Almost nothing in synthesis is genuinely new, FOAM is an exception, and here’s a small playable version of the idea before you decide.
Every sound you are about to hear is a bubble solving physics
No samples, no oscillators, no presets. Turn your sound on and release a few.
voices 0
radius 0.00 mm
resonance 0 Hz
liquid water
12 / sec
3.00 mm
120 ms
18%
density and damping
Five dares
FOAM ships without curated factory presets, on purpose. So these are not presets. They are starting positions, and the interesting part is what you do after.
Pick one, then pull the sliders somewhere it was not expecting.
The real thing
FOAM by NOMN
Up to 16,384 bubble voices, eleven modelled stages per bubble, ten liquids, foam topology, 76 scales and full MPE. The page above is the first ten seconds of it.
$69.88
$20.99
70% off
- VST3, AU and standalone
- macOS and Windows, Windows build still in beta
- No sample library, so nothing to download by the gigabyte
- Physical modelling is CPU-hungry, with a governor so you set your own bubble ceiling
