KVR Audio

tokolosh · Post by **tokolosh** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:49 pm

Can you guys please recommend some plugs for mac that can really fu*K up a sound and make it unrecognizable. Smart electronic comes to mind also names like Sugar Bytes Effectrix, Audio damage Automation, Replicant, pluggo, livecut etc..

MeldaProduction · Post by **MeldaProduction** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:56 pm

For example MMultiBandFreqShifter, MMultiBandHarmonizer, or other tools from the MCreativeBundle.

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:01 pm

Any samples running through Absynth or Alchemy can heavily be mangled and twisted to a high level of unrecognition.

Pretty much everything from Ohm Force
http://www.ohmforce.com/HomePage.do

Soundhack
http://www.soundhack.com/freeware.php

GRM Tools
http://www.grmtools.org/

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:03 pm

SpectrumWorx! (soon..)
- http://www.littlendian.com
The Delay Trio and the Freesound Bundle collections at Soundhack
- http://www.soundhack.com/freeware.php
Michael Norris' Spectral collection
- http://www.michaelnorris.info/soundmagi ... index.html

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:08 pm

In addition to the plug-ins mentioned...

Fabfilter's Volcano and Timeless
http://www.fabfilter.com/

U-He's MFM2 and Zebrify (part of Zebra 2.5)
http://www.u-he.com/zebra/

Shuriken (free)
http://www.shuriken.se/

Aspect's Sequent
http://www.loomer.co.uk/sequent.htm

Artificial Audio's Obelisk and Quartz
http://www.artificialaudio.com/

barreltone · Post by **barreltone** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:23 am

http://www.michaelnorris.info/soundmagi ... index.html

all of these are free.

auricle · Post by **auricle** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:28 am

The bestest, ultimatest sound design f*ckuperer you can have is Metasynth. It's not a plugin but it can import/export audio. You could spend a lifetime learning it's depths.

http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:44 am

auricle wrote:The bestest, ultimatest sound design f*ckuperer you can have is Metasynth. It's not a plugin but it can import/export audio. You could spend a lifetime learning it's depths.
http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php

Definitely!!!
Tried the demo out a while back, and was amazed.
All I kept thinkin was, "if I could learn the ins and outs of this, that would be great". Unfortunately I couldn't really afford it then or today.
It would also need a lot of time and effort to learn to use it as well.
It's certainly on my top list of amazing sound design software though.

core · Post by **core** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:19 am

DtBlkFx http://rekkerd.org/dtblkfx/

michael2 · Post by **michael2** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 2:12 pm

i still like this one quite a bit (Gleetchlab). it's on the 3rd version now which has granular functions. cheap too.:
http://www.gleetchplug.com/gleetchplug/Softwares.html

metasynth makes my mouth water.

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:17 pm

Yeah I agree Metasynth is probably on the top of the list, king of the manglers. Not cheap and not easy to use, but what a crazy beast

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:45 pm

mcnoone wrote:
auricle wrote:The bestest, ultimatest sound design f*ckuperer you can have is Metasynth. It's not a plugin but it can import/export audio. You could spend a lifetime learning it's depths.
http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php
Definitely!!!
Tried the demo out a while back, and was amazed.
All I kept thinkin was, "if I could learn the ins and outs of this, that would be great". Unfortunately I couldn't really afford it then or today.
It would also need a lot of time and effort to learn to use it as well.
It's certainly on my top list of amazing sound design software though.

Yes MS is a universe unto itself. You are limited only by your imagination...

I was a major MS evangelist for a while (I guess I still am?).

I made some things to try to make it more accessible to new users and more powerful for pros as well:

http://www.galbanum.com/products/architecture/
http://www.galbanum.com/products/metasynth/

There are also some videos here with various insights:

http://galbanum.com/media/

Borealis · Post by **Borealis** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:54 pm

Audiomulch might help you out also.

auricle · Post by **auricle** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 4:42 pm

Galbanum wrote:
mcnoone wrote:
auricle wrote:The bestest, ultimatest sound design f*ckuperer you can have is Metasynth. It's not a plugin but it can import/export audio. You could spend a lifetime learning it's depths.
http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php
Definitely!!!
Tried the demo out a while back, and was amazed.
All I kept thinkin was, "if I could learn the ins and outs of this, that would be great". Unfortunately I couldn't really afford it then or today.
It would also need a lot of time and effort to learn to use it as well.
It's certainly on my top list of amazing sound design software though.
Yes MS is a universe unto itself. You are limited only by your imagination...

I was a major MS evangelist for a while (I guess I still am?).

I made some things to try to make it more accessible to new users and more powerful for pros as well:

http://www.galbanum.com/products/architecture/
http://www.galbanum.com/products/metasynth/

There are also some videos here with various insights:

http://galbanum.com/media/

Galbanum's Metasynth products are top notch. There's absolutely tons of extra sounds, patches, etc to use and all of them high quality.

What made you move away from it Andrew?

Andrew Souter · Post by **Andrew Souter** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 10:09 pm

auricle wrote: Galbanum's Metasynth products are top notch. There's absolutely tons of extra sounds, patches, etc to use and all of them high quality.

Thanks.

auricle wrote: What made you move away from it Andrew?

I did NOT move away from MS. I still use it all the time. I use it whenever I do a creative project (scoring or music production), and also when making Galbanum Sample Line products. There is nothing else like it.

Things are simply very busy with 2Caudio, and unfortunately, I am only one person. So I am not as active with trying to evangelize the world regarding the power of MetaSynth, at the moment. So it sort of remains an esoteric tool for "those in the know"...

But I can tell you with 100% certainty that 99% of the who's who of really top sound-designers in music and film and television, and many of the very best in electronic music are huge MetaSynth fans. Not without reason...

It does require effort to get the most out of it. It's "a thinking man's tool" to one degree or another... It's not 100% plug-and-play instant satisfaction--though I did try to make it somewhat easier with the AV1 content DVD... if you invest the effort (and $--it is not cheap) it will completely change your production and sound-design skill level and understanding in ways you simply can't imagine. It can literally, permanently change your understanding of organized sound for the better...

A large part of the reason I am as knowledgeable as i am today, is from spending months/years in deep thought regarding things that were initially inspired by MS...

ok, enough evangelism... back to 2Caudio work...

Crazy weird plug-in for mac for sound design