I'd recommend checking out Maple Virtual Midi Cable for doing this with Bidule. In my experience it works better, especially MidiOX and MIDIyoke sometimes gave me audio clicks (this may have been a bug that has now been fixed).allofdrab wrote:If you use MIDIOX or Hubi's Loopback vitual MIDI cables, AudioMulch sincs to external sequencers (like Bidule's) quite well.
newbie looking for hosts for experimental use.
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- KVRAF
- 12235 posts since 18 Aug, 2003
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- KVRAF
- 1811 posts since 18 Jan, 2005 from Lost in the blinding whiteness of the tundra
I'll add a shout for both energyXT and audiomulch. EnergyXT seems to be better for more structured and sequenced stuff whereas audiomulch is initially easier to use, and probably better for maundering around in soundscapes. I suspect the modular midi routing in XT could probably be used to produce fairly insane evolving ideas, although I've not tried. I can't think of anything you could do in mulch that you couldn't do in XT, although a) I could be wrong and b) a lot of things are probably easier.
Also, Synthedit's great to have sitting around - you frequently wish you had a ringmod where the frequency is modulated by an LFO whose frequency and amplitude are both controlled by further LFOs and with the effect mix controlled by an envelope follower, or some other esoteric combination of effects and controls that you have no chance of finding off the shelf and then knock it up in 5 minutes with SE...
Also, Synthedit's great to have sitting around - you frequently wish you had a ringmod where the frequency is modulated by an LFO whose frequency and amplitude are both controlled by further LFOs and with the effect mix controlled by an envelope follower, or some other esoteric combination of effects and controls that you have no chance of finding off the shelf and then knock it up in 5 minutes with SE...
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- KVRAF
- 3964 posts since 31 Aug, 2003 from In a foreign town, in a foreign land
More votes for AudioMulch. It's become my main host, although "host" doesn't do it justice as it's really an instrument.
The thing I've come to love about it is how it forces you to thing outside the box. Even without MIDI, you can sequence tunes in it, but you'll have to leave the whole pianoroll/notation-paradigm[1] behind you.
I find I'm using less and less VST's, too. Maybe just a limiter to catch stray peaks and some bits and bobs here and there.
Most of the music I make is made in Mulch. All the tracks on my site are. Just did some short gigs using it in some environments that were very... rock and roll, and Mulch proved to be rock solid.
Anyway, enough of the ph4nb0i-ism,
Groet, Erik
[1] That word again.
//edit: footnote done right
The thing I've come to love about it is how it forces you to thing outside the box. Even without MIDI, you can sequence tunes in it, but you'll have to leave the whole pianoroll/notation-paradigm[1] behind you.
I find I'm using less and less VST's, too. Maybe just a limiter to catch stray peaks and some bits and bobs here and there.
Most of the music I make is made in Mulch. All the tracks on my site are. Just did some short gigs using it in some environments that were very... rock and roll, and Mulch proved to be rock solid.
Anyway, enough of the ph4nb0i-ism,
Groet, Erik
[1] That word again.
//edit: footnote done right
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Pop music delenda est.
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- KVRAF
- 3964 posts since 31 Aug, 2003 from In a foreign town, in a foreign land
Damn (I seem to be saying that a lot, lately)! Thanks for the catch.shamann wrote:Looks like your footnote is on the blink, Erik.tetraplan wrote:[1]
Groet, Erik
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Pop music delenda est.
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- KVRAF
- 12235 posts since 18 Aug, 2003
Odd stuff. Sounds like your web browser thinks the installer file is a text file.isischild wrote:I have already looked at Synthedit but when I go to the dowload page I get a page of gibberish instead of a dowmload dialog box?
Right click on this link and select "save as..."
http://www.synthedit.com/beta/SE_XP.msi
Think of Synthedit not so much as a synthbuilding tool for your style, but rather as VST duct tape. It's invaluable when some little trick seems missing.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 73 posts since 2 Jul, 2005 from Sydney
Ok got the Synthedit problem sorted. And now I see all these modules!!! 
I am going to be spending the next six months just trying to get my head around these apps let alone get any work done!!
Thanks for all your input guys, it's been great.
I am going to be spending the next six months just trying to get my head around these apps let alone get any work done!! Thanks for all your input guys, it's been great.