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    Software Non-Vocal Synth Audio Software/Hardware Sale Thread

    This compressor plugin is free for the next 24 hours until March 11: https://plugincentral.com/product/pulsar-smasher/ The plugin is modeled after the UAD 1176 compressor, which I had never heard of until today. Basically it's a classic hardware compressor that many people still use today.
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    Unpopular Opinions

    If that's the case, then Crypton Future Media should update Miku with either shorter hair or a thicker neck.
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    Unpopular Opinions

    Miku's hair is too long.
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    What does your username mean?

    My username means that I am unable to come up with a good username.
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    Art Aia's Art and Stuff

    There's a full version of Rock & Rule uploaded here that attempts to recreate the original edit that was lost in a fire. It has a combination of HD footage scanned from the US-edited theatrical release, some NTSC-resolution original footage salvaged from a CBC broadcast videotape, and the...
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    Art Aia's Art and Stuff

    The upper-left image remains me of Angel from Rock & Rule. I think it's the nose.
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    Four children's songs featuring Eleanor Forte [SynthV originals]

    Hmm... Maybe during the coming summer I'll finish the fifth song in this series. Maybe. I'm working on a three-movement contrabass concerto and another SynthV metal-ish thing. Work on the former began in Summer 2019, while work on the latter began in December 2019. Which one will be finished...
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    The ultimate showdown: What color is Miku's hair?

    Miku's hair is similar to a blue jay's feathers. They're both black, but they appear coloured because of structural colouration.
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    Tutorial How to create a metal guitar-tone using free plugins by Ignite Amps.

    Other free downloads from Ignite Amps: Ignite Amps offers two additional guitar amp sims: NRR-1 and The Anvil (both pictured above). However, these two are pre-amplifiers (pre-amps) only. If one were to use the actual hardware versions of either the NRR-1 or The Anvil, their output signal...
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    Tutorial How to create a metal guitar-tone using free plugins by Ignite Amps.

    Other options: If you’re interested, feel free to play with Emissary’s clean channel. Or you can click the arrow in the lower-left corner of the plugin and see its back panel (pictured above). Here you can change the tube type and/or the voltage biasing. For more information, please read the...
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    Tutorial How to create a metal guitar-tone using free plugins by Ignite Amps.

    Step six: Fine tuning your tone. Once a suitable IR or IR combination has been selected, you can return to the Emissary plugin and start “dialing in” your guitar tone. This is best done while listening to your entire mix—what sounds good in solo will not necessarily sound good in context. To...
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    Tutorial How to create a metal guitar-tone using free plugins by Ignite Amps.

    Step five: Guitar cabinets and NadIR. Perhaps the most important element that defines a good guitar tone is the guitar cabinet itself. In order to simulate this, Ignite Amps has developed NadIR, a free plugin that must be downloaded via the STL Tones website. (It comes bundled with the Emissary...
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    Tutorial How to create a metal guitar-tone using free plugins by Ignite Amps.

    Step three: The Emissary amp sim. The Ignite Amps website offers three different guitar amplifier simulations (amp sims) for download. In this tutorial we will focus on the Emissary, which must be downloaded from the STL Tones website...
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    Tutorial How to create a metal guitar-tone using free plugins by Ignite Amps.

    Step 2: Tube Screamer! For the purposes of this tutorial, the first effect in your guitar effects chain will be a tube screamer. Tube Screamers are a series of guitar pedals engineered and sold by Ibanez beginning in the late 1970s. Because of their continued popularity, the terms “tube...
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    Tutorial How to create a metal guitar-tone using free plugins by Ignite Amps.

    Step 1: Choosing an electric guitar or virtual electric guitar. If using a real guitar, you will need to record its output as a DI (direct input) signal. This can be done with the help of a DI box. Search online to find one that suits your needs and/or budget...
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    Tutorial How to create a metal guitar-tone using free plugins by Ignite Amps.

    Ignite Amps was founded in 2006 by Frederico Berti and Carlo Costabile, two Italian metalheads who design and build custom guitar amplifiers and pedals. Costabile is responsible for building the physical products while Berti is responsible for coding the mathematically-modelled prototype...
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    Four children's songs featuring Eleanor Forte [SynthV originals]

    The four videos featured below were part of a failed Summer 2019 project. My plan was to form a small team of people and create children's songs, but in the end only four songs were completed. I couldn't get a lyricist or a video maker to contribute because nobody liked my music, so everything...
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    Question Good Free Compressors for Mac?

    You may find it better to manually edit the plosives with a wave editor that features non-destructive editing. Audacity can do this with its envelope tool. It's a bit fiddly at first, but once you get used to how much reduction is needed it goes by much faster. Plosives are really easy to see...
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    SynthV Synthesizer V Discussion Thread

    Oof... I spend a lot of time with my desktop physically disconnected from the internet so that I have no distractions while I work. A web-based SynthV isn't for me. Plus, this whole idea that "web apps are the future" is an idea that reappears every now and again with limited permanent effect...