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Sunday
22Nov2009

Zlurp!

From Episode #56 - Accross The Universal

Zlurp! is an ALL-IN-ONE CD audio tool. It rips, encodes and tags CDs. If you want to burn your own custom CDs, or create MP3s to listen to on your computer or portable player, you need Zlurp!

Download - Windows XP/Vista/7

Download - Mac

 

Sunday
08Nov2009

DrumFlow

From Episode #54 - Congress Calling

The DrumFlow is powerful drum sequencer. DrumFlow has build-in Drum Setup editor (for GS or XG MIDI). DrumFlow allows you to create custom percussion parts with adjustable drums and then to export these parts to your MIDI editor (e.g. Cakewalk or Cubase) through the clipboard or MIDI file.

MIDI musicians always wanted to get good and fresh drum sounds and patterns. It is tricky to make fine and original drum parts in MIDI. Some composers use the digitalized samples of drumbeats, called ’loops’. But pure MIDI doesn’t support any digital sounds, for instead MIDI operates only MIDI events and controllers. Here comes my program: it is an ideal way to create MIDI drumloops!
DrumFlow features:

* 10 adjustable drum setup parameters per each drum: pitch coarse, filter cutoff and resonance, volume, stereo pan, EG attack and decay, reverb, chorus and variation levels
* 6 overall MIDI settings, such as: pitch coarse, filter values, reverberation, chorus and variation send levels
* 127 possible drums in 127 possible MIDI drum banks
* 16 drums and 32-event drum sequencer
* Export drum setup and sequence to MIDI file or clipboard

Download

Windows XP/7

 

Saturday
24Oct2009

Nick Crow 7170 Lead - Tube Guitar Amp VST plug-in

From Episode #53 - Google Vibrations

Controls:
POWER - Power ON/OFF.
DRIVE - Determines the amount of gain applied by the Pre Amp.
LOW, MID, SWEEP, HIGH - Tone Stack controls.
POW AMP - Determines the amount of gain applied by the Power Amp.
OUTPUT - Output level.

Installation: Put the "Nick_Crow_7170_Lead.dll" or "Nick_Crow_7170_Lead_Req.dll" files in the VST plugin folder of your host.

Download Windows XP/Vista/7

Saturday
17Oct2009

Piano Cheater

From Episode #52 - That'll Be A Raise

PianoCheater is a midi sequencer built for a PIANO player. (keyboard player)

NOT for an audio tech at a studio.

It will help you with your daily piano practice.

- in a "Piano Hero"-ish way:

The music notation is just ACTUAL moving piano keys

instead of dots and sharps and ledger lines on paper you need to flip.

- what you play is checked against a reference score so your messups are

easier to notice.

- or scanned sheet music can be automatically scrolled at the right bar.

(no more page turns:)

 

It's designed so you DON'T have to remember STUPID NUMBERS and dig through

those GOD FORSAKEN keyboard reference manuals.

 

If you think of something cool PianoCheater could do,

and it's simple enough,

and ESPECIALLY if it's a good idea,

it =WILL= be added.

 



DOWNLOAD Windows XP/Vista/7
Sunday
11Oct2009

TAL - Reverb VST

From Episode #51 - Free As A MP3

TAL-Reverb is a free open source stereo plate reverb based on juce. Its very diffuse and has its own sound because of its special signal routing. Slight modulated delay times avoid artefacts in the reverb tail and give this reverb its smooth sound.

This reverb is suitable if you need to put space around voices, drums, percussion, guitars and so on.

Maybe you try it on some percussion sounds to find out if you like it. Because of the few knobs, this plugin should be is easy to use.

  • Easy to use plate reverb.
  • Smooth diffuse sound.
  • 12 dB High- and Low-Pass filter.
  • Pre delay, up to one second.
  • Usable for a wide range of sounds, especially percussion, drums, voices, guitars and so on.
  • Midi Learn (vst's only)
  • 10 presets.

DOWNLOAD Mac

DOWNLOAD Windows XP/Vista/7