Rants and raves regarding musical; definitions, opinions, classifications, orientations, links, information, tutorials, organization and personal statements to consider and absorb.
Younnat used this dot matrix printer to provide the rhythm track to his marimba and synthesizer etude. Soothing.
Sue Harding made music with dot matrix that is a bit more glitchy and alien.
Canadian art duo [The User] made an entire album titled "Symphony #2 for Dot Matrix Printers" by programming large series of text files to play 14 different printers. Dig those track names. (You can grab this on eMusic.)
If you are into the world of creating digital music with programs such as Ableton Live, Steinberg Cubase, Nuendo, Cakewalk, Garage Band etc., etc. it's no doubt that you are aware of the powerful virtual tools and instruments know as VST's and VSTi's.
VST is an acronym for Virtual Studio Technology. Wiki Page
Here I have compiled some of my favorite free VST's that I have collected over years and would like to share with you. I hope you use them wisely and to their greatest capability because the possibilities are truly endless!
Glitch chops up your audio in real-time and applies a variety of effects which can either be chosen at random, manually sequenced, or a mixture of both. The sounds it generates range from quite subtle to extremely bizarre, depending on how much you tweak the controls. ________________________________________________
Illformed.org Based on the stretcher effect found in Glitch, but with a few extra parameters and a wider range of functionality. (There is no real GUI for this one so I just took a screen shot) ________________________________________________
Illformed.org Very simple “tape stop” effect with adjustable speed. (There is no real GUI for this one so I just took a screen shot) ________________________________________________
Illformed.org A fairly typical lofi/bitcrusher effect with an interesting inverted smoothing mode that can create some rather nice sounds. (There is no real GUI for this one so I just took a screen shot) ________________________________________________
http://www.arcanedevice.com/ A buffer-sampling, stuttering glitchbox in the tradition of DFX's Buffer override. It features integrated modulation LFOs, XY pad and a useless-but-cool-looking wave scope. ________________________________________________
arcDev.Hosebeast.v1.0
http://www.arcanedevice.com/ The mother of glitch-noise-monsters, HBeast is a 5-part parallel processing speaker-endangering multicrapfx shredder. Features assorted colours, (almost) too-hard-to-read gui and bad attitude.
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