ALL THE MACHINES

Divine Machinery makes synthesizers and music tools that try to synthesize and capture nature and the human condition. Five come out first. Each one makes sound and draws it, in changing letters, greys and red.

PETRICHORRAIN INSTRUMENT

rain on dry earth, and standing in it

A stereo rain instrument and sound design tool for music and film. Drops on nine surfaces, wind, thunder, passing cars, and seven places to stand. Every drop you hear, you see.

COMING SOON

UNDERTOWSEA INSTRUMENT

the pull of the sea at night

A stereo sea instrument for music and film. One control from glassy to phenomenal; every wave rolls in from the horizon, breaks, peels along the shore and drags back down. Every wave you hear, you see.

COMING SOON

UPDRAFTHOVER CAR

the city's engines, overhead

A hover car's engines, flown through Chongqing in 2077, a city grown like a megastructure. Every place you fly, you see.

COMING SOON

APPARITIONOSCILLOSCOPE

what a sound leaves behind

An oscilloscope that shows sound six ways, in changing letters: a trace, a goniometer, a morphing relic, a murmuration, a cascade of code and a mandala.

COMING SOON

BENEDICTIONPLAYED WITH YOUR HANDS

a blessing given by hand

An effect you play with your hands through a camera. Pinch to play, and a fist holds it. Six effects and four punch-ins locked to your song's tempo.

COMING SOON

POPPIESGRANULAR TAPE

remembrance: a field at night

Twelve grains off a 2.8-second tape, a freeze, and a reverb that shimmers above halfway. A petal falls for every grain it plays.

IN PROGRESS

MOTHWEST COAST PLUCK

longing: the pull toward light

A wavefolder, FM and a low-pass gate that falls like a vactrol. Moths scatter from the bulb with every strike.

IN PROGRESS

HUBRISPLATE REVERB

pride, and being watched

A plate reverb watched by an eye. Notes send rings across it; the tail swells its star; loud input tightens the pupil.

IN PROGRESS

HUMILITYGRANULAR PORTRAIT

sorrow, and what's left after

Six grains from a stereo buffer. A portrait flickers a column for each grain, and its tears follow the trail.

IN PROGRESS

CORRIDORTAPE ECHO

memory, further away with every echo

A tape echo locked to your song, with wow, hiss and dropouts. Each frame down the corridor is an echo from further back.

IN PROGRESS

PENANCEDRIVE · FOLD · SHIFT

atonement, struck out on drums

A saturator, clipper and wavefolder with a frequency shifter, made for drums. Loudness matched, clean below the crossover.

IN PROGRESS

VESPERPOLYSYNTH

devotion: an evening prayer in glass

Two morphing oscillators and a sub through a resonant filter, sixteen voices. A rose window lights each note you play.

IN PROGRESS

DIVINE MACHINERYEVERY INSTRUMENT

all of it, in one place

Every instrument in the line in one plugin. Step through them; each brings its own screen and presets.

IN PROGRESS

Custom engines running on the OP-XY, a pocket synth. Not for sale; they're here so you can see what we're working on.

ORIGAMIBRASS DRONE

a dream, folded out of paper

Huge held brass after the late-70s polysynths: three detuned saws that bloom slowly and scoop up into pitch. A paper unicorn turns in the light.

PROTOTYPE · OP-XY

WRAITHREESE BASS

a voice that isn't quite there

A larger-than-life Reese bass for witch house and hyperpop: up to seven detuned saws drifting against each other, drawn beating as they beat.

PROTOTYPE · OP-XY

RIFTSTEREO REESE EFFECT

one thing splitting in two

Wraith's partner: drifting delayed copies split left and right above a low cut, with drive and grit, so the low end stays whole and the top tears wide.

PROTOTYPE · OP-XY

MEOWCAT SYNTH

a cat, and only a cat

A synth that only makes a cat's meow, from a big tomcat to a kitten. Mangle turns it to chrome; Clone brings a second cat.

PROTOTYPE · OP-XY

BITROTGLITCH SAMPLER

memory, rotting

A melodic sampler that breaks, bends and repeats your sample on the beat, like a circuit-bent buffer. A field of waveform cracks as it plays.

PROTOTYPE · OP-XY

KINDLINGCAMPFIRE

a fire, and someone beside it

A campfire, sibling of Petrichor and Undertow: the roar, snaps and pops, damp wood that hisses, wind, and crickets in your key. A figure sits by the fire.

PROTOTYPE · OP-XY

AVIARYBIRD SONG

a dawn chorus

Six birds, four close and two far, singing phrases in your key or wild. A branch sways in the wind, and the singing bird's throat glows red.

PROTOTYPE · OP-XY

LULLABYNOTE PLAYER

a music box, winding down

A generative note player for the OP-XY, after Awake for norns. It is being rebuilt as a music box: struck tines, and a spring that slows as it winds down.

PROTOTYPE · OP-XY