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SlewOnly

SlewOnly is a utility plugin to use with Voxengo SPAN, in Density Mode. That will give you the best ‘VU style’, sense-the-loudness-of-the-track, metering, and when you put one of these utilities in front of SPAN, it’s calibrated so equal levels will give you appropriate amounts of extreme highs. If the levels are out of whack, your balances are also out of whack. (it’s fine to have quieter output with SlewOnly: peak levels should not be hotter than the regular mix, though.)

SlewOnly is a very simple algorithm: apart from some volume boosting to calibrate it, all that happens is that each sample has the previous sample subtracted. This produces an outrageous but very primitive highpass, so you can also use it as an audio filter.

This algorithm is available in Ditherbox, for convenience. That way you can switch it in for mix checking, without having to load extra plugins.

Date August 24, 2011
Author Chris
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ElectricBass

ElectricBass is a cheap P-bass copy, played with fingers, most notes on the fretboard sampled, sustained long enough to play longish notes. There’s no velocity multi-sampling and it’s only eight megs or so in size. The point was to make a downloadable EXS24 sampler instrument so people buying my drum sample instruments could try something out and make sure they knew how to install such a thing.

It’s a very, very limited sampler instrument, but it’s free and can sound nice within its limitations. It’s got good note attacks, because I’m a bass player. Enjoy :)

Date August 19, 2011
Author Chris
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Fireworks Reverbs

FireworksReverbs is a newer set of reverb impulses for convolution reverbs. Contains a lot of really killer sound design and special effect impulses! This is zipped AIFF files, so it is usable on a PC if you can read AIFFs. If you’d like to install them in Logic as presets (Mac only, uses installer), thank Mini-Dan from Gearslutz for FireworksReverbsInstaller which gives you the same reverbs, built into the Space Designer preset menu!

These were a big project, stemming from one wild idea: rather than sample bangs in acoustic spaces, why not record a whole fireworks show and then sculpt those recordings into impulses? The idea was that such loud explosion sounds, captured accurately, would produce convolution impulses darker and more distant than typical digital reverbs.

This worked great, and as a result, Fireworks Reverbs contains lots of dark, natural-sounding acoustic spaces… but it’s also got many far stranger things. Some of the sounds have odd overtones or weird details, and some by design are unlike any normal impulse. The Chorus examples are like that: they have flurried clusters of impulses, so sounds run through them become diffuse and scattered. They were all named for what they sounded like, and the range of sounds was surprisingly vast, even unearthly. They’re all fairly dark and natural-sounding, which is understandable as they are from field recordings. Many have been doctored in post-processing to enhance their qualities.

Be cautious of picking odd impulses, or those with artifacts, for ‘normal’ purposes, but within the limitations of the concept these things ought to be very useful!

Date August 18, 2011
Author Chris
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BussColors2

BussColors2Demo brought gain trim controls to BussColors, enabled it to work with Console as a drop-in replacement for ConsoleChannel, and doubled the number of hardware models.

Where BussColors had Rock, Lush, Punch and Tube (from impulses by SSL, Neve, API and Manley—revealed for those who dig through old posts! I’m still not marketing based on those names, though), BussColors2 added Dark, Vibe, Holo and Steel. Dark acted a lot like an MCI though I’m not sure what bit of hardware actually produced that sound, Vibe and Steel are just different and Holo was from Focusrite and brought a great ‘sense of visualization’ to the sound.

The antialiasing code is different, and many internal things were tweaked and altered.

I think the newest BussColors is the one you’d want, but if you’d like this version, buy the newest one and email me. I’ll send it.

Date August 7, 2011
Author Chris
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