Sea Sampler: Chaotic Texture Instrument by Ben Osterhouse

Sea Sampler analyzes and automaps the samples you drop into it, creating an object for each one. You can move objects by dragging their centers, resize them by dragging their edges, or remove them by shrinking them to a very small size.

The speed of each fish depends on how hard you play the key, and faster fish play their samples louder. This links keyboard dynamics to the density and volume of the texture, so performance and playing style shape the output.

You can also change how objects sound by altering their pitch, applying filters, sending them to different reverbs, or shaping them with envelopes.

The emitter is where fish spawn. Dragging it attracts nearby fish, and faster movement draws more of them in. Turning down Visual Range limits how far fish can see the emitter.

Max Fish sets how many fish can exist at once. When the limit is reached, the oldest fish are replaced by new ones.

The Pedal keeps fish alive after you release a key, the Modwheel increases how often fish emit, the Pitchwheel changes the speed of the simulation's framerate, and Expression (CC 11) twirls the emitter in a circle.