Totalmusik is a NY sales rep for Metasonix and Eowave gear. They seems to also record the equipment and make sample libraries with the blessings of the manufacturers. They have released a Kontakt Polyphonic Wretch Machine sample pack. The samples were recorded to tape and they also included some Impulse Responses. The pack is 2GB and will run you $65. It’s on sale now for $50.
“For this library, no attention to detail was spared in capturing the true essence of this instrument. The Wretch Machine features a dual gas-tube oscillator configuration – each oscillator is switchable between three waveforms: Saw, Squarer and Subosc (squarer with suboctave). Realizing that everything sounds better through tape, and our personal philosophy that “Old is Good, Old and Broken is BetterTM” – we enlisted the assistance of our TEAC Reel to Reel to handle our tape transfer needs.” – totalmusik.com
For more info: totalmusik.com
This entry was written by , posted on May 17, 2010 at 5:17 am, filed under sounds and tagged EOWave, Impulse Response, Kontakt, Metasonix, Totalmusik, Wretch Machine. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Studio Six Digital makes iPhone and iPad sound measurement Apps and hardware. Some of the tools include a SPL Meter, FFT Analysis, Impulse Response Recorder, THD+n Measurement and a Speaker Polarity/Distortion tests. There’s also an Impedance Meter and an Impedance Sweep test.
“The Impulse Response module for AudioTools provides an easy way to capture an IR audio file on the iPhone / Touch, and also calculates the most-needed metrics from the data. Impulse Response is an iPhone port of a powerful mathematical model developed on desktop computers by Daniel Valente, Ph.D Architectural Acoustics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In seconds, a complete set of measurements is made that describe the acoustic character of a room.” – studiosixdigital.com
There is some competition in this space. Also check out: Faber Acoustical
For more info: studiosixdigital.com
This entry was written by , posted on April 29, 2010 at 4:15 am, filed under iPad, iPhone and tagged Faber Acoustical, Impulse Response, iPad, iPhone, SPL Meter, Studio Six Digital. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Not so long ago computers for producing music were all seriously underpowered. I remember on my old Mac clone, a Power Computer PowerCenter Pro210 I could only open 2-3 plug-ins before the computer would click and glitch to a halt. However, today we live in an amazing time as far as music technology. I can load up my Macbook Pro all day long with plug-ins and it seems my CPU never jumps past 50%. It actually took me a few months to get used to piling on plug-ins without freezing or bouncing tracks. I realized I was wasting time 
bouncing everything by watching younger kids demo their Ableton and Cubase tracks on YouTube. My keen eye caught mountains of plug-ins placed frivolously over twenty plus channels. I realized I better “un-old fogey” myself and start painting with thick strokes of live effects or be left behind.
So today’s quick tip is to start a song with plenty of effects placed on assorted channels before you ever even place a sound producing synth, sample or voice anywhere. What do I mean? Well how about putting Altiverb with a Neuman Mic IR (Impulse Response) on the Master Channel? Why not also put a nice compressor there too? Now as your build your song and mix as you go building into those plug-ins. In effect it’s almost like you bought a new sounding mixer.
There’s no reason to be subtle either. Try creating a sub-mixer of 6+ channels and on the Group’s master fader and have a flanger set to 100% wet. Next place all your synths in your new flanger group and adjust the oscillators and filters toward the flanger not the other way around. The key is to start off fully loaded with effects on so everything you hear isn’t the same ole, same ole…
Related post: Making Groups in Ableton Live is really easy.
photo credit: Pulpolux !!!
This entry was written by , posted on December 20, 2008 at 11:32 am, filed under Ableton Live, plug-ins, song writing and tagged Ableton Live, Altiverb, effects, flanger, groups, Impulse Response, Neumann, plug-ins, Power Computing, PowerCenter Pro210, song writing. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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