<<Does anyone know if rebirth will work on the g4 w/ o.s 9.whatever? I am
having problems getting it to launch, actually it wont launch. Anyone with
similar problems? Anyone know of any good sites where I could find some
music share were for the mac? and lastly does anyone know if audio mulch
exists for the mac?
any advice/direction will help, thanks.>>
Dunno about the g4/rebirth thing.. But there's tons of great shareware out
there for mac. SoundSculptor II is an EXCELLENT synthesis/filtering/FX
program hiding beneath the shell of a multitrack audio editor. Some good FX
(choruses, reverbs, flangers, etc). But, until you pay attention to the
oscillator section, or the envelope section, you have no idea how GREAT this
program is (25-35$?) for the money. Imagine your standard graphical audio
editor, with 8 tracks, mute/solo buttons, levels, and a delay setting, with
the above FX (plus others). But then imagine using the oscillator section,
which has hz/seconds etc, and many different types of oscillators (you can
specify the pitch as well), such as sawtooth, sine, triangle, square, pulse,
different FM and additive oscillators. Then you select envelope, and a
graphical envelope appears over the sample, which you can set different
points to drag from, and then you can apply it to different LP/HP, and then
resonant variations there of, and then resonant notch and bandpass filters.
you can set how much resonance you want as well. You can also apply the
envelope to amplitude, or pitch. THEN comes the LFO sections which is GREAT.
The same oscillator types that are available in the oscillator section apply
here. You can set them to oscillate a certain number of times PER selection.
imagine having a 1 measure drum loop at 4/4. you could set the LFO to
oscillate 16 times, oscillating at 16th notes. or 32nd notes, or quarter
notes. And it sounds great! And then... Recently, I was wondering how I
could fade in different amounts of effects.. It's not readily available, but
after some thinking, I realized that you could get two tracks of the same
sample. Apply FX to one (like distortion, which it also has), and leave the
other clean. Then go to the envelope section, and fade the original sample
out, and the distorted sample in. Mixdown to mono (it has that function,
too), and voila. A drum loop with distortion fading in. You can even do the
same thing with the LFO's. You could set the distortion to a sine LFO as
well, and you'd have a drum sample with a distortion fading in and out like a
sine wave. Of course this applies to any effect you could want. Ok.. Enough
about this program, hehe. I forget the URL, so you'll have to do a web
search on it..
A freeware synth you could get is the koblo vibra 1000 synth.. Nifty little
one oscillator monosynth with an envelope, and an arpeggiator. Also a nice
sounding filter.. You can control the synth with the computer keyboard, or
hook it up to a midi synth, or even a sequencing program... The studio 9000
is also worth looking into. Comes with 1000, 6000 (more options), 9000 (even
MORE options), stella 9000 (a pad based sampler with a filter, and lfo's and
a nice mod matrix), and then gamma 9000, which is a percussion based sampler
which i prefer GREATLY to rebirth. has filters you can route the different
percussion samples through, and you can even distort the filters! I've found
working with studio 9000 and soundsculptor II to be WONDERFUL (i just wish my
comp was faster...). But you should have no problems with a g4.
www.koblo.com
I highly recommend both of these programs...
Any questions or comments (or requests to hear my creations using these
programs, just ask...)
Jared
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