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Gearwire provides a download of a new version of the free Cygnus plug-in by Krakli with added features inspired by a review in Gearwire Crosstalk 013.
Cygnus-SF adds 3 user loadable soundfont modules to the original Cygnus (with Odo’s skin).
Check out the podcast where Gearwire plays with Cygnus-SF a bit. You can download Cygnus-SF from Gearwire.
I usually don’t spend more than a few hours on these contest entries, which means I rarely get the result I’m looking for.
The Boards of Hollandia track turned out way too clean sounding for that particular style… A scratchy record and more background sounds would’ve been a good idea indeed.
Thanks for listening!
Ronnie
I rather liked your Boards of Canada clone — it is actually a lot more musically textured than most of their stuff.
If you really wanted to completely ape that style, you could just record the run out groove of a scratchy record and mix it in with the drums and roll off the high end. And it isn’t until the end that you jump on their main trick — a slow LFO on pads so they drift about 10 cents every couple of seconds, like you’re playing a record with an off center spindle hole.
Oh, and record a schoolyard with children playing, and run it through agressive telephone EQ and loop it underneath with a slow LFO on the volume level.