In the begining was la Folia. Then Haendel came around, made it a sarabande for hapsichord. Then Kubrick used an orchestrated version of it in Barry Lindon. And now I am playing around with my synths.
This came up as a mashup of several parallel projects.
This track uses « clear angle » & « exhale », by seek to track zero, released under creative commons license, free for non commercial use. You may re-use it for non commercial use, under the same license.
OK, had a few question concerning the types of plugins I used. So, there you are, a bunch of free / cheap VSTs I use :
- Reaper‘s plugins. Reacomp, ReaEQ… can be downloaded as a separate VST pack from their website. Easy to use and extremely configurable.
- Atlantis VST: semi-modular synth with a cool interface (just get the interface pack). Great for basses, pads & effects
- DSK asianZ and indian Dreams. Cool sounds.
- moonoi.tk’s binaural simulator VST. When panning isn’t enough.
- isotope vinyl. When you need the scratchy feel
- TC Electronic’s Fabrik R. hum… the VST I use most is actually just a controller for a hardware reverb. Still, great reverb, I’ll leave it here. And no, I don’t have any other recommendation for reverbs, this is the best I found so far, and it is so far ahead I barely use anything else as overall reverbs.
- Camelcrusher. Sounds very bad. I mean it is a terrible distortion simulation. Unless you stop considering it as an analogue simulation (just go and buy yourself a real lamp disto, am quite happy with my ElectroHarmonix) and consider it as digital grit. Yup. just when you need that harsh digital grit…. there it is.
I know I do not use that many VSTs on a regular basis.. but then I also make extensive use of Reason for digital sound generation. And when needing more powerful effects, I go back to my hardware with all its noises, internal non-linearities, and all the lofi that makes overall great sound.
Quick track, made in an hour or so. The piano might be a bit loud.
The title says it all. And Dugongidae are cute. I am sure they would gather in a cave and groove with a pict, had they been furry. Uncompressed version (turn the volume knob up):
Picture by Tropenmuseum of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
Tribute to Autechre’s debut album. Picture by Reso303.
HAHA ! – Special dedicace… 
Cool & relaxed atmosphere on this one. Enjoy!
A reggae/dub inspired track, a little chill-out offered by Document 02.
Final glitchy percussion is a reverb-based experiment, lost in some weird cabling. I’ll take some time late on to put it in a clean file and post it in the patches section.
Quick and dirty series of effects inspired by an acousmonium, used in the album « Spirit of Technocoumatics ». (clik on picture above to download).
FX is used several times throughout the album, but a quick overview can be heard around 3’37 on Technocousmatic 1
The combi knobs & buttons are not used, you need to open it up to have access to a mixer, each channel representing one « position », defined by reverb & panning.
I wouldn’t suggest to use these as spatial positioning tools, but rather as spatialisation tools, making the sound move around as it is being played.
