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Podcast Notes

These are the show notes for the Podcast from Mark Tinley covering his selection of the finest Freeware AU plugins available.

The podcast was first made available during the first few days of 2007.

CRITERIA

Universal binaries must be available

Units must validate in LOGIC and Garage Band

Must need no additional software (PLUGGO MAX MSP RUNTIMES)

SOUND GENERATORS

automat

http://www.alphakanal.de/

overview: three osc synth with vowel filters and shapers

crystal

http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/

overview: FM and subtractive synth

additional + 20mb sound fonts

triple cheese

http://www.u-he.com/TripleCheese/index.html

http://www.digitalmusician.net/index.php?id=63

overview: comb synthesiser

favourite: spooky fondue and clavi phase

destroyfx turntablist (not really an instrument but too good a sound generator not to list)

http://destroyfx.smartelectronix.com/audiounits.html

http://www.bioroid.com/plugins.html

overview: load a sound sample into the plug-in and it acts like a turntable with hands on control of the sample

EFFECTS

BEST DELAY EFFECT (INCLUDING GRANULAR)

PPC plugin of note: Kingdubby

http://www.lowcoders.net/kd.html

Bouncing Ball Delay

Crazy Ivan

SupaTrigga

http://bram.smartelectronix.com/

KTGranulator

http://www.koen.smartelectronix.com/KTGranulator/

Fire

LiveCut

http://mdsp.smartelectronix.com/2004/01/audio-units.php

overview: granular style delay and autoedit fx

BEST REVERB EFFECT

freeverb on dfx site overview: sounds a bit like an AMS

Convolver2

http://www.teragon.org/products/Convolver/index.php

overview: convolution reverb

BEST MODULATION EFFECT

destroyfx.Transverb

BEST DISTORTION FILTER

PPC plugin of note: Frohmage

http://www.ohmforce.com/ViewProduct.do?p=Frohmage

mda.Combo

http://www.mda-vst.com/

overview: amp and speaker simulator

favourite: 4 X 12 close miked

plugin installs with rest of following package

mda.Degrade – Sample quality reduction

mda.Detune – Simple up/down pitch shifting thickener

mda.DubDelay – Delay with feedback saturation and time/pitch modulation

mda.Dynamics – Compressor / Limiter / Gate

mda.Leslie – Rotary speaker simulator

mda.Re-Psycho! – Drum loop pitch changer

mda.RingMod – Simple ring modulator

mda.RoundPan – 3D panner

mda.Shepard – Continuously rising/falling tone generator

mda.Talkbox – High resolution vocoder

mda.TestTone – Signal generator with pink and white noise, 1/3 octaves and sweeps

mda.Tracker – Pitch tracking oscillator, or pitch tracking EQ

BEST LEVEL COMPENSATION

PPC plugins of note:

Blockfish – compressor

Spitfish – de-esser

Floorfish – expander/gate

http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.php?item=2&subItem=5

SSL LMC-1 PPC

http://www.tsamm.com/TSAMM_ssl_duende_en.html#LMC1

CamelCrusher

http://www.camelaudio.com/camelcrusher.php

soundhack +compand

http://www.soundhack.com

BEST UTILITY

soundhack +phasescope

Sonalksis Free G

http://www.sonalksis.com/index.php?section_id=99

overview: long fader / fine metering plug-in

BEST SFX PLUG-IN

mda.RingMod – Simple ring modulator

mda.RoundPan – 3D panner

destroyfx – Geometer

destroyfx – Polarizer

destroyfx Scrubby

destroyfx Skidder

destroyfx Buffer Override

http://destroyfx.smartelectronix.com/audiounits.html

overview: insane granular delay fx and worse

USEFUL OTHERS

voxReducer

http://primo-media.com/?page_Request=Downloads

Vinyl

http://izotope.com/products/audio/vinyl/

overview: record deck background noise sim

favourite: crackle

About Mark Tinley

Mark is a talented musician/sound artist with many years of professional experience. His recent years have been occupied working for Duran Duran and especially Nick Rhodes, with whom he has a close working relationship. he is also a regular contributor to the Sonic TALK weekly podcast. There is much more to him than just this though – take a trip over to www.likebeing.com for the bigger picture.

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