The main page
// liquid memory relayEverything is on one page: the screen above, the six character knobs and MEMORY DRIFT in the middle, MELT, GHOST SIGNAL and OUTPUT below.
the main page // LU / PAD — Pale Nimbus
Memory Screen
LIQUID MEMORY RELAY // 1.0.0
Recovered / 277
PD / PAD
Snowlit Living Room
warm curtains, blue glass, snowfall beyond the television
MEMORY SCREEN is an ambient instrument. It plays slow, soft, dreamlike sounds and surrounds them with a moving screen of footage, photographs and light. I built it for stillness and distance first: most of its controls take something away, so the sound drifts further into memory.
It was designed for expression and pure inspiration, a way to quickly land on a beautiful sound without worrying about heavy sound design work, and just as quickly find yourself lost in it.
old memories suddenly return
Standalone · VST3 · AU
$49USD
Own MEMORY SCREEN
Windows and macOS. One license, up to three of your own computers.
signal // turn a knob, the screen answers
Listen
// audio demosRecorded in MEMORY SCREEN with its own Rec.
277 memories
// archiveA memory is one complete sound: its voice and everything around it, akin to a preset. I created every one of them to reflect a different moment in my life, alongside a different engine inside. They live in five distinct archives.
REMANENCE// ORIGINAL ARCHIVE
Soft, dark, warm synthesis. The heart of the instrument.
AFTERLIGHT// HYBRID ARCHIVE
Recorded instruments blended with synthesis, a sampler and a synthesizer layered together.
UNDERCURRENT// DEEP FIELD
Deep, rich sounds with wide unison, grain and a long, moving space. Slow and cinematic. My three reese basses live here: Deep Space, Frostcore and Trapped Under Ice.
OVEREXPOSED// BLOWN HIGHLIGHT
Brighter, harmonically fuller sounds through a resonant filter. The accents: use them for contrast.
LUCID// CLEAR MEMORY
Clean, clear, warm sounds with very little mud or harshness. Dreamy and nostalgic, with sounds I built from my own recordings and sampled instruments.
PADS 89KEYS 57TEXTURES 34BELLS 27BASS 19LEAD 16CHOIR 15PLUCK 12LOOP MEMORIES 8
the front door
Memory drift
Press it and a different memory melts in, chosen for you, with no hard cut. Linger keeps the voice and remembers it a slightly different way. Keep saves it and names it for you.
two at once
Dual memory
Two memories split across the keyboard. drift low and drift high re-roll one side and leave the other where it is.
haunting, sudden
Mirror
Every few seconds a reversed note that belongs with what you just played rises out of nowhere and cuts away. It never becomes constant, and your own notes are left untouched.
arrangements that play themselves
MIDI tracks
Built-in arrangements that play the instrument for you, with tape-style Varispeed. Drag one into your music software as editable MIDI.
one key, a whole figure
Loop memories
Hold one note and a loop memory repeats it in a steady pattern, so a single key becomes a whole figure. The division beside it sets how fast the repeats run.
bounce
Rec
Record exactly what you hear, every effect and the field recording, then drag the WAV straight onto an audio track.
The effects
// treatment rackMELT and GHOST SIGNAL sit on the main page. The EFFECTS page holds five more treatments, each bypassed until you switch it on, and every one is kept with your memories.
the EFFECTS page // HALO and TAPE switched on
MELT
The long reverberant wash I built the instrument around. Short is a room; long is a held breath.
GHOST SIGNAL
A delayed, detuned echo, like a faint radio playing your sound back to you late. Ether thins it into air.
SHIMMER · FREEZE
Shimmer folds an octave-up copy back into the wash, so the tail rises and glows. FREEZE holds the wash exactly where it is until you let go.
HALO // ENSEMBLE
Widens one voice into several slightly detuned ones, so it feels choral.
BLOOM // DIFFUSION
Smears the start of every note, so nothing arrives sharply: every note fades in rather than strikes.
TAPE // SATURATION
Gentle tape warmth that tames the peaks. Tone tilts it from dark and dull to bright and open.
AIR // OPEN
Lifts the very top, so the sound breathes without becoming harsh.
REFLECTION
A slow tape echo in time with your track. Each repeat comes back softer, darker and further away, and it never covers what you play.
Field FX
// core memoryField FX lays a recording of a real place under everything you play: rain on a roof, winter wind, a stream, a river, a thunderstorm, a forest. It sits quietly below the instrument, on a fader of its own.
Ten layers
Time River and the four environments are each built from ten separate layers, every fader named for the part of the place it holds. Raise one to bring that part forward; lower it to let it fall back.
Field mix presets
Ready-made balances of the ten layers. Choosing one moves the faders, and each environment remembers its own mix.
Slider animation
The faders drift up and down on their own, so the place never sits still. Soft wanders, Hard picks extremes, and Solo through Quad keep one to four layers forward at a time.
Tape · width · mix
Play the recording slower or faster, its pitch moving with it, or let Alternate drift it like a tape machine. Set how wide it spreads and how loud it sits.
Key · remix
Set the key Mystic Forest plays in. REMIX gives every layer its own transposition; RESET brings them home.
Bypass · soft mode
Keep the recording out of the effects so it stays plain while the instrument is processed, or take the top off so it sits further back.
the FIELD MIXER // Time River, ENVIRONMENT ON
Sources
AUTO / FOLLOW MEMORYROOFTOP RAINWINTER WINDWATER STREAMGUTTER WATERWIRE CURRENTCRT STATICBLOOD RAINTIME RIVERTHUNDER 1993EMERALD RAINMYSTIC FORESTRPG
With AUTO / FOLLOW MEMORY, each memory brings its own place with it.
