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[elektron] Re: Grit

2006-05-18 by concreationist

Sampsa - thanks for correcting my mistake. I don't have my audio
software installed at work so the winamp plugin was all I could test
at the moment. 

Have you used any other tools to add dirt to your productions?

/Sten

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, snlehton@... wrote:
>
> Sten, the company behind that simulator is named Izotope and the
plugin is 
> called Vinyl. I get it mixed too with their Ozone plugin..."have you
tried 
> Izotope from Ozone... I mean Ozone from Izotope!" :)
> 
> Anyway, no need to run stuff through WinAmp, there is VST plugin
available too 
> (not to mention bunch of other formats). And yes it's free.
> 
> http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/vinyl/
> 
> -sampsa
> 
> On Thu, 18 May 2006 12:56:50 +0000 concreationist <concreationist@...> 
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Thanks for the tip! 
> > 
> > I recently found a vinyl simulator called Izotope which is a free
> > plugin for WinAmp. Most of the settings tend to distort a little but
> > the grit is certainly there. This DSP plugin can be combined with the
> > disk writer plugin to route the output straight to a WAV file.
> > 
> > Sten
> > 
> > 
> > --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "berries_gulberry"
> > <berries_gulberry@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sometimes I like how clean the <D is, othertimes I hate it. It
depends
> > > which machines you deploy, I guess. I use a sherman filterbank to
> > deal
> > > with some of the sterility, and sometimes an old spring reverb. Any
> > > analogue gear (filters, eq, compressors, springs) tends to help -
> > even
> > > if just let the MD signal pass through it without any twiddling. 
> > > 
> > > Some of the Reaktor modules sound really good (not quite analogue,
> > not
> > > quite digital), so you might want to chuck the MD through that. In
> > > fact, for a 'from vinyl' sound, you could use an ensemble from
> > reaktor
> > > 4 called BanaanElectrique, followed in the chain by one of the
> > > compressor modules.
> > > 
> > > I"ve only just realised myself that the MD might be best seen as a
> > > 'source' to be further affected rather than a complete instrument in
> > > itself. Not that it doesn't sound very good on its own, but because
> > my
> > > ears get tired (sometimes literally) of the same frequency
> > configurations.
> 
> ____________________
> Sampsa Lehtonen
>

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