Free AU Plugin: alphakanal – Automat
Posted on | Juli 3, 2012 | No Comments
alphakanal released Automat, a free Audio Units (AU) synthesizer plugin for Mac.
“A virtual analog Audio Units (AU) synthesizer plugin for applications (Audio Unit hosts) like Garageband, Logic or Live. It features a polyphonic stereo subtractive AltiVec/SSE optimized DSP engine with a flexible modulation patchbay.”
Features
- 3 antialiased oscillators with hard-syncable Sine, Saw, Puls and Wavetables waveforms
- 3 filters with LP, HP, BP, Peak, Notch and Formant settings
- 3 waveshaper with FM modulation and tube distortion
- 3 chanel mixer with panorama settings
- Stereo-delay with filter and tempo sync
- Modulated spatial effect with tempo sync
- Spring reverberator with filter
- 14 editable and patchable timeline modulators with tempo sync
- Poly-, unisono and legato-mode
- Random preset generation
- Midi learn
More info and download here: http://www.alphakanal.de/
Tags: apple > au > download > free > freeware > instrument > mac > modulation > plugin > synthesizer
Free Audio Software: sound + design – phonoLapse (Timelapse Audio)
Posted on | April 16, 2012 | No Comments
sound + design released phonoLapse a free timelapse software for audio timelapses.
“phonoLapse is a free desktop app for Mac and Windows that lets you create audio time-lapses. For the 2010 Enterferenze New Art Festival I put together a little Time Lapse Phonography piece that followed me over the course of 24 hours (check the video below). I have been receiving emails from people wanting to create their own, and decided to work on a standalone version so you too can create some time-lapse phonography 
.”
More info and download here: http://www.soundplusdesign.com/?p=5059
Tags: audio > design > free > freeware > mac > PC > phonoLapse > software > sound > sound + design > sounddesign > timelapse
News: Rob Papen – Blade
Posted on | März 29, 2012 | No Comments
Rop Papen released Blade, an additive synthesizer plugin for Mac and PC (AAX, VST, AU, RTAS)
“At the heart of BLADE, ready to twist and transform your musical mind, lies the Harmolator. An additive synthesis system, which rather than using the system of changing additive partials, uses global controls which capture the essence of additive synth in an intuitive way making the creation of sounds much easier than using other additive synths. The nine Harmolator controls allow you to create a vast range of sounds so you get all the amazing sounds that additive synthesis can generate with the added simplicity of traditional subtractive synthesis. The Harmolator allows oscillator spreading, fattening the sound and also square / sine wave sub-oscillator. What’s more, the sound can be modified further by the 21 per-voice distortions types and 14 filter types. Blade offers total control of the sound over time using an array of different modulation controls. The most significant of these is the central XY screen. Here you can either alter things directly by moving the cursor around, or you can record paths which can be replayed.
The recorded path can be looped, bi-directional looped and tempo based as well. Even the speed of the XY recording can be modulated for dynamic changes!
So the XY pad is also an incredibly advanced “human input” modulation source.
Furthermore, Blade has the full range of other modulation sources, including a dedicated envelope, LFO and velocity as modulation source for Harmolator controls. Two FX units featuring all the FX from other Rob Papen products, plus the Arp / Sequencer and an Easy page which allows you to easily control sounds, all add up to an amazingly flexible and useful instrument at the cutting edge of today’s synthesizers!”
Features:
- 16 voices, operating in poly , mono 1/2 , legato 1/2 and arp modes.
- Harmolator Oscillator with 9 controls, harmolator wave settings, two types of spread functions and extended sub-oscillator.
- 21 Distortion Units operating per voice (ahead of filter).
- 14 Filter Types including 6/12/18/24 low/high pass, 12/24 band pass / notch, vocal & comb filter.
- Filter separation function for unique filter stereo soundAmp section with Volume, Velocity and Envelope control.
- XP Pad with 12 amount controls for each X and Y, which can modulate the 9 Harmolator parameters, Filter Cutoff, Filter Q and Volume.
- XY Pad which can operating either directly or with recorded paths, in poly, mono or free modes.
- XY Pad playback can be tempo synced, with different tempo settings, and with loop & bi-directional loop options.
- XY Pad movement speed control.
- XY editing options at right mouse menu
- Dedicated Harmolator velocity, LFO and envelope controls.
- Pitch LFO and Pitch Envelope, 2 Free Harmolator control sources, 2 Free Envelopes, 2 Free LFOs and 4 modulation sources.
- All of Blade’s controls can be used as modulation destinations, and there are a full range of modulation sources including midi controls and internal controls.
- 2 FX units with 27 effects, including distortion, reverb and tape delay plus many more.
- 16 Step Arpeggiator with each step having its own pitch, velocity and free amount, which can also be used as a sequencer for modulation purposes.
- Easy Page allows control of the main parameters in a flexible and easy way.
- Preset handling with copy, paste, clear and compare function.
- Quick Browser’, ‘Recently Browsed’ and ‘Favorite’ functions.
- Preset Manager screen allows you to easily find and organize presets and banks.
- Full midi control over all parameters included the X/Y Pad.
- PC: 32 & 64 bits VST and RTAS for Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7
- Mac: 32 & 64 bits AU and VST and 32 bit RTAS for OSX 10.5 or higher
- Mac: AAX for OSX 10,5 of higher very soon
- Mac: 32 bit AU, VST & RTAS for OSX 10.4 (Tiger)
- Serial/license system, 2nd serial for 2nd computer/laptop are available after you have registering the product’s original serial/license.
More info here: http://www.robpapen.com/blade.html
Tags: 64bit > AAX > additive > Audio Unit > Blade > mac > PC > plugin > rob papen > RTAS > synthesizer > vst > vsti
Free VST Plugin: Blue Cat Audio – Blue Cat’s Freeware Plug-ins Pack II
Posted on | März 29, 2012 | No Comments
Blue Cat Audio released “Blue Cat’s Freeware Plug-ins Pack II“, a free VST plugin collection for for Mac and PC, in VST, RTAS, AAX, Audio Unit and DirectX plug-in formats, for both 32 and 64-bit architectures.
“All Blue Cat Audio freeware audio plug-ins gathered together in a single package: this bundle contains a wide range of premium modulation
effects, a single and dual-channel equalizer, a unique midi-controllable gain suite, as well as a professional spectrum analyzer.
This is the ideal package to get started with your favorite Digital Audio Workstation. All plug-ins are entirely free.
All plug-ins are available for Mac and PC, in VST, RTAS, AAX, Audio Unit and DirectX plug-in formats, for both 32 and 64-bit architectures.”
More info and download here: http://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Bundle_FreewarePack/
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free VSTi: Synth1 for MAC
Posted on | September 21, 2011 | No Comments
The freeware VSTi Synthesizer Plugin Synth1 is now available for MAC. The Synth1 plugin is one of the oldest free plugins i use but still a quite nice plugin. It sounds very good, uses not much cpu, has a very logical structure and hundereds of presets.
More info and download here: http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/softsynth/
free audiosoftware: Sound Doodle for Mac
Posted on | März 29, 2011 | No Comments
{Sound + Design} released the free sounddesign standalone audio application “Sound Doodle”.
“Sound Doodle is a free desktop application for Mac that takes the act of doodling, and brings it to the world of sound. The interface elements are designed so that you can mold your sound by doodling.”
Sound Doodle [walk-through] from Andrew Spitz on Vimeo.