Density mkII – reworking the usage concept

Density mkII

KVR Developer Challenge 2009

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

Density mkII ahead (summer 2009)!

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

Ableton Live – the ultimate creative production tool?

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?

the compressors sidechain: filtering

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.

inFAMOUS (PS3) soundtrack

I’ve recently finished playing inFAMOUS on Sony PS3 and during the game I was really often amazed about the outstanding soundtrack and sounddesign.

Whats up in June here (or not)?

While being back from some vacation and offsite around Whitsun I’m currently digging into some bugs in the recent TesslaPro release.

released: TesslaPRO – a transient aware signal saturator

TesslaPRO, a transient aware signal saturator, is released by now as a VST audio plug-in for PC/Win compatible systems.

will this be my new DAW HW?

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 …

the magic is where the transient happens

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.