FabFilter Volcano 2

FabFilter Volcano is a filter plug-in designed to offer convincing digital filtering with unique analog character. Key Features Four multi-mode filters, with panning, delay and more than 10 unique characteristics Flexible filter routing, including per-channel and mid/side modes Endless modulation options, with all the 16-step XLFOs, envelope generators, envelope followers and MIDI sources you will… Read More FabFilter Volcano 2

junXion v4 Makes Anything You Hook To Your Mac A Music Interface

STEIM has released junXion v4 – a Mac OSX data routing application that can process ‘sensors’ from any human interface device (joysticks, mice, touchscreens) using conditional processing and remapping, with MIDI or OSC events as its output. The resulting MIDI or OSC data is then available to any audio or music software that runs on… Read More junXion v4 Makes Anything You Hook To Your Mac A Music Interface

Processing Sound Using Photoshop

Audio Cookbook’s John Keston is doing some interesting experiments with processing sound using Photoshop: Sound designers, musicians, producers and engineers are all familiar with manipulating sound through the use of audio processing. Most examples of processing, like filters, reverbs, and delays produce a relatively predictable result. I’m interested in processing that has an unpredictable result.… Read More Processing Sound Using Photoshop

Volta Quadrature LFO Demo

Matthew Davidson (Stretta) created this hardcore geektacular demo of using MOTU Volta to create a quadrature LFO: A quadrature LFO has four outputs with the phase shifted in 90 degree increments. This produces the sine, cosine, inverted sine and inverted cosine. A quadrature LFO is useful for frequency shifters, barberpole effects, quad panning, phasers and… Read More Volta Quadrature LFO Demo

NAMM Show: Eastwest PLAY 2.0 Gets Pro Editing Features

NAMM Show Update: EASTWEST introduced PLAY 2.0, which adds professional editing capabilities. The editor featured in PLAY 2.0 is the same software that the company uses to program its PLAY-powered virtual instrument collections. “When we originally designed PLAY, it was intended to offer a powerful but easy-to-use interface for users to playback the included sounds,”… Read More NAMM Show: Eastwest PLAY 2.0 Gets Pro Editing Features

Redmatica Sampling Suite

2009 NAMM Show: Redmatica previewed its “next generation” sampling applications, Compendium Pro Bundle 2. The new set of applications include Keymap Pro 2, AutoSampler 2 and ProManager 3 and offers both evolutionary and revolutionary features, building over the foundation of Keymap 1.5, AutoSampler and ExsManager 2. “‘Revolutionary Evolution’ was the concept behind the entire development… Read More Redmatica Sampling Suite