Audio Software Goodies
Jan. 14th, 2007 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomIt's been awhile since I've mentioned this, and there are some very, very nifty things popping up:
- True Pianos is finally going to be announced soon. I've been waiting for this for months. (If you've forgotten why this is gonna be so cool, here's a video reminder.)
- Studio Cat is having a group buy for their Reverb Tools IR, a bunch of tremendous pro-level Impulse Responses for convolution reverb plugins. (Note! It is not itself a reverb plugin.) It's normally $49, now $20 until Jan. 28.
- Semuta is a bizarre and wonderful audio toy for Mac and PC. I can't really describe it, but... there's a button on the lower right that looks like a screw head; it's the toggle for the help function, and once it's on a mouseover displays what any given feature is. The "screw" in the upper right exits the program.
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Date: 2007-01-15 02:43 am (UTC)And oh, I found my kazoo today. :-)
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Date: 2007-01-15 01:12 pm (UTC)Dumb question time again
Date: 2007-01-15 04:36 pm (UTC)But I have one more question, sir (and then, thinks Columbo, I'll have nailed Smith for the murder of Jimmy Hoffa): if I'm understanding correctly, the VSTi is not a standalone app but a plug-in, which means I will need another app that does live-processing and output if it's a live performance (or, for us mundanes, making our Casio keyboards sound a little less like sh**). Apparently, Audacity doesn't do everything I need in audio software...
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Date: 2007-01-15 04:55 pm (UTC)Re: Dumb question time again
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Date: 2007-01-15 10:24 am (UTC)I was listening, and my older daughter brought Shiny in and set her on my lap. Shiny was enraptured by the piano music--she loves pianos and bangs away mightily every chance she gets. She is mostly non verbal at this point but learning sign, slowly.
She stared for the longest time, then when one piece ended, she brought her hands up flat to her face very deliberately, then clapped in her distinctive "yay, I liked that, more please!" clap. It took me a minute to realize that her first sign had been a baby version of "Pretty".
Then she said Please. And watched contentedly for a good while longer. We watched both links a couple times.
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Date: 2007-01-15 02:10 pm (UTC)Plus, I have a real honest-to-Bob piano in my living room which is currently little more than a picture stand because it's in such desperate need of tuning. So that's high on my "spend money on" list.
I'm also contemplating picking up a cheap guitar, because people keep telling me how easy it is to pick up if you already know how to play other instruments.
...holy crap, this message turned long.
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Date: 2007-01-15 02:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-15 02:42 pm (UTC)It's been difficult to type a response to this, because my son is on the floor attempting to hook an Atari joystick up to my PC. and it's amusing the hell out of me, because I never would have thought this desire was hereditary. I actually built a parallel port adapter for this purpose a couple years ago. Time to dig it out. :)
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Look, I'm Trying To Be Warmly Encouraging And Friendly Here, Don't Ruin It For Me
Date: 2007-01-15 02:53 pm (UTC)Re: Look, I'm Trying To Be Warmly Encouraging And Friendly Here, Don't Ruin It For Me
Date: 2007-01-15 03:38 pm (UTC)When I'm in an overly self-analytical mood, I tend to think of a lot of my stuff (particularly my earlier thingies) as obnoxious juvenile humor that nonetheless takes some intelligence to understand. This is one of the big reasons I like playing conventions, where Monty Python references are thrown around like punctuation and half of the audience has engineering degrees.
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It's All Part of the Great Circle of WAH-HOO-HA-HOO-HOOOOO
Date: 2007-01-15 04:09 pm (UTC)Dude, that's why we're in fandom. It's only been the past several years that the mainstream has finally begun to catch up to us a bit. So far, though, "obnoxious juvenile humor" is as far as most of them have got (Scrubs, Alton Brown, and Anthony Bourdin notwithstanding). The "takes some intelligence to understand" has at least made it as far as Battlestar Galactica and 24.
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Date: 2007-01-15 03:58 pm (UTC)I did my share of teaching too: I wound up with a session on "Songs We Used To Sing" and dragged out old SCA filks for an audience that didn't know the tune to "Rosin the Bow" and "The Ash Grove". They do now, by cracky!
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Date: 2007-01-21 04:27 am (UTC)Are you coming to the Nasfic? I can hear the per-cussin' from here. ;)
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