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Weekend Links or Tips, Instrumnets, Plugins and Laughs

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on July 18, 2008
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Tips and Resources:

Robert Green DIY show you how to make a DJ set in Ableton Live.

Digital Burn has a cool tutorial on creating that Aphex Twin effect in Reason.

Recording Review has some great idea about getting good results with vocal doubling.

Ableton Live DJ has a bunch of live goodness

Instruments:

Electric Guitar Review Telecater Relic project is getting further along and lookin’ good. I was apposed to relicing as phony but my mind is changing. I like to give it a try if I get the chance.

Amptone has about a list of about a zillion books about guitar sound.

Bored Space a collection of crazy bass guitars.

Plugins:

VSTPLANET is a site keeping track of the wild world of VST plugins.

Laughs:

I love the Onion. This piece might be older but it is still fitting and funny. I am sure the RIAA would if they could.

I was watching the Muppets with my nephew. The Muppets are pure quality. So, here is to of the greatest drums in history Animal and Buddy Rich.

Vonengo Sound Delay or Free Delay Plugin

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on June 19, 2008
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Vonengo Sound Delay is now available for free.

From the site:

Sound Delay is an auxiliary multi-channel signal delaying plug-in for professional audio applications.  You may specify delay time in both milliseconds and samples, with a high level of precision.  This plug-in - being technical in its purpose - provides a basic signal delaying function only, without signal feedback or modulation capabilities.

Sound Delay also features internal mid/side encoding and decoding, and allows you to delay mid and side channels independently.

Seems to be a useful tool and a little different from the other free delays plug-ins out there.

Available in Windows Vst and Win64 VSTand Mac Audio Units and VST.

Crowd Chamber or Build Your Own Crowd

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on May 27, 2008
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Crowd Chamber is a new plug-in from QuikQuak. It is not exactly your normal effect. I may never hear a enormous crowd cheering for me but a can simulate one. Actually more appealing is the weirdness you can create with this.  From the site:

* Simulates a crowd of up to 2,000,000 voices.
* The perfect new tool for sound design.
* Voices vary in spectral content and delay.
* LFO’s for temporal changes in voices.
* Fast visual editing, with parameter randomisation
functions.
* From simple chorusing effects, small crowds and
stadiums, and on to impossible situations.
* Creates massive stereo sound washes, and extremely
weird animal effects.
* Low Cost

Organization Plugin or Preset Freebie

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on May 26, 2008
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I love free stuff and like anything that can help me be more organized.  Naturally the Wusik Vm caught my eye when it became free just recently.  It is a VST organizer.  Basically you load all your preset from all your plugins in it and organize them however you want.  From example you could group all the preset that sound like synth leads from the 80’s.  Then select a preset called Flock of Sea Gulls and the right preset in the right instruments will load and you have everything but the crazy hair.  You can see the possibilities.  You can have say all you digital bass sounds together regardless of the actual plugin they use.

Killer VST or Good Karma

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on May 12, 2008
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Some plug-in news form two devs with good stuff.

KarmaFX:

A new version of the KarmaFX Plugin Pack, version 2.0, has been released. During the hectic months up to the release of the KarmaFX Synth Modular, development of the KarmaFX Plugin Pack was heavily down prioritized. Therefore it is now time for an update of this useful pack of VST effects. Bugs have been fixed and features have been added or improved. The main change however, is the inclusion of a brand new 15 page User’s Manual.

I think this a good collection. I use the EQ often and worth be worth a donation alone.

NOVAkill releases the NOVAkiller:

NOVAkILLER uses the FM Oscillator found in ANGSTkILLER but addsHard Sync and a few other goodies to it’s arsenal. Envelopes are simplified, slider-driven ADSR jobbies and Envelope modulation can be inverted for long, evolving pads.
It is as much an exercise in style as substance but still has plenty to offer.
UPDATED to Version 1.5 - more filter features, enhanced VCa envelope and tweaked UI.

That should make for some good FM fun.

Friday Bunch O’ Stuff or Teles and CopyWrong Birthdays

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on May 9, 2008
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tele tweed and burbon

Today’s gear porn(above) is from Bill on TDPRI.  I need a deck with that on it.

Circuit Locution is to the third part in the on bending a Yamaha PSS-460. There is not a lot of bending instructional stuff shown in detail this well. If you have interest in circuit bending you should check it out.

de la mancha has released sfilter:

“sfilter creates a stepped filtered sequence, to create gating, sweeps or rhythmic modulation of filter cut-off. It uses a variable state filter, varying between 2 adjustable cut-off values according to a tempo-sync’d step sequencer. An LFO can also modulate the filter for extra movement”

If you have interest in copyright(copywrong) issues or like me just have and interest in getting all straightened out and returning culture to people I found a very through and thought provoking article via the ccMixterblog & The Patry Copyright Blog. Prof. Robert Brauneis of George Washington University has a paper documenting the convoluted history of a copyright icon the Happy Birthday song in great detail. It can be downloaded at SSRN. The detail history illustrates very well the problems of copyright. I can’t imagine trying to figure out the owner ship of something that has been orphaned.

Obsurica Records is doing some thing a little insane that I like called Sloppy Seconds:

I am accepting submissions for a comp entitled “Sloppy Seconds”.
Submissions must be exactly one second in length. They may be found sound, original compositions, previously released or unreleased.. anything. They are all being strung together into a massive, A.D.D. inducing, pummeling, roller coaster ride of an audio experience.

I have a weakness for Telecasters. I just like ‘em. Jeff Miller has built some tele that are bit different. He mixes Line 6 Variax electronics into a more traditional Tele. I think it is pretty cool even if regular tele is already perfect.

And speaking of Teles Electric Guitar Review has begun a project relicing a new tele.  While I love the look of old beat up to closet classic relics I kind of think making relics is a little lame sometimes.  Of course parting with 5 figures to get a real one is also lame.  I am  really curious to see the whole process works and the results.

And continuing the theme Swineshead Pickups have release some good looking Tele pickups the Spotlight-TC & the Dragonfly-TC.  I really dig the wood but the different color plastic is cool also.

Impulse Reponses or More Wav’s For Your Convolution

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on April 28, 2008
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I found this good collection of Impulse response:

Custom Made Impulse Responses

Years ago I remembering seeing a news story on the Sony 777 sampling reverb.  I though it was a great idea but it was expensive and a lot of work to get more than the presets that came with the machine.  Thank goodness for software.  Entry into the virtual world made these convolution effects available to many more people.

I think I have mentioned it before but you can find more impulse responses at the noise vault & echochamber (use google translate if you don’t speak German. ) I have found these reverbs(and other effects using impulses) dependant of the impulses and having enough CPU to do the really big math problems.  Any new impulses are welcome because that really determines the effect you can have.  You can’t have a hall reverb with out a hall impulse.

The odd thing is convolutions produce the most convincing realistic reverbs and room sims out there but I like best that it can mimic gear that doesn’t sound like a real spaces but might sound good.  Like an old revrb unit that may sound artificial but in a good away.  But that is just me.  And you can get an impulse from anything almost.  Speakers cabs, stairwell, silos or whatever.  It is way to have a all kinds of spaces and gear in stored on your hard drive.  It can really open up creative avenues.

If you own Altverb or Waves IR you know what I am talking about(and I can’t believe you are reading this blog it is about getting by on a shoestring half the time. Kidding.)  If you have not experimented with this type of thing you can try out SIR 1 for free and if you like that you might consider the more reasonable SIR 2 or other commercial apps.

Friday Links or Samples, Miking & Razor Blades

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on April 18, 2008
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Music Boot Camp has this comprehensive list of sites to get free samples and loops.

de la mancha has released the crazy and fun freq show.

Cosmic Boogie Collective reminds us of the days of razor blades and tape.

MusicPlayers.com has a good article on electric guitar miking.

Studio reviews has an interesting article entitled Why Don’t My Recordings Sound Pro?

Friday Links or Jet Engines, Remixes, Hand Cranks, Gameboys

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I found this both at GetLofi & Rekkerd. Gameboys are normally used for the eight bit funkiness. the kBANG Gameboy is more of a drum machine. It controls solenoids that are used to bang on stuff.

I wrote about Foals remix thingy yesterday. Radiohead also has a remix thingy going. Just slightly higher profile. Slightly. The down side is you have to buy all the tracks from iTunes for $5.49. You also can get a Garage Band project. The track is 6/8 time. Some people might like getting away from 4/4 some people might hate that though. Its not so much paying for it for me it is paying for it form iTunes that bugs me. I don’t care for iTunes that much.

You can find a lot more tracks to remix from DanceTracks Digital. They have music available in Aleton Live format.

Old School Programing

The Automata / Automaton Blog has this cool musical box xylphone type gadget. I wonder if the pegs would fly out if you really cranked the sucker.

Yes this is for real.

This looks like it came out of a Terry Gilliam or Tim Burton Movie. If you removed the keyboard it looks like it might be a early prototype in jet engine research. You can find at more about slightly insane The Harmonic Generator at Odd Music. Any instrument that has 32 motors is cool by me.

Open Source Works can source how to run Guitar Rig on Ubtuntu. Cool. You can find more stuff like this at Linux VST Compatibility. With Ardour and other works it looks like Linux is becoming more and more viable for more music makers.

The Microphone Site is a pretty amazing collection of mic information.

I got sanother plug-ins link. I haven’t got play with them much but whiteLABEL has a bunch of free plug-ins. The look good and seem pretty cool on first inspection.

Tape Wobble Plug-in or The Power of 3’s

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Since I mentioned two new dlm plug-ins just yesterday I should mention a third just released today. They say things come in 3’s but or course lots of things come in 3’s if you stop counting at 3. Here is the description of unstable:

unstable likes to mess around with your audio pitch, with 3 subtle pitch modulation modes to simulate the unpredictable but lovable pitch instability of an old tape machine or an analogue synth. It doesn’t only do subtle though, you can also put it in ‘insane’ mode if you’d rather just f**k things up.

features
- 3 modes of continuously random pitch modulation
buzz – rapid, fuzzy modulation
wobble – medium, jerky modulation
drift – slow, gentle modulation
- adjustable frequency and level for each modulation mode
- master level mode to adjust overall subtlety of effect
- wet / dry mix level control
- insane mode – removes all subtlety and smacks your pitch up
- all controls mapped to midi CC values

It is eight bucks. Anything with an insane switch is most likely worth that. I am ahead of my time I needed tape wobble a few weeks ago but couldn’t find it.