Reply To: Some Grainz, Anyone?

Oh, yes, thanks for that link! It’s a musician physicist’s dream come true. It’s been a while since I installed any major upgrades from Microsoft, so I had to look in the installed programmes folder. It turns out I am up to date through the latest .NET 4 Framework plus an add-on or two, which is a real relief because I do want some of those.

Did you see about the chebyshev polynomials this Dr. Soundhack employed for his distortion plugin called +compand? Being low-order it gives the user the ability to control whether odd or even harmonics are added into the distortion and also to what degree. That’s bloody marvelous! I’ve never seen anyone employ this means before, and only a small few would even think of that! I’m nabbing that plugin and the +bubbler straight away after I sign off here.

I also am auditioning one called ‘Smear’, a very post-modern-looking UI of a thing that does just as its name states using granular. The maker is called ++audio if you haven’t heard of this one and found at https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~adam/++/index.php?page=effects&effect=smear. Yes, that’s the Stanford University and, yes, dabbling in physics is more than a hobby for these chaps too. I now have all three of their small, very efficient and rather charming plugin FX, and I think you’ll like Smear if you hven’t already come across it.

While I’m here, I should also give a shout out about energyXT being released today in version 2.7 with major improvements (It’s almost a real DAW now!), and the very fine RMS-type/backward-looking comp TDA Feedback Compressor that has got mention in the forums in Podium. It is out today as well in a most beautiful-looking new beta with some internal improvements also. It’s also on KVR or go to Tokyo Dawn Labs.

I currently set aside a couple of hours each week to read the recording news and check for the many updates that are flying out to the public as fast as I can read up on them. What’s going on about freeware plugins these days in quality and choice is nothing short of stunning!

Cheers!
Tele