Alkimiya

Alkimiya is our premier Kymorphia Instrument editor and software synthesizer suite. This advanced yet intuitive application provides a dynamic synthesis model for music instrument and sound effect design using vector curves. This powerful architecture offers unprecedented flexibility limited only by your PC's resources.

Alkimiya comes in three different editions: Demo Edition, Community Edition, and Power Edition. The Demo and Community Editions are free to use but are significantly feature limited. The Demo Edition is available for Windows and Mac OSX (soon!) users, but lacks instrument save support. The Community Edition is available for Linux only, and has instrument save support as a thank you to the free software community which has made this software possible.

To make full use of Alkimiya, we highly recommend purchasing the Power Edition. Not only does this help support our product development, you will also gain many advanced features, including: unlimited CPU cores, higher quality 64 bit floating point synthesis, up to 8 channel surround sound synthesis, audio sample rates greater than 48 KHz, and more! Purchasing a license for the Power Edition will give you access to installers for all supported operating systems, which you can download at any time, and free updates within the same version series.

Base Features

These features are common to all Alkimiya editions. The Community and Power editions offer additional features as seen in the below Edition Comparison table.

Linux, Mac OSX (coming soon!), and Windows supported
Dynamic synthesis architecture limited only by computing resources
32 bit floating point synthesis (64 bit supported in Power Edition)
Up to 48 KHz audio sample rate (limited only by audio driver in Power Edition)
Up to 4 CPU cores supported (unlimited in Power Edition)
Up to 16 MIDI channels (unlimited in Power Edition)
Filter effects: Low Pass, High Pass, and Band Pass
Pseudo random white noise generator
Attributes: Time, Pitch, Volume, Signal, Balance, Speakers, Morph, Control
Arbitrary Bézier curve waveforms for modulating attributes
Morph curves can animate waveforms between two or more states
- X and Y positions of every waveform control point can be independently morphed
- Morph effect can itself be modulated by other waveforms

Operating System: 64 bit
- Linux - Ubuntu 18.04+, Fedora, Mint, etc.
- Windows 10
- Mac OS X (in development)
RAM: 2GB+
Storage space: 128MB free
CPU: Recent Intel or AMD processor, with 4+ cores recommended
SIMD acceleration: AVX2, AVX, and SSE2 supported

Screenshots

Power Edition

Alkimiya Power Edition 0.9.0 for Linux

Alkimiya Power Edition 0.9.0 for Windows

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Purchase Alkimiya for $29 USD

NOTE: Alkimiya is currently beta software and not yet functionally complete, including some features needed for music composition. However, we are sharing public beta releases of Alkimiya with the music and audio community for the purpose of accelerating development and getting feedback. This includes the Demo and Community editions, which are available for free. Your purchase of the Power Edition will unlock additional features and help support our efforts. Those who purchase during the pre-1.0.0 beta will receive the following benefits:

Access to the 1.0.0 release and updates, including the completion of the Milestone 1.0 features.
50% Discount on the next major Alkimiya release (1.1.x) containing significantly new functionality.
15% Discount on the purchase of the Wave One hardware synthesizer.

Free Editions

Alkimiya Community Edition 0.9.0 for Linux Alkimiya Demo Edition 0.9.0 for Windows

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Already purchased Alkimiya Power Edition? Want to contribute a different amount? Donations help us make the free versions of Alkimiya even better and also contribute to development of Wave One, our upcoming hardware synthesizer. We will also be rewarding those who donate and contribute with special offers as a show of our appreciation. Please make sure to sign up for a free account, prior to making a donation, in order to receive these benefits.

	Demo Edition	Community Edition	Power Edition
Save Instruments
64 Bit Synthesis
Nag Free
Max Speakers	Stereo	Stereo	8 channel surround
Max Sample Rate	48 KHz	48 KHz	Unlimited ^*
Max MIDI Channels	16	16	Unlimited ^*
Max CPU Cores	4	4	Unlimited ^*
Operating Systems	OSX, Windows	Linux Only	Linux, OSX, Windows
Cost	Free	Free	$29 USD

* Limited only by system capability

Milestone 1.0 Progress

Feature	Progress	Notes
Sessions		Sessions store project preset map and MIDI controller info which is separate from instruments.
Presets		For mapping instruments to MIDI note ranges and assigning to MIDI bank:program numbers.
Mixer		Mixer controls and levels per channel and master speaker outputs. Already supported in synthesizer, needs level monitoring and GUI.
Channel synthesis nodes		Per channel wave node synthesis. Already implemented in synthesizer, needs GUI.
Global synthesis nodes		Per synthesizer wave node synthesis. Already implemented in synthesizer, needs GUI.
MIDI controllers		For mapping MIDI control inputs to effects.
Speaker mapping curves		For defining the spatial positioning of speakers. Already implemented in synthesizer, needs GUI.
Mac OSX Support		Need Mac OSX development environment, sponsor?
Windows plugin support		For Alkimiya integration with other apps.
Mac OSX plugin support		For Alkimiya integration with other apps.
Linux Jack MIDI support		For Alkimiya integration with other apps.