Results for Michel Rouzic

MacUpdate is offering a 47% discount on SplineEQ, a linear phase equalizer plugin for Windows and Mac.

Designed to be simple and flexible, SplineEQ allows you to create filters using Bézier splines, the best known way to design curves. The free trial of SplineEQ is for personal use only, but if you purchase SplineEQ it comes with a full commercial license.

SplineEQ features

• Linear phase equalizer.
• Spline-based filter design.
• Up to 60 bands (only up to 4 in the free version).
• Simple curve modification functions.
• Frequency analyser.
• Infinite dB to +60 dB gain range.
• Adjustable resolution, latency and CPU usage.

SplineEQ (VST/AU) is available to purchase for $9.99 USD until January 28th, 2012, after which is will be $14.25 USD for another 14 days (regular $19 USD). The full commercial license entitles you to free updates, the right to use and sell the resulting audio without limitations and gives access to e-mail support.

More information: SplineEQ at MacUpdate

Michel Rouzic of Photosounder has released SplineEQ, a linear phase equalizer effect for Windows and Mac.

Designed to be simple and flexible, SplineEQ allows you to create filters using Bézier splines, the best known way to design curves.

SplineEQ features

• Linear phase equalizer.
• Spline-based filter design.
• Up to 60 bands (only up to 4 in the free version).
• Simple curve modification functions.
• Frequency analyser.
• Infinite dB to +60 dB gain range.
• Adjustable resolution, latency and CPU usage.

SplineEQ for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) is available to purchase for $39 USD.

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Computer Music magazine has announced two Facebook competitions, offering a chance to win XILS Lab synths and Photosounder, the image-based audio editor/synthesiser for PC and Mac.

Computer Music magazine has teamed up with soft synth wizards XILS-lab (xils-lab.com) to offer four great prizes. Two winners will each receive their choice of either PolyKB II (€149) or XILS 3 (€149), and two runners-up can pick between PolyKB Player (€25) and XILS 3 LE (€30).

PolyKB II is one of the finest analogue synth emulations in existence – in CM154′s review, we slapped it with a Performance award and a 9/10 rating.

XILS 3 offers a semimodular design based on the classic EMS VCS3 synth. CM143′s review saw it garner a 9/10 score and a Performance award.

Computer Music magazine is also offering a chance to win one of 10 copies of Photosounder.

Photosounder works by converting sound into an image, for direct editing in a visual manner, offering up numerous editing options that you simply won’t find anywhere else. It’s a lot more fun, intuitive and easy to use than you might expect, so don’t write it off as a high-brow tool that’s only for tech-heads!

The entry forms for both competitions are available to those who ‘like’ Computer Music on Facebook. The XILS Lab competition deadline is 8 April 2011, the Photosounder one ends 15 April 2011.

More information: Computer Music

Note: Due to legal restrictions, both competitions are open only to UK and US residents aged 18+.

Michel Rouzic has announced version 1.8 of Photosounder, a tool for graphical sound design by spectral editing.

Photosounder allows you to graphically manipulate sound files to directly adjust, create and shape sounds with surgical precision.

Changes in Photosounder v1.8

• Stereo support to edit and create stereo sounds less painfully.
• Layer support for more powerful editing.
• New options and modifications to improve your workflow and results.

VSTi integration and multi-platform support are planned for future updates.

Photosounder is available to purchase priced at $32 USD / €25 EUR for a non-commercial license and $127 USD / €99 EUR for a commercial license, with a free upgrade to version 1.8 (available on June 1, 2010). After the release of v1.8 Photosounder’s price will increase to $59 USD / €46 EUR for a non-commercial license and $175 USD / €138 EUR for a commercial license.

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Michel Rouzic has released Photosounder, a one-of-a-kind image-sound editing program.

It is unique in that it opens images and sounds indiscriminately, treats and processes them as images, and synthesizes them as sounds. Sounds, once turned into images, can be powerfully modified to achieve effects and results that couldn’t be obtained in any other way, while images of all sorts reveal the infinite kinds of otherworldly sounds they contain. Ultimately, knowing how sounds look and how images sound, you’ll be able to create images that sound like what you want to hear, or like what you couldn’t imagine to hear.

Photosounder features

• Loads nearly all image formats
• Loads OGG and WAV sounds
• Can save the resulting sound into a WAV file
• Analyses sounds into images for processing
• Features spray tools to edit the image-sound by hand
• Can adjust the frequency range, frequency scale, tempo (playback rate),
  gamma
• Can rotate and flip the image-sound

Photosounder is available for Windows PC (Mac OS and Linux versions coming soon) for 99 EUR. A demo version is available, with the ability to save the resulting sound to file disabled, and a small noise inserted every 3 seconds.

Visit the Photosounder website for more information and some audio & video demos.