The Whoosh Machine for Ableton Live
At its core, Whoosh Machine has 10+ high quality analog white noise patches. The instrument is truly a one-stop whoosh shop featuring 8 filter types and a built FX rack with LFO, Sidechain Pumper, Delay and a massive Reverb. Simply drag and drop Whoosh Machine onto a track, play a note on your midi keyboard and start tweaking the filters to create huge, soaring risers and powerful, cascading descenders.
Whoosh Machine Audio Demo 1 by SonicFaction
For those who just want to party, Sonic Faction took the liberty of creating pre-made whooshes at specific intervals like 2 Bar up, 4 bar down, 8 bar rise, etc. Simply drag and drop these clips from your Ableton library for instant, perfectly-timed whoosh madness.
Features:
- High quality multi-sampled analog white noise
- 8 filter types including LP, HP, BP, Vintage, Resonant
- Built in FX Rack: LFO, Pumper, Delay, and massive Reverb
- Includes custom made clips for drag/drop whoosh intervals
The Whoosh Machine is a free download from Sonic Faction.
Producers and DJ’s all over the globe have one thing in common: they all need good whooshes. Whether you’re in the club or in the studio there is rarely a time when you don’t need a high-quality whoosh effect to raise the energy in a track or make the entire dance floor go insane. With the Sonic Faction Whoosh Machine you will never need another whoosh creation tool again.
Reason 6 Micro Tutorial: Pulveriser Demolition
Reason 6 introduces three new creative effect devices: Pulveriser, Alligator, and The Echo. In this micro tutorial we’ll take a look at the Pulveriser. Pulveriser is a sound demolition unit capable of destroying your signal but before you turn those knobs up to eleven, I wanted to show you that Pulveriser also excels at being an audio sweetener. In today’s world of pristine digital recording, meticulously sampled instruments, and quantized MIDI it’s sometimes necessary to add a little color and grit to your otherwise perfect material.
Pulveriser can do that for you. So before you blow up your sound with Pulveriser, take a look at some of the other ways it can make your tracks sound more analog, more beefy, more gritty… more Pulverised!
* vocals on Smorgus Sword by Sebastian Storm
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Spectral Machine – interesting new frequency-domain plug-in
The Sound Guy has released Spectral Machine, a frequency-domain plug-in featuring a wide range of unique spectral effects.
Spectral Machine™ is an advanced frequency-domain multi-effects plug-in. Like SFX Machine, Spectral Machine wraps a great deal of power and flexibility inside an easy-to-use interface.
But unlike time-domain plug-ins like SFX Machine, Spectral Machine starts by converting the audio into the frequency domain using a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). This gives us direct access to the signal’s frequency spectrum, enabling a number of effects that simply would not be possible in the time domain.
Spectral Machine features
- General Purpose Effects
- Delay Spectral Bands – Apply separate delays to different spectral bands, with individual control over the amount of feedback in each band!
- Spectral Freeze – Click the “Fire” button to freeze the sound, which then decays at different rates for high and low frequencies. Click the “Reset” button to unfreeze.
- Sample & Hold – Similar to Spectral Freeze, but it automatically retriggers at a specified interval.
- 3 AM – A tremolo effect with individual control over the modulation rate and depth in three frequency bands.
- 3-Band Filter – Precise control over the gain in three user-selected frequency bands.
- Spectral Peak/Notch – Lets you boost or attenuate an arbitrarily narrow frequency band around a specified frequency.
- Oscillating Peak/Notch – Interesting peak/notch effect with an oscillating center frequency.
- Monophonic Effects (for monophonic sources such as solo voice, clarinet, sax, etc.)
- Pitch Shift – Frequency-domain transposition with timbre preservation.
- Harmonize – Multiple transposition with timbre preservation
- Pitch Quantizer – Nudge each note to the nearest semitone, for pitch correction or to create an interesting vocal effect.
- Pitch Isolate –Isolates the tonal portion from the rest of the sound.
- Sine / Noise – Gives you independent control over the sinusoidal and noise/transient portions of the sound.
- Spectral Shapeshifter – Lets you change the shape of vocal formants (spectral envelope) without affecting the pitch.
- Vibrato – Frequency-modulates only the sinusoidal component.
- Robotization – Changes the pitch to a fixed frequency for a robotic effect.
Spectral Machine for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) is available to purchase for $75 USD excl. VAT.
GrainBender – sculpt your new sound directly in realtime
GrainBender is a new iPad synthesizer that makes designing new sounds easier than ever before. Just tap the bend button and sculpt your new sound directly in realtime. GrainBender is capable of making a wide range of sounds, from traditional analog favorites to exotic digital effects.
Key features:
– unique, intuitive sound design interface
– versatile oscillators with analog & digital waveforms
– audio clip recording and export to other apps via AudioCopy
– extensive but easy-to-use modulation
– effects ranging from chorus and delay to digital grunge
Capable of making a wide range of sounds – here are the features:
- intuitive sound design interface
- versatile oscillators with analog & digital waveforms
- audio clip recording and export to other apps via AudioCopy
- extensive but easy-to-use modulation
- effects ranging from chorus and delay to digital grunge
It’s available for $4.99 in the App Store.
Audio demos:
GrainBender sound demos by kuniklo
Zero-G Perception Sample LIbrary for Film, TV and Video Games
This latest release from Zero-G is from the same producer as last year’s cinematic success – Deep Impact – and features a vast collection of construction kits, atmospheres, drones, evolutive moods, beat loops, whooshes, hits, impacts, explosions, and lots more. Available as a DVD or download exclusively from Time+Space.
From cinemascapes of staggering beauty to impacts of shocking horror and violence and everything in between this sample library is full of musical ideas which can be used as building blocks to add a third dimension to your musical compositions.
Perception contains 35 construction kits plus over 650 instruments in EXS24, Kontakt and NN-XT format as well as Acidized Wav files and Apple Loops.
Hear some of the sounds for yourself with the free taster pack!
Perception is a vast collection of construction kits, atmospheres, drones, evolutive moods, beat loops, whooshes, hits, impacts, explosions, and lots more. It can be used in many different film genres as well as for TV soundtracks, advertising, games and dance music.
Perception contains over 650 instruments in EXS24, Kontakt and NN-XT format as well as Acidized Wav files and Apple Loops all recorded in stunning 24bit by one of the world´s leading soundtrack producers using high fidelity source materials and a large-soundstage production approach. These stunning sounds will help you create highly charged emotional mood narratives that generate the perspective of a certain time and space.
In addition, the 35 construction kits contain all their individual components which can be combined to create your own unique arrangements and compositions.
Perception will give you the power to create the unimaginable!
All of the samples have been pre-cleared and are 100% original & royalty-free for your musical use without any additional licensing fees.
Includes:
600 Acidized WAV files
600 AIFF Apple Loops
650 Kontakt Instruments
650 EXS24 Instruments
650 NN-XT Instruments.
FIRST LOOK: DigiTech iPB-10 iPad pedalboard – DEMO
Here’s some background information on the pedal. DigiTech’s iPB-10 is a guitar effects pedalboard like no other, for as well as offering footswitches and an expression pedal, it also contains a dock for an iPad. You can use this to set up your ideal rig – choose from 87 pedals, 54 amps and 26 cabinets – though all processing is done in the ‘board itself.
It’ll be available imminently priced at £499.
Pedalboard Simplicity
The iPB-10 allows you to create your ultimate pedalboard, all on your iPad. Design a pedalboard by simply dragging and dropping up to 10 different pedals, in any order, to each pedalboard. You can even add an amp and cabinet to each setup. With 87 different pedals, 54 amps, and 26 cabinets to choose from, your options are virtually unlimited. Simply swipe your finger across the iPad to rearrange your pedals, turn them on and off, or to adjust their knobs.
Multi-effects Flexibility
Traditional multi-effects have given you the flexibility to change the entire configuration of your signal chain with a single footswitch. The iPB-10 brings the concept of presets to a pedalboard. This allows you to save 100 of your favorite pedalboards with the touch or your finger, and instantly recall them with the stomp of your foot. You can have a different pedalboard for each gig, set, song, or even switch pedalboards within a song.
New version of Crunchessor is available – makes your tracks shine
Voxengo has released version 2.7 of Crunchessor, a general-purpose track compressor for Windows and Mac.
One of Crunchessor’s main advantages is the ease of tuning, which at the same time instantly delivers an excellent sonic performance. Another remarkable feature of Crunchessor is its valve-type processing, which is applied in parallel to compression. This makes Crunchessor an ideal choice for musicians and producers who are fond of analog compression sound and its warmness.
Changes in Crunchessor v2.7
- Additional automation parameters added for channel group 2.
- Key signal gain parameter added.
- Plug-in’s popup-windows now recover last position after reopening.
- Mouse backward and forward buttons can be used for parameter value selection.
- The “Min Infrastructure” user interface display mode added.
- The “Flat Level Meters” level meter display mode added.
- Version change history information window added.
Crunchessor is available to purchase as an effect plug-in for Windows and Mac (VST/AU), priced at $44.95 USD (10% off the regular $49.95 USD).
STW Audio releases REFLEX free ambience generator
STW Audio has released REFLEX free, a free ambience generator for Windows.
REFLEX free is capable of generating huge spaces, short rooms, or chorus like modulations through a cascade of regenerating delays. It’s sound is a mixture of straight stereo delays followed by a dense cloud of reflections. It achieves a huge and spacey wideness with a decent amount of the two modulation sources.
REFLEX free features
- Short reflections up to endless reverberation.
- Delay/Reverb Modulation.
- Two modulation shapes.
- Lean GUI.
- Low on CPU.
REFLEX free for Windows (VST) is available as a free download from STW Audio.
Achieve cool stereo delay to cartoon-like, monsters and ghost effects
Tekky Synths has released a new pitched feedback delay VST effect plug-in for Windows called UpTiLin.
UpTiLin, which stands for Up Time Line allows the user to pitch a delayed signal in real time to achieve some funky effects ranging from classical stereo delay to cartoon-like, monsters and ghost effects. UpTiLin can also be a tool for vocal processing when used as a vocal-doubler or with more subtle settings such as a reverb.
UpTiLin features:
- 2x chained BPM delays: 1 master delay and 1 stereo delay.
- 2 types of algorithm for pitch-shifting.
- Stereo envelope follower with independent settings for L/R (attack and release) for shift engine 1.
- Reverse/envelope-follower selection (type 1).
- Filter section with envelope.
- Input level.
- Wet/dry signal mix.
- Master pan.
- Preset manager with copy/paste.
- Complete new MIDI learn system implementation (now works in Cubase5).
- Right click any knob.
- Move hardware controller.
- CC learned.
- Double right click.
- Knob is free of any CC.
- New double-click on knobs to restore default value.
Price: 45 EUR.
New plugin to add more color and character to your sounds
Sinevibes has introduced Filther, an AudioUnit effect plugin designed to add color and character to any sound.
Here’s what they have to say about Filther:
At it’s heart is a steep -48 dB/octave low-pass filter with innovative dual-stage waveshaping distortion. Coupled with an input envelope follower, this filter can do anything from deep low-end isolation, juicy wah-wah to growling sweeps and waveform sculpting. And with clever automatic balancing, Filther always stays incredibly smooth and punchy.
Features:
- Eight-pole, -48 dB/octave low-pass filter with dual-stage waveshaping distortion.
- One-pole finishing high-pass filter.
- Input envelope follower with adjustable sensitivity and smoothness.
- Intuitive, resolution-independent user interface.
Filther is available now for $19. Audio demos and a demo version are available at the SoundVibes site.
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