I have been having loads of fun with this free scratch plugin from Matias at Klanglabs. Hooked up to my Korg Kaoss pad is does a great job of emulating all the wikki-wikki goodness of a turntable! I made this little video to show just how easy it is to use. Not bad considering I’ve never done any scratching in my life!
EDIT: I use NicFit’s free MungRack plugin to translate the Kaoss midi controllers to ones compatable with Sxratch2. Here is the Mungrack preset I use to do it. Just insert Mungrack between the Kaoss Pad and Sxratch2 in your host.
The second patch is a plucked string (sounds very much like an accoustic guitar). Its vaguely based on the Karpus Strong theory of a small amount of noise going through a tuned delay (a comb filter in this case). Its a really simple patch but sounds remarkably good!
I’m pretty new to this stuff, and there doesn’t seem to be alot of info on physical modelling with modular synths on the net, so if anyone has any good tips or links, I’d love to hear them.
I made a set of Cubase SX drum maps for all the factory drum kits in BFD and BFX XFL. If you haven’t already checked it out, BFD is the dog’s bollocks of realistic drum plugins.
This is a brand new bank of 128 sounds for the Waldorf MicrowaveXT. Its got filmic style atmospheres, pads, basses, plucks, and general madness that’s typical of this synth. Alot of them were made using SoundTower’s Microwave Editor, which has a neat genetics system for making children from two parent patches. Madness!
This ShortCircuit multi program is designed to demonstrate the brilliant TempoSync modulation source, which allows you to use one looped sample in many zones, and keep each zone in sync. Quite a neat trick! Read more..
Here’s a few patches I had lying around, for the excellent Vaz Modular. They are dancey bass patches, based loosely round the stucture of an Arp Odyssey. I just love how fat Vaz Mod sounds. No other soft-synth comes close!
