Re: VST?

[James Keepnews <keepnews@node.net>]

> >On the topic of VST, has anyone here yet tried out Cycling 74's 
>"Pluggo"?
> >Sounds too good to be true, 74 extreme VST plugins for $74.  Let's see 
>some
> >comment!
> >
> >http://www.cycling74
>
> I've had it for a few weeks now, and I've been too busy to give more 
>than a
> cursory look at the plugs, but there is some very interesting stuff 
>there!
> Def. worth the $74 if you have a VST capable app, esp considering that
> David Z is planning on posting new plug-ins monthly. Also it's pretty
> inspiring to me to see what can be done with MAX/MSP, which I am in the
> process of learning when I get more time.

I had the opportunity to see/hear Mr. Z. demonstrate pluggo in advance of 
its release a few weeks back in NYC; you and I had better come up with a 
new definition of "true" as pluggo is genuinely too good. He did things to 
the recorded work of Carole King via pluggo that her "people" would almost 
certainly not take a shine to but a range of individuals from Karlheinz 
Stockhausen to Negativland might well do (Ms. King, should there be any 
doubt on the issue, makes me all shiny under any/every circumstance...). 
The advantages of pluggo:

1.) Signal processing in the digital audio/microprocessor realm -- this 
opens up considerable FX options beyond the standard waveform modulation 
(chorus/flange/phaser/filtering)/distortion/pitch-shift continuum most 
commercial processors have exhausted eardrums with for a generation (not 
delay, though, _obviously_...and, to reiterate a previous post of mine, 
MAX/MSP is the looper's best friend they never knew they had before they 
bought a Mac G3...). Latency in this realm can be bothersome, but it's not 
at all like what you get tracking a synth with a guitar, for example.

2.) The possibility of creating your own pluggo plug-ins. Yes, you, too 
can join your friends and neighbors in the homebrew processing craze 
that's sweeping a nation of shut-ins -- provided you have MAX/MSP, you can 
export your favorite means of handcrafted vibrational persuasion to the 
VST realm.

3.) When was the last time you got a single-duty stomp box for $1 (US)? 
Multiply that by 74 and add some other duties to that single and feel them 
cilia tingle.

Can't stop/Get-it-get-it/Won't stop/Get-it-get-it...

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