Free Industrial Distortion VST
NoiseSoft have released their first effect plug in – Hard Line industrial distortion. They say that it’s a custom noise based distortion effect that will take your sound from a clean ‘natural’ gain to an extreme level of distortion that simulates a white noise waveform at it’s highest setting.
The plug-in has a single knob design:
- GAIN: Lowest setting is pure bypass, highest setting is extreme distortion, almost to the point of white noise.
Pricing and Availability:
Free download
New awesome (and free) plug-in – Erectifier
Without doing any associations on the name 
I am happy to announce that my friends in Rusty Trombones has released a new and intriguing plug-in adn better yet it’s free.
Since I have not had the chance to try it out myself yet it would be nice to get some feedback on it so post away >> awesome or sucks
Listen to it here: mp3 sample
So what does it do really…??
So this works as a doubler, or demented phaser, it is designed to widen and phatten. Of course you can misuse that as well. you have an LFO that controls how long back an echo is. You can set the length and speed of this LFO. Then there is a filter that can be LowPass, HighPass or Allpass, and a cut Hz so that you can control where the cut is. oh-yeah!. The distortion is to gritt up the sound a little, or a lot, it’s not the worlds bestest distortion. Then you can amplify the signal, if you want to. The filter can cut away a lot of the volume, that’s why we have it. Then finally there is a on/off. There are two to the left side and two on the right side. and finally one dry through parameter. So if you’d like to test one of your settings, turn the other three off (via on/off parameter) and then tweak away, baby. There are a few presets (yeah, we didn’t feel like making a lot of them, so we forced that shuriken.se guy to make a random-function and make a lot of presets there).
Cool effects processing using the BOSS SE-50
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0CBWw0M4vo&eurl=http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/&feature=player_embedded]
What the author says about the demo:
“Quick demo running through the presets of this early 90’s fx unit. I have a simple sequence playing on a Roland HS-80 (Alpha Juno 2 with speakers) using an unfiltered saw wave without chorus running into the left channel and a couple of preset patterns from a Roland TR-626 Rhythm Composer in the right channel. There are some algorithms (such as Stereo Mixer and “x” + “y”) that have seperate parameters and/or effects for each channel. In Vocoder mode, the HS-80 acts as carrier signal and drum machine as modulator. Using half the width of a single rack space, this compact unit is great for live situations. With a street price of $400 back then, the SE-50 gave a lot of bang for the buck.”
Enjoy
Cycling'74 – the never ending Pluggo concept
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly1rQkTUIjM]
Video taken from Gearwire
pgs-1 (Pretty Good Synth version 1) is an analog-style monosynth with some extreme flexibility and a whole lotta filtering. Three oscillators, two filters and four envelopes are the start of this machine. An integrated effects section (with overdrive and digital delay) allows presets to provide a total instrument experience.
Pluggo 3.5 is an extraordinary collection of more than one hundred audio plug-ins. Pluggo works with sequencers and audio applications that support Audio Unit, VST, and RTAS plug-in formats. Version 3.5 is available for Windows XP and Mac OS X. Originally just 74 eccentric plug-ins such as the legendary Feedback Network, Tapped Delay, and Swish, Version 3 added over 19 Essential Instruments–tasty and nourishing instrument plug-ins in a variety of flavors for your Audio Units, VST, or RTAS host application. These elegant and immediately effective instruments were created by eowave, the developers of the iSynth, and make full use of award-winning Max/MSP audio programming environment.
Prophet'08 and Akai MPC released at NAMM
Prophet ’08 Synthesizer Module
A beauty!!
The Prophet ’08 Synthesizer Module is a tabletop “knobby” module with all of the features and controls of the Prophet ’08 Keyboard (minus the keyboard, of course) in an even more compact enclosure. Includes rack ears for optional rack-mounting. The eight-voice synthesizer with the completely analog signal path brought to the table features like velocity and aftertouch as well as an arpeggiator, gated stop sequencer, and split and layer sounds.
Akai MPC5000
The MPC5000 is the first MPC ever to include 8-track streaming hard disk recording, a 20-voice, 3-oscillator analog synthesizer with arpeggiator, a new sequencing engine with 960 ppq resolution, pad and track muting and mixing, 64 continuous sample tracks. There’s even a new FX engine with 4 FX buses and 2FX per bus.
In addition, the MPC5000 features a 64-voice drum/phrase sampler with 64MB memory Ð expandable up to 192MB. The display is twice the size of the MPC2500 and MPC1000 so waveforms appear crystal-clear. Integrated Chop Shop 2.0 now supports stereo chops and Patched Phrases. The MPC5000 is the first MPC to include Random and Cycle sample playback in addition to velocity Zone Play. A turntable preamp is also included.
The MPC5000’s virtual analog synth eliminates need for external analog synth modules or buggy software based synthesizers. The new 8-track direct to disk recorder lets you produce your whole song in the MPC and then mix it down with the internal sequenced programs and any input thru material. Add the optional CD/DVD drive and you can then burn an audio or data CD or your mix. Over 650MB of premium-quality sounds from Loopmasters are included to get you up and running with pro-quality production in seconds.
Manipulate sounds by moving glowing blocks
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc]
The reacTable, a new instrument that lets musicians manipulate sounds by moving glowing blocks on a round, transparent table, is wowing festival audiences after it was hand-picked by Björk for use on the singer’s summer tour.
The modular synthesizer mashes up shades of Tron, laser hockey and classic Moogs using open-source reacTivision software and an under-the-hood camera to track blocks that, when added, rotated or moved, combine to produce beeps, whoops and soaring synth lines.
The reacTable‘s developers say it is the latest in an emerging wave of “tangible music interfaces,” but to the touring musicians who play the thing, it’s merely “cool.”
Each block has a different function — like changing a sound wave’s amplitude or acting as a metronome — that is denoted by a unique hieroglyph. Players move, rotate and flip the blocks, run their fingertips over the tabletop’s surface and alter the blocks’ proximity to each other to control the music produced by the machine. Pulsing visuals that light up the tabletop come courtesy of a projector beneath the reacTable’s translucent Perspex surface, making the instrument interesting to the eyes as well as the ears.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVVULBXvmxk]
Have a nice weekend
New vocoder from VirSyn – listen to it here
VirSyn has announced the release of MATRIX – The Voice Coder, “The Vocoder for the 21st century.”
And it sounds pretty cool too, listen for youselfs, LOL
MATRIX sets a new milestone in the long history of Vocoders started by Homer Dudley in 1936. This new application provides precise analog modelling 8-pole filters and extremely fast envelope followers for unprecedented resynthesis quality.
Additional features include: New voiced/unvoiced detection and pitch extraction algorithms for high intelligibility. Stereophonic synthesis filter bank preserves the spatial characteristic of the replacement signal.
More about MATRIX and sound demos:
www.virsyn.de/en/E_Products/E_MATRIX/e_matrix.html
Features
– 32 channel filter bank.
– stereophonic synthesis.
– voiced/unvoiced detection
– Pitch tracking
– Formant shift
– Pause filling
– Channel matrix
– Pan position and level for each channel.
– 16 internal oscillators.
– Easy user interface.
Host compatibility
– VST 2.4
– AudioUnit
– RTAS
Minimal system requirements PC
° Pentium IV 1.6 Ghz processor or Athlon XP/MP
° Windows XP
° USB port required for Syncrosoft copy protection device
° 16-bit Soundcard with DirectX/ASIO driver
Minimal system requirements Mac
° PowerPC G4/G5 1.6 GHz / Intel Mac
° Mac OS X version 10.4
° USB port required for Syncrosoft copy protection device
KikAxxe – faithful emulation of a classic ARP AXXE synthesizer
Nice little new synthesizer to play around with.
Built from the same award winning analog modeling technology used for TimewARP 2600, KikAXXE delivers a fat analog sound and much more.
In addition to the faithful emulation of a classic ARP AXXE synthesizer, KikAXXE includes a 16 step analog style sequencer, a drum machine and a modeled tape delay. All in all, KikAXXE is a blast to use.
Download a 30 day trial here >>
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTn__bAsuYc]
Gladiator from Tone2
Seems like we have to wait until Xmas to see this beauty in action on Mac – can´t wait
Advanced HCM (new synthesis), FM, AM, PWM, sync, phase modulation, Vocoder sounds, waveshaping, distortion, supersaw, additive sounds, resynthesis sounds, phase distortion sounds, sample playback, 30208 waveforms, 18 OSCs per voice, 40 different stereo filters, 20 effects, real stereo, 162x oversampling, programmable ARP & Step LFO/trancegate, BPM syncable, microtuning, EQ, modular routing
Gladiator is the biggest Tone2 project so far.
You need (must) to listen to it …
Really good sounding electro >>
C=iao
Introducing the Atari Punk Keyboard
Well who hasn´t dreamt endless nights wishing for Santa to put one of these goodies in your xmas stocking. Some fine tuning though and I believe we have a killer mass market product, LOL
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wIDqMIzRdk]
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