These days, resources to improve your audio craft are widely available on the internet. In an effort to help finding those resources even easier, Designing Sound has compiled a list of many of the free Sound Design Tutorials that are available. There is a wealth of information contained in this article, and whether you are an audio veteran or just starting out, you … [Read more...]
Monthly Theme: Audio Programming
This month at Designing Sound, we are focusing our lens on the concept of Audio Programming. The above image is from David Padilla's (AKA dabit) Banjo (here is the github link), which is a MIDI looper for live performance. He is a professional programmer (and an audio hobbyist) who's work producing music within a programming language is quite impressive and academically … [Read more...]
Review: Dehumaniser
While it has been out for a while now, I finally got my hands on a review copy of Dehumaniser from Krotos LTD. Dehumaniser has gotten a good bit of buzz in the professional sound design community and rightly so. It is a rock-solid solution for quick and easy monster voices. Dehumaniser is “a software standalone vocal processor that allows the production of creature / monster … [Read more...]
Review: Glitchmachines – Quadrant
A few months ago Glitchmachines released Quadrant a "modular sound generator and effects processing plugin geared toward experimental sound design and electronic music production." Quadrant also " includes a Eurorack modular synthesizer sample library comprised of over 1500 samples.". For $49 this sfx processor + library gives you a lot of content to learn and play with. … [Read more...]
Cycling ’74 Max 6 Day Sale
Cycling '74 are having a 35% off sale on Max and Max related software until July 12. … [Read more...]
Cycling ’74 Releases Mira Controller
Cycling ’74 released its first iOS app. Mira Controller integrates with Max 6, allowing interfaces to be mirrored automatically on an iPad as they are created on in the Max desktop application. Users can control any number of Max patches from Mira. Each patch shows up as a tab in the Mira app. Alternatively, multiple iPads can control a single patch. The first release of Mira … [Read more...]
A Tremolo AU plugin with Max
Last week I came across a post on the Cycling '74 Wiki about exporting gen~ code into an AU plugin. It looked too simple a process to be true, so I began investigating. After a few hours of work (and some help from the C74 forums because I stumbled across a bug) I managed to get a simple distortion plugin working. The whole process is actually quite simple, after you spend a … [Read more...]