The Sound Board

I misunderstood this tool and tried it on a musical segment, me playing piano at an airport. The results were hilarious as the program tried to turn my (polyphonic) playing into speech! I think segments of it will make for great humor sfx 😉 OK, now I have to try it. And Guy, perhaps it is just a ph...

Not really necessary, your last sentence is spot on, especially that last part. "Right now I'm finding it needs some massaging, some errors creep in, but it will only improve, and many will decide that level of nicety isn't required." I wasn't arguing that Podcast and similar tools have no...

I think there is another factor - the number of people that can operate at the top level is decreasing. I have no idea why, some blame it on computers, some just blame people, but as Hannes put so well, you have to up your game or fall by the wayside. Adobe Podcast is popular because it is good enou...

man oh man do I have serious regrets about installing the demo for Dust... addictive, and remarkably powerful, I had a blast! But I have no possible rational for making that purchase - pity! I remember reading about Infiltrator, but it is, again, somewhat unrealistic. For that matter, so too is Crea...

Hi Anders, WOW! For as long as I've been experimenting with algorithmic composition I've never run across that site. Shame on me! And Thank you!! At the moment I have both PlugData and Purr-Data (release version, latest build is sitting on the drive) installed on Windows. I probably need to go back ...

to me almost anything is a compositional aid - if it suggests a melody then it helped<G>.

That is pretty darned cool! It appears to be based on Max for Live Many years ago (when I still had a working Amiga - yeah, that long ago) I spent a fair bit of time with Dr. T's Algorithmic Composer, Laurie Spiegel's MIDI Mouse, and "M" now distributed for Mac only by cycling 74. I also e...

I wondered whatever became of that! Glad they will make it to market - they did an awful lot of work, original work, and deserve their day in the sun.

Matt is truly one of the most imaginative sound designers around, and his knowledge of the synthesizers he works with is pretty much unmatched, save for the original designers. I've picked up a handful of his libraries, mostly for Omni, a couple for Zebra and one for Diva, all of which have more tha...

Happy Holidays, and Best Wishes for a Very Musical 2023 to all my friends here!!

I haven't understood if this harmonica can play chromatically or it's diatonic... My impression, from the video - and the name - is that it is meant to be played as a diatonic harmonica. But until I buy it that is just a guess. I have the Fluffy Audio Spaghetti Western library. It includes both a d...

well I guess I have not yet tried to do a Stevie Wonder/Toots Thielman type harmonica part, and now, of course, I guess I have to? (This may be, in part, because I have yet to pick up a chromatic harmonica library???) I have tried a couple of harmonica libraries over the years, my current favorite b...

Lawrence wrote: ↑Dec 16, 2022 12:41 pm I bought it without listening to demos.

You are my new boyhood hero Larry!

What Jay said - I might just have to retire my harp - what's all that cheering I hear in the background?

can't be certain, but I suspect the "Legacy" in the name means forever. Also means something new may be on the horizon??

Yes, there is just something about the sound of those recordings that makes me grin. I believe Pandora may have been the first to get the face lift, so it is already at the same level as the others, but I could be (and often am) wrong.

Blake Ewing wrote: ↑Nov 30, 2022 5:01 pm But, I did snag UAD Capitol Chambers for $49, so that's a win!

I predict that you are going to LOVE the chambers! Not the longest stretch in the world! $49??? That's amazing.

Yup - I know the drill. I started out with a list of 3 or 4 on my wish list. Two of the bigger ticket items got scratched, but quite a few lower priced items took their place. Well, they made it to the list, still not sure which ones will make it to my "collection". Of your list I think th...

Never stop - your reviews, and hints are priceless. That said, I played around with the three demos again last night, putting most of my time into the SQ-80 because, well, the ESQm was probably the last hardware synthesizer I really enjoyed programming, and the SQ-80 plugin brought a lot of that fun...

I am really tempted by the upgrade to V9. There are only three plugins I really want, the SQ-80 - my ESQ-m is on its last legs, the Vocoder, and Emulator II. The SQ-80 demo is quite convincing, and the vocoder demo is pretty good as well. I just downloaded the Emu demo, but in the meantime I figured...

The other deal that has my attention is Spitfire's Ton. I've picked up previous bundles and found them to be, on the whole, very useful. This time around I am really interested in the Fragile String Evolutions (I have Studio Brass, the winds are not as interesting to me). There is just something to ...

much as I planned to skip the season, there are a couple things that I find really interesting... UA's Hitsville Chamber sounds amazing. I use the Capital Chambers often, this would be a nice alternative. At $349 I'll likely add another $25 and get the Pick3 which is really a Pick6. Not sure what el...

Very tempting, if only for the MS-10, 360 Systems Keyboard, the Drumtracks, and maybe the 2600. Very tempting indeed.

I was really pretty surprised that they did not wait until after the holidays to release the "new and improved" NA. I hope it won't bite them too hard.

I removed the updates to NA and I'll stick with version one for a while - until I run across a library that requires it.

Cinesamples is 65% off across the board - IIRC that's their deepest ever discount. This news makes me smile and weep uncontrollably at the same time. I've been meaning to round out my brass section with their "Horns of the Deep" library, and would have done so without the discount - with ...