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- Robotic Twitter Songwriter Generates Tweet Poetry 15 Mar 2010, 12:12 pm
Marvim Gainsbug: the Twitter based Song Composer from jeraman on Vimeo. It should come as no surprise, but Twitter can compose existential nihilistic poetry. Just ask the creepy, detached voice of Mar. […] - OSC Files: Play That Funky Music, Hexagons 15 Mar 2010, 11:35 am
Didgeridoo from bar|none on Vimeo. You can’t quite dance to it, but bar|none has a beautifully-shot video of a strange, invented instrument constructed with some of the technologies we saw last week. […] - Rob Papen Updates Predator 14 Mar 2010, 11:24 pm
Rob Papen has updated the Windows version of Predator to v1.5.8. - Togu Audio Line Windows 64-bit Versions 14 Mar 2010, 11:09 pm
Togu Audio Line has released Windows 64-bit versions of many of its free plug-ins. - Freak Show Enterprises JambaLaya 14 Mar 2010, 11:07 pm
Freak Show Enterprises has updated JambaLaya to v1.3.1. - Iliadis Updates Efthimia 14 Mar 2010, 11:06 pm
Iliadis has updated Efthimia Electronic Organ to v1.4. - Universal Audio Precision Enhancer Hz 14 Mar 2010, 10:48 pm
The Precision Enhancer Hz is designed to allow the user to selectively add upper harmonics to bass fundamentals, sometimes referred to as “phantom bass”. - Universal Audio Manley Massive Passive EQs 14 Mar 2010, 10:35 pm
Universal Audios UAD Powered Plug-In versions of the Manley Massive Passive EQs represent UAs most ambitious and detailed EQ model to date, the company says. - SONiVOX Eighty Eight – Grand Piano 13 Mar 2010, 12:51 pm
SONiVOX announced the release of their Grand Piano Virtual Instrument, Eighty Eight, conceived and designed as a virtual embodiment of a Steinway CD 327 grand. - Music Notation on Word 13 Mar 2010, 12:40 pm
musicnotationformsword.com announced the release of Music Notation for MS Word, a music notation editing product that allows musicians to embed, edit and publish music notation in Microsoft Word envir. […]
Models percussion resonances on a virtual surface.
Modal characteristics produce a timbre similar to hand drums such as doumbeks and congas. use of the x-y position ‘vary’ parameter provides ‘realistic’ harmonic variation for each hit.

papaya is a physically modelled mallet synthesizer. it features a nice chorus module, and does a very good job of simulating steel drums, and other carribean type percussion.

4 timbre persussion synth.

Just a whole lot of analog Cymbals/Hi-Hats

Carillon is a physically modelled bell and chime synthesizer. The extreme far ends of the octives detune similar to pippo. it also features the chorus and reverb modules from padawan.

Two separately filtered and pitch-enveloped noise, sine or sample oscillators.

dmiHammer is a VSTi for creating hammered chromatic percussion sounds. It’s capable of reproducing the sounds of xylophones, mbira and chimes as well as a swag of strange new sounds.

dynamite cowbell brings you more cowbell than even Gene Frenkle can deliver
6 cowbells mapped to midi keys
5 velocity layers
close and room mic levels
damping control
5 bonus digibells
1 cow

Takim is a Middle Eastern Drum Module.

Four exotic percussion instruments:-Doholla - Jerk-Doff - Rumba-Darbuka - Nubian-Riq (Tambourine) - wedding
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A waveguide drum model as shown on gui.
Note that high feedback settings can exceed unity which can be employed for timbre or overload. Always use a limiter and low monitor levels when patching!

A snare drum simulator - it has 4 snare ’vectors’, which gives a sound that is closer to a gut snare (eg. Tabor) than modern snares, both may have similar damping dynamics.

A 2d square resonance for percussion.

A 5-channel FDN that can produce sounds similar to 909 hihats.

Brush is a quick wrapper for an impulse cluster modulator. The length of the impulses can be changed to produce timbres similar to bitcrushing.
The output is routed through a state variable filter coded by Chris Kerry to produce a simple and flexible midrange percussion module.

An attractor-based percussion oscillator perhaps similar to the T-circuit used in Roland’s classic analog drum machines.

A hand-clap simulation vst.
a simple additive synth that’s optimized for realistic bell sounds and for fender Rhodes-type instruments. Bella comes with 16 presets, but it’s very easy to program and create your own unique soundz.



