#248

that does sound really nice. Getting a lot of use out of Cycles too

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#249

Each time I finish an album, I look back at my patch notes and count what I used.

Apparently my favorite plugins right now are Valhalla Delay, DDMF MagicDeathEye, CraveDSP CraveEQ, and Valhalla Supermassive :smiley:

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#250

Somebody linked to a device on Tindie, and that led me back to looking at the DAFM (a neat little YM2612-based synth).

But that got me exploring Plogue Chipsynth MD again, and starting to really appreciate some of the weird stuff the plugin can do.

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#251

This comment got me interested in Freakshow Industries so I ended up getting all 3 of their plugins. Theyā€™re excellent and truly unique ā€“ nothing else out there quite like them. I really appreciate that the documentation (tooltips in the plugin ā€“ no manuals) gives you enough info to have a reasonable idea of what youā€™re doing, while still leaving the exact mechanics of the sound mysterious (that self-care lever though!). It encourages experimentation in a really fun way. If you like making weird, dissonant stuff, or if youā€™re really angry at a particular sound and you want to mutilate it beyond recognition, you should definitely check these out. (Oh, and their artistic sensibility is justā€¦ chefā€™s kiss)

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#252

AudioThing has a new plugin called Speakers which seems pretty neat so far. Itā€™s a replacement for their Megaphone and Speaker plugins, with plenty of convolution-based mic and speaker models, each with adjustable frequency, a delay/feedback section and EQ, plus distortion/other mangling, compression, filtering and noise loops, and routing options for all of them.

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#253

relatedā€¦ if you have a convolution verb plugin, these IRs by Fokke van Saane are great! & freeā€¦
https://fokkie.home.xs4all.nl/IR.htm

Speakers and telephones version 1.2
This set contains mono to mono and mono to stereo IRā€™s of two old tube radioā€™s, 4 kinds of different speakers, 2 telephone horns and a walkman headphone. Version 1.2 adds a car radio system and a small portable cd player.

Claustrofobia v 1.1
This set contains mono to stereo IRā€™s of very small spaces like flower pots and dustbins etc

And othersā€¦

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Creative convolution: share your impulse responses!
#255

I am waiting for a sale on Ozone, if I missed I think I will buy Ozone 10 when it release.

Any comments on this plugin?

#256

So cool! Thanks a lot for posting these! I think thatā€™s the most interesting use for IRs, using it for weird stuff like this :slight_smile:
I think I said it already in this thread, but finding Reverberate to be a great IR based plugin that doesnā€™t break your bank, and you can load any audio file and use it as an impulse response.

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#257

anyone use the new hainbach + soniclab vst ā€œfundementalā€? looks cool but some people were complaining about ilok (which is some kind of drm as i understand?). anyone have problems with it? does it require an internet connection to use the software?

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#258

AFAIK iLok just requires another piece of software to track and manage licenses. Should function fine offline. I was suprised that a VST of this nature would be using iLok. I would also add that they are experiencing a lot of technical issues today, so if youā€™re going to pull the trigger maybe wait until tomorrow :slight_smile:

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#259

It looks really great!

#260

I didnā€™t have trouble with iLok, but their payment processing isnā€™t greatā€¦ they donā€™t accept PayPal despite the logo (they said they were removing it) and Stripe refused my debit card for no reason I can fathom (as they have done before with Kickstarter) despite claiming to accept both debit and credit cards.

Fundamental itself is pretty wonderful though. I had it going for a few hours today while I was working from home, occasionally tweaking it or running it through other effects. It pairs nicely with AudioThing Speakers, or of course hardware distortion or filters. I think my favorite was when I had it going through three parallel comb filters with slowly, subtly wandering frequencies :slight_smile:

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#261

I must say, Iā€™m slowly getting hooked on sonic-labā€™s stochastic modulators. I had been toying with the demo of VolBot for a bit (thereā€™s a chance I like volbot more than fundamental, so debating which to buy first). Fundamental doesnā€™t disappoint! I like how many different tools it brings to exploring the lovely but extremely narrow space of those Rohde and Schwartz oscillators. Creative limitation of the happy kind.

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#262

I wish it was a little easier in the Fundamental UI to precisely set the oscillator frequencies ā€“ that seems like it would have been more in the spirit of test equipment hardware! But itā€™s easy enough to do from within Bitwig. (Perhaps ironically, because they are VST parameters and they display in Hz, itā€™s easier to set Fundamentalā€™s oscillator frequencies precisely than it is to do the same for Bitwigā€™s built-in oscillators in Gridā€¦)

Another nice feature would have been the ability to use Harmonic mode to set the frequencies, but then preserve those when switching back to the free tuning mode.

Admittedly, I still havenā€™t read the manual so maybe I missed a trick or two. I do love the sound though, and find just the barest bit of slow modulation of frequency, level and pan can do wonders.

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#263

iā€™m super interested in trying out the slate + ash cycles.

for those using cycles already: are you using a MIDI controller with it at all or had any experience using cycles in a live setting? it looks like a lot of fun for a live set but would want to be away from the mouse as much as possible.

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#264

Oh, thatā€™s a very good question. Interested in the answersā€¦

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#265

Gotta have a midi-controller. Havenā€™t yet even thought about using it live, butā€¦ I would think one could make some super interesting things happen with it, with a bit of planning. Canā€™t yet attest to itā€™s predicability in a live environment, either, as itā€™s just been a solo basement companion for me, thus far.

The thing I would be wary of is the CPU hit. Depending on what youā€™re doing with Cycles, it can take a lot of ā€¦ erā€¦ CPU cycles. So youā€™d want to plan ahead and it probably depends more on computing horsepower availability than anything else. I can easily make my new Mac mini hit the wall with this thing, depending on what I dial up.

With that said, it is absolutely one of my all time favorite plug ins, already (and I am just scratching the surface). It is very much worth buying - if you have some decent computing horsepower.

In fact, I love it so much, it has me eyeing more powerful computer options, just so I can make more use of it. And it is the only thing I have on my system that drives that sort of thinking.

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#266

This suite of granular plugins is $20 right now, which at any other time would be the price of a single one of them. Iā€™m sure someone will dig. Puremagnetik is pretty good stuff for the price.

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#267

Iā€™m definitely going to jump on this!

#268

Just did myself. While I was doing it, I realized 90% of my music is fundamental Osc shapes, granular synths or the OP-1. But Iā€™ll always get more granulars

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