{"id":28,"date":"2008-07-23T17:11:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T03:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/?p=28"},"modified":"2008-07-23T17:13:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T03:13:36","slug":"plugin-freak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/2008\/07\/23\/plugin-freak\/","title":{"rendered":"plugin freak…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I confess, I’m a plugin freak. I have at last count, about 500 VST<\/a>s and VSTis installed, and have just set up an ubuntu studio version of my desktop so I can try out the LADSPA<\/a> plugs for linux.<\/p>\n

\"droneboxI finally broke down and bought Oli Larkin<\/a>‘s great dronebox<\/a> and polycomb<\/a> VSTs. I’ve been using an old demo version of dronebox for a while, but when I figured out how to run midi notes out of my guitar into the polycomb filter, the results were too cool so I straightened up and bought it. Dronebox is a set of six or seven resonant comb filters with all sorts of tweakable settings. You tune each one to a note, and when the corresponding note gets fed through, it resonates like a sympathetic string. I use it as the wash in these two ambient pieces: “ambient 040328<\/a>” and “ambient 040428<\/a>“. The loop is recorded live with the elogoxa<\/a> Elottronix plugin, which has a great filter section you can hear tweaked in both pieces. A bit more rocking, this song combines the dronebox with another of my favorite plugs, Krakli’s TrAmp<\/a>, in a song suitably named “dronebox tramp<\/a>.” This time the looper is loopy llama<\/a> or mobius<\/a>, can’t remember which. Both are great…I’ve generally gone with loopy llama lately ‘cuz its simpler and uses less resources. You can hear it a lot in rreplay<\/a>, where TrAmp, Dronebox, and DK+ drums<\/a>, all get worked out regularly in plogue bidule<\/a>. Mobius is a spot-on emulation of the Gibson echoplex<\/a>. You can use the same manual for most of the controls. Oh, except mobius is like having 8 echoplexes. Oh, and with unlimited loop length. Oh, and its free instead of about a thousand bucks.<\/p>\n

And now back to Oli’s plugins. If you want to know what polycomb<\/a> will do to guitar, check out this freshly recorded piece, polycombatose<\/a>, where I am just working through all the presets. The looper is loopy llama this time, recording just the bass (the trusty Hohner slammer run through an electri-Q<\/a> eq and ruby tube<\/a> tube emulator). Missing Eric <\/a>on the bass… The drums on both dronebox tramp and polycombatose are from nusofting’s most excellent DK+ drum machine<\/a>, this time imitating an ancient Acetone rhythm box. In order to get midi notes out of the guitar, I use G-Tune<\/a> (which besides being a strobe-accurate tuner, converts the signal it reads to a midi note) and then run its midi out to a maple midi<\/a> port. Of course, everything is played and recorded in one take via the ever-amazing plogue bidule<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Leave a comment if you wish, would love to know if you are listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I confess, I’m a plugin freak. I have at last count, about 500 VSTs and VSTis installed, and have just set up an ubuntu studio version of my desktop so I can try out the LADSPA plugs for linux. I finally broke down and bought Oli Larkin‘s great dronebox and polycomb VSTs. I’ve been using… Continue reading plugin freak…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}