Field Lab - Ambient Recorder

Record the world. Then blast it into a thousand pieces and sew it back together. Transform the sounds that surround you into a collage, an infinite drone, a shifting ambient sculpture. Control it simply by touching and moving a glowing orb, or dive deeper. Field Lab is a field recorder and a sound design tool in one. ONE ORB, THE WHOLE INSTRUMENT A recording does not arrive as a file in a list. It becomes a single orb that swells with its own level, frosts over when you freeze it, and rings when the strings are struck. Tap it to record. Everything you reach for while playing — freeze, resonate, loop, density, blend — sits directly beneath it. THE GRAINS The recording is cut into hundreds of short fragments and resown. Scattered loosely, a room becomes weather. Drawn tight, single grains step forward one at a time, each one a fraction of a second of somewhere real. Density, size, texture, position, pitch, feedback and space, with four grain modes that read the same recording by four different laws. THE RESONATOR A bank of sympathetic strings set going by the recording itself. It feeds on accidents: every click, pop and footstep strikes the strings and returns as a pitched burst that was hidden in the sound and never audible in it. Three voices — strings, bells and glass — with tone, decay, chord and blend. The key follows whatever you have loaded, detected automatically, or you can pin it by hand. PERFORM A pad that moves three things at once: density across, blend up, and space on the third axis. Record your moves and they loop. Save a gesture you like and keep it — a slow cloud, a tape hand, a sweep through the resonator. MADE TO BE PLAYED, NOT CONFIGURED No setup, no account, nothing to install into. Open it, record something, and it is already running. Every control is sized for a thumb. • Record straight from the microphone, with a lift for quiet takes that leaves the file itself untouched • Import any audio file, or the soundtrack of a video, through the Files app • Loop the whole sound or any part of it • Presets to start from, and save your own • Day and night, following your phone or pinned either way • Keeps playing with the screen off Free. No advertising and no purchases inside the app. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Recordings are made on your device and stay on your device. The app makes no network connections at all — it behaves identically in airplane mode, which is a fair way to check. The resonator and the granular engine are Rings and Clouds by Emilie Gillet (Mutable Instruments), used under the MIT licence.