tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68728916994737660162024-03-05T01:58:29.378-08:00satYatunesMusician, sound and graphics designer...satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-52489507400530090512013-09-15T20:41:00.002-07:002016-07-12T22:07:05.300-07:00.<br />
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satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-60724337548471486092013-05-14T12:36:00.002-07:002013-05-14T12:38:11.804-07:00DesignDesk, The Project Design Platform for EveryoneWe see a myriad of release news for effects and instruments everyday but none of this nature. This is quite different than your regular plugins. DesignDesk is a new concept that will help you turn your ideas and concepts into working organized projects. Sounds exciting? Well, imagine working on a project in which you have to open multiple applications, navigate to too many files. Doesn't it give you a headache just thinking about how to organize such a large project? On top of that, imagine if you have to revisit that project after a few months or years and find that some files are missing. Yes, I know you have back ups but is it there or missing? There are too many questions. Personally I find it a big waste of time looking for the missing files / objects of a large project when we could have organized everything in a proper way to begin with. Well, this is where DesignDesk comes into picture and is going to provide some "Peace of mind". It's a combination of project repository, design toolkit and collaborative platform. It will help you gather all your project files in one repository, allow you to work on them with a bunch of included design tools and then package everything into one neatly organized package. It cannot be any simpler than that :-)<br />
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DesignDesk concept is simple – choose your tools, gather your files and allow all of your tools to access those files. Finished with the project? No problem, just click a button and your files then get packaged for you. Working collaboratively? Awesome, just package up your project and push it to one of many different cloud services. How exciting.<br />
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Here is a screen shot of DesignDesk dashboard:<br />
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DNR is also giving away a free copy of "Organic Compound" to everyone who shares their enthusiasm on all social network sites. You can also take part of in the "DesignDesk Pledge" which ends on 16-May.satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-1516731102402745252013-05-01T08:47:00.003-07:002013-05-02T14:29:28.635-07:00Peace: KVR Cafe Contest Entry, Apr 2013<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
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The theme for April 2013 KVR Cafe Contest was:<br />
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<i>This month you are asked to submit an entry from fifty years in the future. You may (but are not required to) build a time machine or you may use your imagination to reproduce and/or invent the future sound of KVR.</i></blockquote>
I had two different ideas to start with; 1. Peace and 2. Automated music machine. I started working on both the tracks. Unfortunately, the second one didn't go anywhere beyond the intro. So ended up submitting Peace.The vision that I have for 2063 is, no war or terrorism. No religion, no caste, no discrimination. Everyone will live peacefully. Air will be fresh, water will be pure and music will be simple.<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>el-bo (formerly ebow)</b></span><br />
very evocative of the title, and one polished mo'fo of a piece…..really enjoyed it, not much more to say…it just works<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>folderol </b></span> Probably the only optimistic entry in the set. Nicely done. <br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>VicDiesel </b></span> A vision of the future that I'll be happy to see. Lovely. <br />
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Cu Sith</span></b><br />
So glad people will still be makin' love in 2063. Very polished. Great selection of sounds. Excellent composition. All around really liked it. <br />
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">forw</span></b> not my cup of tea but sounds/mixing etc. is just very convincing <br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>evo2slo</b></span><br />
Refreshing utopian concept and a really good song. Lots of tasty production elements. The drums and bass groove were well done, but their sharp attacks distracted me from the concept. Would have preferred if the track remained with the beautiful peaceful mood of the first fifty seconds. <br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Irion Da Ronin</b></span><br />
Wow, precious beginning. Well mastered and good composition. A sensual jazzy touch with the brass section.<br />
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<a href="http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=378202" target="_blank">April 2013 Submission Thread</a><br />
<a href="http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=380402" target="_blank">April 2013 Voting Thread</a><br />
<a href="http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=378203" target="_blank">April 2013 Gossip Thread</a><br />
<a href="http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5341772" target="_blank">April 2013 Results</a>satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-49978844385815680722013-03-23T13:58:00.003-07:002013-05-02T14:44:44.944-07:00What the Funk: KVR Cafe Contest Entry, Mar 2013.<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F84575238" width="100%"></iframe>The theme for March 2013 KVR Cafe Contest was:<br />
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<i>This month you are asked to submit an entry in the genre of funk (as you understand it).</i></blockquote><div>This was my entry for March 2013 KVR Cafe Contest. The challenge was to create a track in Funk genre and this is my interpretation of the theme with a little bit of Jazz thrown in. This is my first entry in 2013. I missed the Jan and Feb contest.</div><div><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">- Magnus Ambience Reverb (Best freeware reverb, IMO of course)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>folderol</b></span><br />
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Nice intro. Even nicer wah guitar! This has an almost Mexican flavour with the brass stabs and general rhythm. Very tasty.</blockquote><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>RuediRena</b></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">Punchy sounds, a nice jazzy vibe, phantastic saxophone towards the beginning. This is really grooving - apart from the string and brass riffs in my opinion which are strangely stiff sounding. I was waiting for that virtuoso jazz solo but it didn't happen. I love the bubbling wah effect in the very ending. </blockquote><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>VicDiesel </b></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">one of the leads I like, the other one definitely not</blockquote><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Kryptonaut</b></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">Nice wah guitar. Sax and strings not quite convincing though </blockquote><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>DocJon</b></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">Overall nice track, good punchy mix. Great opening section, didn't like a couple of the synth lead sounds, but then other sounds were suitably funky and worked well, I liked the brass</blockquote><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>nikp2000</b></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">Great bass line and horn hits. Soul strings are very cool and good sax! Like the solo synth patch. </blockquote><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>IrionDaRonin</b></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">That bassline is amazing, and fits perfect with the incoming wahwahs, also the brassy lead. Another track controlling my head. The strings could be a bit better though. Nice track in any case. </blockquote><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>el-bo (formerly ebow)</b></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">A nice idea, but just way too rigid in execution for this style...ended up squeezing all the funk out of it….the sax and wah chords seem to be the only things that have any kinda lilt and sway….really loving the lead sound at 1:37 , really brings to mind 'trouble man' soundtrack by marvin gaye…would have loved more of it…think there's also a bit too much different elements in it…would love to see it stripped back and given more feel to the groove </blockquote><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>ClaRago</b></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">The funkiest drums+bass+guitars combination.Some others choices of sounds a bit dubious though (the strings!!!). </blockquote><span style="color: #a64d79;"><b>Ended up at #6:</b></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=377552" target="_blank">March contest voting thread</a><br />
<a href="http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=375207&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0" target="_blank">March contest gossip thread on KVR</a><br />
<a href="http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=378201" target="_blank">March 2013 Results</a> </div>satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-57601689554319936832013-03-12T13:30:00.000-07:002013-03-23T14:04:17.705-07:00SuperCore 2 Demo<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
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Wrote this demo track for SuperCore2. An upcoming synth by Mike Felker aka Karmacomposer. Mike wanted a cinematic track, I hope I did justice. Created most of the sounds from scratch for this track. Drums were created from a few loops outside of SC2. All the presets were submitted to Mike. Hopefully these will be part of the factory presets. Enjoy!<br />
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SuperCore v2 is a multi-timbral, multi-layered rompler with 6.8 GB of core library. It includes an excellent selection of sounds in eight distinct categories: Basses, Bells, FX, Keys, Leads, Pads, Percussive and Synths and comes with vast array of onboard effects like Reverbs, Tempo-synced Delay, Chorus, Flanger, Distortion, etc.<br />
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<a href="http://www.supersynths.com/Synths/supercorev2.html#" target="_blank">www.supersynths.com/Synths/supercorev2.html#</a><br />
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satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-1312585606557674562012-10-25T10:32:00.000-07:002013-05-02T14:40:32.956-07:00Untitled Horror Movie - Scene 13: KVR Cafe Contest Entry, Oct 2012.<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F64571896&show_artwork=true" width="100%"></iframe>The theme for the October 2012 KVR Cafe Contest was:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>The Horror</i><br />
<i>This month you are asked to submit music for an imaginary horror movie. </i></blockquote><div>This is the soundtrack for scene 13 of my imaginary horror movie. The scene goes something like this: </div><div><blockquote><b><u>Hospital scene:</u></b><br />
<i>Detective Gordon:</i> Hello Mr. Alex, I am detective Gordon. I am investigating this case and need to ask you a few questions. How did you end up in that house?<br />
<i>Mr. Alex:</i> Hi detective. I hate flying so I decided to drive to Selveda which is only 4 hours away. I was crossing through the forest when it started raining hard and suddenly my car broke down. I reached for my cell but there was no signal. I looked around and saw this house not far away. Faint light was coming through the window upstairs. I saw a shadow moving. I headed towards the house, knocked on the door but no one answered. I was about to return when the door opened. I asked "is anyone here?" as I stepped inside. The door suddenly slammed shut, I looked back but saw no one. Somehow, I could not shake this eerie feeling of being watched. I slowly start moving towards these faint voices which were coming from upstairs. I remember stepping on a toy, then I heard giggles of a small child. Something inside me was telling me to go back but I kept walking towards it. It was like the voices were beckoning me and leading me towards something.<br />
<i>Detective Gordon:</i> then what happened?<br />
<i>Mr. Alex:</i> I heard melancholy cry of a woman. I felt as if someone was standing right behind me. I could feel and hear the breath of someone on the back of my neck.<br />
Detective Gordon: then?<br />
<i>Mr. Alex:</i> I heard a loud scream. Someone hit me and I fell down the stairs. I couldn't move, just lay there. Next thing I remember is waking up here in this hospital. </blockquote></div><div><div><b><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">Technical Details:</span></u></b></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">DAW: Sonar X1 </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Plugins: Dimension Pro, WusikStation, SampleTank </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Effects: Sonitus Reverb, ProChannel Compressor and Eq, T-Racks 3 for mastering </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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The theme for the September KVR Cafe contest was:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>The Human Voice</i><br />
<i>This month you are asked to submit an entry using only the human voice. This can be your own voice or recordings/samples (ONLY those you have the legal right to use). Any and all effects and/or sound manipulation are allowed as long as the source is the human voice.</i><br />
<i>NOTE: For the purposes of this contest clicks, clucks, pops, etc. made with the mouth are included in the definition of the human voice. </i></blockquote><div><div>The bass sound is actually not a bass but the same sound as the melody, played on lower octaves. I personally love the angelic choir and the monks sound, hence the title. All the sounds used in this track is from Tone2 ElectraX Vocalic Soundset. I hope you like it. </div><div><br />
</div><div><b><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">Technical Details:</span></u></b></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Host: Sonar X1 Expanded </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wavosaur for creating MP3 </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Instrument plugin: Tone2 Electrax and onboard effects especially the Cathedral Reverb </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Effects: BiFilter, VC-64 Vocal Channel Strip x3, VladG Limiter 6, VoS DensityMkII, BuzzMaxi3 </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span> <b><u>Update:</u></b> This one ended up much below in the list than expected :-)<br />
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Sa Nyu Wa is the eagle point in Grand Canyon West Rim where they have made the Skywalk. It means home of the eagle. I took the above picture during my vacation in GC last year. It's an amazing place. If you look closely to the center of the above picture, you will see the mountain is shaped like an Eagle, hence the name. Hope you enjoy the track.<br />
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Used 14 instances of Dune (Beat Edition) to create this track. It's an amazing plugin. The first thing that caught my attention is it's CPU usage. It's a highly optimized CPU friendly plugin. I didn't have to bounce any track until I was almost finished with the composition. I can never say that for many other plugins that I have. I bounced the tracks only during mixing as it started stuttering when I added loads of effects.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Technical Details:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">DAW: <i>Sonar X1 Expanded</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Synths used: <i>Dune BE (14)</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sonitus Compressor, Delay (2) and Reverb (4). Sonitus is part of Sonar X1. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">ValhallaFreqEchoMk1, Compressive on Drum Bus </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cakewalk StudioVerb2 (4), Tempo Delay (2), Channel Tool, Boost11 Peak Limiter and Analyst</span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dynamic Range = 11</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Above picture was taken by me.</span>satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-71588798064677720232012-08-25T07:02:00.004-07:002012-11-04T11:38:54.457-08:00Mixed Emotions: KVR Cafe Contest Entry, Aug 2012.<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
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Composed this track for KVR Cafe Contest, Aug 2012. The theme for the contest was<br />
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<i>A Day at the Beach / Beachsongs Only - You've just had (or you are having or you are looking forward to) a day at the beach. Sun, sand, water, maybe eyefuls of skin, maybe corn dogs, skittering garbage, bits of glass . . . Tell us about it.</i></blockquote>
This theme reminded me the Philippines trip. I have been to several beaches but this trip always comes to my mind when I think about the beach. In 2009, I visited Manila for 6 weeks for project work. While I was there the local project team arranged a team event and we all went to Batangas. I forgot the name of the resort but it has a nice beach at the back. We spent the morning and major part of the afternoon in the team events, water sports, etc. By evening I was very tired and was sitting at a secluded area of the beach. As it was little away from the public, it was calm and quiet. Sitting there all alone enjoying the sunset, the crystal clear sound of waves. I remember I was going through some mixed emotions. While I was missing my family badly :-( at the same time I was bit happy to have met some nice people. I tried to capture my mixed emotions in this track. Hope you will enjoy listening.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tools used:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">DAW: <i>Sonar X1</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Plugins: <i>Dimension Pro, WusikStation, Dune BE</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Effects: <i>Sonitus Reverb, ProChannel Compressor and Eq, AfterShockDelay, LimiterNo6, ReflexFree</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Credits:</b> Above picture was taken by me.</span><br />
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<b>Update:</b> The contest is over, this one ended up at #6 out of 21.<br />
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<br />satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-44509145478718024502012-08-18T16:39:00.002-07:002012-09-02T10:59:44.933-07:00YouTube Video for Track "India"<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
Here is a YouTube video for the track "India" created by Machiawell. I love the selection of pictures, it truly represents the culture of India and blends perfectly well with the mood of the track.<br />
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Enjoy!satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-19876513877562714972012-07-22T16:26:00.000-07:002012-09-02T12:45:49.705-07:0025 Brand New Presets for Kirnu<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
Kirnu is a free MIDI arpeggiator plugin developed by <a href="http://www.artovaarala.com/">Arto Vaarala</a>. It's one of the best plugin of this kind in the market. It boasts:<br />
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<li>Easy realtime tweaking</li>
<li>User friendly pattern view</li>
<li>MIDI learn for every major control</li>
<li>Two independent CC controls with 'teach' functionality</li>
<li>Numerous of different scales</li>
<li>Hold mode</li>
<li>+ Many, many more great features</li>
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If you don't have Kirnu, use the following links to download the current beta. What? you don't like beta versions? Ok then, you have to wait for version 2 which is under development for some time and at this point I am not sure when it's going to be released. Secondly, it may not be free as the current version. I have been using the Beta and it's working like a charm. There is no harm in trying. Anyway, it's up to you.<br />
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<a href="http://www.artovaarala.com/beta/Arto_Vaarala_Kirnu_1.2.2_beta_1.dll">32 Bit Beta</a> or <a href="http://www.artovaarala.com/beta/Arto_Vaarala_Kirnu_1.2.2_x64_beta_1.dll">64 bit Beta</a><br />
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Now lets move on to the presets. I am not going to take a lot of time in talking about it cause you can watch this video which will give you a better idea :-). I hope you enjoy these presets.<br />
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<b><u>Notes:</u></b><br />
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<li>All the sounds in the video is from Dune BE.</li>
<li>These are all one finger arps, please be careful with the presets that has "CD" in it's name. It means it uses the chord function of Kirnu so the notes will be doubled/tripled over the octaves. E.g, a triad will play 6 or 9 notes depending on the octave setting. May not sound pleasant all the time.</li>
<li>Use Reverb, Delay and Filters to make it even more interesting.</li>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">I would love to hear from you if you find them useful. Don't worry you can use it in your production but I would appreciate it, if you could credit me and provide a link to my blog.</span><br />
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Okay, finally the link to <a href="https://www.box.com/s/6717c91f9b847bce0ab4" target="_blank">Download</a>.satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-89312010786988738382012-07-07T07:36:00.000-07:002012-09-02T11:03:07.687-07:00The Abduction: KVR Cafe Contest Entry, Jun 2012.<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
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This was my entry for June 2012 KVR cafe contest. The theme for the contest was a picture taken in 1958/59. Yes, the one that you see in the track picture above. Now imagine the scene after, the scene after she takes her hand off of her eyes. What does she see? futuristic warships, strange looking objects flying, strange looking creatures everywhere. Humans being tortured, killed and taken as prisoners. Who are these people? Aliens? Oh, they have invaded us? Are they trying to take over our beloved planet? Too many questions crops up in her mind, just as she tries to get a grip on herself. she sees her son, aliens trying to capture him. Poor little boy fighting to get away from them. She cries out for help. She runs towards them, fights with them with all her strength, tries to rescue her son but it's hopeless. They are powerful, she cannot do anything. They throws her out of the ship and takes her son with them. Just as the ship disappears into the sky, she lies there helplessly, tears running from her eyes. The memories flashes back in her mind. The beautiful memories of her son playing.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tools: </span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">DAW: <i>Sonar X1 Expanded </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Effects: <i>Studioverb, Limiter No6, AriesVerb, ProChannel EQ and Compressor on most of the tracks, NastyDLA </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Synths: <i>Dimension Pro, Sonik Synth 2, Free Soundfonts</i></span><br />
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<b>Some reviews from various sources:</b><br />
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<b><u>mellotronaut: </u></b><br />
<i>Hans zimmert wieder an seinen Stakketen. dramatic build up, well done and well mixed. cinematic oddbodery. </i></blockquote>
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<b><u>oddbod:</u></b><br />
<i>This is certainly very well produced and powerful piece of music in the style of modern age blockbuster movie soundtracks and it would work very well in that context. From a personal point of view however, as a piece of stand alone music, I'm afraid it doesn't really do much for me.</i></blockquote>
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<b><u>evo2slo:</u></b><br />
<i>Great percussion and very nice arrangement. Excellent cinematic production. Love those strings. The helicopter sound is a nice touch (though perhaps not appropriate for the time period from the photo?) - I didn't realize on first listen it was in the recording because of the police helicopters that fly over my house literally every night where I live in Philly. </i></blockquote>
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<b><u>4lb Kitty:</u></b><br />
<i>Very cool! Great sounds, great composition, tons of emotion. Great track! </i></blockquote>
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<b><u>Lynn:</u></b><br />
<i>I like this piece of music very much. Besides being so cinematic, the theme and arrangement just works for me. It has a lot going for it - it's short, sweet, and dynamic. Good luck in the contest.</i></blockquote>
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<b><u>Foxwolfen:</u></b><br />
<i>I would be making chit up if I tried to crit this. I think its brilliant. I dunno how you made it, don't care. I may hire you when I make the movie for TOMM </i></blockquote>
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<b><u>theguitarplayer:</u></b><br />
<i>Very nicely done and a great sound for the picture you were suppose to use in its creation. Fit very nicely from what I could see and hear. Nice work and good luck on the contest. Peace be with you. Blessings, John</i></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=353514">Results thread on KVR </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=351034">Submission thread on KVR</a>satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0New York, NY, USA40.7143528 -74.005973140.5217853 -74.3218301 40.9069203 -73.690116100000012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-69230628781301979872012-06-13T06:07:00.000-07:002012-09-02T11:26:44.771-07:00Hide and Seek: Cinematique Contest Entry<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
I had been toying with the idea of creating a soundtrack since a long time but never really gave it a try. I was highly motivated when I saw the Cinematique contest webpage at Rekkerd.org. The challenge was to create a track similar to the demo tracks available on their website. The theme of the track is "Hide and Seek". Used Sonar X1D expanded and Dimension Pro, Free Soundfonts, etc. <br />
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<b><u>Reviews from KVR thread:</u></b><br />
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<b><u>VaporAddict: </u></b><br />
<i>Nice instrument sound. Very authentic and yes progressive. Would add to my playlist.</i></blockquote>
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<b><u>Laguna Rising:</u></b> <br />
<i>Wow ! I like it, I had a couple of listen, and it is convincing: very good composition for its structure and melody. You kept the arrangement rather simple and avoided the temptation of doubling all parts with different instruments. That's good. Very effective </i><br />
<i>Well done, </i><i>Cheers</i></blockquote>
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<b><u>Kryptonaut:</u></b><br />
<i>Really good - I like the way it builds and builds. Is this part of a longer work? The ending sounded as though it was leading into another section...</i></blockquote>
satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-78313935043837359442012-04-15T05:54:00.001-07:002012-09-02T11:08:04.378-07:00Diva Mini Patchbank Contest<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
Another contest? Oh yes and this was a lot of fun. The challenge was to create a mini patchbank with no more than 8 patches for Diva. Diva is a synth plugin created by Urs Heckman (www.u-he.com). It models components found in some of the great monophonic and polyphonic synthesizers of yesteryear. One gripe that I have about this synth is it drains the CPU. Urs and his team working on it to make it better. Anyway, I submitted a bank called "91 Newage bank" with 8 presets.<br />
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This bank ended up at #4.<br />
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You can download the bank from voting and results thread above. Ciao!satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-40859332020608172632012-03-25T11:01:00.004-07:002012-09-02T12:38:58.696-07:00Light Path: KVR Cafe Contest Entry, Mar 2012<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
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Submitted this track for KVR Cafe Contest, March 2012. The theme for the contest was:<br />
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You're Getting Veeeeerrry Sllleeeeeepy...<br />
This month you are asked to submit a hypnotic entry. What does that mean? Let's find out.</blockquote>
Sadly, the track didn't get enough votes, most of the people complained that it didn't fit the theme. It ended up at #27 out of 31 with 21 points.
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Technical Details:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Host: <i>Sonar X1D</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Synths: <i>Alchemy Player, Synth 1, Session Drummer, TruePiano, Dimension Pro </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Effects: <i>AriesVerb, FNequalizer, Vlad Limiter6 Beta, Pro-channel and other stock effects that comes with Sonar</i></span><br />
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<b><u>pljones:</u></b><i>More rain - sounds more realistic, too. But very wide awake.</i></blockquote>
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<i>Lovely evocative piano and bells at the start. Definitely too up tempo to be hypnotic once the drums kick in. And too much variation also. A wonderfully constructed track however, with just the occasional minor quibble in the mix (the guitar solo is too loud and aggresive for the rest of the track). Most other months, this would be right up in the top ten.</i></blockquote>
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<i>Really love that main melody part that starts it off and ends it. Pure gold. The other instrumentation comes in nicely. I especially like the compositional change when the drums drop out around 1:50. Beautiful. I thought the drums themselves were overly busy, and too dry in the mix for my taste.</i></blockquote>
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<i>Aaargh, top track, killer piano hook and great instrumentation. This gave me the most trouble this month, I liked it so much and yet there's just no way I would describe it as hypnotic. Extra special honourable mention, just no points, sorry! </i></blockquote>
satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-52090600637286513402012-02-26T08:44:00.001-08:002012-09-02T11:25:58.015-07:00Aurora: Zebralette OSC Contest Entry, Sep 2011.<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
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Submitted this track for KVR One-Synth-Challenge contest, Sep 2011. The challenge was to create a track using only Zebralette synth. The contest celebrated the move of Zebralette plugin from the commercial Zebra package to a free plugin. The contest saw the record entries of 41 tunes. Sadly, my tune ended up at #17 scoring only 10 points :-(. Never mind, may be next time.<br />
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So, without any further ado, here is the the video:<br />
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Trance and z3ta+ goes hand-in-hand and it's always been considered as the most suitable synth for that genre. But, that's only partly true, it's capable of creating a wide variety of sounds that can fit into other genres. There are loads of presets available in KVR and patcharena. Even with my limited knowledge on sound design, I didn't find it very difficult to program either. Built-in effects in z3ta+ are good if not great.<br />
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I started off with auditioning the presets first and believe me there are some fantastic presets available in the factory soundbank. To my surprise, it failed to inspire me. May be "inspire" is the wrong word but I struggled to come up even with an idea until the end of the month. I almost gave up. I gave it a last try just before a day of the deadline and finally came up with the following track. It's called "Welcome z3ta+". It's my way of saying "Okay, we didn't start off well, it wasn't love at first sight but now I welcome you into my world" :-).<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">DAW: <i>Sonar X1c </i></span><br />
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<u><b>Crackbaby</b></u>: <i>**I love this kind of chill out, it let's you fade away. My dog looked at me, wondering where i was. I smiled back at him and kept smiling.. </i></blockquote>
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<ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span>Pros - <span style="font-style: italic;">The nice drumloop groove, the chord changes and the composition structure.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span>Cons - <span style="font-style: italic;">Try to do more drastical changes next time with the bassline and the melody, risk yourself a bit more, maybe you will like it. Anyway, i know you didn't had more time.</span></ul>
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<u><b>3ee</b></u>:<i> Good: Atmosphere and sounds. </i><br />
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<u><b>bjporter: </b></u><i>Pros * Nice down tempoish sounds… Some really cool sounds like the one at 2:44, the twirly whirly high FX. Nice pluck at 3:00. Would have like to hear a tad more reverb on some sounds. This song really catches on to me after a while especially after 2:45.</i></blockquote>
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Voting is over and the track ended up at #6 out of 18 tracks. My first time within top 10 :-).satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-88337461896418496612011-08-21T15:41:00.000-07:002012-09-02T12:32:30.188-07:00Poise Drum Sampler Skin.<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
Another Poise skin. Started working on it quite some time ago, created many variations but ended up with the following. I call it "Bluesy" for obvious reasons.<br />
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Click on the download link below, save the zip file, extract the folder and copy it to your skins folder for Poise. Then select satYatunes_Bluesy skin from the list of skins. I hope you like it.<br />
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Used the excellent and free KnobMan and SkinMan to create the skin and knobs. If you find any issues/bugs while using this skin, please send an e-mail. satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-42649206589716193832011-08-15T00:50:00.000-07:002012-09-02T12:30:59.747-07:00Neuro Jingle Contest Entry.<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
Stumbled upon this Neuro drink song competition the other day. They need an original song for their :60 second spot “Candy Shop”. Well, it’s been a while since I have been thinking of scoring a video. The timing couldn’t be better. To be very honest, the video is not that great. After 15 second it looks like they’ve stitched some random clips together. It doesn’t represent the product well. Initially I had a hard time to come up with something cause the first 15 seconds are poles apart from the rest. After so many different tunes, I finally ended up with a Drum & Bass track for the spot. To me it fits nicely to the later part of the spot and in the beginning I used some pads, etc to build up the theme. Here is the final video:<br />
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<b>Rimshot: </b><i>Good job. There are two parts. First part is good. Second part fit well but needed a guitar solo or some crunch to match the excitement onscreen. Then, stop the beat drop way back when fade to the family ocean scene with some big swells. So you would have candy (pads and swirls), action (big guitars), ending (swell to major chord). That's my take. Was it fun to do? </i></blockquote>
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<b>Janet: </b><i>I don't watch that much TV, so I'm prolly not a good judge, but I thought it was well-done. I fleetingly wondered if you could have done something more laid-back when the girl was smelling the flower and the people were running in the surf. But they were on the screen so short a time, I'm not sure how you'd do that in the middle of that great beat. Anyway, well done! Oh, and the music is perfect when those two pieces of candy smash into each other. Great build up! Did you mean you couldn't view the frames while writing the music? Then how did get it to line up so well? Just view it in another player?</i></blockquote>
satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0San Diego, CA, USA32.7153292 -117.157255132.502209199999996 -117.4731121 32.9284492 -116.8413981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-7977827806161251552011-08-06T14:05:00.000-07:002012-09-02T12:27:53.757-07:00Destroy: KVR Cafe Contest Entry, Jul 2011.<hr noshade="noshade" size="1" color="#CCCCCC"/>The theme for July 2011 KVR Cafe Contest was “Industrial” genre. I am not a big fan nor had any prior knowledge of this genre, hence had to do some research. Read a few articles before started working on this track. I tried my best to stay as close to the genre as possible and came up with the following track. It’s called “Destroy”, basically a demon/satan who wants to destroy the world. I never expected that it would receive some good reviews and votes but to my utter surprise it did and ended up at number 14 out of 22 tracks. Well, not a big achievement but cannot complain either.<br />
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<blockquote><b><u>Gremsongs:</u></b> <i>Love the guitars!! This song drives!!</i></blockquote><blockquote><b><u>adj:</u></b> <i>Almost destroyed my earphones :-D</i></blockquote>So, what is Industrial music anyway? Here is the Urban dictionary definition:<br />
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Industrial Music is difficult to define but it has to do with experimentation, improvisation, and pure noise. Is about programing hard noisy sounds on samplers, scratching the guitar strings by adding distortion and phaser, hitting hard on metallic devices, and screaming or talk loud on a voice machine.satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-73065782631808115512011-08-06T13:39:00.000-07:002012-09-02T12:25:09.767-07:00'Summer Rain' music video.<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
Independent film maker Hiren Dave created this video for my track 'Summer Rain'. An excellent video that suits the mood of the song perfectly.<br />
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<u><b>digitalmessiah:</b></u> <i>Nice chill-out song with Indian instruments and vocals fused in. The pads are subtle and nicely mixed in the background. I love those green mangos. It reminds me when I was in the Philippines. </i></blockquote>
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satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-34201406459192369422011-06-04T08:28:00.000-07:002011-09-05T16:52:37.683-07:00The long awaited Sonar X1 demo is out!Hurrayyyyyyy! The demo version of Sonar X1 is now out. Well, I know many people have been waiting for this moment, so here you go, follow the link below and grab a copy.<br />
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satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-81109283433866719372011-03-09T13:44:00.000-08:002012-09-02T12:07:31.840-07:00Sunshine: Superwave-P8 OSC Contest Entry, Feb 2011.<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
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<br /><span style="text-align: justify;">- OSC stands for One Synth Challenge.</span><br />
- The challenge is to create a track with just one virtual synth for all sounds and percussion.<br />- External effects can be used, but only from host or easily available freeware.<br />- Contest runs monthly on KVR Audio forum.<br />- Winner is selected by voting<br /><ul>
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This was my entry for Superwave P8 One-Synth-Challenge, February 2011. It’s a very good synth capable of creating a wide variety of sounds.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Technical Details</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">DAW: <i>Reaper</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Synth: <i>Superwave P8 (12)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">FX: <i>AriesVerb, EpicVerb, IQ4, Easy-Q, Son-EQ and Modern Spacer.</i></span><br />
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Update: The track ended up at #9 out of 19 tracks.<br />
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<b><u>Reviews and feedback (Copied from KVR Audio Forum): </u></b><br />
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<u><b>Happy Frog:</b></u> <i>Outstanding very beautiful piece and well produced you have a great ability to get great hats etc., sound out of this VST nice work great </i></blockquote>
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<u><b>bjporter:</b></u> <i>Like: Great strings in the intro. The lead is really beautiful, and fits perfectly with the melody. Interesting melody, keeps one into the groove. I feel like I'm on a trippy high school field trip to pluto or uranus. Nice use of saw pad. Interesting bassline - integrated very well, didn't notice it until later. Absolutely love the bass and kick combo, because it feels very heavy on the thump. You feel the low end. The pads and melody around 2:00 is simple but awesomely effective, and really pulls this part of the song together, and changes it up effectively. </i><br />
<i>Con: I wish that saw pad in the back was a bit louder, because that was a nice touch. Wasn't fond of the percussion, but the rhythm was effective, and pulled the song together. In the beginning of the breakdown around 1:00-1:06 there's a melody that doesn't quite seem to fit, or maybe needed a change of notes for me to really feel it. However at 1:30 it really picks up again melodically.</i></blockquote>
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<u><b>Doc Jon:</b></u> <i>small but perfectly formed! </i></blockquote>
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<u><b>Yeager:</b></u> <i>SOLID! good compo/sounds, good production. </i></blockquote>
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<u><b>capdanX:</b></u> <i>nice melody, like someone already wrote, this is what Superwave P8 is invented for, nice lush supersaw sounds but I also like the snare (4-5)</i></blockquote>
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<u><b>tattiemannie:</b></u> <i>This is so powerful! All sounds are strong but that snare cuts deep!! On reflection having listened a few times and enjoyed the snare, it is perhaps in a place which throws a false perspective on the tonality of the whole, but it gets my blood pumping all the same.</i></blockquote>
satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872891699473766016.post-85982008499885786792011-03-06T16:48:00.000-08:002012-09-02T12:17:47.119-07:00BlueCatAudio stereo chorus skins.<hr color="#CCCCCC" noshade="noshade" size="1" />
This is my first attempt at creating skin for a VST plugin. I created two Reaper themes earlier and have a pretty good graphic design experience under my belt but never created any skins for VST plugin. You must be wondering why Stereo Chorus? Well, first of all, Blue Cat has a nice framework for their plugin skins. It uses XML files for layout and they’ve a very nice skinning manual and a few tutorials on their website. Secondly, it’s a small plugin so was an obvious choice to start with. I don’t know when it’s going to be available on their website but for the moment, you can download these here:<br />
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Copy the downloaded folders to your skins folder within Blue Cat’s Stereo Chorus plugin folder. Select the XML skin file through the menu. You can access the default menu by right clicking on the GUI while using these skins. That’s all.<br />
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If you have never used Stereo Chorus plugin, then please visit the <a href="http://www.bluecataudio.com/Main/Home/" target="_blank">Blue Cat Audio</a> website for more info and download links. They have other free plugins available as well. satYatuneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18359958270880452781noreply@blogger.com2