Våld Labs opens Kurare public beta - Kuramoto swarm synthesizer with generative sequencing for macOS and Windows (VST3 & AU)

The useful part

It is built on the Kuramoto model of collective synchronization, first described by physicist Yoshiki Kuramoto in 1975. Each note contains two swarms of coupled oscillators, red and white, with up to 32 oscillators in each. A two-phase oscillator core keeps this spread alive at full coupling, so phases can lock while pitches stay fanned.

How it works

• The swarm disc at the centre of the interface shows the actual oscillators of the note being played, driven by the engine's own phases: a cloud at low coupling, a lattice when locked.
• EXCITE adds deterministic noise to phase and pitch, agitating the swarm at the edge of synchronization.
• Each swarm reads its own wavetable "road" of 127 single-cycle frames sorted by spectral brightness.

Details worth keeping

DIVERGE spreads pitches into sub-octave and overtone layers.