While this month has thus far been dedicated to plug-ins and their direct application to sound design, it's important to remember that there are also tools that help us make decisions in the sound design process. To that end, here's a review of Blue Cat Audio's "Multi Pack." The Multi Pack is a set of three analysis plug-ins: FreqAnalyst Multi, StereScope Multi and … [Read more...]
Endless Series – Review
Endless Series is a unique audio tool from Oli Larkin. It is tough to describe it in a single sentence. The description on the 'box' says "Shepard/Risset Tone Modulation", which only scratches the surface of what this plugin is capable of. What are Shepard/Risset tones? From the manual: Endless Series is an experimental effect/tone generator based on the auditory illusion … [Read more...]
New Sound Lab’s Spring Reverb
Tor Johnson over at New Sound Lab has recently released “NSL009 Spring Reverb.” From Tor’s description: “This library features recordings created using a "Knas Ekdahl Moisturizer", a boutique spring reverb effects unit where three reverb springs are exposed, allowing them to be hit, played, and manipulated in real time. The unit also includes a multi-mode analog filter, and … [Read more...]
Triumph – Review (and giveaway!)
[The kind folks at Audiofile Engineering have put together a giveaway of apps - including Triumph. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find out how you can be one of the three lucky people to win!] OS X has suffered from the lack of a good and dedicated audio editor. There was a lot of hope pegged on the release of Sound Forge Pro Mac, but we all know how that went. There are … [Read more...]
Sonic Salute’s Analog Cameras
Mikkel Nielsen, founder of Sonic Salute, recently released a new library called "Analog Cameras." In his own words: What started out as a somewhat smaller camera sound effects recording project, quickly evolved into an obsessive need to find new cameras with different sounding shutters and winders. Every fleemarket, and camera entusiasts gathering, were thoroughly scanned for … [Read more...]
Sound Forge Pro MAC Review
A long time standard of most Windows-using audio professionals, Sound Forge Pro has finally come to Apple OS X. While there have been functional audio editors on OS X for a long time: Wave Editor (now Triumph), the ill-fated BIAS Peak, Adobe Audition and even Audacity but these don’t seem to have the name recognition and user-numbers that Sound Forge has held among all audio … [Read more...]
Sample Manager 3 Review
There has been quite a lot of head scratching going on about Sony's decision to not include batch processing with Sound Forge Pro Mac. Everyone should be aware of a great OS X batch processor that has already been around for a while: Sample Manager. From Audiofile Engineering: Sample Manager is the quintessential batch audio file processor for Mac OS X. Designed in Cocoa from … [Read more...]