"Is this a familiar picture? Cables lead from a microphone input into a small digital effect. More cables connect the effect to a mixer. Elsewhere, a MIDI cable links a MIDI input to a synthesizer, which is in turn connected to a mixer. Old hat, right? Now, imagine this: the same single output socket sprouting no less than eight different cables connecting eight different effects.It gets better: A sound is broken down into 256 individual bands, then each is tweaked one at a time in a unique way. As he performs, a musician decides to add an LFO to a synth's filter cutoff knob, where no LFO existed before. Sound crazy? Not anymore. The new paradigm of computer audio can be summed up in two words: "real-time" and "modular" – both of which are embodied by one application..."
Title link takes you there. Via Analog Industries.
Plogue is GreatGreatGreat. I've been a registered user for ages. Plus, it's Canadian! That makes it enchanted.
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I hooked up a plogue patch on my iMac in my living room that uses the internal mic and routes the sound via Jack to another receiver/amp that does this:
When you speak, it is amplified subtly and made to reverb/echo slightly in that 'star trek psychic voice' sort of way. I sit near the iMac, and the mic picks up my speech, which echos through the house and makes it seem I'm ultra pyschic.
Other people, who sit too far away from the iMac don't activate the effect, so it sort of seems I am god :)
Plogue made it really easy to tune the effect, and I built a feedback destroyer in it with some gain control, delay, and notch filters.
Plogue also has some fun pitch detection algorithms, so you can make stuff like a whistle-to-midi converter in about 3 minutes.
I've used this before. Sort of played around with it, but didn't do much. It's an interesting program.
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