Synaesthesia and SuperCollider

Here's a SuperCollider-oriented blog that contains some good stuff:

Synaesthesia and the Affect of Programming in SuperCollider
Forming a relationship with [SuperCollider] code in order to realise the body as an immersive environment.

A few plug-ins I'm trying out this week

Here are a few of the plug-ins I'm trying out this week (in Logic, my DAW) and why:

	Pianoteq 2.3 I already can make really nice piano sounds with the Logic 8 EXS24-based sampler presets (Bosendorfer, Steinway, Yamaha) but this is a physically-modeled piano, not a sample-derived player, so it has a low footprint (at the expense of CPU cycles) and presumably, greater sonic flexibility. I'm hoping to get some unusual sounds that depart from what you might expect a piano to sound like.
	Automat1 1.01 I don't use subtractive synthesis all that much, but this one is freeware so I usually pick up a couple of things like this and see if I can make any good sounds quickly.
	Automaton This is by Audio Damage, and I'm a big fan of their plug-ins. This might evolve into some interesting things if feed the right source input sounds.
	Nodal This might be overly complicated, but it looks like an interesting user interface which may or may not generate interesting music.

SoundHack Delay Trio plug-ins

Tom Erbe, the developer of SoundHack, today released a new version of the freeware SoundHack Delay Trio plug-ins.

All three are derived from a hermite interpolated delay line with variable modulation, and a feedback loop with DC blocking and saturation. Pitch shifting is achieved with a dual head crossfading delay (ala Eltro Tempophon/Dennis Gabor/Pierre Schaeffer phonogene) and is decidedly low-fi. The saturating feedback also allows them to be great drone and noise generators.

The three plugins are +delay, which presents all classic delay effects; +pitchdelay, which is essentially the same plugin with controls oriented toward pitch shifting; and finally +bubbler, which is a granular delay in which grains are pulled from the delay line with randomized start time, delay time and pitch shift.

Version 6.05 can be considered the first real release. Windows users should uninstall previous versions. Windows is for VST and RTAS, Mac is for VST, RTAS and AU, all are freeware.

Windows - http://music.ucsd.edu/~tre/soft/SDT605.zip
Mac - http://music.ucsd.edu/~tre/soft/SDT605.dmg
Manual - http://music.ucsd.edu/~tre/soft/SDT605Manual.pdf

Audio Damage plug-in videos

I'm a big fan of Audio Damage plug-ins and a regular reader of Chris Randall's blog so I was happy to see that Chris is putting out some useful video tutorial and example videos of how to use some of the plug-ins, particular Dr. Device, which is a complex filtering/effects plug-in.


Dr. Device Overview... from Audio Damage on Vimeo.