Tag Archive for 'vst'

End of Week Links or Lot of Wires In Boxes

You can find this strange delay effect and other DIY audio goodness at WRONGROOM.

Along the same lines is this great video I found.  Analog sequencer in a cigar box is cool enough but controlling other circuit bent gadget is just beautiful noise.

From Kendall Scott is a Basic Guide to Understanding EQ.  A good graphics for visual learners.  You also can check out my EQ Guidelines & Free Tools.

Robin Schmidt’s Music Engineering Tools has a every practical and useful VST ptich shifter if you scroll down the page.  ANd check out the other stuff also.

Euphoria Magazine has this list of strange and wonderful instruments.

Found this cool video on EtherBomb. The one man band is alive.

For those of you that want to turn back the clock and stopping buy the new versions of music software every and just happen to have a old ST in the closet should check out Tim’s Atari Midi World. A nice page on Cubase on Atari.  It is where most of this computer music business started.  It really is not as diffent as you would think after such a long evelotion.  I now a lot of people still use it squence.  Why not?

Loop Slicer Plug-in or Mangle Your Beats for Free

yedey has released Loop Slicer a free VST loop slicer and re-arranger VST Plug-in. Here is the description from the website:

What it is: It’s a Loop slicer and rearranger with some weird FX. So you load in a drum loop wave, set the tempo, and LoopDrive slices it into beats. Now you can use the build-in sequencer grid to rearrange the beats. There is also a “reverse sequencer” which enables you to play selected beats backwards. After rearranging the loop you can apply a filter, bit crusher, distortion, overdrive and even a grain FX. There’s also the possibility to set the FX order, which gives you more control over the FX.

There are also some other things that I haven’t mentioned here, so try it yourself.

I really love plug-ins like this. But then I love to mangle by boring loops. Even better is the .OSM file is available for any Synthedit users to to explore. Cool stuff.

Vonengo Sound Delay or Free Delay Plugin

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

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

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

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.