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FAWM.org has released The Muse, a collection of free online songwriting tools.

This is a collection of small experiments in “computational songwriting inspiration.”

They were originally conceived to assist participants in the FAWM.ORG challenge, for whom writing 14 songs in 28 days sometimes requires a little assistance.

The Muse includes:

• Plot Spline — Framing device for helping you devise plot and setting constraints for your song.
• Struxxure — tool for uncovering possible out-of-the-box song structures.
• LyriCloud — Creates a randomized cloud of semantically-correlated words to spark your creativity.
• Titular — Generates several (potentially awkward) song titles for you to interpret and write about.

More information: FAWM.org / The Muse

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Intelligent Devices has released Marshall Time Modulator and Slip-N-Slide, two VST effect plug-ins for Windows and Mac.

Once in a while something is created that is so good, so unbelievably useful, it becomes “timeless”…

The Marshall Time Modulator is one of those creations. Before there was much “digital” anything, and before records were considered something anachronistic and nostalgia evoking, back when “Dark Side of the Moon” was new and Hip-Hop kind of a distant dream, Stephen St. Croix had an idea: What would happen if you took the the longest analog delay line possible, gave it the greatest signal to noise ratio in a piece of outboard gear, and then made the modulation of it possible over such a wide range that it could effect sound in ways sublime AND outrageous. Something so utilitarian and necessary that it could fit in equally well on Stevie Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life,” or as the means of giving extra gravitas to the sound of a bad acid trip. Stephen called it: The Marshall Time Modulator. You’ll call it “indispensable”.

The Marshall Time Modulator features

• Two separate delay lines, in a ratio of 1:2 or 1:4., each with their own volume, phase and pan controls and a joint feedback control.
• Once modulation is added, the ratios between the delay lines don’t change, but together the delay lines can be continuously swept over the range from minimum to maximum time over the LFO (Low frequency Oscillator) rate. This is a function of the interaction between the Time Delay, Preset, Time Modulation, LFO Shape and LFO Speed parameters working together.
• From subtle thickening, to reverb loving “spin”, to the sound of vinyl left out on the hood of an ‘84 Camaro in the Black Rock Desert in the last week of August, The Marshall Time Modulator has all the bases covered – and then some.

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# Art of Sound Contest

From Instructables: Music is absolutely essential for creativity – it inspires new ideas, helps us to create and build, and provides a soundtrack for life.

That's why we've teamed up with Zalytron, Create Digital Music, and Bleep Labs to bring you the Art of Sound Contest. Show us something amazing and music-related, and win an awesome set of hand-built custom speakers or a musical instrument kit!

The contest is open to any project that creates something beautiful with or around sound. Entry Deadline: 26-jul-2009.

# Mic shootout – 6 condensers from $120 – $1900 – Female vocals

Jon @ AudioGeekZine writes:

As part of the Home Recording 101 class at Revolution Audio, this past Thursday we did a shootout of 6 vocal mics. The mics selected were some of the top sellers at the store and ranged in price from the M-Audio Nova at $119 to the AT4060 at $1905.

M-Audio Sputnik, one of the mics featured in this shootout

Sound files of the recordings are available for download from AudioGeekZine.

# Gotharman’s Deformer a granular effects processor, a polyphonic filterbank synthesizer, a MIDI note randomizer.

It's an analogue style 2-track MIDI sequencer. It's the first machine in the world (I think), that can do REALTIME TIMESTRETCH ON A LIVE INPUT AUDIO SIGNAL. Add to this a granulator that cut's the input audio signal up in fragments, and lets you move these fragments around with the 16 step pots to rearrange beats and others in realtime. Use the two fully programmable filterbanks to tweak the sound further. Or create complete synth-patches by combining the internal polyphonic oscillator section with one or both of the filterbanks. Create two note and controller sequences and run them thru the note randomizer to create enddless non-mechanical variations. Store your arrangement in one of the 512 program locations for instant recall. That's the Deformer!

# DrumKitKit

The Drum Kit – Kit lets you turn your Arduino into a drum kit. Imagine the fun you could have building a drum kit and then “rocking the house”.

The kit contains the electronic parts required to make a drum kit. This includes the circuit board, resistors, diodes and pins. You supply the Arduino and the material to make the actual drum pads. Below you will find the easy instruction on how to make traditional looking drum pads, but you could also stick the piezos (the part the sense the hits on the drum) to many different surfaces. Imagine, playing your desk, lamp and telephone!

FXpansion has released version 1.6 of GURU, an intuitive and powerful tool for creating your beats.

GURU takes the best features of hardware beatboxes, drum samplers and loop manglers, and combines them into a unique, inspirational software instrument.

Whether integrated in to your DAW or running standalone, GURU’s powerful sequencer with ultra tight timing and realtime groove adjustment is an intuitive and addictive interface with which to quickly write inspiring rhythmic foundations for your tracks.

Changes in GURU v1.6

• Note repeat , note erase and fixed-level triggering for the pads.
• Looping and phase flip per layer.
• Patterns can now be up to 16 pages (512 steps) long (increased from 4 pages).
• 16 stereo outputs (increased from 8).
• Instant graph record from MIDI CC.
• Skinning support.
• Various workflow and midi implementation enhancements (improvements to midi remote control, layer context menus etc.).

GURU is available for Windows and Mac for $249 / 199 EUR (ex VAT). The update is available as a free upgrade to all GURU version 1.x registered users. A demo version can be downloaded here.

Visit FXpansion for more information.

Pluggotic has released Necroloop, a freeware slicer effect plug-in for Windows PC.

Pluggotic Necroloop is a pseudo real-time stereo slicer for buffer-freaks.
..what does it mean? or why the “pseudo”, you might ask.
Necroloop is an effect that records incoming material in 8/16/32 slices and plays it back in horribly twisted ways with it’s live, sequenced editing tools. Necroloop only demands for incoming audio and a running host. Just load it as a common stereo insert fx and let anything run through, a drum loop, melodic instruments, vocals..or an entire mix.

Necroloop features

• Incoming audio is recorded in 8/16/32 slices.
• Forward and reverse playback modes.
• Various sequencers with 32 patterns to store sequences:
  • “Loop Start” and “Loop End”, manipulate loop points of the 8/16/32 slices.
  • “Jittering” sequencers control randomizations for “Loop Start” and “Loop End”.
  • “Pitch” and “Pitch jittering”.
  • “Multi-Fx”, control multi-fx’s parameters 1 and 2.
• The effect section features:
  • Multimode filter (lp/bp/hp/notch).
  • Bitcrushing.
  • ring modulation, with a choice of four waveforms.
• Tons of chaos/randomize options.

Note: Necroloop has a fixed latency of one or two measures. The real time manipulation affects what has been recorded one or two measures before.

There is no information on Necroloop on the Pluggotic website at this moment, so download Necroloop for Windows PC here.

2CAudio (a sister company of Galbanum) has released Aether, a self-modulating algorithmic reverb for Windows and Mac.

Unlike convolution reverbs, Aether is not a static process, and no two instances of Aether are ever exactly the same. The same is true in real world acoustical spaces as well: a building’s acoustical character may vary slightly depending on several factors such as its current occupancy, and even more subtle things such as the current temperature and humidity. Thus, acoustic space itself is alive in the real world and is constantly shifting, morphing, and evolving to produce a complex array of potential impulse responses. A sampled impulse response of a real acoustic space, can be quite accurate for that particular moment, but it tells only part of the story. It is like a picture of a lake, versus the lake itself. A lake in the real world is unlikely to spontaneously develop waves the size of those found in the ocean, but it is never quite as still as a picture either. Aether’s approach does not simply sample one static picture in time, but rather captures the complete subtly of the dynamic chaotic processes found in life and it retains all the detail and organic feel of these processes. Aether is alive!

Aether features

• Extreme precision floating-point engine which rivals the best hardware reverb units available.
• Impeccable specifications in Space, Time, and Frequency response.
• Unique pervasive Auto-Randomizing scheme throughout the entire algorithm which keeps mixes sounding alive.
• Non-Exponential Decay curves for incredibly lush sound.
• Discrete Early Reflection and Late Reflection Engines.
• 33 Space Type Models.
• Over 250 professionally designed factory presets ranging from sublime acoustic emulations to extreme sound-design ambiences.
• Reverb Decay Time range from 0.10sec to 120sec plus an Infinite Decay Mode.
• Frequency Dependant Decay Time Scaling.
• True Stereo and Hybrid Stereo modes.
• Coded in assembly and optimized with SSE for extreme efficiency.
• Only 4 sample latency! Suitable for use in tracking and performance.
• Supported Sample Rates of up to 192K.
• Intuitive futuristic GUI designed for maximum control and ease of use.

Aether is available as an effect plug-in for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) and has an introductory price of $249.95 USD through April 01, 2009 (regular price is $349.95 USD). A demo version is available for download from the product page.

Visit 2CAudio for more information and audio demos.