nanopunk: abril 2011

2/4/11

industrial sound controllers/tristan shone

Author & Punisher is an industrial doom and drone metal, one man band utilizing primarily custom fabricated machines/controllers and speakers.

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DAWs

renoise

Renoise is based on mod trackers. Mod trackers are characterized by displaying and editing music in an easily understood grid known as a pattern. These patterns are akin to sheet music, but are displayed alphanumerically instead of with musical notation.

Whether you're an audio veteran or just starting out, Renoise is a fantastic addition to any bedroom or professional studio.

Renoise is multiplatform; runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Register your copy, and you get all 3 versions.

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berna

Between the 1950s and the mid 1960s, long before Robert Moog and Wendy Carlos injected electronics into pop-music (with a few exceptions like the Barrons and Raymond Scott), electroacoustic music was pioneered by european radio laboratories, US universities. and tape centers. Composing with tapes and electronics was a serious painstaking and expensive affair, prerogative of a restricted elite of contemporary music composers and adventurous sound engineers. At that time there wasn’t any electronic musical instruments market, as a matter of fact, most of the equipment was adapted from scientific tools belonging to radio engineering departments. Sometimes the equipment was built from scratch cannibalizing anything that had wires, tubes and pots, more rarely, the studios used the few commercial instruments available in those days, such as the Melchord, the Trautonium and the Theremin. Contrarily to what happens today, electronic music then was everything but fast and easy to create. A few minutes of electronic composition could take more than one year of work. Everything was handmade, from complex timbres with multiple sine oscillators bounces to tape editing with scissors and scotch-tape. Even sound envelopes were manually made by cutting tapes’ edgdes at different degrees of inclination. Ussachevsky’s ADSR was yet to be invented!

Berna is a software simulation of a late 1950s electroacoustic music studio. Oscillators, filters, modulators, tape recorders, mixers, are all packed in a easy-to-use interface with historical accuracy.

Explore serial, concrete and tape music or create strange new sonic worlds with instruments inspired by the greatest studios of the early days of electronic music.

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gleetchlab

A realtime modular composition and processing software for sound design and experimental music like glitch, IDM, electroacustic, ambient...

Gleetchlab 3 is a modular software designed to process audio files and live sound sources in realtime.

Unlike many music softwares, gleetchlab does not use a "timeline", instead you can process and record sound as it plays and quckly store every parameter into ten easy-to-recall temporary presets.

You can manipulate samples with random loop points, alterate speed and direction of playing without limits, pencil-edit waveforms and use the internal DSPs such as convolution, feedback generator, granular re-synthesis, waveshaping distortion, spectral filtering, wow simulation, dynamic reverberation and your own VST plugins.

Also you can record and re-record endlessly each processed sound into the 6 stereo loopers or manipulate sources coming from your soundcard and last but not least, use a quadriphonic suround mixer/recorder.

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numerology

Numerology is a modular music sequencing and audio plugin environment for Mac OS X. It takes the step sequencing and modulation metaphors established by the analog sequencers of the 70's, and implements them in a structured and highly interactive software environment designed for experimentation, improvisation and live performance. By using Numerology in conjunction with your choice of Audio Unit plugins and hardware synths, you can create an open compositional environment that is truly your own.

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ohmicide

Ohmicide:Melohman is just one of the best software distortions ever made. And when you read "one of the best" you can be sure we're still humble guys: there aren't many decent distortions in the plug-in world, and none is as rich and complex, yet easy to use - and affordable - as this Ohm beast. It's common knowledge that "a great distorted sound changes everything" and it's exactly whatOhmicide:Melohman delivers. In one death blow. Ohmicide:Melohman can work with up to 4 frequency bands, all four bands having their own independent knobs for Noise Gate, Dynamics, Distortion, Feedback Generator and all mixing abilities, in addition of a twist of pre- and post-processing (distortion input, high shelf output and more). Its killer features are:

Band distortion: a heap of modern sounding stereo distortions that can feedback.
Band dynamic: alien compressor or expander, synchronized noise gate and more.
Multi-band stereo: Phase corrected multi-band stereo effect + optionally process in mid/side mode for more stereo field tweak-ability.
Melohman feature: midi controlled preset morphing or randomization. Remixers' new absolute must.
Great on guitar, bass, synth, drums and any living creature in general.

You'll be able to listen to the Ohmicide:Melohman distortions on the albums of artists such as Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Björk, David Bowie, Napalm Death, The Killers, and many others, take a look at our hall of fame. And maybe watching - and listening - how it works could be even better, check out these Ohmicide:Melohman video tutorials made by some Ohmicide fans.

It brings new compressor/expander algorithms, a sharp noise gate and - holly cow! - brand new and original distortion models: these are at the core of Ohmicide:Melohman. They're designed to offer pretty much everything you can think of next to a lot of things you can't think of. Some, like the tasty "Porridge" distortion sounds deliciously analog, while the "Fractal" one is harsh and digital as hell. Or you've got the very dense "Accumulator" that can add low harmonics instead of high.

All those distortions are mainly new breeds - yet the classics are also covered. Each one is declined in three variations: normal, ampsim (amp emulation) and odd. The "Odd" one is terribly exciting as it gives you control on the harmonics frequency and allows for slightly detuned distortion. Last but not least, we've added a disto type that can be very useful sometimes..... "No distortion". It's actually an absolute need, considering how many things can be done just by using the multi-band dynamics and/or the filter!

Indeed the filter that allows the band separation is matched with a recombining filter that correct the phase shifts it induced. This improves greatly the transients preservation as well as the filter sound. Add to this an interesting dynamics processing and you'll end up using it everywhere. We've warned you! Predatohm addicts will be happy to know that not only does Ohmicide:Melohman include a feedback generator on each band, but that it can be spread in stereo. Combined with all the different disto and Melohman features it's a huge larsen soundscape waiting to spice up your tracks.

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1/4/11

max

tapage

bio as the facebook page: For several years Tapage has been combining manipulated recordings and ethereal soundscapes with relentless rhythms and complex beat structures.
When he started, the guitar still played an important role but the electronics soon took over, as his music evolved over time. After a couple of releases on labels like Meta0 and Tympanik Audio, Tapage is beginning to study “sound design” to grow as a musician and expand the horizon of audio manipulation.