Audio Software Goodies

[filkertom]

It'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.

Anything new on your musical horizon?

Comments

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Ah-yup. You have hidden depths, in spite of your best efforts to convince everybody -- including yourself -- otherwise. :)

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

You keep saying that, and it continues to confuse me. Did I somehow strike you as overly one-dimensional before?

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. :)

-=ShoEboX=-

Look, I'm Trying To Be Warmly Encouraging And Friendly Here, Don't Ruin It For Me

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Honestly, the first time I met you, yeah, kinda. You seemed... very young at that first PenguiCon. (I think it was the second actual PenguiCon, but you know what I mean.) In a lot of ways, your musical performances can be unfairly summed up by the phrase, "NIPPLES DAMMIT" (which I think you should trademark and put on a T-shirt, but I digress). Finding out that there was indeed a person behind all the loud has been fun.

Re: Look, I'm Trying To Be Warmly Encouraging And Friendly Here, Don't Ruin It For Me

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

Sorry, wasn't trying to ruin your friendly encouragement. I wasn't offended, just curious.

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.

-=ShoEboX=-

It's All Part of the Great Circle of WAH-HOO-HA-HOO-HOOOOO

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I know nothing of this tendency whatsoever. I have always been wise and mature, solemn, even. My life is blissful with Feng Shui 'n' stuff. And everybody else I know in fandom is similarly Zenlike.

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.