it’s a little too “haves and have-nots”
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I agree. Not so much due to the "haves and have nots", but it just increases the FOMO issues with wanting to check online all the time.

"Will I miss this giveaway, limited use code, flash deal etc etc"

Granted, that's a personal problem, but the internet is bad enough for our collective mental health and things like this make it worse.



Just to make where I am coming from clear :

it isn't the free giveaway that is the issue. Nothing wrong with that, but this is the wrong way to go about it. If you just send it randomly to one lucky member on the mailing list or one lucky previous customer, then the "luck" is just that. It's pure luck with no user input as such.

If you do something like this with a code posted on a forum, from a mental health perspective, a person could start to beat themselves up about it for not checking the forums at the right time/enough leading to anxiety/FOMO and thinking one needs to keep checking all the time.

I realise that this is mostly the point....it drives engagement to a product thread/website etc, but that doesn't make it all fine and dandy in my opinion.
 
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The code didn't work for me. But of course, it did entice me to visit the website.
A bit of harmless clickbait I suppose, pointing me towards the 40% discount ($159 → $95)
:grin:
 
samjoh said:
Oh I see…
So I’m the only one to redeem it then?
Now I almost feel bad. But I’m super grateful and glad to now be a owner of Bioscape.
And I’ve been shoveling snow at my neighbours for a couple of hours due to a blizzard here in Sweden. I hope that counts as a good deed. At least I’m dead tired now. 😅
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As long as you are paying it forward, all is good, no reason in the slightest to feel bad!
 
Eptesicus said:
I agree. Not so much due to the "haves and have nots", but it just increases the FOMO issues with wanting to check online all the time.

"Will I miss this giveaway, limited use code, flash deal etc etc"

Granted, that's a personal problem, but the internet is bad enough for our collective mental health and things like this make it worse.



Just to make where I am coming from clear :

it isn't the free giveaway that is the issue. Nothing wrong with that, but this is the wrong way to go about it. If you just send it randomly to one lucky member on the mailing list or one lucky previous customer, then the "luck" is just that. It's pure luck with no user input as such.

If you do something like this with a code posted on a forum, from a mental health perspective, a person could start to beat themselves up about it for not checking the forums at the right time/enough leading to anxiety/FOMO and thinking one needs to keep checking all the time.

I realise that this is mostly the point....it drives engagement to a product thread/website etc, but that doesn't make it all fine and dandy in my opinion.
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Life completely consists out of opportunities, chance encounters and chaotic randomness.

In fact, Luftrum here is extremely generous in giving away two licenses. If you cannot bear to be happy for the two people who were in luck, maybe it's time to lock yourself up in your home and stop interfacing with the outside world. Everything is chaos.

You've done nothing but whinge about unfairness these past few days. There's nothing unfair about this.

I thought I was the Grinch on this board. Guess my role has been taken.

This is why we can't have nice things.
 
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Crowe said:
Life completely consists out of opportunities, chance encounters and chaotic randomness.

In fact, Luftrum here is extremely generous in giving away two licenses. If you cannot bear to be happy for the two people who were in luck, maybe it's time to lock yourself up in your home and stop interfacing with the outside world. Everything is chaos.

You've done nothing but whinge about unfairness these past few days. There's nothing unfair about this.

I thought I was the Grinch on this board. Guess my role has been taken.
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Enjoying your Christmas Day making up strawman arguments I see. I never mentioned fairness in my post at all (and neither did the post I replied to), yet you've emboldened that point of yours for some reason.

I was more interested in the pyschological effect of these things, as per post, as Im extremely interested in the determntal effects of the internet on the world's mental health and the other poster raised an interesting point.

Anyway, I admit this isn't really the thread to discuss that in so I don't think angry, argumentative strawman responses are really wanted here . Merry Christmas!
 
Eptesicus said:
Enjoying your Christmas Day making up strawman arguments I see. I never mentioned fairness in my post at all and neither did the post I replied to), yet you've emboldened that point of yours for some reason.

I was more interested in the pyschological effect of these things, as per post, as Im extremely interested in the determntal effects of the internet on the world's mental health and the other poster raised an interesting point.

Anyway, Merry Christmas!
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Lol. No, I'm just telling you we are all damaged and it's our own responsibility to deal with that.

Stop trying to make your issues the responsibility of other people.

Merry Christmas indeed.

Edit: I don't think you understand what a straw man argument even is. Unless you haven't been incessantly whinging in the spitfire thread for the last few days and this version of you exists in a vacuum.

But sure, I'll be the scarecrow. Go away, obnoxious little bird.
 
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Diving into Bioscape and love the sounds and programming, but a bit frustrated with the experience of browsing presets navigating sound sources with the pull down menus. Any tips? For example, I'm looking for sounds that are like waves gently crashing on a shore, a sort of atmospheric slow breath swelling type pad or atmospheric sound that comes and goes. I know these types of sounds are in bioscape and have already found a few, but it seems like pure luck that I find them. Any tips to actually search and find these types of sounds? Perhaps I'm spoiled by Omnisphere's browser and tagging system, but even older Kontakt instruments by companies like Output have made browsing patches a bit easier by having tags that filter the presets & favorites tagging when you find something cool. Would be nice to have this type of functionality in Bioscape. It would also be amazing to be able to extend this tagging based on the soundsources used - e.g. show me all presets that use "water."

Any tips for browsing around Bioscape? I'm going to experiment with using the Mac OS to search snapshots as I often do this with Kontakt instruments and just drag them in. We will see if snapshots can drag and drop, but even if that does work it will still be limited to the snapshot names which is nothing like tags / soundsource search. Maybe Kontakt 7 offers an enhancement in this area? (I'm still on K6)
 
JT3_Jon said:
Diving into Bioscape and love the sounds and programming, but a bit frustrated with the experience of browsing presets navigating sound sources with the pull down menus. Any tips? For example, I'm looking for sounds that are like waves gently crashing on a shore, a sort of atmospheric slow breath swelling type pad or atmospheric sound that comes and goes. I know these types of sounds are in bioscape and have already found a few, but it seems like pure luck that I find them. Any tips to actually search and find these types of sounds? Perhaps I'm spoiled by Omnisphere's browser and tagging system, but even older Kontakt instruments by companies like Output have made browsing patches a bit easier by having tags that filter the presets & favorites tagging when you find something cool. Would be nice to have this type of functionality in Bioscape. It would also be amazing to be able to extend this tagging based on the soundsources used - e.g. show me all presets that use "water."

Any tips for browsing around Bioscape? I'm going to experiment with using the Mac OS to search snapshots as I often do this with Kontakt instruments and just drag them in. We will see if snapshots can drag and drop, but even if that does work it will still be limited to the snapshot names which is nothing like tags / soundsource search. Maybe Kontakt 7 offers an enhancement in this area? (I'm still on K6)
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If Komplete Kontrol wasn't KOMPLETLY busted I'd recommend using that to browse presets but it currently crashes any DAW I use it with ☺ it's faster to browse the previews tho.
 
mafgar said:
If Komplete Kontrol wasn't KOMPLETLY busted I'd recommend using that to browse presets but it currently crashes any DAW I use it with ☺ it's faster to browse the previews tho.
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Do you need a Komplete Control Keyboard to use the software? I was under the impression you did but maybe I'm wrong?
 
Paj said:
@JT3_Jon: Have you checked out pp16, 18, and 25-26 of the manual? They might help.

Paj
8^?
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pp16 is about the sound categories and keeping the last selected sound source when changing sound sources = not about browsing snapshot presets

pp18 is about NKS ready for komplete control keyboards? Unfortunately I do not own one so I skipped it intially, but this actually did seem promising... until mafgar's post. :(

pg25-26 are about what the mutate function controls and not related to presets.

I did quickly scan the manual before posting, but will read it more slowly as I want to better understand this wonderful instrument anyway. Of course when inspiration strikes I want to be able to quickly find sounds which is why I posted, but I really should study an instrument fully before trying to dive in and getting frustrated. Thanks for the remind Paj
 
I just saw "Water" and "Rain" among the categories on pp24-25 so I thought you might be able to use the settings to help you tweak anything similar or possible that you came across. I thought p16 might help in limiting similarity searches. P18 refers to the Komplete Kontrol program, which does not require a Komplete keyboard (for full functionality it's more of the other way around).

Don't forget that you can also use your own ocean/water samples in Bioscape to create or alter a preset.

Paj
8^)
 
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