2008 Wrap Up...
All other blogs do a yearly wrap-up post, so I might as well. With that in mind, I give you the Best AD info@ e-mail of 2008: Hallo! I am going to buy your hole Plugins!!! There are nothing comparable for this Price!!!…
2008
154 posts. All years
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Sound Exchange: Made Of Fail...
Within a couple days of each other in the last week, I got my 4th quarter ASCAP publisher's statement and my "Unit Of Arbitrary Time" artist statement from Sound Exchange. If you click on that picture, you can actually…
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To Mix Or Not To Mix? That Is The Question...
Long-time readers will note that I used to often put up pictures of people with sprawling rigs of high-end instruments, and then point out that they were mixing all this gear a cheap-ass Behringer or Mackie mixer, with…
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Catharsis Time Again...
Okay, I think it's time for one of my semi-regular studio cleanings. This always hurts to do, but I know it is necessary, and past performance shows that when I do it, I write a lot of music that doesn't terribly suck…
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Happy Holidays...
Our electricity came back on (lo, and furthermore hark) but seeing how the power grid round these parts is made out of despair and broken dreams, I'd be shocked if we still have juice past noon tomorrow, what with Round…
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The Effects Of Advertising...
Back when I was a youngster and, like, signed and stuff, one of the things that I had to pay attention to (and yet disliked extremely) was what the label was doing for advertising, both for the albums themselves and for…
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Okay, that's just plain silly...
The pedal pictured above is a Pete Cornish TES Delay pedal. If you're not a guitar player of the decidedly Classic school of rock, that series of words and accompanying picture are probably essentially meaningless. So…
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How To Get Me To Post On Analog Industries About Your Product...
The easy way is to make something I buy and like. That's worked for several companies. The second most easy way is to be a tard. Allow me to submit Exhibit A to the jury: Chris - I recently reached out to you about…
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Sonically Charged...
Since every other music blog on the planet is reprinting Sonic Charge's press materials without even trying the synth (except Peter) I'll leave the free press to others and just do what I do well: bloviate. I assume…
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Newsdump...
I had to spend all day doing various non-music-related things. This unfortunately entailed me getting up at 4:45 in the blessed A.M., so now that I'm done I'm in no shape to post anything interesting. (I got in to the…
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Plug-in Design, The Results...
Okay, I went through that entire thread and made notes and counted votes and what-not. Thanks everyone for taking the time to illustrate what your opinions are in this matter. It seems to me that the whole thing…
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Plug-In Design Open Thread...
Over yonder (how is distance measured on the Intergoogles?) on KvR, Shamann started what has turned in to a semi-interesting thread on the base nature of plug-in design. To save you the trouble of reading all eight…
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R.I.P. Neal Hefti...
Mr. Hefti passed away in his California home at the ripe old age (for a musician, anyhow) of 85, of natural causes. We should all be so lucky, I would think. Anyhow, if I know you, and I'd like to think I do, you're…
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A Few Of My Favorite Things...
Compared to some people, I don't really have that much gear. I have, at points in my life, had as many as 18 keyboards (with keys, never mind rack mount units) and twenty-odd guitars. Now I'm down to seven guitars, a…
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BigSeq 2
Just a little update about this. We're well in to the from-scratch rewrite at this point. Adam has been working on the new controls we'll need, and I'm working on the UI itself. This is entirely new code; nothing from…
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New Bounte EP available...
Bounte's new EP, Maximal, is now available for purchase in shopPOSI. This EP features what is almost certainly the first commercial Grindhouse track, and is thus a historical artifact worth owning. Go grab one. He has…
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My New Best Friend...
As you no doubt know if you've been reading this site for more than, say, a week or so, you'll no doubt know that I do get a kick out of putting our more flamboyant requests for NFRs up here. This is one of the better…
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Jammin' with Yo-Yo Ma...
Here's something you don't see every day. Indaba is running a contest whereby you make a counterpoint melody for a Yo-Yo Ma performance of Dona Nobis Pacem. Contest details here. This is quite a departure from the…
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Fiscal Meltdown Open Thread...
As the U.S. economy comically tail-spins in to the ground (and in the process teaching you zany Europeans that why, yes, we do actually still have a fairly powerful effect on your way of life) it logically begs the…
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AES (or CR's Big Day Out)...
Well, my day at AES is now over. I'll state for the record that I don't have the foot skills necessary to stand around and talk to people all day. My dogs are barkin' right about now. That aside, I could easily make…
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The Big Drive Open Thread...
Okay, the Nitro and I are heading to San Francisco tomorrow for AES. Assuming there are no snowstorms, I'll be driving all day tomorrow, so no posting. I'll post some thoughts and pictures from AES when I get back to my…
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Honky Mopho...
Got my Mopho today (thanks, Shawn!!!) All I've done to this point is plug it up and take a step through roughly half the presets, but I have to say that aside from a couple UI quirks, this is an excellent box, and a…
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Busy busy open thread...
My wife and I got season tickets to the Oregon Symphony and the first concert was on Sunday, Beethoven's 9th. I'm continually stunned by the chops that dude had. He's all like "okay, I've got one more in me, so I'm…
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New Music...
We haven't done this in a while, and on a personal note I have to refresh my iPod for my drive to San Francisco next week, so I'm on the prowl for music. What's the New Hotness on your playlists? Anything out there that…
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Rough Rider Now Available...
As the title says, Rough Rider is now available for download. Go grab one and enjoy.
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Rough Rider Update...
I've added a Rough Rider page to the AD store, so you can gaze longingly at a screenshot and some bullet points.
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New Soniccouture Loop Set...
Our good friends at Soniccouture have finally put out another drum loop set (REX, Apple Loops, and WAV) of 63 construction kits called Tremors. I don't have the set yet, but if the audio samples are any indication, this…
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Back To Work...
Okay, today is the first official day of "back to work" after the release of Automaton and our subsequent mandatory decompression period. (MDP.) Rough Rider is on the agenda today. This should go fairly quick because…
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Repair...
I need someone that knows how to work on Yamaha analogs for some repair work, generally on the west coast, but preferably in PDX or San Francisco. Also, is anyone aware of a source for Yamaha CS-style knobs?
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Man 1, Nature 0...
Okay, I survived the Great Outdoors with nothing more than a back ache. Turns out that it is possible to live a full day without cell service. Who knew? Anyhow, I'm back. Hopefully I'll manage to collect my wits enough…
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Man V. Nature Open Thread...
I'm going camping tomorrow, so unlike my normal "out of the office" type things, where I'm still very much connected to the interwebs via a combination of iPhone and MacBook, I'm gonna be somewhere that doesn't even…
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Piano Man...
I'm going to be recording some solo piano pieces for my next album, and since I don't actually have a piano, this will necessarily involve booking studio time. Given the choice between SF, PDX, L.A., and Seattle, where…
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Purveyors Of The Banal, Unite!!!
IK Multimedia, everyone's favorite Italian MOTR plug-in makers, in cahoots with Line 6 to ensure that guitar tone becomes as lame as possible, have issued a rebuttal of sorts to Music Radar's Freeware Love-Fest. I have…
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Various Things...
First off, thanks to everyone for making this our best 24 hours ever in the history of Audio Damage. We're especially pleased/surprised since Automaton is an experimental plug-in, so this means you're willing to (a)…
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Audio Damage Automaton Now Available...
Hey, you wanna get yourself a copy of Automaton? I know just the place.
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Macintosh Flavor Poll...
Take the poll Free Poll by Blog Flux Okay, Xcode and OS X have progressed to the point where it is getting increasingly difficult, bordering on damn-nigh impossible, to build Universal Binary versions of our plug-ins…
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Automaton Update...
Okay, the Windows version is out for final testing right now. The OS X versions are on their way as soon as they get out of the oven. The manual is mostly written. We're gonna power through the weekend if we have to…
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Automaton Overview Pt. 2 - Effects...
Automaton Overview Pt. 2 - Effects... from Audio Damage on Vimeo. Here's part two of my three-part screencast about Automaton. In it, I have a quick Adderall-fueled portion for the attention-impaired segment of the…
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Gasp. Headset. Choke.
Okay, it has become apparent to me that the contortions required to use a proper microphone when doing these screencasts are inhibiting my creativity. I have decided that I would be well served by purchasing a headset…
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Automaton Overview Pt. 1 - Sequencer...
Automaton Overview Pt. 1 - Sequencer... from Audio Damage on Vimeo. Okay, here's the first of three screencasts about Automaton. The last couple minutes give a quick demo of the plugin in action. I also say the word…
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A Nice Little Weekend Project...
Here's a cool instructable about making a little feedback daughter-box-thing to give any guitar pedal a feedback knob. I should note that feedback can be interesting on most any effect; he really only mentions "cheap…
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Why We Do The Things We Do...
The fifty-odd comments in the previous post (as of this writing), coupled with the fifty more in the thread before that left me with the nagging feeling that there might be a fundamental lack of understanding about how…
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Coming Soon...
Meet Rough Rider. Does about what you'd think. Costs a lot less than you'd think.
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Is there something I'm missing?
I'm continually stupified at the number of people that manage to do the following: 1\. Look at the front page of audiodamage.com where every short product description says something to the effect of "US$39.00 for AU and…
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Music To Picture...
micromov004 - Assemblage 1 from Chris Randall on Vimeo. Original film is here. YouTube version is here.
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Dr. Device Screencast...
Dr. Device Overview... from Audio Damage on Vimeo. Yeah, you better get used to these bitches but quick, because I'll be pumping 'em out for the next couple weeks, until everything that needs to be covered has been. I…
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The Type Of Shit That Pisses Me Off...
Okay, so I'm merrily working along, I go to switch to headphones, and I hit the "MUTE" button on my Central Station, and it pops out and hits me in the forehead. So, being the sort to which Einstein was obviously…
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Replicant Screencast...
Replicant Overview And Tips... from Audio Damage on Vimeo. Sometimes, things are just harder than they need to be, plain and simple. Such was the case with this. After fighting with Vimeo for a fair portion of the day…
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Soniccouture Bowed Piano mini-review...
I would have done this last week when I got the sample set, but between Automaton, house guests, and, you know, leisure activities, I didn't get it done in a timely fashion. My bad but hey, that's why you don't have to…
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Snerk.
Jordan Rudess is looking for a tech. My favorite part is this line: As this role requires you to be at Jordan's private residence, absolute discretion and confidentiality must be maintained by the successful applicant…
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Raymond Scott: On To Something...
As you're no doubt aware if you're in to such things, there is a Raymond Scott documentary in the works. Judging from the trailer (above) it looks like a fairly comprehensive and cool movie. Naturally, since the…
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BEHOLD THE POWER OF BACON!!!
That photo is the reason Portland, Oregon is awesome, and whatever joint you live in is Shitsville. I can go buy a maple doughnut with bacon on it at Voodoo 24 hours a day, and you can't. No musical context for this…
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Rewiring complete...
Got my office all re-wired today. Took me two days to strip it to the bare walls, clean everything, and put it all back together. Thank god I don't have more shit. Well... I actually have a ton more shit, but it's all…
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Your First Time...
I was just getting some chuckles from reading this thread at KvR, wherein it is determined that the first third-party commercial VST plugin was Prosoniq's NorthPole. (Which, incidentally, is still freely available but…
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Moogerific...
Okay, I've been studiously ignoring the news about the Moog guitar since it was first announced, but I don't think we can avoid it any more. My thoughts are twofold, with the caveat that I've only watched the video and…
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For Sale...
In addition to the two things still in Adam's Yard Sale post, I have a Brent Averil 312A mic pre for sale. You can read all about it here. It is the top one pictured, single channel with power supply. Obviously, you can…
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Recharge...
It was a fairly hectic couple of weeks 'round these parts, and I'm about to have another hectic week soon (my 40th birthday occurs simultaneously at a family reunion; I'm not sure which I'm less excited for, but the…
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Audio Damage Kombinat updated to 1.0.1
Kombinat has been updated to 1.0.1 on both OSX and Windows platforms to fix an issue with the compressor, which wasn't... uh... compressing. The new installers are available for download. If you're using Kombinat in a…
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Oops.
An apology is necessary, it seems. The version of Kombinat that went out the door (in the figurative sense), well, the compressor doesn't seem to be compressing. All it is do is gaining. The problem has been found and…
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Monday, Monday...
Sorry for the complete lack of postage, but I was in the mandatory post-release decompression over the weekend (which, for me, consists mostly of trawling the various forums and answering e-mail), and as far as I can…
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Spring Cleaning...
Adam asked me to post this for him. This stuff isn't mine; don't write me and ask me about it. Write Adam instead. \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Clavia…
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One Of Those Funny Little Things...
I'd sing Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'" now if I wasn't busy sobbing in my morning caffeine-laced beverage. One of the features of Kombinat (and Dr. Device which birthed it) is the fact that the filter…
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AD Kombinat Now Available...
Okay, refresh monkeys. Kombinat is now available for purchase. Go git some. US$49.00 to murder yr bitz.
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Woof, woof!!!
Purple were kind enough to send me a couple Biz Mk mic pres to try out, and the UPS man just dropped 'em off. Haven't plugged 'em up yet, so I can't speak to them at all, except to say that they sure are purdy little…
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The Raw Feed...
I'm a fan of our space program here in the U.S.A., and it is one of the very few things that can excite patriotic fervor in me; I tend to look on nationalism as the fountain of all things stupid that aren't directly a…
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Cake or death?
I read with amusement (bemusement?) the recent go-round over on CDM wherein Mr. Kirn aired some grievances from users regarding the state of Digidesign and M-Audio drivers viz. Leopard and Vista. The VP of Lollipop…
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It's Aliiiiiiiiive!!!!
Kombinat lives. We spent the day fixing minor quibbles with the UI, and are just about done with that. All that remains is to "de-click" the knobs and add the presets, and the Windows version will be complete, and can…
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Dear Mr. Reznor: Thanks for nothin'
I gotta say I don't have a lot of love in my heart of hearts for NIN this particular minute. We (and by "we" I mean the group of people that work in the music industry that aren't insane or blinded by money) have been…
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AI DAW Tracking Poll...
This poll will no doubt royally fuck all the RSS readers out there, so if you just see this text and no poll, please take a moment and come to the main site and whack one of the choices. I have a good general idea of…
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PowerWhore X-H8
I'm going to give TC about two more weeks, then I'm going to have a brand new PowerCore X8 for sale on the cheap. The amount of time they're taking with Vista drivers is absolutely ludicrous. I have to be honest and say…
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Sometimes you eat the bear...
The events of last week have got me thinking in a something-less-than-sanguine manner about the nature of the music industry again. (If you've not been in school lately, I discovered my manager of 14 years was robbing…
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Let's Not Talk About Square Waves Any More...
For some reason I thought that topic would be more interesting, but when you get right down to it, all square waves are, well, square. Point taken, and I'll assume my initial instinct was correct. So, new topic, and in…
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Let's Talk About Square Waves For A Bit...
I'll have to admit that the sub-sub genre of synthesis largely devoted to mangling your ears via 555 oscillators has never really impressed me. I don't care for the circuit-bent sound too much, although I read Get Lofi…
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The Weekend...
When you work at home, the weekend takes on kind of an abstract meaning. The only thing that makes it noteworthy, to me anyways, is that the stores in my town have shorter hours. Since my town has a grand total of four…
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Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em...
I always thought "Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em" was the best album name ever conceived. There's literally no reason I would mention that fact in this post other than the mood struck me. I gave my MD and MM a workout…
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Sigh.
What was it the President said a couple years ago? "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, won't get fooled again." Something like that. People that religiously read the comments of this site will no doubt recall…
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Atomica : Greyscale
If you like well-produced, moody downtempo, you're in luck. Positron! is pleased to announce the release of POSI022, Greyscale, by The Atomica Project. This is a digital-only release, VBR MP3 and FLAC for US$10.00…
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Some More Scriptorium Tidbits...
Okay, I've spent a little quality time with Scriptorium, Soniccouture's new product which I mentioned a couple days ago. As promised, here's a more sophisticated set of comments. In no particular order: 1\. Tutorial…
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synthesizin'
ur doin it rong. Pablo has recently discovered the qualities of analog warmth. Although he didn't get the memo where the "fat" part was supposed to be in the synth, not on it.
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Audio Damage Ricochet updated to 1.0.2a on OSX...
We've updated the OSX side of the Ricochet installer to 1.0.2a to fix a bug which prevented Ricochet from working correctly with the FXpansion wrapper in ProTools. If you don't have PT and the wrapper, you don't need…
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Open Thread and some other stuff...
I'll start with the other stuff first. I'm going to be looking to book a couple shows for June/July, so if you've got an event/night/whatever that is primarily IDM or experimental electronic music in Seattle, Portland…
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Soniccouture Scriptorium mini-review...
Just installed my shiny new copy of Scriptorium, the latest from our good friends Soniccouture. Scriptorium is actually more a collection of KSP scripts for Kontakt 2/3 rather than a big fat sample set, but there are…
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Ricochet in CM...
I have to admit that I'm a little nervous sending products to CM these days; we've had a more-or-less unbroken string of good reviews from them, and eventually, the inevitable will occur. That said, we can't complain…
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Psychosynth, and 3D in general...
I noted with interest when Matrix put up a little blurb about Psychosynth the other day, which is an open-source no-table-or-Bjork-required clone of the Reactable stuff. Now, right from the outset let's get one thing…
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Choppy, Glitchy, Fuck Yeah!
As I mentioned in an earlier comment, I've been pondering a thread starter on glitch programming; nothing has really come to me that wouldn't take the form of a tutorial (which I don't find that interesting, at least to…
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Friday Open Threadage...
Okay, we've got Dubstation 1.5 VST done on both Mac and Windows; the AU is giving us a little bit of grief as usual, but that should be hammered out shortly. (AU users, feel free to go watch this awesome video while…
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Helter Skelter... uh... right...
This one is really for the non-US readers, as an example of how American politicians go insane after they lose a primary attempt. This fellow is Mike Gravel. He was a Democratic candidate for president, but he was…
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And now for something we hope you'll REALLY like...
As I mentioned two posts ago, we're holding off on the release of Kombinat for a little while, in order to allow for the fact that Adam has to do a do-over on his aborted Japanese vacation of last year. We could get it…
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Hmmmm....
On the one hand, I find the recent decisions by Radiohead to be mostly cool, as you all no doubt know. The "pay what you want" model for "In Rainbows" obviously didn't hurt them in the slightest, and the "live" concert…
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Various Things...
As was noted in the previous thread, Grindhouse has moved outside our little circle. Case in point: Radio Slave's "Grindhouse Tool" (which, although it doesn't have enough 'verb on the foot, follows the tenets of the…
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Audio Damage Update : Kombinat...
I spent the whole day finishing the UI for Kombinat and chopping it in to little pieces for VSTGUI. Once I got that done, I decided to have a little fun and make the traditional glamour shot a little early. In the…
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I, for one, welcome our new 23-secret-ingredient-wielding music business overlords...
Of course, if we're incredibly lucky, it won't actually work. But if history is any judge, we won't be lucky. At least we'll get a free can of soda out of the deal. This is kind of like the polar opposite of…
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Tooth decay open thread...
I spent a fair portion of the day at the dentist, and am in no mood to go traipsing about the Interwebs looking for something to amuse us all, having had my head drilled upon for quite some time. As such, this is a…
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Audio Damage Update : Kombinat...
We're just about done with major coding on Kombinat, our next product. Here's a little teaser. (Subject to drastic change, as always.) More in the coming days.
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Hammer Time...
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Well, it looks cool, anyways...
Got my PoCo X8 today. Got it all set up, shit installed, etc. Then I discovered something which I wasn't aware of (and TC by no means advertises): the Powercore software is not Vista-compatible. At all. But that blue…
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Im on ur stage, fuckin' with ur songs...
I was just merrily uploading old video clips of SMG live shows to YouTube, and this particular one got me thinking. If you're not familiar with the catalog of Sister Machine Gun (and frankly, for the most part, I…
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Portishead Out On A Limb...
Now, I'm a fair-weather Portishead fan, I'll be honest. I, like many, like Glorybox but not much else. I have to say that they're smokin' a lot of weed in prep for their new album, if this little film is any indication…
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PoCo...
Finally took the plunge and got a PowerCore X8 from AudioMidi. It should be here on Monday or so, and I'll offer up some pithy comments. For the PoCo owners out there, what are the must-have additional plugs? I have a…
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Argh...
Adam's "inner geek" aside, sometimes computers make me want to go out and kill things. Is there a way to insert a DVD in to a Macintosh and select, say, Chapter 1, and select, say, "Save as FLV", press "Go," and come…
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Maybe I'm old or something...
...but how on Earth does someone walk out of Musikmesse with a god damn Minimoog under their arm? I've heard tales from others in the industry that the "public day" of Musikmesse was the day all your shit was stolen…
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Open Thread...
I have to drive my wife to the airport in Portland today, and while I'm in PDX I'm gonna visit some music stores and what-not, so this'll be an open thread. The subject: what's your whacky desire for a plug-in? Anything…
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I'm Willing To Admit (sorta) That I Was Wrong (sorta)...
Yes, it's true that I've said nasty things about NI's Kore product line in the past, but having labored through the tutorial videos (the which are hosted by the single most uninspiring person in the music industry) and…
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Open Letter to Digidesign:
Dear Digidesign: Could you stop being so lame? I know that's a tall order, but I also know it's possible. I can think of lots of largish (to me) audio software companies that aren't lame. Ableton and Native Instruments…
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FUUUUCK!!!!
I cracked the god-damn neck on my J-Bass. That sucks. Well, not the neck so much; really the headstock. Right from where the nut is on the low side to the center of the hole for the E tuner. This doesn't really affect…
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A Spirited Defense of an Utter Lack Of Skill...
In my normal Sunday morning trawl of the NYT (which differs from my daily trawl of the NYT inasmuch as I generally don't read the op-ed shit on a weekday) I came across this amusing piece. In it, the author describes…
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Stylistic Schizophrenia Open Thread...
I'm going snowboarding today, largely because I can, so this is an open thread. The topic: as was mention often and vigorously in the previous thread (but one), I've made a reasonable career despite having the…
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The Corner Of No And Where...
And I just wanna say "Big Up!" to our Melanesian Massive. Who is that one person from New Caledonia?
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The Long(er) Tail...
darklordjames just turned me on to this article, which has apparently been making the rounds of the creative community today. (And with good reason.) Obviously, I have some thoughts about this, but first things first…
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Some ponderings...
Can "pondering" be pluralized? Any grammar Nazis out there that want to correct me? Shit, I'm digressing before I've even started pondering. Anyhow... The previous discussion came to mind because I have undertaken a…
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Testing t3h Awesome...
Here is an example of how the Bullshit Detector of your average musician gets defeated by gearlust. I'm as guilty as anyone, of course, and the test is not double-blind, scientific in the least, or verified. I have a…
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Oops... (Duende PCIe)
Looks like someone jumped the gun on the Duende PCIe announcement. They even had the tact (or distinct lack thereof) to put up the letter SSL sent to them instead of coming up with their own copy. "Since that time…
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Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
My rather eccentric music taste makes me kind of easy to pin down, I think. Witness: there are exactly four artists that currently release records that I actually get a little excited about. Those four artists are…
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iDunno...
There seems to be some sort (or several sorts) of electronic music making device here, but color me retarded if I can't figure it out. Someone here must be able to explain this. I have the distinct feeling this is one…
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I made me one of them-there records...
My fifth album as Micronaut, Callisto, is now available for purchase in shopPOSI.Download only, as you recall we gave up pressing CDs for Lent. The download comes in the form of either an "alt-preset-standard" VBR MP3…
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soniccouture Balinese Gamelan sample set mini-review...
Let me state from the outset that this is a really nice package. Normally, when you get a multiple-hundreds-of-dollars sample set, the company producing it takes the whole "well, you're paying for the samples, not the…
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Lil' Dipper...
Judging from the comments in the last post, this is obviously something that like eight people find interesting, so I just thought I'd throw my mock-up up so you can see what the hell I'm up to. In spinning around in my…
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Fluid Update and other stuff...
Just a quick note that Fluid has been updated to 1.1 on both PC and Mac to fix the "filter issue" that many people complained about. I wanted a low-cut on the chorus because it sounded a bit muddy to my ears, and it was…
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P-Pop goes the weasel, the weasel...
\[Embedded media, no longer available.\] Outstanding ping-pong ball + wine glass robotic orchestra. Via Makezine. Go see it in person at 186 Orchard st. in NYC. Don't know if they've programmed any 3rd Bass in it, but…
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Interstitial is the new warehouse...
My vote for quote of the century (so far; the century is only 8% over, so there's hope yet): "Did you know you can rent a generator for $52 and set up and play ANYWHERE until the cops come?" That, in any of itself, is a…
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Oddities of The Modern Age...
I'm working on the cover art for the upcoming Micronaut album today, and it got me thinking about how incredibly strange this business has become in the last three years. I mean, here I am, making a 300dpi front image…
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A Couple Thoughts On Feature Requests...
There's this thread over on KvR which got kinda silly yesterday. We have (or "had," rather) one customer who is ("was") somewhat incensed that we didn't add a particular feature to Ricochet, and despite the fact that I…
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If you were ever curious, the difference between "cool" and "fool" is...
Maaaaan, I dunno about Antares any more. When they put out that Kantos plug, I was like "okaaay... you guys need to stop running the UIs through committee." I mean, nice idea and all, but damn. They just released Voice…
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May I Hate On AudioUnits Some More?
This whole thing with Apple development is actually getting fairly confusing, to where we're no longer entirely sure what the fuck is going on. It's patently obvious that Apple never knew what the fuck was going on, so…
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The 10 Commandments Of Grindhouse...
So, there are at least seven distinct forms of house music that I can discern. Unfortunately, none of them does what I want right now, so I've taken it upon myself to invent a new sub-genre, which we will call…
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Poll...
Question of the day: Is FLAC... (a) Just stupid by itself? (b) An example of how people that don't understand audio should stay away from making programs for converting formats? (c) An example of how FOSS software…
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Audio Damage Update...
Aside from the fact that we rarely say the word "Apple" around these parts without prefacing it with "Fucking..." things are moving ahead. We lost a couple days due to a disagreement between Xcode, the PPC version of…
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Wicked?
It's really too bad Europe isn't around any more, because this dude would fuckin' OWN in that band. The description for the video says "Playing wicked fucking solo on the keyboard totally origional ... fucking fast."…
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¿Que?
I just got this in my email in-box: We are happy for informing you free of charge that our scope has been activated the presence online of the FreeWav plan to the address http://freewav.altervista.org is that one to…
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Sorry. Yeah. Whatever...
We've been having a bit of a snow... what? Event? here for a few days now. I'm sure everyone that lives in the upper Midwest of America is like "oh, cry me a river, nancy-boy" but I spent 25 years in Boston, NYC, and…
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Things A Producer Never Wants To Hear From A Band...
I was busy sifting through some old material today, to put up on The Tubes, and something caught my ear on a track that Martin Atkins remixed for me, and it got me giggling, and thinking of all the bullshit things I've…
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New at NAMM...
Down in the basement, with the Chinese USB-Powered Melodica makers and the singing toilet seat, we find this wonderful new iteration of the analog low-pass filter. Completely passive in operation, it also doubles as a…
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Uh oh, here we go again...
I know I swore off modulars like two years ago, as a big fat waste of time and money, but there's some really interesting stuff coming out for Eurorack format lately, and I have to admit that it has piqued my interest…
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Variations On A Theme...
There's an article that has been making the rounds written by Simon Napier-Bell, the manager of quite a few name artists, including the Yardbirds, Wham!, Japan, Ultravox, and Asia. It appeared in The Observer last…
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BLOG WARS!!!!! ZOMGBBQ!
I Eat Beats from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo. Peter Kirn got all up in our grill with a bubblegum sequencer over on CDM. Well, Peter. I'll see your bubblegum sequencer, and raise you one done with Skittles. If candy-based…
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Ricochet Progress...
It's just about up to the fat lady at this point, because we're moving right along. As you can see in the above picture, the OS X VST is 99% done. People that are paying attention will note that the above screenshot…
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Wait, there might be something here...
I was just flipping through Brandon Daniel's traditional NAMM photo set (Brandon likes frames, so you're gonna have to do your own browsing...) and I came across the above, for the Rozzbox One V2. Kind of a bulky name…
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VST3 Whee...
I realize that I run the risk of becoming incredibly tedious about this whole VST3 thing, so I'll post this one bit and leave it alone for now. Pictured above is what happens when I cold-build the supplied sample code…
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VST3... tastes just like chicken...
Okay, I've just got done reading through the new SDK, reading the entire monster thread on the subject at KvR, and attempting (and failing) to build Steinberg's example code. (This is no surprise, because it is usually…
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NAMM-tastic News...
Obviously, I'm not at NAMM (what were the odds?) so I'm in the same boat most of you are, sitting back and reading the seemingly unending stream of press releases like all the other plebs. Quite frankly, this is for the…
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Note to bloggers: It's spelled "fuck," no asterisk..
We're about to see a metric fuckton of asterisks in today's RSS reader, because Eric Barbour decided to call his latest product, a guitar amp of all things, "Fucking Fucker." I'll be honest: if I knew it would get that…
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Hits You In The Chest Like an 808 Boooom...
I decided recently, for varying reasons (but mostly a massive desire to Just Know), that I wanted to learn everything there was about how the 606, 808, and 909 make their sounds. I have my Ideal x0x Drum Kit, which is a…
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The Big Bo, now in a convenient bite size...
Amid the din of ridiculous product offerings we'll see this week, there's one sexy, albeit somewhat over-the-top, offering from the king of all umlauts, Bösendorfer. Gearjunkies drops this press release announcing the…
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Anti-Production...
One thing I don't care for, in the current (well, last five to seven years, anyway) trends of popular music is the incredible amount of production. While my tastes in music generally run to under-produced music to begin…
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AD Ricochet Update...
Ricochet is now at the point where it is pretty much fully usable, so I've made a Ricochet page in the AD store, with a screenshot and a couple of simple sound files that show in a minor way some of the special effects…
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MIDI Feets...
I need to get a MIDI foot controller, mostly for driving Live. It seems like my options are limited to the Yamaha MFC10 (pictured above) at $279.00, the Roland FC300 for $295, and the Behringer FCB1010 (which is…
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Unhappy Tuesdays...
We're having a bit of an issue on the home front; I find it tedious when people bring their personal lives in to ostensibly "professional" media, so I won't fall in to the same trap, but suffice to say any post I make…
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The Sound Of Inevitability...
Or is that "The Inevitability of Sound?" Hard to say. Some of you may have already guessed this from various posts and comments I've made on this site, but we're going to take our label straight digital only now. CDs…
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Equivocating...
Sorry for the lack of posting yesterday. I went to Mt. Bachelor to get my snowboard on, and when I got back I was too sore to care about matters audio. And Pablo thought I might be tasty. But I'm bigger than him so that…
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Pedals...
It's all about tone, baby. That one on the left is Full Of Techno, too.
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Euphonix control surface...
The MC Control (and its lil' halfling brother the MC Mix) are in the Sweatwater store now for preorder. $1499 gets you four faders, a jog and transport, and a very nice touch-screen display. More faders in banks of…
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Radioheads...
I have to be honest and say that I've not been a huge fan of Radiohead, and there was a period (well, all right, let's go ahead and say from OK Computer to Hail To The Thief) where I actively disliked them. But their…
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Things I Want For The New Year...
1: A Mac web browser that doesn't fucking suck - This doesn't seem to be terribly complicated. But apparently it is. And the first person that says "hey, use Opera" can consider themselves banned from ever making pithy…