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Archive for May, 2007
Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Every Monday I highlight free plugins new and old that are worth checking out. See all posts in the Free Plugin Of The Week Series.
I’ve been waiting for someone to do this and finally we have a plugin to satisfy the need for more cowbell. A collaboration between Audiofudge and De La Mancha brings forth Dynamite Cowbell VST.
“dynamite cowbell brings you more cowbell than even Gene Frenkle can deliver”
6 cowbells mapped to midi keys
5 velocity layers
close and room mic levels
damping control
5 bonus digibells
1 cow
VST plugin for Windows
http://www.delamancha.co.uk/dynamite_cowbell.htm
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Who: Verstaerker
What: Analogien
Sounds like: Industrial strength audio destruction
http://www.verstaerker-music.net/
Analogien is an abusive piece of work, listening to it is an a real test of your endurance. It may cause nightmares and migraines. I mean these comments in a good way though, because I think it was the intention for the music to be harsh. It is not random noise, it is music, burnt to a crisp. It has dynamics, it has a defined structure, it was carefully created, assembled and manipulated. It flows through varying degrees of distortion, blasts of static, and has copious use of resonant filters. It is not outright chaos, it is a collection of finely crafted noisescapes provoking images of hell on earth.
If you think you can handle it, order direct from Verstaerker’s website.
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Every Monday I highlight free plugins new and old that are worth checking out. See all posts in the Free Plugin Of The Week Series.
This week, the cool new plugin I came across was keFIR by Piotr “Habib” Pyrzanowski which is a zero-latency FIR filter effect. Basically you load in an impulse response (a wav recording of a real space or piece of equipment, but you can use any sound you want), the incoming waveform will be conformed to the characteristics of the impulse response.
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Who: Fugue State
What: Daydream Believer
Style: electronic/ambient/experimental
When I got this in my email last week, I have to admit I cringed at the album title, and my wife pointed and laughed. But really, the music is pretty good, much better than the album title 
The music is composed by Kevin Breidenbach in energyXT and a lot of plugins. The sounds he creates for these tracks are great, but the arrangements unfortunately don’t take you anywhere. Daydream Believer is a collection of songs that didn’t fit with Kevin’s other work, the styles vary from ambient to IDM, I have a feeling that they were composed over a period of a few years, because they don’t all fit together in to an album well. The tracks I liked most were Sex, Guns & Caffeine, because it has a bit of a Skinny Puppy feel, and Fixate, which was relaxing but also had a head bobbing beat.
The full album and remixes are available here: http://fstate.skincontact.com/
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Sound Borb is an audio ambience generating system. The generative nature of Sound Borb’s audio engine means that once you hit play, the ambience you’re listening to will never end.
Sound Borb is pretty cool little windows program (not a plugin), it creates constantly changing ambiences that never loop. You can use it as a way to relax or help you sleep, or as a great way to create some unique pads and drones for your music.
Create your own Borb with the Borbifier, turn it on and record it. Chop out a section you like, time stretch it, pitch shift it, send it to delays and reverbs or whatever, you’ve got an endless source of ambiences now.
Sound Borb
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
I know this is hardly breaking news, but since I’ve never seen it before, you haven’t likely seen it either.
So here’e the situation, you want to build a home studio, you want it to be isolated from outside sounds, and have a balanced sound, and you want to build it yourself. Problem is, you have no idea where to start. Luckily Auralex wrote a handy practical guide for just this sort of thing. www.acoustics101.com is where to get it.
The pdf provides plenty of information on acoustic terms and construction materials, as well as building the floor, walls, and ceiling. It is a great guide to studio construction, and great acoustics primer for everyone else. Auralex also has an easy way to figure out which acoustic treatment package is right for your room here. They also provide free room analysis via email.
www.acoustics101.com
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