This is a Serum preset garden called Soundgarden. (No AI used for generating presets!)
So, I made and bought a lot of presets for Serum (2) in the last years, and most of the time I end up tweaking existing presets, but I was looking for a way to get a little more creative without turning knobs for hours.
So I built something for myself, the Soundgarden. As I have 3 main hobbies: Making music, Gardening and Home Assistant I wanted to combine these together. I had Claude code analyse and sort my presets, and build an engine for me (*AI was only used during this first analysis process, no AI touches my presets or configures or builds sounds or anything else, this is al running on my NUC)
It's a 3d rendered Three.js website that is a live garden with preset-sounds as plants. So what happens, I start in my seed shop. there I have all my presets, sorted by type. I pick some seeds (existing presets) and plant them, each in their own bedding. this plant then "grows" in the bedding, depending on what I "feed" that plant (for example, if I give it some "Frost" the sound gets glassier, shorter tail, comb filter... ) i can listen to the plant, download it, weed it if I don't like it, or feed it with one of the 7 nutrients. Overnight (really, this runs every night on my NUC), each plant grows 3 new buds on the plant, with 3 variants for each nutrient. (you can listen to each variant, then if you like it, plant it out, or sync it to my pc, download it, throw it on the the compost heap,... if you plant it, it becomes a plant on it's own that can grow again into another variant. you can also Cross pollinate two sounds of two different plants and it generates a new sound. (again, not using AI, but from the offline program running in the background.)
some fun stuff I added:
- a stage, where a DJ plays (atm it's youtube video's from some dj set playlists that then play on the ledwall in the back of the dj stage) there's
- Two figures running around doing chores:
Nukkie, a tiny robot that also lives on my desk for real, that has facial expressions, depending on some home assistant sensors, but also when i discovers a wild growing weed-plant in the garden (sometimes a suprise comes up somewhere in the garden, with a strange unspecified sound that can also grow and develop) it points me to them and shows a panicking face on my desk when a new one pops up.)
A technician called Deve Studa that runs around laying audio-cables, fixing broken lights, and when music is playing he get's behind the dj booth and dj's.
- different light modes and weather, depending on real life sensors of my Home Assistant. So when it rains in real life, it rains in my Soundgarden.
- all created sounds get checked in the morning, and if there is silent, heavy clipping, or nothing different from the parent sound, it gets thrown on the compost heap automaticaly .
I love to build stuff for myself, but maybe someone out here just enjoy's my Soundgarden too :-) (names are in dutch, some of them are wordgames)
UPDATE! I've added a Rhythmbox to play with the sounds: https://imgur.com/a/pNNFH5h
