June 2nd, 2009 - another long ooTray blog post: virtual reality music making Part I
You can find my new blog entry here.
Excerpt:
"Let's remind ourselves of the paradigm shift that's moved the fundament from beneath our feet: we now
live in the Virtual Reality age of creating music."
May 17th, 2009 - a song created entirely from insertpizhere's Mr. Alias 2 VSTi
You can find it on my music page, it's called Aliasling. I loved Mr. Alias, um, #1... one of my first freeware
VST synths. You can find it on my music page on the tabs above.
Also, our ooBlog on ooTray.com is gathering momentum, despite the fact that I'm basically offline yet again.
May 4th, 2009 - two new songs available exclusively through ooTray.com
As part of the launch of the ooTray collective website I've got two tracks available for download exclusively
on my "home page" there. Click on the "ooTrayista" link on the top navigation bar to go to ooTray.com or
check out the eight current members of our netlabel, started by my sensei rachMiel, Keeper of the Oo.
Ootray members jopy, rachMiel and I have started an ooTray blog on that site. I'll be posting rantings
detailing the techniques in creating my songs and various other unhinged diatribes. Hopefully I'll be able
to post my production notes for these two songs there soon.
KIBO Interferometer and Ductile Transmigrant on ooTray.com
April 10th, 2009 - free full album .rar archive downloads now available
Just click on the new "Albums" tab above.
5 albums total 964 Mb. Then there's a remix/cover compilation and 2 "best of" compilations for those just
checking out my <ahem> rather unique audio creations, one of slightly more straightforward and
accessible songs and one of abstract, holophonic soundscapes.
The 5 albums plus the remix/cover compilation totals 130 songs - the majority of what I've put online over
the last 5 years.
Each genuinely has it's included album art, proper mp3 metatags and track numbers so they should be
easy to burn to CD.
I realize what a pain in the ass it is to do all this work but I've got to encourage my fellow online digital
musicians to do this sort of housecleaning. If you're not going to make user-friendly listening experiences
for your connoisseurs, then who will?
I know I'd really love to have organized, all-at-once downloads of my favorite electronic artists.
It's all a rather thankless task but since we're all driven to toil endlessly in this odd art form we may as well
allow people the chance to overcome their laziness and stolidity and stumble upon what's going on at the
absolute forefront of music-creation technology and the people who actually "get it" and are progressing
full throttle into the future.
I know that I cherish my chance encounters with musical oddities back in the tape cassette days and it's
such experiences with the wholly unanticipated, the luminously inspired and breathtakingly daring
musicians that also toiled, unknown, thanklessly are what kindles this, the main focus of my creative life
and imagination, today.
April 8th, 2009 - back online
I got around to cleaning up this site after being offline for so long and added a couple more projects with
rendered stem wavs to share. I changed the Home page and added a link to my albums on LastFM.
April 5th, 2009 - back online
Aside from having achieved the wonder of zero-latency audio - playing my 3 midi instruments to trigger
VSTi in real time!!! - the only update I have is a new page dedicated to sharing free, license-free project
tracks rendered to .wav files for anyone to use, a result of my experimenting with sound design:
www.3amnoise/runagate/SharedStems
February 16th, 2009 - still largely offline
Greetings. I am getting some wafts of free wifi today so I will blather about new gear I got.
One: Tascam FireOne. I got a great deal on this thing. My M-Audio A/DA is a PCI-card with a breakout box
so I thought I'd get a more portable firewire unit. Now I have phantom-powered mic pres, hi-z inputs and
some nice function keys. It also has midi inputs so I can hook up my new QChord on the go.
If anyone understands how to corral the data from the FireOne jog wheel to use as a midi controller or how
to edit the function keys for use in non-supported DAWs, let me know!
Two: As to the aforementioned Suzuki QChord, it's a strange beast. It has a great deal of completely
useless functionality - Casiotone-esque rhythms, accompaniment, terrible onboard sounds.
Course, that's not why I got it. It's the only "4-octave midi strumplate" I can think of. Having major, minor
and diminished chord buttons for every note certainly speeds up sketching out compositions and allows
just about anyone to grab it and start strumming out rhythm chord parts.
My main interest in it, however, is that it has a midi out port. Unfortunately it outputs a random mishmash
of poorly implemented midi data that, when I'm feeling particularly hubristic, I'll learn to filter in Usine or
zweeger VST for use as a kind of keytar autoharp. I even got the strap for it though I don't understand how
one is supposed to affix it!
Three: CME Plugiator ASX expansion card for my CME VX5 keyboard. This thing has virtual analog synths
in it. One buys the plug-ins from them for $50 USD and uploads them. I am sticking with the free ones
that came with it as I'm already a plug-in horder with little need for more VA's; I just wanted something to
allow the keyboard to make sounds without dragging along a PC once in a while.
The plug-ins included are the Lightwave, the Minimax, the B4000 organ and the Vocodizer, the last of which
is what makes it worthwhile - if you paid as little as I did! I got it off a very nice man on Craigslist.
I really, really wish I had an sdk for it so I could create my own DSP as a minimoog and an organ are not
really what I'd choose to play with live, but if I figure out how to play my EWI horn into the keyboard and have
the ASX modules for my sounds that'd be pretty wicked.
Four: 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator. I've had a long-standing obsession with 3-dimensional controllers
and I just finished configuring an alternative driver for this well-crafted 3D mouse. Even just as a
multichannel audio panner or 3D binaural pan pot it'll be incredibly useful.
A very helpful man named RCB9 has created a custom driver and software to create keyboard, mouse or
joystick control layouts for the SpaceNavigator and it's cousins. Check out the thread on the 3Dconnexion
forums if you end up owning one of these things.
And if you're a controller-obsessed musician like me check out acousmodule's 3D Midigator VST, which
requires RCB9's driver to work, for use as a midi controller. Brilliant!
Here's a tutorial I wrote for setting all this up.
Five: I finally broke down and got an expression pedal and a sustain pedal (both of which work with the
VX5, and the sustain acts as a punch-in/play control for the FireOne). I guess I could never accept that the
Behringer FCB1000 would ever work the way I wanted it to.
Six: Spark Festival Update #1
Five hours before I was about to play the Spark Fest my PC died. I ran off to a PC hardware store, got a
new power supply, swapped it in - nada. The motherboard had fried. Long story short I called the
organizers, asked them to drop off a laptop (which they did, before I could even get to the venue) and I used
the wifi connection there to download software (FLStudio and Modelonia, both of which I had the license
info stored in emails luckily) and a bunch of freeware VSTs, drivers for the EWI, N.I. a/d/a that eric wistrad
luckily lent me, touchscreen (which I never ended up using) and configuring Windows XP for audio
(asio4all, etc. you know the drill) and reconstructing a set on-the-fly.
Which, because I'm a maniac, made it ten times more fun that it'd have been had I not had to improvise
and B.S. my way through a panicky 4-hour set-up.
Nevertheless it led me (via tax rebate season here in the U.S.) to replace the mobo, ram and processor
with a new x58 mobo, the newfangled triple-channel RAM and a Core i7 920 processor which I overclocked
to 4.0 Ghz... mind you my old chip was only a 3.0 Ghz Core Duo... this new quadcore blazes, and on an
Asus P6T motherboard overclocking it was simple and the results stable.
Now I'm off to attempt to customize more of this repurposed, cheap gear for playing live.
February 13th, 2009 - playing at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music
Happy New Year?
I've been offline for quite a while working on entirely new projects and bereft of any time or peace with
which to pursue actual recording. Until this week - I've moved and my nerve center is back up and
functioning with some new toys: A Suzuki QChord, a 12" touchscreen with which to control Usine and
VSTs via the new touchscreen edition of GUI interface elements and a FireOne (something I've not worked
out new tricks on, but I have my suspicions it's going to be quite the performance booster).
In any event, I'm playing the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art put on by some weird chaps at the
University of Minnesota at 9pm next Wednesday at the Bedlam Theater (behind the Cedar-Riverside
buildings by the highway).
This is going to be the second, and probably the second-to-last, runagate live show ever (excluding
possibly playing with Japanese Space Program next month at Eclipse Records.
In any event I'm going mostly to go see what the other digital psychos are up to. Most everything is free.
I'm giving a talk that someone named "Social Class and Creativity" on the next Sunday morning, too.
Here's the url to the Schedule
November 18th, 2008 - digital woodwind!
You may notice it's been a long, long time since I've updated my News section.
It's been an absurdly trying 3 months. But I've got good news:
I just today received in the mail the third Akai EWI USB midi saxophone.
The speed with which I should now be able to compose amazes me.
Plus, I can once again be a soloing instrumentalist, but with all the VST plug-ins I love.
Now, how to replace my p5 virtual reality glove with something to control parameters
on stage with both hands on my new horn?
I sold my sax 5 years ago so that I'd not be able to make a sound without my computer in order to force
myself to learn mixing, mastering, engineering, composition, midi, synthesis, DSP and all the other
wonderful things suddenly available for cheap or free in the digital realm. Well, now I get to combine both
world. Watch out.
That picture is small and at a strange angle. It looks a bit like a breathalyzer or a ray gun.
September 1st, 2008 - Drumity's "MIRABA - Set paintings to music" VIDEO
August 28th, 2008 - ooTrayistos site is live!
rachMiel, he who composes music which represents the furthermost horizons of the future of music and
my sensei, has put links up on our ooTray collective site.
"Our mission is to present genre-thwarting singularities that will make you hear the world in a different
way: ooTraycious music."
And how!
justin/3am and I have finally submitted our song & homepage links and bios, while rachMiel (rick scott) in
his inimitable terse fashion has offered... less comment. The other 2 members, Jazzyspoon & polyslax
don't have their info up yet, but it's a start.
I've got a hidden page, "ootrayista," where I've hidden my ooTray song links which I link to here mostly so
that I can find it again in the future.
I'm proud to be in such good company.
August 28th, 2008 - Kore 2 & Komplete 5
Well, even I can barely believe this:
An astonishingly charitable, but forever-to-be-anonymous, person has donated Native Instruments
Komplete 5 and Kore 2 to me.
Newest additions to my already formidable VST plug-in arsenal:
KONTAKT 3 - the industry-standard sampler with a 33 GB library
GUITAR RIG 3 Software Edition - the ultimate guitar and bass studio
MASSIVE - the formidable sound monster for fat basses and more
REAKTOR 5 - the extremely versatile, modular instrument studio
ABSYNTH 4 - the legendary synthesizer for vivid soundscapes
BATTERY 3 - the dedicated drum sampler providing premium drum kits
AKOUSTIK PIANO - three famous grands and one upright
ELEKTRIK PIANO - the sounds of four renowned electric pianos
B4 II - perfectly recreates the sound of the legendary B3 organ
FM8 - FM synth for crystal-clear, airy, and razor-sharp digital sounds
PRO-53 - the faithful reproduction of a synth legend
Many kind thanks, I can never give enough thanks; but the rest of the world, you'd best watch your asses.
July 31st, 2008 - rekkerd.org sample remix context
I've got a new song available on my music page! My mind-bending submission to the rekkerd.org sample
remix context (the prize for winning is OhmForce VSTs!). core, you bastard, are you listening? That took no
small part of my energy and willpower to make. It makes heavy use of the preset kits of your samples in
de la Mancha's erratic². Imagine what I could do with Melohman and OhMyGod!
July 21st, 2008 - Drumity's "MIRABA - Set paintings to music" project
Our friend Drumity asked me this morning to contribute a song to his "MIRABA - Set paintings to music"
project. My first homage to his strange and lovely paintings is for "MIRABAlism (2006)" and can be found
on my music page as an mp3 or wav download. Take a look; the his other images can be found through
the link above. Update: I've added another song for drumity's project this time for L'Énergie Concentrée.
I also reorganized my "Music" page and added the mysteriously working-once-again mp3 streaming
applets so that you can listen to full tracks and albums while you're here.
July 17th, 2008 - Evil Alliance news
My evil ally, de la Mancha, is nearing completion of his updated randomized drum machine VSTi plug-in,
erratic², and I've just recently received sample kits from 3am (owner of this site and friend), ronnie @
rekkerd.org, and vieris from rhythminmind (his TR-505 DeComposer circuit bent kit) and created presets
for the beast. It's been a long, arduous path to this day and I can't wait for it to be released. There's an
mp3 demo over on my music page. If you really can't wait to find out about this update here's a "beta
version 2" of a patch design tutorial I've been writing. There's a link to an example mp3 in the .pdf manual.
Additionally, I am in the process of patching the first Evil Alliance release, ea_combover, which looks and
sounds great but alas I've run out of time for this week during my 20-hour marathons of finishing these
projects on my 2 days off! Good news is both releases are imminent.
And here's some gossip - I'm betatesting a new pluggotic VST made by C.d.P. whose music I am a huge
fan of.
July 14th, 2008 - New Toys
I am now the proud owner of Fractal Tunesmithy (which I've used in demo mode to retune VST instruments
with Scala microtonal temperaments on the fly for years), NuSofting DK+ drums and xoxos' genius fleet of
freeware all in preparation for a new album and live shows. Consider yourself warned.
I also have a new demo song for xoxos' Circuit on my Music page.
July 9th, 2008 - Hadronic Coquette Embouchure
Due to an unidentified PC glitch my new Ugo's Disturbance VSTi beta test demo song has it's mix fixed
and is ready to be downloaded. 160 bpm of fun. Also I uploaded a 160 mb wav archive of rendered tracks
from this song for you to play with, just please let me hear what you make. It's on the Secret Archive page.
June 25th, 2008 - Some free music back online
I uploaded a ton of music to the site last*fm, so you can check it out there or stream from an applet over on
my music page.
There's a couple new songs available to be downloaded there, too.
June 14th, 2008 - Back on the internet
I am officially back on the net.
Unfortunately, my mp3 hosting site no longer seems to be. I'm working on a solution. For the time being
check out the new version of Poindexter VST on the VSTs page.
March 15th, 2008 - Official Site Launch
The official launch of my homepage, thanks to justin/3am for providing this space! You rock, homie.
Someday we will level cityscapes together.
lop the /runagate off this site's url and you'll be at 3am's page.
runagate and de la Mancha join in an Evil Alliance
Having designed presets for his octav8r, metamorph and jellyfish VST plug-ins (as well as my half-assed
Anemic Naif VST being the inspiration for his circuit-bending emulation plug-in Bent/Benter) , de la Mancha
has invited me to form a plug-in creating Evil Alliance, a sort of Synth Edit skunkworks of mad science
projects. Check back here for details later...
de la Mancha's website
"jellyfish has several modes of inter-oscillator modulation as well as 2 LFOs and an envelope generator
that each modulate 6 parameters as well as each other. metamorph will change the oscillator waveforms in
real-time, as well as a lot of other LFO and envelope modulations to make things even more interesting"
Together they comprise the "Motion pack" and sell for $15 together.
"Octav8r is a 7-node pitch-shifter that generates 6 differently pitched stereo versions of the audio input
added to a ‘dry’ non-shifted signal to generate a richly layered sound. Each node has its own volume
envelope and variable state filter plus send controls to vibrato, chorus, delay and reverb effects. The
envelopes can be triggered by midi, audio gate or looped in sync with the host tempo."
octav8r sells for $15 and there's a demo available, for which I wrote a downloadable sound design tutorial..
Evil Alliance update:
de la Mancha's patronage has paid dividends, not the least of which is getting me into some Chris Kerry
modules for use in SynthEdit and making me a skin so my plug-ins are no longer illegible, just inscrutable.
Keep an eye out for the Evil Alliance version of CombOver VST in the near future.
You can find my new blog entry here.
Excerpt:
"Let's remind ourselves of the paradigm shift that's moved the fundament from beneath our feet: we now
live in the Virtual Reality age of creating music."
May 17th, 2009 - a song created entirely from insertpizhere's Mr. Alias 2 VSTi
You can find it on my music page, it's called Aliasling. I loved Mr. Alias, um, #1... one of my first freeware
VST synths. You can find it on my music page on the tabs above.
Also, our ooBlog on ooTray.com is gathering momentum, despite the fact that I'm basically offline yet again.
May 4th, 2009 - two new songs available exclusively through ooTray.com
As part of the launch of the ooTray collective website I've got two tracks available for download exclusively
on my "home page" there. Click on the "ooTrayista" link on the top navigation bar to go to ooTray.com or
check out the eight current members of our netlabel, started by my sensei rachMiel, Keeper of the Oo.
Ootray members jopy, rachMiel and I have started an ooTray blog on that site. I'll be posting rantings
detailing the techniques in creating my songs and various other unhinged diatribes. Hopefully I'll be able
to post my production notes for these two songs there soon.
KIBO Interferometer and Ductile Transmigrant on ooTray.com
April 10th, 2009 - free full album .rar archive downloads now available
Just click on the new "Albums" tab above.
5 albums total 964 Mb. Then there's a remix/cover compilation and 2 "best of" compilations for those just
checking out my <ahem> rather unique audio creations, one of slightly more straightforward and
accessible songs and one of abstract, holophonic soundscapes.
The 5 albums plus the remix/cover compilation totals 130 songs - the majority of what I've put online over
the last 5 years.
Each genuinely has it's included album art, proper mp3 metatags and track numbers so they should be
easy to burn to CD.
I realize what a pain in the ass it is to do all this work but I've got to encourage my fellow online digital
musicians to do this sort of housecleaning. If you're not going to make user-friendly listening experiences
for your connoisseurs, then who will?
I know I'd really love to have organized, all-at-once downloads of my favorite electronic artists.
It's all a rather thankless task but since we're all driven to toil endlessly in this odd art form we may as well
allow people the chance to overcome their laziness and stolidity and stumble upon what's going on at the
absolute forefront of music-creation technology and the people who actually "get it" and are progressing
full throttle into the future.
I know that I cherish my chance encounters with musical oddities back in the tape cassette days and it's
such experiences with the wholly unanticipated, the luminously inspired and breathtakingly daring
musicians that also toiled, unknown, thanklessly are what kindles this, the main focus of my creative life
and imagination, today.
April 8th, 2009 - back online
I got around to cleaning up this site after being offline for so long and added a couple more projects with
rendered stem wavs to share. I changed the Home page and added a link to my albums on LastFM.
April 5th, 2009 - back online
Aside from having achieved the wonder of zero-latency audio - playing my 3 midi instruments to trigger
VSTi in real time!!! - the only update I have is a new page dedicated to sharing free, license-free project
tracks rendered to .wav files for anyone to use, a result of my experimenting with sound design:
www.3amnoise/runagate/SharedStems
February 16th, 2009 - still largely offline
Greetings. I am getting some wafts of free wifi today so I will blather about new gear I got.
One: Tascam FireOne. I got a great deal on this thing. My M-Audio A/DA is a PCI-card with a breakout box
so I thought I'd get a more portable firewire unit. Now I have phantom-powered mic pres, hi-z inputs and
some nice function keys. It also has midi inputs so I can hook up my new QChord on the go.
If anyone understands how to corral the data from the FireOne jog wheel to use as a midi controller or how
to edit the function keys for use in non-supported DAWs, let me know!
Two: As to the aforementioned Suzuki QChord, it's a strange beast. It has a great deal of completely
useless functionality - Casiotone-esque rhythms, accompaniment, terrible onboard sounds.
Course, that's not why I got it. It's the only "4-octave midi strumplate" I can think of. Having major, minor
and diminished chord buttons for every note certainly speeds up sketching out compositions and allows
just about anyone to grab it and start strumming out rhythm chord parts.
My main interest in it, however, is that it has a midi out port. Unfortunately it outputs a random mishmash
of poorly implemented midi data that, when I'm feeling particularly hubristic, I'll learn to filter in Usine or
zweeger VST for use as a kind of keytar autoharp. I even got the strap for it though I don't understand how
one is supposed to affix it!
Three: CME Plugiator ASX expansion card for my CME VX5 keyboard. This thing has virtual analog synths
in it. One buys the plug-ins from them for $50 USD and uploads them. I am sticking with the free ones
that came with it as I'm already a plug-in horder with little need for more VA's; I just wanted something to
allow the keyboard to make sounds without dragging along a PC once in a while.
The plug-ins included are the Lightwave, the Minimax, the B4000 organ and the Vocodizer, the last of which
is what makes it worthwhile - if you paid as little as I did! I got it off a very nice man on Craigslist.
I really, really wish I had an sdk for it so I could create my own DSP as a minimoog and an organ are not
really what I'd choose to play with live, but if I figure out how to play my EWI horn into the keyboard and have
the ASX modules for my sounds that'd be pretty wicked.
Four: 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator. I've had a long-standing obsession with 3-dimensional controllers
and I just finished configuring an alternative driver for this well-crafted 3D mouse. Even just as a
multichannel audio panner or 3D binaural pan pot it'll be incredibly useful.
A very helpful man named RCB9 has created a custom driver and software to create keyboard, mouse or
joystick control layouts for the SpaceNavigator and it's cousins. Check out the thread on the 3Dconnexion
forums if you end up owning one of these things.
And if you're a controller-obsessed musician like me check out acousmodule's 3D Midigator VST, which
requires RCB9's driver to work, for use as a midi controller. Brilliant!
Here's a tutorial I wrote for setting all this up.
Five: I finally broke down and got an expression pedal and a sustain pedal (both of which work with the
VX5, and the sustain acts as a punch-in/play control for the FireOne). I guess I could never accept that the
Behringer FCB1000 would ever work the way I wanted it to.
Six: Spark Festival Update #1
Five hours before I was about to play the Spark Fest my PC died. I ran off to a PC hardware store, got a
new power supply, swapped it in - nada. The motherboard had fried. Long story short I called the
organizers, asked them to drop off a laptop (which they did, before I could even get to the venue) and I used
the wifi connection there to download software (FLStudio and Modelonia, both of which I had the license
info stored in emails luckily) and a bunch of freeware VSTs, drivers for the EWI, N.I. a/d/a that eric wistrad
luckily lent me, touchscreen (which I never ended up using) and configuring Windows XP for audio
(asio4all, etc. you know the drill) and reconstructing a set on-the-fly.
Which, because I'm a maniac, made it ten times more fun that it'd have been had I not had to improvise
and B.S. my way through a panicky 4-hour set-up.
Nevertheless it led me (via tax rebate season here in the U.S.) to replace the mobo, ram and processor
with a new x58 mobo, the newfangled triple-channel RAM and a Core i7 920 processor which I overclocked
to 4.0 Ghz... mind you my old chip was only a 3.0 Ghz Core Duo... this new quadcore blazes, and on an
Asus P6T motherboard overclocking it was simple and the results stable.
Now I'm off to attempt to customize more of this repurposed, cheap gear for playing live.
February 13th, 2009 - playing at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music
Happy New Year?
I've been offline for quite a while working on entirely new projects and bereft of any time or peace with
which to pursue actual recording. Until this week - I've moved and my nerve center is back up and
functioning with some new toys: A Suzuki QChord, a 12" touchscreen with which to control Usine and
VSTs via the new touchscreen edition of GUI interface elements and a FireOne (something I've not worked
out new tricks on, but I have my suspicions it's going to be quite the performance booster).
In any event, I'm playing the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art put on by some weird chaps at the
University of Minnesota at 9pm next Wednesday at the Bedlam Theater (behind the Cedar-Riverside
buildings by the highway).
This is going to be the second, and probably the second-to-last, runagate live show ever (excluding
possibly playing with Japanese Space Program next month at Eclipse Records.
In any event I'm going mostly to go see what the other digital psychos are up to. Most everything is free.
I'm giving a talk that someone named "Social Class and Creativity" on the next Sunday morning, too.
Here's the url to the Schedule
November 18th, 2008 - digital woodwind!
You may notice it's been a long, long time since I've updated my News section.
It's been an absurdly trying 3 months. But I've got good news:
I just today received in the mail the third Akai EWI USB midi saxophone.
The speed with which I should now be able to compose amazes me.
Plus, I can once again be a soloing instrumentalist, but with all the VST plug-ins I love.
Now, how to replace my p5 virtual reality glove with something to control parameters
on stage with both hands on my new horn?
I sold my sax 5 years ago so that I'd not be able to make a sound without my computer in order to force
myself to learn mixing, mastering, engineering, composition, midi, synthesis, DSP and all the other
wonderful things suddenly available for cheap or free in the digital realm. Well, now I get to combine both
world. Watch out.
That picture is small and at a strange angle. It looks a bit like a breathalyzer or a ray gun.
September 1st, 2008 - Drumity's "MIRABA - Set paintings to music" VIDEO
August 28th, 2008 - ooTrayistos site is live!
rachMiel, he who composes music which represents the furthermost horizons of the future of music and
my sensei, has put links up on our ooTray collective site.
"Our mission is to present genre-thwarting singularities that will make you hear the world in a different
way: ooTraycious music."
And how!
justin/3am and I have finally submitted our song & homepage links and bios, while rachMiel (rick scott) in
his inimitable terse fashion has offered... less comment. The other 2 members, Jazzyspoon & polyslax
don't have their info up yet, but it's a start.
I've got a hidden page, "ootrayista," where I've hidden my ooTray song links which I link to here mostly so
that I can find it again in the future.
I'm proud to be in such good company.
August 28th, 2008 - Kore 2 & Komplete 5
Well, even I can barely believe this:
An astonishingly charitable, but forever-to-be-anonymous, person has donated Native Instruments
Komplete 5 and Kore 2 to me.
Newest additions to my already formidable VST plug-in arsenal:
KONTAKT 3 - the industry-standard sampler with a 33 GB library
GUITAR RIG 3 Software Edition - the ultimate guitar and bass studio
MASSIVE - the formidable sound monster for fat basses and more
REAKTOR 5 - the extremely versatile, modular instrument studio
ABSYNTH 4 - the legendary synthesizer for vivid soundscapes
BATTERY 3 - the dedicated drum sampler providing premium drum kits
AKOUSTIK PIANO - three famous grands and one upright
ELEKTRIK PIANO - the sounds of four renowned electric pianos
B4 II - perfectly recreates the sound of the legendary B3 organ
FM8 - FM synth for crystal-clear, airy, and razor-sharp digital sounds
PRO-53 - the faithful reproduction of a synth legend
Many kind thanks, I can never give enough thanks; but the rest of the world, you'd best watch your asses.
July 31st, 2008 - rekkerd.org sample remix context
I've got a new song available on my music page! My mind-bending submission to the rekkerd.org sample
remix context (the prize for winning is OhmForce VSTs!). core, you bastard, are you listening? That took no
small part of my energy and willpower to make. It makes heavy use of the preset kits of your samples in
de la Mancha's erratic². Imagine what I could do with Melohman and OhMyGod!
July 21st, 2008 - Drumity's "MIRABA - Set paintings to music" project
Our friend Drumity asked me this morning to contribute a song to his "MIRABA - Set paintings to music"
project. My first homage to his strange and lovely paintings is for "MIRABAlism (2006)" and can be found
on my music page as an mp3 or wav download. Take a look; the his other images can be found through
the link above. Update: I've added another song for drumity's project this time for L'Énergie Concentrée.
I also reorganized my "Music" page and added the mysteriously working-once-again mp3 streaming
applets so that you can listen to full tracks and albums while you're here.
July 17th, 2008 - Evil Alliance news
My evil ally, de la Mancha, is nearing completion of his updated randomized drum machine VSTi plug-in,
erratic², and I've just recently received sample kits from 3am (owner of this site and friend), ronnie @
rekkerd.org, and vieris from rhythminmind (his TR-505 DeComposer circuit bent kit) and created presets
for the beast. It's been a long, arduous path to this day and I can't wait for it to be released. There's an
mp3 demo over on my music page. If you really can't wait to find out about this update here's a "beta
version 2" of a patch design tutorial I've been writing. There's a link to an example mp3 in the .pdf manual.
Additionally, I am in the process of patching the first Evil Alliance release, ea_combover, which looks and
sounds great but alas I've run out of time for this week during my 20-hour marathons of finishing these
projects on my 2 days off! Good news is both releases are imminent.
And here's some gossip - I'm betatesting a new pluggotic VST made by C.d.P. whose music I am a huge
fan of.
July 14th, 2008 - New Toys
I am now the proud owner of Fractal Tunesmithy (which I've used in demo mode to retune VST instruments
with Scala microtonal temperaments on the fly for years), NuSofting DK+ drums and xoxos' genius fleet of
freeware all in preparation for a new album and live shows. Consider yourself warned.
I also have a new demo song for xoxos' Circuit on my Music page.
July 9th, 2008 - Hadronic Coquette Embouchure
Due to an unidentified PC glitch my new Ugo's Disturbance VSTi beta test demo song has it's mix fixed
and is ready to be downloaded. 160 bpm of fun. Also I uploaded a 160 mb wav archive of rendered tracks
from this song for you to play with, just please let me hear what you make. It's on the Secret Archive page.
June 25th, 2008 - Some free music back online
I uploaded a ton of music to the site last*fm, so you can check it out there or stream from an applet over on
my music page.
There's a couple new songs available to be downloaded there, too.
June 14th, 2008 - Back on the internet
I am officially back on the net.
Unfortunately, my mp3 hosting site no longer seems to be. I'm working on a solution. For the time being
check out the new version of Poindexter VST on the VSTs page.
March 15th, 2008 - Official Site Launch
The official launch of my homepage, thanks to justin/3am for providing this space! You rock, homie.
Someday we will level cityscapes together.
lop the /runagate off this site's url and you'll be at 3am's page.
runagate and de la Mancha join in an Evil Alliance
Having designed presets for his octav8r, metamorph and jellyfish VST plug-ins (as well as my half-assed
Anemic Naif VST being the inspiration for his circuit-bending emulation plug-in Bent/Benter) , de la Mancha
has invited me to form a plug-in creating Evil Alliance, a sort of Synth Edit skunkworks of mad science
projects. Check back here for details later...
de la Mancha's website
"jellyfish has several modes of inter-oscillator modulation as well as 2 LFOs and an envelope generator
that each modulate 6 parameters as well as each other. metamorph will change the oscillator waveforms in
real-time, as well as a lot of other LFO and envelope modulations to make things even more interesting"
Together they comprise the "Motion pack" and sell for $15 together.
"Octav8r is a 7-node pitch-shifter that generates 6 differently pitched stereo versions of the audio input
added to a ‘dry’ non-shifted signal to generate a richly layered sound. Each node has its own volume
envelope and variable state filter plus send controls to vibrato, chorus, delay and reverb effects. The
envelopes can be triggered by midi, audio gate or looped in sync with the host tempo."
octav8r sells for $15 and there's a demo available, for which I wrote a downloadable sound design tutorial..
Evil Alliance update:
de la Mancha's patronage has paid dividends, not the least of which is getting me into some Chris Kerry
modules for use in SynthEdit and making me a skin so my plug-ins are no longer illegible, just inscrutable.
Keep an eye out for the Evil Alliance version of CombOver VST in the near future.
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