We meet every once in awhile at the Sonic Arts Gallery. Typically once a month on the first Friday at 7pm.
Check on meeting times by contacting us through email to Johnny -at- JohnnyPumphandle.com

near Balboa Park (pictured left) in the Golden Hill area

Sonic Arts Gallery
2961 Beech St
San Diego, CA 92102
(619) 231-3673

Some proposed events ....

On the MAC ....
- put some finishing touches on the Gallery MAC system.
- Sonic Visualizer
- Simple synth - easy midi synth
- dip into some mastering techniques using Audacity

On the PC ...
- Latency Checker

But wait! If you listen to 1 preset, every second, 24 hours a day, it will take you over 136 years to complete this task. It’s clear you will need backup, and you have it, your fellow Autogun users. Every Autogun is set to start from a unique preset number, so that each member of the team is assigned a personal starting address, ready to explore. However, you can at any time, jump to a new location in the preset-space by simply entering a preset number.

Once a prized sound is discovered, and it’s preset number logged, share them with other Autogun users or import them into Ogun, for detailed study or further development.

With so many presets Autogun needs no programming, every sound is already somewhere 'out there' you just need to locate it, and you will, Autogun's sonic landscape is a sonic adventure.

Key features:

Another freebie from Brainworx

Cleansweep is a mastering filter that you can use to zero in on unwanted
(or wanted) frequencies.

The Brainworx site is a little messed up and hard to follow, but the
software is of the highest order.


--
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a
day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his
neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart
into a chariot of the sun.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

This one runs on Linux (Windows and MAC OSX too)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVPr6iUuO3g&feature=player_embedded

--
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but
also for what we do not do.
--Moliere

EQISM.220 VST Windows

-- We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the
ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
--Mother Teresa

ganK the Synthesizer Installer/ganK软件合成器

   

-- The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing
to do. The hard part is doing it.
--Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

-- The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
--Plato

-- The time is always right to do what is right.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Friday November 6

-- Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only
animal that is struck with the difference between what things are
and what they ought to be.
--William Hazlitt

vStrum

Use the link below to download the Demo VST Plugin 'vStrum'. This is a demonstrator for evaluating and testing the basic implementation.

By downloading, installing, or using this software, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the license agreement

Click here to download.

The just unzip and copy vStrum.dll to a suitable Plugin folder to make it visible to your host.

Archive:  vStrum-demo.zip
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      261  11-05-09 22:46   vStrum-demo/LICENSE.txt
     2859  11-05-09 22:46   vStrum-demo/README
   738636  11-05-09 22:46   vStrum-demo/vStrum.dll
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   741756                   4 files

-- We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the
ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
--Mother Teresa

http://pquenin.free.fr/pqnaudio/gatemask/index.html

Slice up your tracks into itty bitty pieces with gatemask ...

--
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
--French Proverb

Technical Specifications v1.8

Oscillators
2 Oscillators: Single, Dual, 7 Oscillators SuperWave mode
Waveforms: Sine, Saw, Ramp, Triangle, Pulse, White Noise, Pink Noise
Controls: Waveform, Mode, Fine-Tune, Semi-Tune, Detune, Octave, Sync

Filters
2 Resonant Filters: 12dB
Filter Types: Low Pass, Band Pass, High Pass
Controls: Filter Type, Cutoff Frequency, Resonance, Key Follow, Lock (Cutoff Frequency)

Amplifiers
2 Amplifiers
Controls: Level, Pan, On/Off

Envelopes
4 Envelopes (Filter x2, Amp x2)
Controls: Depth, Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release

Low Frequency Oscillators
2 LFO's with multiple routing options
Waveforms: Sine, Saw, Ramp, Triangle, Pulse, White Noise, Pink Noise
Beat Ratios: 10
Controls: Waveform, Destination, Mode, Rate, Beat, Depth, Key On, Route

Modulation
Modulation with multiple routing options
Controls: Input, Destination, Depth

Effects
Effect Types: Mono Delay x2 (1 Stereo pair)

Other Features
8 note polyphonic operation
Main volume control
Mono/Polyphonic control
Portamento control
Midi CC control with learn capability
64 high quality presets

800 MHz+ Processor recommended / 1024 x 768 pixels screen resolution / 24 bit colour depth

-- Stocks have reached a permanently high plateau.
--Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929

-- Never mistake motion for action.
--Ernest Hemingway

-- Never mistake motion for action.
--Ernest Hemingway

-- Never assume the obvious is true.
--William Safire, Sleeper Spy (Random House)

VST TAL-Reverb

• Easy to use plate reverb.
• Smooth diffuse sound.
  
• 12 dB High- and Low-Pass filter.
• Pre delay, up to one second.
• Usable for a wide range of sounds, especially percussion, drums, voices, guitars and so on.
• Midi Learn (vst's only)
• 10 presets.
• open source
  

-free PC VST plugins-

major sketch pad Ideal for musicians with writer's block or knob twiddlers who easily get distracted by fine tuning soundscapes and ending up not getting any music done. No, this is not some psuedo-random-crap, you are in control of your music all the time when using the sketch pad. This is an arrangement utility rather than a music production tool.

so what does it do and why do i need one ?

The major sketch pad is basically a step sequencer combined with a chorder. Each time it gets triggered by a midi note the step sequencer steps forward
and each step can contain a new, different chord. The chords aren't locked to a predefined pitch. This means that you can try out chord combinations and
see how your melodies will sound with different chords applied to them, or just jam away.

The main idea behind the sketch pad is to make it easier for people who are having a hard time coming up with songs to at least get a "rough" arrangement
sketch that they can continue to work with. It is, after all, often the beginning of a song that is the hard part to come up with.

download 11.5 mb zip file containing... major sketchpad VST PC soundfont (library.sf2) file slick PDF manual with tutorials troubleshooting txt

Demonica

Mutine is a synthedit made vst audio effect, based on the Mutator.

I made two different versions, one for the vintage realistic look aficionados, and the other, with a more user friendly interface.

} Mutine1

} Mutine2

Mutine is 2 envelope followers and 2 lfo's, that triggers volume or cutoff

Envelope followers can be set to follow left channel, right channel or both.

The effect can also be set to apply on left, right or both channels.

That way, you can use Mutine on a group channel, with for instance, a drum on left that triggers envelope follower, and a pad on right, that will be chopped by drum pattern.

Mutine also responds to midi notes

-- Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
--Goethe

   Asymptotic Valley was founded in 2009 by Jara Kolejka aka Inorganic. Inorganic1 is my first version of virtual synth based on simple and user friendly design. I recognized the oscilloscope is very useful tool for creating and shaping the sound so I hope you will  apprecite it in Inorganic1 as a standard feature. Also the desing is real perspective 3D design so you can feel the hardware under your hands. Enjoy this free software and share it with your friends.

Yours Jara Kolejka aka Inorganic

Links:

Inorganic music project http://inorgan.ic.cz

DJ Matimur (member of Inorganic) http://www.idj.cz/matimur

-- There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no
defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save
our own inherent weakness of purpose.
--Kin Hubbard

Impromptu is an OSX programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ's and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. Impromptu is a Scheme language environment, a member of the Lisp family of languages.

Time plays a major role in the Impromptu environment allowing accurate real-time scheduling of events and code. Impromptu is a dynamic environment designed for the creation and manipulation of running programs in live performance.

Impromptu is a programmable AudioUnit host. A powerful environment for creating signal processing graphs of arbitrary complexity with precise programmatic control over individual AU nodes. Musical material can be precisely scheduled for performance by any AudioUnit instrument node and parameters, program changes and presets can be programmatically changed on-the-fly as well as directly via the AU's user interface.

Impromptu allows you to write, modify, compile and hot swap custom signal processing code - an ability that allows you to write low level sound synthesis code during live performance. This functionality is designed to interoperate with the AudioUnit signal graph allowing you to freely mix your favorite AudioUnits with custom synthesis code. All on-the-fly of course.

Graphics routines can be applied with the same temporal accuracy as audio material allowing artists to tightly integrate audio and visual components. OpenGL, live video processing, vector drawing routines, image rendering, CoreImage filters, text rendering and quicktime movie support are a few of the graphics features available for artists to play with.

Impromptu also includes a bidirectional ObjC-Bridge allowing Scheme to instantiate and call ObjC objects and ObjC objects to call back into the Scheme interpreter. An LLVM based scheme->x86 compiler is also available supporting on-the-fly compilation of scheme code for audio signal processing, OpenGL, numeric processing and alike.

-- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
--Francis Bacon