Btw free dj program would work for this as well:
anyone know of a sampling synthesizer plugin? i'd like to be able take a sample and spread it across the keyboard. i'm pretty you can do it in Ableton, but programming MIDI in Ableton drives me crazy and i'd love to find a vst that can do it in Cubase.
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Tuesday, May 21, 2013 1:04 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 April 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
oh, you mean just using it to pitch the sample and bouncing it out as audio? or something else? because that's what i normally do in my DAW, but it would be nice to trigger the samples via midi as well as sequencing audio files.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 18 April 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
You can take a sample and map out cue points to a midi device, tho we may be talking about two diff things
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 April 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
I'm an idiot abt this stuff
ohh ok, hmm. i actually haven't messed with dj programs much because i'm an idiot about dj'ing.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 18 April 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
also i downloaded a bunch of these free vsts yesterday, haven't checked them out yet: http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/downloads/
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 18 April 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
The VoS VSTs are awesome - you can make some fucked-up self-oscillations and time-pitch-shifts with their NastyDLA effect
― DDD, Friday, 18 April 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
It's also a pretty good delay effect.
Anything good going in the various Black Friday sales - soft synths, Ableton packs, etc?
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Friday, 25 November 2016 10:13 (seven years ago) link
soundtoys 5.1 for half price!!
― Executive Ball Clicker (euphemism) (haitch), Monday, 28 November 2016 02:08 (seven years ago) link
bump for any Black Friday sales that are worth looking at?
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 29 November 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
Not sure if I've already stanned for it in this thread but Trackspacer (a sidechained EQ) is incredibly useful for getting some space in mixdowns and a steal at £25.https://www.wavesfactory.com/trackspacer/amp/
― help yourself to another slice of apple ... crumble (Willl), Friday, 29 November 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
Ooh that looks really interesting, ty
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 29 November 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
Debating about copping their Spectre plugin too, which also looks cool (and is on sale)
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 29 November 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
This thing is free, and I use it ALL THE TIME:http://www.alexhilton.net/A1AUDIO/index.php/a1triggergate
― DJI, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
Thanks! I can recommend the free vst synths from u-he (some standalone, some stripped-down versions of paid products), they sound great.
Any more?
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
Gotta get into those. The other amazing free plugin that I use all the time is this:
https://vladgsound.wordpress.com/plugins/limiter6/
I think it sounds better than a lot of paid master bus plugins.
― DJI, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
https://tytel.org/helm/https://tal-software.com/products/tal-noisemaker
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 16 January 2020 05:44 (four years ago) link
Channel robot are giving away The modernist glockenspiel and the odernist kalimba. I do love me some mallet sounds. These seem nice. Bit of a cpu hit though?https://audioplugin.deals/free-download-the-modernist-collection-kalimba-glockenspiel-by-channel-robot/
― Tib, Friday, 17 January 2020 02:15 (four years ago) link
Glitch1- an oldie but a classic. 32bit only :(http://illformed.org/
― Tib, Friday, 17 January 2020 02:24 (four years ago) link
xp - ooh, I've been getting into sound libraries for screwing with in samplers, downloading those now
UVI's (free) Workstation comes with a handful of pretty good instruments, though I haven't really found any free compatible sample libraries (vs all the free Kontakt libraries out there).
also in that realm Spitfire's free Labs https://www.spitfireaudio.com/labs/
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 17 January 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
O yeah those spitfire things look interesting! thanksalso: https://www.cinematique-instruments.com/pages_instr/page_klang.php
needs full kontakt though
― Tib, Friday, 17 January 2020 06:48 (four years ago) link
I copped those glockenspiel and kalimba instruments, even though I have made many of my own sample packs using many of my own kalimbas & glockenspiels
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 17 January 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
https://projectsam.com/library-category/the-free-orchestra/
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 18 January 2020 05:14 (four years ago) link
Dexed - DX7 emulation that loads DX7 patch files.https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 3 February 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
I was looking for a good flanger, wishing Valhalla had one, and then found out they have one that's free if you fill out a survey! I've never been happier to respond to a company survey.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
I've never really used a flanger. What's it good for?
― Tib, Saturday, 8 February 2020 10:09 (four years ago) link
Highly recommended skins for U-he's free synths making them more readable - Triple Cheese - https://github.com/dozius/triple-cheese-themesTyrell N6 - https://plugmon.jp/product/interstellar-for-tyrell-n6/
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link
It's a filter effect, the wiki defines it as "produced by mixing two identical signals together, one signal delayed by a small and gradually changing period, usually smaller than 20 milliseconds."
But I stayed away from it for years, maybe because I associate it with the snare breakdown in Lenny Kravitz "Are You Gonna Go My Way"? Then I heard this record, where a lot of programmed drums are run through some sort of shifting filter that I thought might be a flanger, and wanted to give it another go:https://towheadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/pure-energy
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 01:59 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the u-he skins!
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 02:00 (four years ago) link
has anyone played around with magenta/nsynth yet? i'm downloading now. it's free Max/MSP instrument from google, which uses machine learning to blend timbres from tonal samples, so you can combine the qualities of any two instruments, etc etc.
https://magenta.tensorflow.org/nsynth-instrument
― davey, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 03:00 (four years ago) link
see also: https://nsynthsuper.withgoogle.com/
― davey, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 03:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.discodsp.com/obxd/
Emulation of an OB-Xa - there's a buy link but it's really just a donation
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:51 (four years ago) link
It's pretty sweet, but has the same issue with discrete pitch jumping when you turn the Osc pitch knob, which makes playing with osc sync sound weaker than the real instrument. I'm using it for a pad sound in one of my tracks right now, though!
― DJI, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
the same issue that a lot of soft synths have, I mean.
― DJI, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
I can confirm that the Valhalla Space Modulator is sick, highly recommended.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 13 February 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
"ValhallaSpaceModulator is FREE for anyone who has purchased a plugin directly from Valhalla DSP! "
Had you already bought something from Valhalla Jordan, or was the survey enough?
― Tib, Friday, 14 February 2020 02:05 (four years ago) link
Ah, I've bought a couple things from them, yeah. $50 a pop and some of the best reverbs and delays I've ever used though.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 14 February 2020 03:01 (four years ago) link
^^ I use their shimmer and delay plugins on everything.
― DJI, Friday, 14 February 2020 04:53 (four years ago) link
It's essential to the category of youtube videos that I would categorize as "ambient music made with cheap synthesizer and Valhalla Shimmer".
(related to but distinct from "ambient music made with cheap synthesizer and BigSky pedal")
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 14 February 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
don't forget "ambient music made with mutable instruments clouds either in module or vcvrack form."
― adam, Friday, 14 February 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
that's an instagram-based genre, right?
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 14 February 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
https://www.audiority.com/shop/l12x-solid-state-amplifier/
forgot to post this a few weeks ago - it's a model of a little Marshall Lead 12 practice amp, but it also makes for a great overdrive/distortion effect, sounds A+ on a Rhodes or Mellotron type of thing.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 15 February 2020 07:53 (four years ago) link
That DOES sound good. Thanks!
― DJI, Saturday, 15 February 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/tricent-mk-iii-by-full-bucket-music
Free '70s string-machine style synth
BUT, I found out that XILS Labs offers demos of their not-free VSTs (including a new Roland string machine emulation) where the only limitation is not saving presets or using DAW automation, which is very generous and at least w/ the string machine I can't see where I'd really be aching without automation anyway.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
Re:XILS. For me to use the demos I guess I'd have to manually tweak any parameters in real time while bouncing to audio in the one session, giving up the chance of ever reloading the patch or adjusting it after that session... those seem like big limitations? How do you use it milo?
― Tib, Thursday, 27 February 2020 06:37 (four years ago) link
I just got it a couple of days ago and don't know what I'd use a string machine for at all really, so I'm just trying out playing it. I'd imagine just setting it up and playing it - you could use different instances on different tracks for major changes (switching different voices or something) but it doesn't seem like the kind of thing where you're going to be doing filter sweeps normally?
For their Polykobol or Synthi emulations, probably a much bigger deal but I haven't looked at those.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 27 February 2020 07:14 (four years ago) link
Installed XILS4 demo- happy to report it comes with a lot of presets. I almost never build patches from scratch anyway so I'm glad I got this. Closed and reopened a project and the synth and preset I'd chosen were still on the track but any tweaks I'd made to it were gone though. No registration required.
― Tib, Thursday, 27 February 2020 10:12 (four years ago) link
You can also download the Streichfett wavetable and drop it into the Live wavetable synth and get a decent string machine out of it (need to add some chorus/reverb to get it to sound good, as with the real device).
― DJI, Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
Reopened project with the XILS4 demo and it had forgotten the presets I'd chosen. O well.
― Tib, Friday, 28 February 2020 06:43 (four years ago) link
https://klanghelm.com/contents/products/TENSjr
Free version of their new spring reverb plugin based off the giant studio spring units, sounds really nice
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 05:39 (four months ago) link
I posted it in the other thread but I'm also enjoying this emulation of the Kawai K1
https://www.nilsschneider.de/wp/nils-k1v/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 05:41 (four months ago) link
Cool K1 plugin, love that. CD-Rom game and Cinemax channel vibes...
UA is running a $49.99 "guitar" bundle: https://www.uaudio.com/uad-plugins/plug-in-bundles/uad-guitar-fx-bundle.html
This is a hell of a good deal considering it includes the Lexicon 224. Also comes with Space Echo, Dimension D, LA3A, CE-1, a leslie.... I've only played a little bit with it so far. But that reverb, holy shit. Supposedly the code is ported from the hardware. These are native plugs, you don't need UAD hardware.
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Monday, 4 December 2023 06:42 (three months ago) link
!Thanks for the tip... UA stuff always sounds great, but usually super pricey....
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 4 December 2023 07:27 (three months ago) link
This is intriguing -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d70Vk3_o70
I'm not sure about the "physical modeling" thing. Is it using your recorded sound to trigger a sampled instrument and blending the two? It's cheap enough where I think I'll just give it a shot.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 7 December 2023 18:44 (three months ago) link
If it uses 'physical modelling', then I would say it's not using samples at all. I'm pretty interested in this too but I'd like to hear what people have to say about it before shelling out $29. I downloaded a couple of Sampleson physically modelled electric piano VSTs a while ago, though I see from my notes that I haven't used them yet. I must say I am attracted to the idea of this kind of thing. I absolutely refuse to use sample packs or multisampled 'virtual instruments'. I don't want the bloat on my computer in terms of the file sizes. Aside from a number of varieties of 909 (e.g. Samples from Mars packs, which are very good), I more or less stick to synths and whatever I choose to sample myself, as I always have.
― dubmill, Friday, 8 December 2023 10:20 (three months ago) link
Saw this covered on the BPB site today and downloaded it immediately. Looking forward to using this.
https://wildergardenaudio.com/maim/
It degrades and alters the input sound using MP3 compression and other adjustments. The sound examples using drums don't seem that remarkable but there's a video on YouTube where it's processing a piano pattern and that sounds a lot more intriguing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALmvEnr0XPo
Some comments say the effects are reminiscent of Digitalis. I might have that already installed, not sure. It's true, I think, that a lot of these things kind of cross over with each other in terms of the results that can be achieved. I'm still using the 32-bit sampler Shortcircuit to load samples and even that has some nice sound processing options built into it.
― dubmill, Saturday, 9 December 2023 12:24 (three months ago) link
And contrary to what I wrote yesterday, I also downloaded the free Boz Digital Labs Steinway 1926 piano Lite version, which has also just been written up on BPB. True, it's somewhat multisampled, but apparently only 50 MB in total, which is what I like to see. I like the sound of the demo audio files. I rarely use piano, but I can see that this will be useful.
― dubmill, Saturday, 9 December 2023 12:35 (three months ago) link
I started messing around with Haptic Perc, it's an odd duck. There's no wet/dry control, so it's mostly adding tonal info to the attack of your source recording, which will always be audible. So it sounds kinda lame if you use a drumkit loop and try to make it sound like a hand drum, but works pretty well if you're tapping your fingers on the desk (also had some interesting results using brushes on a snare or sticks on a practice pad). The tuning slider also has zero labels, so you're purely going by ear (and it's a little hard to even get back to a previous setting).
Still pretty unique & cool though. I had a track with some hand drum samples that were too short/overly truncated and I was able to use it to generate a more natural sounding decay, it sounds nice blended with the original track.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:23 (three months ago) link
Hmm. There seems to have been not much interest in it so far. On YouTube I'm still seeing only Sampleson's own promotional videos, which aren't that revealing of what it can do. I'd certainly try out a trial version, but they haven't provided one. I don't think I'm going to spend $29 on it without trying it.
But I'm now quite interested in Sampleson's Metapiano ($89). Sounds really nice, and as I mentioned before, I just refuse to use huge multisampled instruments. This is only 60 MB (and also claimed to be light on CPU). Only thing is, I don't really use piano much, if at all, but it's tempting all the same.
― dubmill, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 17:38 (three months ago) link