03.31.08
a couple of firsts …
today marks two things -
whiteLABEL has now had visitors from a hundred and one countries
the first mp3 demos of autoBED in action are now online :
03.29.08
sideGATE updated to 0.8
After a long wait sideGATE has been updated to match the changes made to autoBED, principally : smaller dll, faster load time, lower CPU usage, more stable, new ‘link’ for attack and delay times, improved gui with direct text input of values, improved vst automation parameters and I’ve gotton rid of that cpu consuming animated back-panel.
mixing on the beeb no less
I’ve just come back from a session at the local bbc radio station where I did a live mix for Owsley Sunshine on the ‘In The Mix’ show. Interesting setup with a few wonky bits and pieces here and there. Not enough working inputs for 3 vocals, guitar, keys, sax, bass, percussion and drumkit. I think we got away with it though. The funniest part was the complete lack of adequate monitoring for the singers - they had to make do with the studio outputs being fed into their cans. Everyone else was okay because they could hear the sound in the room, but the lack of monitoring made sound-checking the vocalists impossible, and we had to wing it. To get around the inputs problem, I submixed the vocals and keyboard in the live-room [thankfully I had my trusty little spirit folio mixer with me] and fed this submix into the control room’s music desk [yamaha 03d - my first encouter with such]. The vocal levels of the first track were unspeakably bad, but once I’d popped back through to adjust the folio and found the eq and compressors in the o3d things began to run much more smoothly - I even managed to locate a decent [built-in] stereo reverb and panning delay needed for the remaining tracks. Having never used one before, I must say I’m impressed with the 03d - a compact, clean and very powerful little desk.
So there it is - I can now saw I’ve engineered a live session for the BBC - bonza !
03.21.08
simpleTON released [0.7]
happy easter and all that. doing anything to ‘celebrate’ ? getting nailed to a plank for that special occasion ? Why not relax with simpleTON the oh so simple vst filter plugin.
I did a mix the other day and wanted to create the effect of a sound growing out of nothing. In stereo. I wanted to apply a band pass filter and gradually make the band wider and wider until the sound was no longer being filtered. This proved somewhat trickier to get right than the idea would appear. I had to use 2 different plugins in different slots and record automation in several layers riding the resonance as I swept through the frequencies so as not to create any lumps. What I need, thought I, is something that combines a highpass and a lowpass in one plugin, so rather than deploying 2 instances of a rather complex [too big for the job] vst and control them from 2 different screens of the control surface I can now have all the controls needed, on one page, in one plugin. Smashin’
03.13.08
freqDELAY updated to 0.6
Again, the same sort of changes as with autoBED and deeeeeLAY, [expect for a lack of direct value input] result in the output of version 0.6 - dll a bit smaller, load time a little faster, CPU usage a little lower and more stable.
download freqDELAY : 1.63mb zip manual : here
deeeeeLAY updated to 0.6
more tweaking of the interface internals yields version 0.6, sporting improved value displays that when clicked allow for direct text input - slightly smaller dll, faster load time and a bit more stable. Oh, and when muted, each VU meter will go blurry. nice
03.11.08
sidePRESS updated to 0.6
Since updating autoBED over the last few days, I’ve been able to apply the same changes to sidePRESS and it now becomes version 0.6 sporting lower cpu usage and an improved gui with direct text input of values - just click on the numbers to input values [apart from when auto gain or attack link are activated]. Still work to be done on VST automation parameters, MIDI implimentation, presets and tweaks but its starting to mature nicely …
oh, and I almost forgot, the dll is 200k lighter resulting in [marginally] quicker load time
03.10.08
autoBED updated to 0.8
Mostly due to new internals to the interface, autoBED now has a Smaller DLL, Faster load time, and uses less CPU - huraah. Also, there’s Improved VST automation parameters and a new ‘link’ mode where attack
and look-ahead delay time are optionally coupled in one control. To round off, the interface now visually represents actual events much more accurately. Good things all round then.
03.07.08
p.s. sidePRESS 0.5
I updated sidePRESS to version 0.5 earlier this week, and forgot to mention it here … well, I have now - new envelope follower for quicker attack times, improved control over drive amounts, some tidying up - a bit better performance, knobs now in ’smooth mode’ as opposed to the instant, but clicky mode from times previous … oh and it now links to the check for updates web system via links on the nagscreen.
get it here