Whats the diff between eXT and Audio Mulch?

[haydxn]

yeah, i love both. the main thing is that audiomulch has its own audio contraptions built in, and for that it can be considered as an instrument/source in its own right. eXT only really has the sampler (all the other things just amount to tools/sequencing/midi) on the doing-actual-audio-stuff front. it's a bit of a pain in the arse to use audiomulch for synthery tho, and for that reason i tend to use eXT more. i can't resist audiomulch tho, and the main reason is the bubbleblower contraption. probably one of my favourite sound sources, that.

[robenestobenz]

What is the bubbleblower exactly? Is it like a granular type thing?

[haydxn]

yeah, it's a granular sample player, 'blowing bubbles' of sound out of the wave, depending on the settings. all the controls have a min/max setting, and it makes a grain using random values between those settings. it's great to scan across different parts of a file and make chords...

for an example (plug plug plug!) my track inHeavenHeDanced uses bubbleblower to build a 'washy' sound from a simple guitar chord progression. i did this by finding some nice settings (the fact that it's rhythmic comes from having the quantise setting nearer the top), and then using automation to position the start point over a few bars, thus changing the chord produced. (comes in at about 0:45 and particularly prominent at 1:00)

[paradiddle]

You can still do some nifty tricks in it besides the granulators. Beatslicing is actually possible in it with the loop player. Ya just put a preset for every phase (16th note offset) and then put them in the order you want on the time line. Actually works pretty good.

The southpole filter is great also cuz you can also use it has a 16th note filter-gate pattern sequencer or have follow a drumbeat (for example) using the side-chaining. Chordal beats are no problems!

[shamann]

Is it just me or are you ppl trying to downplay the power of eXT? ... Alls Iam saying.... is give xt a chance..

Eh? The man asked what was different about Mulch, so we told him. Had he asked the inverse, we would have looked like we were heaping the praise on eXT. They're both great apps, but very different. As for writing, I've written hundreds of tracks in Mulch with a fair amount of ease, though I wouldn't want to write anything specifically note-based in it, since MIDI sequencing is so much more efficient for that kind of job.

It helps to organize your automation lanes and rename modules when dealing with large projects in Mulch. I always wished there were more zoom controls for the automation in Mulch and that the scale could alternate between measures and seconds. That said, the automation envelopes have become my primary form of music notation these days.

[allofdrab]

Is this a difference?

"... planned for next year's exciting new development cycle ... a new user interface based on TrollTech's Qt toolkit."
- http://www.audiomulch.com/09b21notes.htm

" Qt applications run natively - indistinguishable from native applications - compiled from a single source code on all major platforms:
Qt is native on Windows
Qt is native on Mac OS X
Qt is native on Linux/X11"
- http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/index.html

"interesting..."

[shamann]

Not sure, Jorgen has always said there will be a Linux version of eXT, too. Not sure about Mac.

I'm looking forward to Mulch going v1. Ross has said he intends to start adding more/new things less conservatively.

[jens]

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for an example (plug plug plug!) my track inHeavenHeDanced

even if you're actually on my ingnore-list I have to chime in to say that this track is just wonderful!

[vurt]

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for an example (plug plug plug!) my track inHeavenHeDanced

even if you're actually on my ingnore-list I have to chime in to say that this track is just wonderful!

by ingnore im guessing you mean ignore you knob,could you tell me how i get on there too

[haydxn]

would you believe it jens, i even made a post saying that i agreed with you today!

[dburgan]

I own both eXT and Mulch. Mulch is really fun for bizarre soundscape composition; the envelope automation is just wicked cool. Nothing that you can't accomplish in other tools, but none so convenient.

eXT on the other hand is a general purpose modular monster with Sonar/Cubase as modules. You can probably cobble up what Mulch is doing somehow in eXT but it would likely be a PITA.

[paradiddle]

Hey haydxn, cool track btw. Very smooth and relaxing.

Not sure, Jorgen has always said there will be a Linux version of eXT, too. Not sure about Mac.

I'm not sure about this but I believe that XT is written in assembler due to it's small size. Since apple are going Intel next, mac people might have a chance to get XT on their platform.

[undef]

Hey haydxn, cool track btw. Very smooth and relaxing.

Not sure, Jorgen has always said there will be a Linux version of eXT, too. Not sure about Mac.

I'm not sure about this but I believe that XT is written in assembler due to it's small size. Since apple are going Intel next, mac people might have a chance to get XT on their platform.

if memory serves me right, eXt is written in delphi + freePascal (not so sure 'bout that)

[duncanparsons]

Whats the diff between eXT and Audio Mulch?

..they have no letters in common?



I have used both, and like them, but for what I do, they don't bring much to the table. Some of the AM generators are nice tho'..

DSP

[Lagrange]

I just ran into an oldie but goodie modular system that often goes under the radar... We cant forget the japanese console system..

http://www.console.jp/eng/index.html

This one really gets no props but is extremly usefull and is comparable to both AM & XT.

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