Plugins
Notes on plugins: synths and sound processing
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Increasingly surprised how any software synths worked at all like 10-15 years ago. For one, I’ve got an old Core i7 with 2.81 GHz cores, and Surge XT hits the roof with RT CPU values unless the patch is optimized heavily. On the other hand, it’s a reason to actually optimize things there. I have
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Yet I’m trying to shed the thought I’m doing it all wrong and the effort is rather pointless – there are so many premade patches for Surge XT already, who would even take a look at the newer bunch. To hell with that, anyway. While making these patches I’ve actually learnt a thing or two,
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This is roughly 1/5 of what I plan to do. Custom wavetables, etc. Mostly ambient stuff that, hopefully, will work in other people’s mixes too. Surge XT is great. I thing I was spooked off it with a somewhat difficult interface. Now, however, I feel it’s very intuitive and cozy. And sounds is preeeeetty. :-)
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Waldorf rocks hard this year. First they’ve recreated their classic Microwave synth in software as a plugin for macOS and Windows. Now, they’ve taken it to iPad. Interestingly, in the past they’ve done quite the opposite: first they’ve launched a fascinating Nave on iPad, then ported it as a plugin. Regardless, their plugins and tablet
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Having tons of fun with this software. In short, it’s a wavetable-maker with some very neat functionality. I haven’t been much into wavetables before, but it’s really going to change. The software is free, and is made to look vintage on purpose: after all it’s been inspired by PPG Waveterm hardware computer from early 1980s,
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