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synthesizerwriter: July 2015
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Sunday, 19 July 2015. A surprise from history! In my last blog post I mentioned PanEcho. A Max For Live. Plug-in that I wrote back in 2011, but I didn't check my page on maxforlive.com. To make sure that PanEcho was there. You can guess what I found when I did check! Yep, it turns out that PanEcho. Was one of those bits of programming that never made it into the real world, and had been sitting in my 'dev' area, gathering dust. So I've now uploaded PanEcho. So that it can be tried out by a wider audience!
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synthesizerwriter: Random Echoes
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Monday, 13 July 2015. Sometimes ideas for audio effects seem great conceptually, but the actual result doesn't match up to those expectations. Comber 3. Added random modulation to my MaxForLive. Phase shifter, but it didn't sound quite as awesome as I had imagined. Persistence can pay off, though. So I added random modulation to my PanEcho M4L. Surprisingly, the result is better than the random phasing, but still not exactly what I expected. Adding random delay times to audio echoes is difficult to d...
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synthesizerwriter: September 2014
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Monday, 8 September 2014. Waveshaping with a wavetable. Having tested a simple waveshaper with Squarer, I wondered if I could take the audio processing part and add it to the Wavetable Creator and make a more flexible wave-shaping utility. As it turned out, doing this went a lot faster than I expected and I rapidly had it working. So please welcome ShaveWapery. And any audio should pass through mostly unaffected. Moving the 'Sharpen' control anti-clockwise should give a very similar 'squaring' of the...
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synthesizerwriter: August 2014
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Sunday, 3 August 2014. One thing often leads to another. In a recent example, revisiting my Korg Electribe S Mark II sampling drum machine was the trigger for a new Max For Live project. To emulate the 'riding' of a human being tweaking controls, I added a conventional 'Swing' timing control, and this works very nicely with the 'Shape' control. Separate depth controls for the feedback delay time and the left and right inputs provided very strong delay-based stereo imaging as a bonus.
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synthesizerwriter: June 2015
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Saturday, 27 June 2015. I've recently done four interviews for the ModeAudio online Magazine. About how I explore the more unusual side of sample use, mis-use and manipulation in Ableton Live. Here's a quick index to all of the articles:. Exploring 'Found Percussion Bundle': Part 1. Exploring 'Found Percussion Bundle': Part 2. Exploring Float's Guitar Samples: Part 1. Exploring Float's Guitar Samples: Part 2. There are accompanying blog entries here as well:. Winning was only the beginning. In one exampl...
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synthesizerwriter: April 2015
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Wednesday, 22 April 2015. Winning was only the beginning. I won a competition recently! This is a rare event for me.) ModeAudio. Is an interesting web-site that combines informed articles on DAWs with thoughtfully curated audio packs, and two randomly selected people got to choose a bundle from their catalogue. Sent me a bundle of samples called ' Found Percussion. It was great fun, and I found that the samples were a great trigger for creativity. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Winning was only the beginning.
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synthesizerwriter: May 2015
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Monday, 11 May 2015. Drums - using layers in a rack. The second part of my exploration of a commercial sample bundle. Is now available on the ModeAudio. Web-site. This time I actually used the ' Found Percussion. Sounds for their intended purpose - drum sounds. Actually, what I really do is just do layering of samples within a Rack, plus a bit of tweaking here and there. I find that this is one of the most useful parts of Ableton Live. Humanizing Drums With Velocity Effect in Ableton Live. Previously Ive...
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synthesizerwriter: Winning was only the beginning...
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Wednesday, 22 April 2015. Winning was only the beginning. I won a competition recently! This is a rare event for me.) ModeAudio. Is an interesting web-site that combines informed articles on DAWs with thoughtfully curated audio packs, and two randomly selected people got to choose a bundle from their catalogue. Sent me a bundle of samples called ' Found Percussion. It was great fun, and I found that the samples were a great trigger for creativity. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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synthesizerwriter: The DAW as synthesizer...
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Saturday, 27 June 2015. The DAW as synthesizer. The fourth part of my 'playing with samples and loops' series. Has now been published in ModeAudio's online magazine. As always, I'm fascinated by the way that finding alternative ways to look at things is a two way process - a new loop triggers an idea, or a 'what happens if I do this? The blurring of the distinction between sound generation as in synthesis. And performance capture as in a recording. Has been ongoing for a long time. A modern DAW. Instead ...
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