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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.

Plus here's a new song I made:  
Impetuous Stiplings
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..
Fetchingly Bonkers is looking for odd sound effect vocalists
Being someone who loves endlessly creating heretofore unheard of vocal noises
and a huge fan of Mike Patton my new live/VST hybrid band is looking for people
who can do the same (plus live automated effects.. we will become psychedellic
cyborgs).  Ideally we'll find a beatboxer at some point.  If you know someone like
this in the Twin Cities area please head over to the Contact page asap.
News:
Word-Feat Ear-Tweak
homesite of runagate
March 21th, 2008 - Re-Coder VST alpha version released
Here's evidence of me practicing my SynthEdit skills for my Evil Alliance with the
inimitable de la Mancha.
Re-Coder VST and manual download
Re-Coder is a Freeware VST effect based on a vocoder, the carrier of which is a
four operator FM synth with a flanger, delay & some unusual modulation abilities.
 Ops 2 & 4 are gated by an envelope follower and a pitch follower, which also
modulate the delay and flanger.  Keep in mind this is an alpha version made by
an amateur!  A more advanced version may be released somtime.  If you want to
donate some ducats to ensure I buy some payware
modules and make more, better, weirder stuff there's a donate button
here.
Re-Coder demo mp3 download
March 22nd, 2008 - Turducken VST alpha version released
Well, apparently I'm learning to kludge together SynthEdit effects faster than I'd
hoped.  Turducken is an FSU effect the basis of which is two types of Phase
Modulation much like is used in an FM synth.  Insert audio; output madness.
Within Turducken is a pitch tracker and an LFO, both of which modulate many
things, including a couple oscillators (used for phase modulation and ring
modulation) as well as some secret ingredients from an old Cajun recipe.

Turducken v01 VST phase modulation effect (Freeware)
Turducken demo mp3

Obviously, like the last one, this is an amateurish attempt at a VST plug-in, with
no GUI, but I promise you it'll make some noises your other effects won't.