Cormac Daly releases Thaw v0.1
Cormac Daly has released Thaw, a VST plug-in for the creation and manipulation of static and drone sounds using the phase vocoder.
Thaw was created as part of a Masters in Music Technology academic project whose aim was to explore the use of the phase vocoder for the creation and manipulation of static and drone sounds.
Thaw can be used for creating a perceptual ’snapshot’ of a sound and then creating drones using a number of effects including a low frequency oscillator and a pitch shifter.
The scientific and musical background of this project, as well as an explanation of the inner workings of the software, can be found in the accompanying thesis.
Check out What Goes Around, a musical piece which showcases Thaw. On page 68 of Cormac’s thesis you will find a screenshot of the Cubase production environment in which What Goes Around was composed.
Listen to “What Goes Around” by Cormac Daly
Thaw v0.1 Downloads: 4070 times
(Currently Windows only, Mac version is planned)
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this is an absolutely astounding plugin-
certainly will find a great place in the collection ov this experimental musician
ggoo
when will the OS X version be ready?
Cormac here. Good question re. the OS X version. Unfortunately I’ve moved on to other (non-plugin related) things for the moment. I have plans to improve this though (eg tempo synced LFO, maybe even MIDI triggering for different resynthesised bands). If I ever get off my butt and do something with this again you’ll hear about it here. Thanks for the positive feedback!
W00t for free vocoder plugins!
I wouldn’t call ‘What Comes Around’ music… just ambient noise.