In-depth Feature:
Podcast: Freeware AU Plugins Round-up
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In this podcast, Mark Tinley discovers that free stuff rocks if you look hard enough
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Podcast Notes
These are the show notes for the Podcast from Mark Tinley covering his selection of the finest Freeware AU plugins available.
The podcast was first made available during the first few days of 2007.
CRITERIA Universal binaries must be available Units must validate in LOGIC and Garage Band Must need no additional software (PLUGGO MAX MSP RUNTIMES)
SOUND GENERATORS automat http://www.alphakanal.de/ overview: three osc synth with vowel filters and shapers crystal http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/ overview: FM and subtractive synth additional + 20mb sound fonts triple cheese http://www.u-he.com/TripleCheese/index.html http://www.digitalmusician.net/index.php?id=63 overview: comb synthesiser favourite: spooky fondue and clavi phase destroyfx turntablist (not really an instrument but too good a sound generator not to list) http://destroyfx.smartelectronix.com/audiounits.html http://www.bioroid.com/plugins.html overview: load a sound sample into the plug-in and it acts like a turntable with hands on control of the sample
EFFECTS BEST DELAY EFFECT (INCLUDING GRANULAR) PPC plugin of note: Kingdubby http://www.lowcoders.net/kd.html Bouncing Ball Delay Crazy Ivan SupaTrigga http://bram.smartelectronix.com/ KTGranulator http://www.koen.smartelectronix.com/KTGranulator/ Fire LiveCut http://mdsp.smartelectronix.com/2004/01/audio-units.php overview: granular style delay and autoedit fx BEST REVERB EFFECT freeverb on dfx site overview: sounds a bit like an AMS Convolver2 http://www.teragon.org/products/Convolver/index.php overview: convolution reverb BEST MODULATION EFFECT destroyfx.Transverb
BEST DISTORTION FILTER PPC plugin of note: Frohmage http://www.ohmforce.com/ViewProduct.do?p=Frohmage mda.Combo http://www.mda-vst.com/ overview: amp and speaker simulator favourite: 4 X 12 close miked plugin installs with rest of following package
mda.Degrade - Sample quality reduction mda.Detune - Simple up/down pitch shifting thickener mda.DubDelay - Delay with feedback saturation and time/pitch modulation mda.Dynamics - Compressor / Limiter / Gate mda.Leslie - Rotary speaker simulator mda.Re-Psycho! - Drum loop pitch changer mda.RingMod - Simple ring modulator mda.RoundPan - 3D panner mda.Shepard - Continuously rising/falling tone generator mda.Talkbox - High resolution vocoder mda.TestTone - Signal generator with pink and white noise, 1/3 octaves and sweeps mda.Tracker - Pitch tracking oscillator, or pitch tracking EQ BEST LEVEL COMPENSATION PPC plugins of note: Blockfish - compressor Spitfish - de-esser Floorfish - expander/gate http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.php?item=2&subItem=5 SSL LMC-1 PPC http://www.tsamm.com/TSAMM_ssl_duende_en.html#LMC1 CamelCrusher http://www.camelaudio.com/camelcrusher.php soundhack +compand http://www.soundhack.com BEST UTILITY soundhack +phasescope Sonalksis Free G http://www.sonalksis.com/index.php?section_id=99 overview: long fader / fine metering plug-in BEST SFX PLUG-IN mda.RingMod - Simple ring modulator mda.RoundPan - 3D panner destroyfx - Geometer destroyfx - Polarizer destroyfx Scrubby destroyfx Skidder destroyfx Buffer Override http://destroyfx.smartelectronix.com/audiounits.html overview: insane granular delay fx and worse :-) USEFUL OTHERS voxReducer http://primo-media.com/?page_Request=Downloads Vinyl http://izotope.com/products/audio/vinyl/ overview: record deck background noise sim favourite: crackle
About Mark Tinley Mark is a talented musician/sound artist with many years of professional experience. His recent years have been occupied working for Duran Duran and especially Nick Rhodes, with whom he has a close working relationship. he is also a regular contributor to the Sonic TALK weekly podcast. There is much more to him than just this though - take a trip over to www.funnymachine.com for the bigger picture.
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