Our latest invention, say hi to Binvert Noisebud, 2010, October 27 It’s been a while since we released any new or updated VST plugin, but here’s a little fellah with an ugly name that you haven’t seen before. Binvert is a plugin made for possible problems that can occur in mixes when you use several bass drums and overall bass heavy material and the different bass sounds phase each other out. We often have situations when we think a phase shift on any of the sounds will fix the problem and it does, in the lower frequencies anyways but what happened with the nice mid and high transients? Well, no problems cause we created Binvert. Here’s what it does: It takes the signal and splits in into two bands (split point is adjustable between 20-400Hz). After the split we put in a phase invert for both bands so you can invert the polarity of the two bands independently from each other. Problem fixed, the bass is still heavy and the mid/high transients stay crisp. But it is a Noisebud plugin so we couldn’t just make a boring tool, we attached a resonance control to the filter that isn’t really supposed to be there at all but it’s fun. We use it to self oscillate at low frequencies so it’s a bit of a bass-drum-low-frequency-replacer-plugin… But then again… no… it’s a Noisebud. Techy geek stuff: Yes, it would be more appropriate to use the term polarity than phase. We choose phase because it’s more commonly used. Grab it at the plugins page! Blog
Norbergfestival 2012 2012, February 27 Our work for the Norberg electronic music festival (Norbergfestival) has reached the first tollgate, the release of the tickets and it’s home on the web http://www.norbergfestival.com. There’s still much to be done, but right now we’re going to take a well deserved brake and produce some heavy Noisebud tracks for… Read More
Beatsurfing 2012, September 30 The Belgian music collective Herrmutt Lobby has developed what must be the most intuitive midi controlling app we’ve seen. On the downside, it’s some massive work you’d have to do before enter the stage and shine but once there you can actually play your tracks, as they sound in the… Read More
Know your EAM pt2 2012, April 2 In our first part of this serie we wrote a little bit about Wendy Carlos , her work with and for the moog synth and also briefly about her record Beauty In The Beast . Today I just had to continue with the versatile composer and musician Pierre Henry (b.1927)…. Read More