Wires from AudioThing and Hainbach Updated

US Linux and iOS now supported 12/01/23

Wires from AudioThing and Hainbach has been updated, to support Linux and Apple iOS. Wires is a Soviet Wire Recorder Echo, inspired by vintage military equipment. It sounds as close as humanly possible to the haunting original, but they adapted it for use as a creative musical effect. They guarantee "Soft echoes, broken dreams, the sound of numbers stations and hauntology". Here's more

Turn the echoes of the past into the music of now

German composer and YouTuber Hainbach opened his treasure chest for us: we are happy to present to you Wires, an accurately modeled and enhanced 1970s Soviet wire recorder.

Made originally for military and secret service use across the Iron Curtain, in the hands of a few avant garde musicians it became a magical lofi-tool and ghostly echo machine. Now this rare and rather finicky to operate piece of hardware is available for the first time as a faithful yet modern plugin. Transform your audio to the world of numbers stations and secret operations, dub out to very unusual echoes or make the most lofi beats to study too.

We took great care to get all the idiosyncratic behaviour exactly right – it reacts dynamically to the input and does stuff to audio that is a completely different texture to magnetic tape. There is a special tone to the hair-thin wire and the vacuum tube output stage of this machine, unheard of anywhere else. The standard way to make a unit such as this music is to put it on an aux channel of a mixer, to turn it into a fixed tempo echo. We offer all the variable time features you want, as well as the option to switch off the rather high noise floor of this machine without sacrificing the rather alive sound.

Wires is available for MAC, PC, and LINUX (VST, VST3, AU, AAX, CLAP, 64-bit only), and also as AUv3 and Standalone on the App Store.

Here's the launch video:

Get Wires here: https://www.audiothing.net/effects/wires/

About the author [midierror]: midierror makes nifty Max For Live devices, innovative music hardware, award winning sample packs and hosts a podcast speaking to people in the music world.

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