KVR Developer Challenge 2014#KVRDC14 Entry: Musical Entropy Guitar Gadgets "False" Analog Guitar Pedal Simulations Plug-ins for Mac & Win

8th August 2014 - KVR Audio News

With the download and voting stage of the KVR Developer Challenge 2014 in full swing we're posting a series of news items highlighting each release. You can download the entries for free and make a donation to the prize fund if you wish to do so here.

Guitar Gadgets by Musical Entropy is a compilation of "false" analog guitar pedal simulations, made to be used mainly with electric guitars and guitar amp simulations, but which may be sound interesting in any situation. The focus here wasn't to design classic effects, but weird, strange, ugly or "different" ones instead. The effects included are the following:

Delay Attack: a delay effect which can be controlled by the way you attack the guitar strings.
Super Phazor: a phaser effect with a feedback control.
Niagara Falls: a bathroom / cathedral / Niagara Falls - like reverberation effect.
The Crusher: an effect which brings only destruction and annihilation.
Larsenator: a false larsen generator thanks to distortion and feedback.
Combulator: a modulated comb filter effect.
Miaou Miaou pedal: it's like a Wah Wah pedal, but it does "Miaou Miaou" instead.
Microcassette: one particular tape recorder emulation, going a little too far maybe.
Slicer: an effect which slices the sound from the guitar at any specified rate.
Filtrator: a filter pedal effect like, modeling a famous analog filter.
Convolutor: a gadget to convolute weird sounds.

There is also a surprise somewhere (I think we call that an Easter Egg ?), some shiny animations, and a lot of fun I hope. Indeed, I tried to develop effects that are really amusing to use, and give sounds you don't often hear from your playing.

Guitar Gadgets is available on VST and AU formats (32/64-bits, Windows & Mac OS X).

www.kvraudio.com/kvr-developer-challenge/2014

Advanced Audio + Application Exchange

New this year is a grand prize from KVR Audio and A3E (Advanced Audio + Application Exchange). The winning developer will have the opportunity to present their entry at the A3E show in Boston, September 23-24, 2014.

The winning developer will be provided with transportation to Boston, two nights stay at one of the A3E host hotels for the nights of Monday, September 22 and Tuesday, September 23, 2014.

The winner will also receive a complimentary A3E Audio Developer Conference pass, special recognition on the A3E website and at the A3E event in Boston, as well as a dedicated announcement and press release to A3E's global industry communities.

We have several additional sponsors this year. Remember, anyone who enters, donates or votes will be eligible for the prize drawing for any of these (and more to come) prizes.

Thanks to the following for their donations of additional prizes: