
Density mkII

Density mkII
Posted in Audio FX Plug-Ins, Chitchat, development | Tagged Audio, channel, compression, Compressor, development, DSP, FX, mid/side, Plug-In, processing, routing, signal, stereo, Update, usage concept, Virtual, VST, workflow | 8 Comments »
After dropping the dev challenge last year the folks from KVR now have finally announced the long awaited third free-for-all audio plug-in / audio applications designer event for autumn this year! And guess what? Dreamteam Patrick and Herbert already do have some exciting plans in the making and are ready and up to join the challenge. If you ever asked how to support, donate or give something back to us this is now an easy task: just support us with your votes during the challenge
Posted in Audio FX Plug-Ins, Chitchat, development | Tagged 2009, challenge, developer, development, DSP, FX, Plug-In | 4 Comments »

Density mkII
The rumors were true: After quiet a long time of ignoring any update/improvement plans on this one there is finally a completely reworked mkII version already in the making.
Committing to the original concept of Density, the mkII is also aimed at the very same goal: smooth and versatile dynamic processing on the 2bus to provide density in a mix and so to glue all things together.
So if you expect a general purpose compressor or something Continue Reading »
Posted in Audio FX Plug-Ins, Chitchat, development | Tagged 2009, 2bus, Analog, announcements, Compressor, density, development, Digital, DSP, FX, glue, interface, mix, Plug-In, Update, Virtual, VST | 24 Comments »
Some time ago I’ve become part of a music project which is heading more towards the dancefloor compatible side of electronica. We are currently testing Ableton Live and thinking about switching over to use it as the main production tool. I’m undecided yet. What do you think about Live – is this really the ultimate solution for electronic based music production? What are the known drawbacks?
Posted in Chitchat, gear | Tagged audio production, Digital, electro, electronica, gear, production tool, sequencer, testing, Virtual | 18 Comments »
There were already an excursion here about the design of compressor transfer curves over here and now this article turns on to the design of the sidechain path of a compressor in general. One major part of the sidechain design of a compressor is the filtering and thats the topic here for now. Continue Reading »
Posted in Chitchat, development | Tagged circuit, Compressor, development, Digital, DSP, EQ, frequency, FX, Plug-In, processing, sidechain, signal, Virtual, VST | 1 Comment »
I’ve recently finished playing inFAMOUS on Sony PS3 and during the game I was really often amazed about the outstanding soundtrack and sounddesign. 
Posted in Chitchat, Sound Design, sampling | Tagged composing, gametrack, infamous, score, sounddesign, soundtrack | 2 Comments »
While being back from some vacation and offsite around Whitsun I’m currently digging into some bugs in the recent TesslaPro release. Continue Reading »
Posted in Chitchat | Tagged 2009, announcements, development, Download, FX, news, Plug-In, Update, Virtual, VST | 7 Comments »
TesslaPRO, a transient aware signal saturator, is released by now as a VST audio plug-in for PC/Win compatible systems. Continue Reading »
Posted in Audio FX Plug-Ins | Tagged Analog, circuit, Digital, Download, DSP, FX, gear, harmonic, news, non-linear, Plug-In, processing, Saturation, signal, Simulation, Simulator, transformer, Virtual, VST | 45 Comments »

Audioworkstation
Since my aged AMD dualcore gets more and more hiccups these days I’m thinking about upgrading to something state-of-the-art in the not so far future.
I just stumbled upon this INTEL Core i7-965 XE CPU @ 4 x 3,8GHz dream configuration and got almost tears in my eyes looking at the benchmark results and the 10 times performance bar comparison to my current system here. And just look at that damn sexy Antec case …
Posted in Chitchat, gear | Tagged CPU, DAW, DSP, hardware, Plug-In, processing, signal, Update, upgrade | 19 Comments »

Transients and so on
This article could have been an esoteric one but then it would probably be titled as “the magic is where the change happens” or something like that. Don’t worry, this is just about some findings and myth on audio transient processing and it’s, errm, reincarnation in the upcoming TesslaPRO VST audio plug-in. Continue Reading »
Posted in Audio FX Plug-Ins, Chitchat, development | Tagged 2009, aliasing, Analog, announcements, artifacts, circuit, Compressor, Digital, distortion, DSP, FX, gear, harmonic, information, news, Plug-In, processing, signal, Simulation, Simulator, transformer, transient, VA, Virtual, VST | 60 Comments »