Lin Plug, a fantastic plug in company from Germany, has decided to discontinue support for their Drum Module,the RMV. I first started using it when it was the RMIV and it was a great resource for interesting and innovative drum sounds.
The RMV upped the ante with a larger library and many other features that should have taken the world (at least Dance/Hip Hop) by storm.
My composition Mac Program of choice has just had a major upgrade, one which includes Alchemy, an amazing synth that was created and developed by Camel Audio. It seems that Apple has bought the entire company so I imagine that we will be seeing the inclusion of Camel Space and Camel Phat in Logic before long.
This synth does most types of synthesis ( although I didn’t see FM or Wavetable) and even tackles Additive which has been a tough sell to the synth buying public so far. The Sampler module will import EXS samples and the Granular Module will take in standard wave files. The closest competition to Alchemy would probably be Omnisphere by Spectrasonics (which I don’t have).
There are quite a few performance upgrades in this update as well.
I am still waiting for Playlists and Channel Moving in The Mixer Page…please
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Summer always means “movies” to me so I was excited to be involved with writer/director Joe Benedetto’s new short “Hide The Sausage“. (No..it’s not some X rated flick but a play on words about the main character.)
I wrote the two original songs with eLLe Morgan that are sung in the movie by Victoria Gillette and Maxine Gordon. eLLe and I were invited to do “cameos” at the interiors shot in NYC at Duane Park…really fun cast and crew. When Joe sent me a picture lock, I wrote and recorded the score according to his notes,using Logic 10.
The $ 64,000 Question is…how to make it LOUD (competitively) without destroying the mix?
The newest contender for me is from Melda Productions, a software company based in Prague, Czech Republic. They make a complete line of audio plug ins as well as a few synth based ones. The one that I had to have was the M Multiband Limiter.
It can be a tricky beast to tame (LOTS of control and parameters) but the starting presets are excellent. This one is sitting on my master bus now (along with Fab Filter and PSP Xenon).
A fellow engineer showed me this plug in by Goodhertz called the Vulf Compressor. It’s a unique piece that combines a compressor with “wow” (as in warbly like an old turntable) and a “lo-fi” module. The main page:
Elegant in its’ simplicity, it sports a “wet/dry”slider on the bottom for blending your sonic mayhem with your original audio (if so desired).
So far, it’s been living on my drum bus (along with the PSP Old Timer) but I know it’s going to find a place on individual tracks as well.
If you are so inclined to go “under the hood” for some more detailed tweekage, Goodhertz has given you the option:
I’m glad that plug in manufacturers are taking this approach. The Fab Filter Pro L Limiter has a similar layout (but with additional “help” pop ups). Great plug in for brickwall
I love this company…they make some of the best sounding DAW plug ins and each one adds it’s own sonic character (if you want it to) or acts transparently..your choice.
Just bought this one..very wow.
http://www.pspaudioware.com/plugins/dynamic_processors/psp_oldtimerme/
Thanks to David Weiss, I have a new, streamlined site where it will be easier for me to update things and stay current with what I’m up to…just in time for summer.
